Heterogeneity of the eae genes in attaching/effacing Escherichia coli from cattle: Comparison with human strains

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 323-332

  China, Bernard ^a   Jacquemin, Etienne ^a   Devrin, Anne Catherine ^a   Pirson, Vinciane ^a   Mainil, Jacques ^a  

^a Universite de Liege   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cloning; Eae gene; Escherichia coli; Gene probe; Locus of enterocyte eftacement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032706090     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)80058-8     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Abe A., Kenny B., Stein M., Finlay B.B. Characterization of two virulence proteins secreted by rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, EspA and EspB, whose maximal expression is sensitive to host body temperature. Infect. Immun. 65:1997;3547-3555.
2. Adu-Bobie J., Frankel G., Bain C., Goncalves A.G., Trabulsi L., Douce G., Knutton S., Dougan G. Detection of intimins α, β, γ, and δ, four intimin derivatives expressed by attaching and effacing microbial pathogens. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1998;662-668.
3. Agin T.S., Cantey J.R., Boedeker E.C., Wolf M.K. Characterization of the eaeA gene from rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strain RDEC-1 and comparison to other eaeA genes from bacteria that cause attaching and effacing lesions. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 144:1996;249-258.
4. An H., Fairbrother J.M., Dubreuil J.D., Harel J. Cloning and cahracterization of the eae gene from a dog attaching and effacing Escherichia coli strain 4221. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 148:1997;239-245.
5. Barrett T.B., Kaper J.B., Jerse A.E., Wachsmuth I.K. Virulence factors in Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from humans and cattle. J. Infect. Dis. 165:1992;979-980.
6. Beebakhee G., Louie M., DeAzavedo J., Brunton J. Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the eae gene homologue from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 91:1992;63-68.
7. Beutin L. Escherichia coli as a pathogen in dogs and cats. Vet. Res. 1999;. in press.
8. Broes A. Les Escherichia coli pathogènes du chien et du chat. Ann. Méd. Vét. 137:1993;377-384.
9. China B., Pirson V., Jacquemin E., Pohl P., Mainil J. Pathotypes of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates producing Attaching/Effacing (AE) lesions in the ligated intestinal loop assay in rabbits. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 412:1997;311-316.
10. China B., Pirson V., Mainil J. Typing of bovine attaching and effacing Escherichia coli by multiplex in vitro amplification of virulence-associated genes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1996;3462-3465.
11. China B., Pirson V., Mainil J. Prevalence and molecular typing of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli among calf populations in Belgium. Vet. Microbiol. 63:1998;249-259.
12. Cray W.C.J.R., Thomas L.A., Schneider R.A., Moon H.W. Virulence attributes of Escherichia coli isolated from dairy heifer feces. Vet. Microbiol. 53:1996;369-374.
13. Elliott S.J., Wainwright L.A., McDaniel T.K., Jarvis K.G., Deng Y.K., Lai L.C., McNamara B.P., Donnenberg M.S., Kaper J.B. The complete sequence of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli E2348/69. Mol. Microbiol. 28:1998;1-4.
14. Fairbrother J.M. Les colibacilloses du porc. Ann. Méd. Vét. 137:1993;369-375.
15. Franck S.M., Bosworth B.T., Moon H.W. Multiplex PCR for enterotoxigenic, attaching and effacing, and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains from calves. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1998;1795-1797.
16. Goffaux F., Mainil J., Pirson V., Charlier G., Pohl P., Jacquemin E., China B. Bovine attaching and effacing Escherichia coli possess a pathogenesis island related to the LEE of human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strain E2348/69. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 154:1997;415-421.
17. Jerse A.E., Yu J., Tall B.D., Kaper J.B. A genetic locus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli necessary for the production of attaching and effacing lesions on tissue cell cultures. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 87:1990;7839-7843.
18. Karch H., Meyer T., Rüssmann H., Heesemann J. Frequent loss of Shiga-like toxin genes in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli upon subcultivation. Infect. Immun. 60:1992;3464-3467.
