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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 285, Issue 3, Pages 609-615Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5223
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cytolethal distending toxin; Haemophilus ducreyi; protein interactions; affinity purification
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI30211] Funding Source: Medline
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The cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) of Haemophilus ducreyi is encoded by the cdtABC genes, but the composition of active CDT is not known. Both immunoaffinity and metal affinity chromatographic methods were used to purify H. ducreyi CDT from recombinant Escherichia coli strains bearing wild-type or mutated H. ducreyi cdtABC genes. Both affinity-purified preparations contained CdtA, CdtB, and CdtC proteins. These purification efforts also revealed that the formation of a noncovalent CdtB-CdtC complex and production of a fully active CDT complex required the presence of a functional CdtA protein. When purified recombinant CdtB and CdtC proteins were mixed, only very slight CDT activity was detected. In contrast, when a bacterial cell extract containing CdtA was mixed with purified preparations of both CdtB and CdtC, full CDT activity was reconstituted in vitro. These results indicate that CdtA is essential for normal H. ducreyi CDT activity and that CdtA likely modifies or alters either CdtB or CdtC or both to form the active CDT complex. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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