Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Abstract
The relationships of the genes and gene-products mediating D-mannose-specific attachment of type 1 fimbriae of Escherichia coli to eucaryotic cells were investigated by deletion mutation analysis of recombinant plasmid pSH2, which carries the genetic information for the synthesis and expression of functional type 1 fimbriae. Mutant pUT2004 was derived by a deletion remote from the structural gene encoding the 17-kilodalton (kDa) subunit protein of type 1 fimbriae. Phenotypically, the mutant demonstrated an eightfold-higher mannose-specific hemagglutination titer than the parent strain. On electron microscopy, the mutant strain expressed the same number of fimbriae as the parent strain. However, numerous 10-nm-diameter rounded structures (fimbriosomes) were observed both closely associated with fimbriae and in the culture medium. Fimbriosomes isolated from the medium agglutinated guinea pig erythrocytes in a mannose-sensitive manner. Dissociation of the fimbriosomes yielded a single 29-kDa protein, as demonstrated by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. Antibodies raised against fimbriosomes reacted with a 29-kDa protein on immunoelectroblots of dissociated type 1 fimbriae and also blocked the adherence of other strains of type 1 fimbriated E. coli to eucaryotic cells. These findings suggest that the enhanced adhesive properties of the mutant pUT2004 strain are associated with overproduction of the 29-kDa FimH in the form of fimbriosomes which contain the determinant of the D-mannose-sensitive adhesion of type 1 fimbriae.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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