Genetics of Virulence of Enteropathogenic E. coli

作者: James B. Kaper , Timothy K. McDaniel , Karen G. Jarvis , Oscar Gomez-Duarte

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1828-4_47

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摘要: Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) are a major cause of diarrhea in infants throughout the world. Although this pathogen was described 50 years ago, it is only recently that pathogenic mechanisms employed by organism have been elucidated. The characteristic histopathology induced organism, called “attaching and effacing”, consists intimate adherence bacterium to epithelial cell with marked cytoskeletal changes including effacement microvilli. A 35 kb region chromosomal DNA, LEE for locus enterocyte effacement, has which contains all known genes necessary production histopathology. Within eae gene encoding intimin, 94 kDa OMP involved adherence. Also within proteins secreted extracellularly EPEC (esp) type III secretion apparatus (sep) shares homology similar systems Yersinia, Shigella, Salmonella. Additional on 60 MDa plasmid encode IV pilus (BFP) positive transcriptional activator (per) multiple virulence genes.

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