Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
Associated disease: bacillary dysentery [ICD11:
1A02 
, ICD11:
XN7HG ];
infection due to Shigella flexneri [ICD11:
XN7Y2 ]
NCBI PubMed ID: 9368372Publication DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1997.tb12718.xJournal NLM ID: 7705721Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Correspondence: Naresh.Verma
anu.edu.au
Institutions: Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
The O-antigen of most Shigella flexneri serotypes contains an identical tetrasaccharide repeating unit. Apart from serotype Y, the O-antigen is modified by addition of a glucosyl and/or O-acetyl residue to a specific position in the O-unit. In this study the glucosyl transferase gene from a serotype 1 a has been cloned and identified. The bacteriophage SfV integrase (int) gene was used to probe a S. flexneri Y53 (serotype 1 a) cosmid library and 18 unique clones were identified. Southern hybridisation of these clones indicated two unlinked regions of the chromosome contained the int homologue. When expressed in a live candidate vaccine strain of S. flexneri serotype Y (SFL124), clones with one region produced type I antigen, whereas clones containing the other region produced mainly type Y antigen. One of the cosmid clones positive for type I antigen by agglutination and Western blotting was selected for further study. Genes involved in O-antigen glucosyl modification were mapped on a 5.8 kb fragment and subclones were produced which fully or partially expressed the type I antigen, depending on the extent of the clone. Fully and partially expressing clones may be useful vaccine candidate strains for protection against disease caused by two serotypes of S. flexneri.
O-antigen, Shigella flexneri, vaccine, Glucosyl transferase gene
Structure type: polymer chemical repeating unit
Location inside paper: p.16152
Compound class: O-polysaccharide, O-antigen, Shigella serogroup Y antigen, rhamnoglucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_125613,IEDB_125614,IEDB_127514,IEDB_133752,IEDB_133753,IEDB_133754,IEDB_135813,IEDB_135849,IEDB_136105,IEDB_137340,IEDB_141807,IEDB_141815,IEDB_141816,IEDB_143253,IEDB_151531,IEDB_153213,IEDB_225177,IEDB_885823
Methods: PCR, Western blotting, serological methods, genetic methods
Related record ID(s): 30170
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 623Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G98477AV, GlycomeDB:
3543, CCSD:
2501, CBank-STR:8288, GenDB:AFl28887
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