title: Neurotoxin gene clusters in Clostridium botulinum type Ab strains.
abstract: There is limited knowledge of the neurotoxin gene diversity among Clostridium botulinum type Ab strains. Only the sequences of the bont/A and bont/B genes in C. botulinum type Ab strain CDC1436 and the sequence of the bont/B gene in C. botulinum type Ab strain CDC588 have been reported. In this study, we sequenced the entire bont/A- and bont/B-associated neurotoxin gene clusters of C. botulinum type Ab strain CDC41370 and the bont/A gene of strain CDC588. In addition, we analyzed the organization of the neurotoxin gene clusters in strains CDC588 and CDC1436. The bont/A nucleotide sequence of strain CDC41370 differed from those of the known bont/A subtypes A1 to A4 by 2 to 7%, and the predicted amino acid sequence differed by 4% to 14%. The bont/B nucleotide sequence in strain CDC41370 showed 99.7% identity to the sequence of subtype B1. The bont/A nucleotide sequence of strain CDC588 was 99.9% identical to that of subtype A1. Although all of the C. botulinum type Ab strains analyzed contained the two sets of neurotoxin clusters, similar to what has been found in other bivalent strains, the intergenic spacing of p21-orfX1 and orfX2-orfX3 varied among these strains. The type Ab strains examined in this study had differences in their toxin gene cluster compositions and bont/A and bont/B nucleotide sequences, suggesting that they may have arisen from separate recombination events.
authors.affiliation: Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. Cluquez@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lúquez
authors.forename: Brian H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Raphael
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Maslanka
mesh_terms: D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics*; D003014:Clostridium botulinum / Q000235:genetics*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D023061:Gene Order; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D026801:Synteny
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009498:Neurotoxins
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