INTACT MOTILITY AS A SALMONELLA-TYPHI INVASION-RELATED FACTOR
INTACT MOTILITY AS A SALMONELLA-TYPHI INVASION-RELATED FACTOR
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DOI:
10.1128/iai.56.8.1967-1973.1988
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发表时间:
1988-08-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
YABUUCHI, E
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作者:
LIU, SL;EZAKI, T;YABUUCHI, E
Invasiveness of Salmonella typhi was investigated. At first, we introduced Tn5 into the chromosome of a wild-type S. typhi strain, GIFU 10007, and screened the independent Tn5 insertion mutants for noninvasive (Inv-) strains. During the first half of this work, we obtained 4 Inv- strains from 1,338 independent Tn5 mutants. The four were either nonflagellate (Fla-), monmotile (Mot-), or nonchemotactic (Che-). We then isolated more Fla-, Mot-, or Che- mutants and examined the invasiveness of these mutants. Sixty-three spontaneous or Tn5 insertion motility mutants, i.e., Fla-, Mot-, or Che-, were independently isolated from the wild-type strain GIFU 10007; all of them were noninvasive. Motile revertants isolated from some of these mutants showed the same invasiveness as the parent strain. P22-mediated transductional crosses were carried out between some of the motility mutants (as the recipients) and the Fla- reference strains of S. typhimurium with known deletion sites on the genome (as the donors). The mutational sites of the S. typhi mutants were assigned almost evenly to the three flagellar gene regions (regions I, II, and III) of S. typhimurium. The invasiveness of the motile recombinants obtained from the transduction assays was examined. The restoration of intact motility resulted in the restoration of invasiveness. Thus, we conclude that intact motility is an invasion-related factor of S. typhi. The relationship of Vi antigen to the invasiveness of S. typhi was also studied. Vi-negative mutnts with intact motility remained invasive, whereas all 63 Inv- spontaneous or Tn5 mutants were Vi positive. Therefore, Vi antigen was not related to the invasiveness of S. typhi.