19. Karch H., Rüssmann H., Schmidt H., Schwarzkopf A., Heesemann J. Long-term shedding and clonal turnover of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in diarrheal disease. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:1995;1602-1605.
20. McDaniel T.K., Jarvis K.G., Donnenberg M.S., Kaper J.B. A genetic locus of enterocyte effacement conserved among diverse enterobacterial pathogens. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 92:1995;1664-1668.
21. Mainil J.G. Vero/Shigatoxins and vero/shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli in animals. Vet. Res. 1999;. in press.
22. Mainil J.G., Duchesnes C.J., Whipp S.C., Marques L.R.M., O'Brien A.D., Casey T.A., Moon H.W. Shiga-like toxin production and attaching and effacing activity of Escherichia coli associated with calf diarrhea. Am. J. Vet. Res. 48:1987;743-748.
23. Mainil J.G., Jacquemin E., Kaeckenbeeck A., Pohl P. Association between the effacing gene (eae) and the Shiga-like toxin-encoding genes in Escherichia coli isolates from cattle. Am. J. Vet. Res. 54:1993;1064-1068.
24. Mainil J., Pohl P. Les souches attachantes et effaçantes d'Escherichia coli d'origine bovine. Ann. Méd. Vét. 138:1994;419-429.
25. Milon A., Oswald E., DeRycke J. Rabbit EPEC: a model for the study of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. Vet. Res. 1999;. in press.
26. Moon H.W., Whipp S.C., Argenzio R.A., Levine M.M., Gianella R.A. Attaching and effacing activities of rabbit and human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in pig and rabbit intestines. Infect. Immun. 53:1983;1340-1351.
27. Nataro J.P., Kaper J.B. Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 11:1998;142-201.
28. O'Brien A.D., Laveck G.D., Thompson M.R., Formal S. Production of Shigella dysenteriae type 1-like cytotoxin by Escherichia coli. J. Infect. Dis. 146:1982;763-769.
29. Paton A.W., Manning P.A., Woodrow M.C., Paton J.C. Translocated intimin receptors (Tir) of shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates belonging to serogroups O26, O111, and O157 react with sera from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome and exhibit marked sequence heterogeneity. Infect. Immun. 66:1998;5580-5586.
30. Paton A.W., Paton J.C. Detection and characterization of shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli using multiplex PCR assays for stx1, stx2, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli hlyA, rfbO111, and rfbO157. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1998;598-602.
31. Peeters J. Les Escherichia coli entéropathogènes (EPEC) du lapin. Ann. Méd. Vét. 137:1993;361-368.
32. Perna N., Mayhew G.F., Posfai G., Elliot S., Donnenberg M.S., Kaper J.B., Blattner F.R. Molecular evolution of a pathogenicity island from enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Infect. Immun. 66:1998;3810-3817.
33. Pohl P.H., Peeters J.E., Jacquemin E.R., Lintermans P.F., Mainil J.G. Identification of eae sequences in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains from rabbits. Infect. Immun. 61:1993;2203-2206.
34. Sandhu K.S., Clarke R.C., McFadden K., Brouwer A., Louie M., Wilson J., Lior H., Gyles C.L. Prevalence of the eaeA gene in verotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains from dairy cattle in Southwest Ontario. Epidemiol. Infect. 116:1996;1-7.
35. Sanger F., Nicklen S., Coulson A. DNA sequencing with chain terminating inhibitors. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 74:1977;5463-5467.
36. Schmidt H., Geitz C., Tarr P.I., Frosch M., Karch H. Non-O157:H7 pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: phenotypic and genetic profiling of virulence traits and evidence for clonality. J. Infect. Dis. 179:1999;115-123.
37. Smith H.R., Willshaw G.A., Scotland S.M., Thomas A., Rowe B. Properties of Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from human and non-human sources. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. 278:1993;436-444.
38. Tzipori S., Gunzer F., Donnenberg M.S., de Montigny L., Kaper J.B., Donohue-Rolfe A. The role of the eaeA gene in diarrhea and neurological complications in a gnotobiotic piglet model of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection. Infect. Immun. 63:1995;3621-3627.
39. Wieler L.H., Vieler E., Erpenstein C., Sclapp T., Steinrück H., Bauerfeind H., Byomi A., Baljer G. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) from bovines: association of adhesion with the carriage of eae and other genes. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:1996;2980-2984.
40. Yu J., Kaper J.B. Cloning and characterization of the eae gene of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mol. Microbiol. 6:1992;411-417.