TY  - JOUR
A1  - Berger, Harald
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
A1  - Juarez, Antonio
A1  - Hughes, Colin
A1  - Goebel, Werner
T1  - Cloning of the chromosomal determinants encoding hemolysin production and mannose-resistant hemagglutination in Escherichia coli
N2  - We have cloned the chromosomal hemolysin determinants from Escherichia coli strains belonging to the four O-serotypes 04, 06, 018, and 075, The hemolysin-producing clones were isolated from gene banks of these strains which were constructed by inserting partial Sau3A fragments of chromosomal DNA into the cosmid pJC74. The hemolytic cosmid clones were relatively stable. The inserts were further sub cloned either as Sail fragments in pACYC184 or as BamHI-SaLI fragments in a recombinant plasmid (pANN202) containing cistron C (hlye) of the plasmid-encoded hemolysin determinant. Detailed restriction maps of each of these determinants were constructed, and it was found that, despite sharing overall homology, the determinants exhibited minor specific differences in their structure, These appeared to be restricted to cistron A (hlyA), which is the structural gene for hemolysin. In the gene banks of two of these hemolytic strains, we could also identify clones which carried the genetic determinants for the mannose-resistant hemagglutination antigens Vb and VIc. Both of these fimbrial antigens were expressed in the E. coli K-12 clones to an extent similar to that observed in the wild-type strains. These recombinant cosmids were rather unstable, and, in the absence of selection, segregated at a high frequency.
Y1  - 1982
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40255
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bender, L.
A1  - Ott, M.
A1  - Marre, R.
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
T1  - Genome analysis of Legionella spp. by orthogonal field alternation gel electrophoresis (OFAGE)
N2  - Various Legionella isolates from different sources and origins were analysed by orthogonal field alternation gel electrophoresis of Not I cleaved genomic DNA. The genome of L pneumophila Philadelphia I, the original isolate of the epidemics in 1976, exhibits only five Not I fragments. Two virulent derivatives. derived from L pneumophila Philadelphia I. which were obtained by prolonged passage on artificial cuhure media, did not differ from their isogenic virulent strain according the Not I fragment pattern. By summing the lengths of the Notl fragments, the genome size of L. pneumophila Philadelphia I was calculated as approximately 3.9 Mb. Environmental L pneumophila strains exhibited different Not I pattems, as did Legionella strains not belongi'ng to the species pneumophila. The usefulness of DNA long range mapping of Legionella ssp. with Notl for epidemiology and evaluation of their evolutionary rela· tionships is discussed.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
KW  - Legionella ssp.
KW  - Genome analysis
KW  - Orthogonal field attenuation gel electrophoresis
Y1  - 1990
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59657
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bender, L.
A1  - Ott, M.
A1  - Debes, A.
A1  - Rdest, U.
A1  - Heesemann, J.
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
T1  - Distribution, expression and long range mapping of legiolysin gene (lly) specific DNA sequences in Legionellae
N2  - The legiolysin gene (lly) cloned from Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia 1 confers the phenotypes of hemolysis and browning of the culture medium. An internal Uy-specific DNA probe was used in Southern hybridizations for the detection of Uy-specific DNA in the genomes of legioneUae and other gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. Under conditi9ns of high stringency, tlie Uy DNA probe specifically reacted with DNA fragments fr9m L. pneumophiüz isolates; by reducing stringency, hybridization was also observed for all other Legionella strains tested. No hybridization occurred with DNAs isolated from bact~ria of other genera. The Uy genewas mapped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to the respective genomic Notl fragments of Legionelltz isolates. By using antilegiolysin monospecific polyclonal antibodies in Western blots (immunoblots), Lly proteins could be detected only in L. pneumophila isolates.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
Y1  - 1991
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59744
ER  -