CS31A, a new K88-related fimbrial antigen on bovine enterotoxigenic and septicemic Escherichia coli strains.
AUTOR(ES)
Girardeau, J P
RESUMO
The nature of the common surface antigen of six hemagglutinating and adhesive piliated Escherichia coli strains isolated from diarrheic or septicemic calves was studied. By electron microscopy studies, the E. coli surface antigen designated CS31A was found on bacterial cells and in purified form to consist of thin (2-nm) "fibrillar" fimbriae. E. coli 31A, which was cured of a 105-megadalton plasmid, failed to express CS31A fimbriae, but retained the ability to hemagglutinate and to adhere in vitro on intestinal cells. Conversely, E. coli K-12, harboring the 105-megadalton plasmid originating from strain 31A, produced CS31A fimbriae but was not able to hemagglutinate or adhere on intestinal cells. A single fimbrial subunit of 29 kilodaltons was observed when purified fimbriae from the 105-megadalton plasmid-containing E. coli K-12 strain was subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis or eluted by gel filtration after dissociation by 8.5 M guanidium hydrochloride from an S300 Sephacryl column. Western immunoblot analysis and the N-terminal sequence and amino acid composition of CS31A indicate structural and immunological relatedness between CS31A and K88 protein subunits.
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