TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
A1  - Hof, H.
A1  - Emödy, L.
A1  - Goebel, W.
T1  - Influence of cloned Escherichia coli hemolysin genes, S fimbriae and serum resistance on pathogenicity in different animal models
N2  - The virulence of the uropathogenic E. coli strain 536 (06: K 1 5: H31) which produces the S-fimbrial adhesin (Sfa•), is serum-resistant (Sre+) and hemolytic (Hiy+) and its derivatives were assessed in five different animal models. Cloned hemolysin (h/y) determinants from the Chromosomes of 06,018 and 075 E. colistrains and from the plasmid pHiy152 were introduced into the spontaneaus Sfa-, Sre-, Hly- mutant 536-21 and its Sfa+, Sre+, Hly- variant 536-31. As already demonstrated for the 536-21 strains {lnfect. Immun. 42: 57-63) the 018-hly determinant but not the plasmid-encoded hly determinant of pHiy 1 52 transformed into 536-31 contribute to lethality in a mouse peritonitis modal. Similar results were obtained with both Hlyhost strains and their Hly+ transformants in a chicken embryo test and in a mouse nephropathogenicity assay in which the renal bacterial counts were measured 1 5 min to 8 hours after i.v. infection. S-fimbriae and serum resistance had only a marginal influence in these three in vivo systems. ln centrast all three factors, S-fimbriae, serum resistance and hemolysin, were necessary for full virulence in a respiratory mouse infection assay. ln a subcutaneously-induced sepsis model in the mouse restoration of S-fimbriae and serum resistance and separately chromosomally-encoded hemolysis increased virulence to a Ievel comparable to that of the parental 536 strain.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
KW  - E. coli hemolysin
KW  - S-fimbriae
KW  - serum resistance
KW  - E. coli virulence
KW  - animal models
KW  - gene cloning
Y1  - 1986
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59423
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
A1  - Ott, M.
A1  - Schmidt, G.
A1  - Hull, R.
A1  - Goebel, W.
T1  - Molecular cloning of the F8 fimbrial antigen from Escherichia coli
N2  - The genetic determinant coding for the Pspecific F8 fimbriae was cloned from · the chromosome of the Escherichia coli wild-type strain 2980 (018: K5: H5: FlC, F8). The F8 determinant was further subcloned into the Pstl site of pBR322 and a restriction map was established. In a Southern hybridization experiment identity between the chromosomally encoded F8 determinant of 2980 and its cloned Counterpart was demonstrated. The cloned F8 fimbriäe and those of the wild type strain consist of a protein subunit of nearly 20 kDa. F8 fimbriated strains were agglutinated by an F8 polyclonal antiserum, caused mannose-resistant hemagglutination and attached to human uroepi thellal cells. The cloned F8 determinant was weil expressed in a variety of host strains.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
KW  - Escherichia coli
KW  - antigen
KW  - F8 fimbriae
KW  - gene cloning
Y1  - 1986
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59391
ER  -