Characterization of outer membrane protein OmpU of Vibrio cholerae O1

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4726-4728

  Nakasone, Noboru ^a   Iwanaga, Masaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031662832     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.4726-4728.1998     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Attridge, S. R., and D. Rowley. 1983. The role of the flagellum in the adherence of Vibrio cholerae. J. Infect. Dis. 147:864-872.
2. Chakrabarti, S. R., K. Chaudhuri, K. Sen, and J. Das. 1996. Porins of Vibrio cholerae: purification and characterization of OmpU. J. Bacteriol. 178:524-530.
3. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
4. Miller, V. L., and J. J. Mekalanos. 1988. A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR. J. Bacteriol. 170:2575-2583.
5. Nakasone, N., and M. Iwanaga. 1987. Quantitative evaluation of colonizing ability of Vibrio cholerae O1. Microbiol. Immunol. 31:753-761.
6. Nakasone, N., and M. Iwanaga. 1990. Pili of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain as a possible colonization factor. Infect. Immun. 58:61-69.
7. Nakasone, N., and M. Iwanaga. 1993. Cell-associated hemagglutinin of classical Vibrio cholerae O1 with reference to intestinal adhesion. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 113:67-70.
8. Osek, J., G. Jonson, A.-M. Svennerholm, and J. Holmgren. 1994. Role of antibodies against biotype-specific Vibrio cholerae pili in protection against experimental classical and E1 Tor cholera. Infect. Immun. 62:2901-2907.
9. Sengupta, D. K., T. K. Sengupta, and A. C. Ghose. 1992. Major outer membrane proteins of Vibrio cholerae and their role in induction of protective immunity through inhibition of intestinal colonization. Infect. Immun. 60:4848-4855.
10. Singh, S. N., R. Srivastava, V. B. Sinha, and B. S. Srivastava. 1994. A 53 kDa protein of Vibrio cholerae classical strain O395 involved in intestinal colonization. Microb. Pathog. 17:69-78.
11. Smith, P. K., R. I. Krohn, G. T. Hermanson, A. K. Mallia, F. H. Gartner, M. D. Provenzano, E. K. Fujimoto, N. M. Goeke, B. J. Olson, and D. C. Klenk. 1985. Measurement of protein using bicinchoninic acid. Anal. Biochem. 150:76-85.
12. Sperandio, V., J. A. Giron, W. D. Silveira, and J. B. Kaper. 1995. The OmpU outer membrane protein, a potential adherence factor of Vibrio cholerae. Infect. Immun. 63:4433-4438.
13. Tamamoto, T., K. Nakashima, N. Nakasone, Y. Honma, N. Higa, and T. Yamashiro. 1998. Adhesive property of toxin-coregulated pilus of Vibrio cholerae O1. Microbiol. Immunol. 42:41-45.
14. Taylor, R. K., V. L. Miller, D. B. Furlong, and J. J. Mekalanos. 1987. Use of phoA gene fusions to identify a pilus colonization factor coordinately regulated with cholera toxin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:2833-2837.
15. Towbin, H., T. Staehelin, and J. Gordon. 1979. Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:4350-4354.
16. Weiser, M. M. 1973. Intestinal epithelial cell surface membrane glycoprotein synthesis. J. Biol. Chem. 248:2536-2541.