Pathogenicity island sequences of pyelonephritogenic Escherichia coli CFT073 are associated with virulent uropathogenic strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2812-2820

  Kao, Jyh Shyang ^a   Stucker, Debra M ^a   Warren, John W ^a   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030904521     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.7.2812-2820.1997     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Akopyants, N. S., D. Kersulyte, and D. E. Berg. 1995. CagII, a new multigene locus associated with virulence in Helicobacter pylori. Gut 37(Suppl. 1):A1.
2. Ausubel, F. M., R. Brent, R. E. Kingston, D. D. Moore, J. G. Seidman, J. A. Smith, and K. Struhl. 1995. Current protocols in molecular biology, vol. 2. p. 10.8.1-10.8,17. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N.Y.
3. Bachmann, B. J. 1990. Linkage map of Escherichia coli K-12. edition 8. Microbiol. Rev. 54:130-147.
4. Bloch, C. A., and C. K. Rode. 1996. Pathogenicity island evaluation in Escherichia coli K1 by crossing with laboratory strain K-12. Infect. Immun. 64:3218-3223.
5. Bloch, C. A., C. K. Rode, V. Obreque, and K. V. Russell. 1994. Comparative genome mapping with mobile physical map landmarks. J. Bacteriol. 176:7121-7125.
6. Blum, G., V. Falbo, A. Caprioli, and J. Hacker. 1995. Gene clusters encoding the cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1. Prs-fimbriae and α-hemolysin form the pathogenicity island II of the uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain J96. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 126:189-196.
7. Blum. G., M. Ott, A. Lischewski, A. Ritter, H. Imrich, H. Tschape, and J. Hacker. 1994. Excision of large DNA regions termed pathogenicity islands from tRNA-specific loci in the chromosome of an Escherichia coli wild-type pathogen. Infect. Immun. 62:606-614.
8. Brown, K., P. W. Finch. I.D. Hickson, and P. T. Emmerson. 1987. Complete nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli argA gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:10586.
9. Fetherston, J. D., P. Schuetze, and R. D. Perry. 1992. Loss of the pigmentation phenotype in Yersinia pestis is due to the spontaneous deletion of 102 kb of chromosomal DNA which is flanked by a repetitive element. Mol. Microbiol. 6:2093-2704.
10. Foxman, B., L. Zhang, K. Palin, P. Tallman, and C. F. Marrs. 1995. Bacterial virulence characteristics of Escherichia coli isolates from first-time urinary tract infection. J. Infect. Dis. 171:1514-1521.
11. Guerrant, R. L. 1990. Principles and syndromes of enteric infection, p. 837-851. In G. L. Mandell, R. G. Douglas, Jr., and J. E. Bennett (ed.), Principles and practice of infectious diseases, 3rd ed. Churchill Livingstone, Inc., New York, N.Y.
12. Hacker, J. 1990. Genetic determinants coding for fimbriae and adhesins of extraintestinal Escherichia coli. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 151:1-27.
13. Hacker, J., L. Bender, M. Ott, J. Wingender, B. Lund, R. Marre, and W. Goebel. 1990. Deletions of chromosomal regions coding for fimbriae and hemolysins occur in vitro and in vivo in various extraintestinal Escherichia coli isolates. Microb. Pathog. 8:213-225.
14. Hacker, J., S. Knapp, and W. Goebel. 1983. Spontaneous deletions and flanking regions of the chromosomally inherited hemolysin determinant of an Escherichia coli O6 strain. J. Bacteriol. 154:1145-1152.
15. +. Infect. Immun. 56:513-517.
16. Hughes, C., J. Hacker, H. Duvel, and W. Goebel. 1987. Chromosomal deletions and rearrangements cause coordinate loss of haemolysis, fimbriation and serum resistance in a uropathogenic strain of Escherichia coli. Microb. Pathog. 2:227-230.
17. Johnson, D. E., H. L. T. Mobley, and J. W. Warren. Unpublished data.
18. Johnson, J. R. 1991. Virulence factors in Escherichia coli urinary tract infection. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 4:80-128.
19. Kafatos, F. C., C. W. Jones, and A. Efstratiadis. 1979. Determination of nucleic acid sequence homologies and relative concentrations by a dot blot hybridization procedure. Nucleic Acids Res. 7:1541-1552.
