期刊
MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
卷 47, 期 1, 页码 81-90出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2003.tb02789.x
关键词
leukotoxin; PV-leukocidin; gamma-hemolysin
Staphylococcus aureus produces bi-component leukotoxins composed of non-associated soluble proteins, S and F. Neither S nor F component alone is cytotoxic, but components together are active. These include Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), gamma-hemolysin, LukE-LukD and others. Purification of leukotoxin from Staphylococcus aureus V8 strain (ATCC 27733) which does not have PVL genes, identified an F component with 100% identical to that of PVL in the first twenty-five N-terminal amino acids. Molecular cloning of this toxin obtained 2,595 nucleotides sequences containing two novel open reading frames for S and F. Deduced amino acid sequences of the S and F were respectively 91 and 94% identical to those of LukE and LukD. These were named variant of LukE-LukD (LukEv-LukDv). The activity of the recombinant LukEv-LukDv to rabbit leukocytes was similar to that of recombinant PVL. LukEv-LukDv was hemolytic to rabbit red blood cells although the activity was only 8 % of gamma-hemolysin, but PVL was not. These activities were quite different from the LukE-LukD which was reported no hemolytic and poorly cytotoxic to leukocytes compared to PVL. The lukEv-lukDv was found in 87 % of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus but lukE-lukD was not detected. These data demonstrate the existence of variant LukE-LukD in V8 strain (ATCC 27733).
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