Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of the Virulence Gene Cassette from Vibrio cholerae KNIH002 Isolated in Korea

국내 분리주인 Vibrio cholerae KNIH002로부터 독성 유전자 카세트의 클로닝 및 염기서열 분석

  • Published : 1999.09.01

Abstract

16brio cholerne is an important pathogenic organism that causes dimhea in human beings. V ciaoleroe KNIH002 was isolated from patients suffering with dian.heal disease in Korea. From Southern hybridization using the amplified PCR product of 307 bp as a probe. which was obtained from PCR reaction using primer detecting cholera toxin gene, we have found that the c b gene located in 4.5-kb fragmenl double digested with Pstl and BgllI of the chromosome. Therefore, we made mini-libraries of the isolate using PstI and Bgm restriction endonuclease and pBluescript SKU(+) vector. As a result. we cloned 4.5-kb PstI-BglII fragment containing the c a gene encoding a cholera toxin from the constructed mini-libraries of V olzolerae KNlH002 by colony hybridization using the same probes. This recombinant plasmid was named pCTX75. E. coii XL1- Blue harboring pCTX75 showed the cytotoxicity on Chinese Hamster Ovary cells. From the sequencing of he cloned recombinant plasmid, we confinned that it has virulence gene cassette consisting of ace, zot, ctx.4 and cf"~B gene. The ace and zot genes were composed of 291 hp and 1.200 bp with ATG initiation codon and TGA lennination codon, respectively. Nucleotide sequence of the ace gene exhibited 100% identity with that of V cholera E7946 El Tor Ogawa strains. But, nucleolide and amino acid sequence comparison of the zot gene exhibited 99% and 98.8% identity with that of V cholerae 395 Classical Ogawa stram, respectively. Specially. the Ala-100, Ala-272 and Ala-281 sites of Zoi polypeptide presented in V choleme 395 Classical Ogawa strain are replaced by Val in V cholerae KNIH002.

Vibrio cholerae 는 사람에게 설사를 일으키는 병원성 세규닝며 본 연구에 이용된 V.cholerae KNIH002 는 국내의 설사질환 환자로부터 분리하였다. 콜레라 독소 검출용 프라이머를 이용하여 PCR 로 증폭한 산물을 탐침자로 이용하여 Southern hybridization을 실시한 결과 PstI 및 BglII로 이중절단된 4.5-kb 절편내에서 ctx 유전자가 존재함을 확인하였다. 따라서 염색체 DNA를 PstI 및 BglII로 절단 후 V. cholerae KNIH002 의 유전자 mini-libraries를 제조하였다. 그리고 동일 탐침자를 이용하여 colony hybridization을 실시한 결과 제조된 유전자 mini-libraries 로부터 신호를 나타내는 한 개의 클론을 선발하였다. 선발된 클로닝 지니는 플라스미드를 pCTX75 라 명명하였으며, 이 클론은 CHO 세포에 대한 세포 독력이 나타남을 확인하였다. 염기서열을 결정한 결과 클로닝된 플라스미드에는 ace 와 zot 유전자들은 각각 ATG 개시코돈과 TGA 종결코돈을 포함하여 291 bp와 1,200 bp 로 구성되어져 있었다. ace 유전자의 염기서열은 V.cholerae E7946 EI Tor Ogawa strain 이 것과 100% 일치하였다. 그러나 zot 유전자의 염기서열 및 아미노산 서열은 V. cholerae 395 Classical Ogawa strain 의 것과 각각 99% 및 98.8% 의 상동성을 보였다. 특히, V.cholerae 395 Classicale Ogawa strain 의 Zot 폴리펩타이드에서 100번, 272번, 281번째 alanine 은 V.cholerae KNIH002에서 모두 valine 으로 치환되어져 있었다.

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