Molecular Characterization of a New Variant of Toxin-Coregulated Pilus Protein (TcpA) in a Toxigenic Non-O1/Non-O139 Strain of Vibrio cholerae
AUTOR(ES)
Nandi, Bisweswar
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
A toxigenic non-O1/non-O139 strain of Vibrio cholerae (10259) was found to contain a new variant of the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) protein gene (tcpA) as determined by PCR and Southern hybridization experiments. Nucleotide sequence analysis data of the new tcpA gene in strain 10259 (O53) showed it to be about 74 and 72% identical to those of O1 classical and El Tor biotype strains, respectively. The predicted amino acid sequence of the 10259 TcpA protein shared about 81 and 78% identity with the corresponding sequences of classical and El Tor TcpA strains, respectively. An antiserum raised against the TCP of a classical strain, O395, although it recognized the TcpA protein of strain 10259 in an immunoblotting experiment, exhibited considerably less protection against 10259 challenge compared to that observed against the parent strain. Incidentally, the tcpA sequences of two other toxigenic non-O1/non-O139 strains (V2 and S7, both belonging to the serogroup O37) were determined to be almost identical to that of classical tcpA. Further, tcpA of another toxigenic non-O1/non-O139 strain V315-1 (O nontypeable) was closely related to that of El Tor tcpA. Analysis of these results with those already available in the literature suggests that there are at least four major variants of the tcpA gene in V. cholerae which probably evolved in parallel from a common ancestral gene. Existence of highly conserved as well as hypervariable regions within the sequence of the TcpA protein would also predict that such evolution is under the control of considerable selection pressure.
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