Detection of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in clinical isolates and serially passaged Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.
AUTOR(ES)
Hjelm, L N
RESUMO
An 800-base-pair HindIII-PstI fragment that flanks a hot spot for Tn7 insertion was isolated from the chromosome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and cloned into pUC12. The fragment was used to probe XhoI digests of genomic DNA from 18 P. aeruginosa isolates collected from sputum samples of seven cystic fibrosis patients. Only two XhoI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), of 3.7 and 7.7 kilobases (kb), were detected. Isolate WSU3531-1 (3.7-kb XhoI fragment) and WSU3860 (7.7-kb XhoI fragment), while isolated from the same patient, showed different RFLPs. Serial passages of isolate WSU3531-1 demonstrated that this strain was phenotypically stable. In contrast, colony and pigment variants were readily isolated at a frequency of 1% from serial passages of isolate WSU3860. When XhoI-digested genomic DNA from phenotypic variants of serially passaged WSU3860 were probed with the 800-base-pair HindIII-PstI fragment, the probe hybridized to a 10.4-kb XhoI fragment from three isolates. Restriction analysis of the genomic DNA digested with a variety of restriction enzymes showed that a 2.7-kb insertion occurred in the same region for all three isolates. There appeared to be no correlation between changes in the RFLP and changes in colony morphology.
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