title: Enterotoxin-associated DNA sequence homology between Salmonella species and Escherichia coli.
abstract: Multiple HindIII-restriction fragments of Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella typhi chromosomal DNA exhibited homology with the heat-labile enterotoxin (LT1) gene of Escherichia coli as determined by Southern blot analysis. A 9.4 kb HindIII restriction fragment identified in S. typhimurium and S. typhi chromosomal DNA reacted with both eltA and eltB gene probes. However, the homology of the 9.4 kb DNA fragment from these Salmonella species was greater with eltB than eltA. In addition, a synthetic oligonucleotide probe, made to a portion of the putative GM1-ganglioside binding region of cholera toxin (CT) and LT1, hybridized with the 9.4 kb DNA fragment of S. typhimurium but not with the 9.4 kb fragment found in S. typhi isolates. The hybridization of multiple restriction fragments of Salmonella DNA with eltA and eltB gene sequences further suggests duplication of the stx operon on the chromosome of these bacteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Chopra
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Houston
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pericas
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prasad
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012475:Salmonella / Q000235:genetics*; D012485:Salmonella typhi / Q000235:genetics; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004768:Enterotoxins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D002772:Cholera Toxin; C027538:heat-labile enterotoxin, E coli