Influence of osmolarity on lipopolysaccharides and virulence of Aeromonas hydrophila serotype O:34 strains grown at 37°C

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1245-1250

  Aguilar, Alicia ^a   Merino, Susana ^a   Rubires, Xavier ^a   Tomas, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FISH; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0030989561     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.4.1245-1250.1997     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Ames, G. F. L., E. N. Spudich, and H. Nikaido. 1974. Protein composition of the outer membrane of Salmonella typhimurium: effect of lipopolysaccharide mutations. J. Bacteriol. 117:406-416.
2. Benedí, V. J., B. Ciurana, and J. M. Tomás. 1989. Isolation and characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae unencapsulated mutants. J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:82-87.
3. Borrelli, S., O. Hegedus, D. H. Shaw, P. E. Jansson, and A. A. Lindberg. 1995. The tetrasaccharide L-α-D-heptose1 → 2-L-α-D-heptosel → 3-L-α-D-heptosel → (3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid) and phosphate in lipid A define the conserved epitope in Haemophilus lipopolysaccharides recognized by a monoclonal antibody. Infect. Immun. 63:3683-3692.
4. Camprubí, S., J. M. Tomás, F. Muñoa, C. Madrid, and A. Juarez. 1990. Influence of lipopolysaccharide on external hemolytic activity of Salmonella typhimurium and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Curr. Microbiol. 20:1-3.
5. Darveau, R. P., W. T. Charnetzky, R. E. Hurlbert, and R. E. W. Hancock. 1983. Effects of growth temperature, 47-megadalton plasmid, and calcium deficiency on the outer membrane protein porin and lipopolysaccharide composition of Yersinia pestis EV76. Infect. Immun. 42:1092-1101.
6. Darveau, R. P., and R. E. W. Hancock. 1983. Procedure for the isolation of bacterial lipopolysaccharides from both smooth and rough Pseudomonas aeniginosa and Salmonella typhimurium strains. J. Bacteriol. 155:831-838.
7. Filip, C., G. Fletcher, J. L. Wulff, and C. F. Earhart. 1973. Solubilization of the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli by the ionic detergent sodium lauryl sarcosinate. J. Bacteriol. 115:717-722.
8. Fordtran, J. S. 1973. Diarrhea, p. 291-301. In M. H. Sleisenger and J. S. Fordtran (ed.), Gastrointestinal disease. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pa.
9. Freij, B. J. 1984. Aeromonas: biology of the organism and diseases in children. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. 3:164-175.
10. Janda, J. M., L. S. Guthertz, R. P. Kokka, and T. Shimada. 1994. Aeromonas species in septicemia: laboratory characteristics and clinical observations. Clin. Infect. Dis. 19:77-83.
11. Kokka, R. P., J. M. Janda, L. S. Oshiro, M. Altwegg, T. Shimada, R. Sakazaki, and D. J. Brenner. 1991. Biochemical and genetic characterization of autoagglutinating phenotypes of Aeromonas species associated with invasive and noninvasive disease. J. Infect. Dis. 163:890-894.
12. Kropinski, A. M. B., V. Lewis, and D. Berry. 1987. Effect of growth temperature on the lipids, outer membrane proteins, and lipopolysaccharides of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO. J. Bacteriol. 169:1960-1966.
13. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature (London) 227:680-685.
14. Lallier, R., F. Bernard, and G. Lalonde. 1984. Difference in the extracellular products of two strains of Aeromonas hydrophila virulent and weakly virulent for fish. Can. J. Microbiol. 30:900-904.
15. McConnell, M., and A. Wright. 1979. Variation in the structure and bacteriophage-inactivating capacity of Salmonella anatum lipopolysaccharide as a function of growth temperature. J. Bacteriol. 137:746-751.
16. Merino, S., V. J. Benedi, and J. M. Tomás. 1989. Aeromonas hydrophila strains with moderate virulence. Microbios 59:165-173.
17. Merino, S., S. Camprubí, and J. M. Tomás. 1990. Isolation and characterization of bacteriophage PM2 from Aeromonas hydrophila. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 68:239-244.
18. Merino, S., S. Camprubí, and J. M. Tomás. 1991. The role of lipopolysaccharide in complement-killing of Aeromonas hydrophila strains of serotype O:34. J. Gen. Microbiol. 137:1583-1590.
19. Merino, S., S. Camprubí, and J. M. Tomás. 1992. Characterization of an O-antigen bacteriophage from Aeromonas hydrophila. Can. J. Microbiol. 38:235-243.
20. Merino, S., S. Camprubí, and J. M. Tomás. 1992. Effect of growth temperature on outer membrane components and virulence of Aeromonas hydrophila strains of serorype O:34. Infect. Immun. 60:4343-4349.
21. Merino, S., X. Rubires, A. Aguilar, and J. M. Tomás. 1996. The O:34 antigen lipopolysaccharide as an adhesin in Aeromonas hydrophila. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 139:97-101.
22. Mikuiskis, A. V., I. Delor, V. H. Thi, and G. R. Cornelis. 1994. Regulation of the Yersinia enterocolitica enterotoxin Yst gene. Influence of growth phase, temperature, osmolarity, pH and bacterial host factors. Mol. Microbiol. 14:905-915.
23. Miller, J. H. 1972. Experiments in molecular genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
24. Misra, S. K., T. Shimada, R. K. Bhadra, S. C. Pal, and G. B. Nair. 1989. Serogroups of Aeromonas species from clinical and environmental sources in Calcutta, India. J. Diarrhoeal Dis. Res. 7:8-12.
25. Osborn, M. J. 1966. Preparation of lipopolysaccharide from mutant strains of Salmonella. Methods Enzymol. 8:161-164.
26. Poole, K., and V. Braun. 1988. Influence of growth temperature and lipopolysaccharide on hemolytic activity of Serratia marcescens. J. Bacteriol. 170:5146-5152.
27. Reed, L. J., and H. Muench. 1938. A simple method of estimating fifty percent end points. Am. J. Hyg. 27:493-497.
28. Rosenberg, M., D. Gutnick, and E. Rosenberg. 1980. Adherence of bacteria to hydrocarbons: a simple method for measure cell surface hydrophobicity. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 9:29-33.
29. Sakazaki, R., and T. Shimada. 1984. O-serogrouping scheme for mesophilic Aeromonas strains. Jpn. J. Mod Sci. Biol. 37:247-255.
30. Trust, T. J., and R. A. H. Sparrow. 1984. The bacterial flora in the alimentary tract of fresh-water salmonid fish. Can. J. Microbiol. 20:1219-1228.
31. Tsui, C. M., and C. E. Frasch. 1982. A sensitive silver strain for detecting lipopolysaccharide in polyacrylamide gels. Anal. Biochem. 119:115-119.
32. Westphal, O., and K. Jann. 1965. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides: extraction with phenol-water and further applications of the procedure. Methods Carbohydr. Chem. 5:83-91.
33. Woltenwber, H. W., S. Schlecht, O. Luderitz, and E. T. Rietschel. 1983. Fatty acid in lipopolysaccharide of Salmonella speeds grown at low temperature: identification and position. Eur. J. Biochem. 130:167-171.