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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
卷 156, 期 -, 页码 1983-1992出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038158-0
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- National Science Council [NSC 96-3112-B-009-004, NSC 97-2320-B-009-001-MY3]
- Veterans General Hospital University System of Taiwan [VGHUST94-P5-27]
In the genome of Klebsiella pneumoniae NTUH-K2044, nine fimbrial gene clusters were identified. Besides type 1 and type 3 fimbriae, the others are novel and were named Kpa, Kpb, Kpc, Kpd, Kpe, Kpf and Kpg fimbriae. Prevalence analysis among 105 K. pneumoniae clinical isolates revealed that the kpc genes were highly associated with the K1 serotype isolates. Induced expression of the recombinant kpcABCD genes in Escherichia colt resulted in Kpc fimbriation and increased biofilm formation. A putative site-specific recombinase encoding gene kpcl and a 302 bp intergenic DNA flanked by 11 bp inverted repeats, namely kpcS, were identified in the upstream region of the kpcABCD genes. Using LacZ as the reporter, a dramatic difference in promoter activity of kpcS in two different orientations was observed and accordingly assigned as ON and OFF phase. kpcl expression was found to be able to invert kpcS in trans from phase ON to OFF and vice versa. Using the two-plasmid system, expression of kpcA, encoding the major component of the Kpc fimbriae, could be observed upon the induced expression of kpcl. These results indicate that Kpcl is involved in the regulation of Kpc fimbriation in a phase-variable manner.
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