EFFECT OF THE PROPHAGE CTXΦ DELETION UPON PHENOTYPIC PROPERTIES IN STRAINS OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE BIOVAR EL TOR, ASSOCIATED WITH VIRULENCE AND PERSISTENCE
https://doi.org/10.21055/0370-1069-2017-2-54-57
Abstract
Objective of the study is to evaluate the influence of CTXφ prophage deletion, which carries ctxAB genes, on phenotypical properties associated with pathogenicity or biofilm formation in non-toxigenic mutants. Materials and methods. Utilized have been the clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae biovar El Tor and their spontaneous non-toxigenic mutants that lost CTXφ prophage. Applied have been microbiological and biochemical methods, inoculation of model animals with cells of the strains under study. Results and conclusions. The results of comparative analysis of phenotypic properties in isogenic toxigenic and non-toxigenic strains of Vibrio cholerae biovar El Tor, which lost CTXφ prophage encoding the cholera toxin, are represented. It is established that the deletion of CTXφ prophage leads to the simultaneous change of several phenotypic properties associated with virulence (colonizing ability, production of soluble hemagglutinin/protease and heat labile hemolysin/cytolysin) and biofilm formation (motility, exopolysaccharide biosynthesis) in spontaneous non-toxigenic mutants. It is suggested that the reason for these phenotypic changes in the mutants might be the changes in activity of the related to each other regulatory genes controlling virulence and biofilm formation process in cholera agent.
About the Authors
E. Yu. Shchelkanova
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
E. Yu. Agafonova
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
L. F. Livanova
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
D. A. Agafonov
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Yu. V. Lozovsky
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
N. I. Smirnova
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe”
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
Russian Federation
46, Universitetskaya St., Saratov, 410005
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Shchelkanova E.Yu., Agafonova E.Yu., Livanova L.F., Agafonov D.A., Lozovsky Yu.V., Smirnova N.I. EFFECT OF THE PROPHAGE CTXΦ DELETION UPON PHENOTYPIC PROPERTIES IN STRAINS OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE BIOVAR EL TOR, ASSOCIATED WITH VIRULENCE AND PERSISTENCE. Problems of Particularly Dangerous Infections. 2017;(2):54-57. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21055/0370-1069-2017-2-54-57
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