20. Knapp, S., J. Hacker, T. Jarchau, and W. Goehel. 1986. Large, unstable inserts in the chromosome affect virulence properties of uropathogenic Escherichia coli O6 strain 536. J. Bacteriol. 168:22-30.
21. Kunin, C. M. 1987. Detection, prevention and management of urinary tract infections, 4th ed. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, Pa.
22. Lange, N., S. Censino, Z. Xiang, M. Borodovsky, R. Rappuoli, and A. Covacci. 1995. The cagI chromosomal region of Helicobacter pylori is type I-specific and encodes exporter molecules and invasion genes, p. 63. In 8th International Workshop on Campylobacters, Helicobacters and Related Organisms.
23. Lee, C. A. 1996. Pathogenicity islands and the evolution of bacterial pathogens. Infect. Agents Dis. 5:1-7.
24. Lobocka, M., J. Hennig, J. Wild, and T. Klopotowski. 1994. Organization and expression of the Escherichia coli K-12 dad operon encoding the smaller subunit of D-amino acid dehydrogenase and the catabolic alanine racemase. J. Bacteriol 176:1500-1510.
25. Low, D., V. David, D. Lark, G. Schoolnik, and S. Falkow. 1984. Gene clusters governing the production of hemolysin and mannose-resistant hemagglutination are closely linked in Escherichia coli serotype O4 and O6 isolates from urinary tract infections. Infect. Immun. 43:353-358.
26. McDaniel, T. K., K. G. Jarvis, M. S. Donnenberg, and J. B. Kaper. 1995. A genetic locus of enterocyte effacement conserved among diverse enterobacterial pathogens. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:1664-1668.
27. Mills, D. M., V. Bajaj, and C. A. Lee. 1995. A 40 kb chromosomal fragment encoding Salmonella typhimurium invasion genes is absent from the corresponding region of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. Mol. Microbiol. 15:749-759.
28. Mobley, H. L. T., D. M. Green, A. L. Trifillis, D. E. Johnson, G. R. Chippendale, C. V. Lockatell, B. D. Jones, and J. W. Warren. 1990. Pyelonephritogenic Escherichia coli and killing of cultured human renal proximal tubular epithelial cells: role of hemolysin in some strains. Infect. Immun. 58:1281-1289.
29. Mobley, H. L. T., K. G. Jarvis, J. P. Elwood, D. I. Whittle, C. V. Lockatell, R. G. Russell, D. E. Johnson, M. S. Donnenberg, and J. W. Warren, 1993. Isogenic P-fimbrial deletion mutants of pycloncphritogenic Escherichia coli: the role of αGal(1-4) Gal binding in virulence of a wild-type strain. Mol. Microbiol. 10:143-155.
30. Morschhauser, J., V. Vetter, L. Emody, and J. Hacker. 1994. Adhesin regulatory genes within large, unstable DNA regions of pathogenic Escherichia coli: cross-talk between different adhesin gene clusters. Mol. Microbiol. 11:555-566.
31. Muhldorfer, I., and J. Hacker, 1994. Genetic aspects of Escherichia coli virulence. Microb. Pathog. 16:171-181.
32. National Center for Health Statistics. 1994. Detailed diagnoses and procedures. National Hospital Discharge Survey 1991. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga.
33. National Center for Health Statistics. Unpublished data from 1991 National Ambulatory Medical Cure Survey.
34. Ritter, A., G. Blum, L. Emody, M. Kerenyi, A. Bock, B. Neuhierl, W. Rabsch, F. Scheutz, and J. Hacker. 1995. tRNA genes and pathogenicity islands: influence on virulence and metabolic properties of uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 17:109-121.
35. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
36. Sanger, F., S. Nicklen, and A. R. Coulson. 1977. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:5463-5467.
37. Sedgwick, S. G., M. Robson, and F. Malik. 1988. Polymorphism in the umuDC region of Escherichia species. J. Bacteriol. 170:1610-1616.
38. Swenson, D. L., N. O. Bukanov, D. E. Berg, and R. A. Welch. 1996. Two pathogenicity islands in uropathogenic Escherichia coli J96: cosmid cloning and sample sequencing. Infect. Immun. 64:3736-3743.
39. Warren, J. W., J. H. Tenney, H. M. Hoopes, H. L. Muncie, and W. C. Anthony. 1982. A prospective microbiologic study of bacteriuria in patients with chronic indwelling urethral catheters. J. Infect. Dis. 146:719-723.