Abstract:
:Human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) producing colonization factor antigen III (CFA/III) and coli surface antigens 4, 5, and 6 (CS4, CS5, and CS6) of CFA/IV were examined ultrastructurally and for ability to adhere to human small intestinal enterocytes and to cultured human intestinal mucosa. Strains of serotypes O25:H-, O25:H42, and O167:H5 producing CFA/III plus CS6, CS4 plus CS6, and CS5 plus CS6, respectively, showed good adhesion to human enterocytes (1.8 to 4.2 bacteria per brush border) and cultured human intestinal mucosa, whereas variants lacking these antigens or producing only CS6 were nonadherent (0 to 0.03 bacterium per brush border). By electron microscopy, CFA/III, CS4, and CS5 appeared as morphologically distinct rodlike fimbriae: CFA/III was 7 to 8 nm in diameter, CS4 was 6 to 7 nm in diameter, and CS5 was 5 to 6 nm in diameter. CS5 was unusual in that it appeared to be composed of two fine fibrils arranged in a double-helical structure. CS6 was difficult to characterize morphologically but possibly has a very fine fibrillar structure. By specific fimbrial staining and immunoelectron microscopy. CS4 and CS5 were shown to promote mucosal adhesion of ETEC; a similar adhesion role for the CS6 antigen could not be confirmed. ETEC strains of serotypes O27:H7, O27:H20, O148:H28, and O159:H20 which produced CS6 showed good adhesion to human enterocytes (1.6 to 3.0 bacteria per brush border), whereas variants which lacked CS6 were nonadherent (0 to 0.01 bacterium per brush border). These strains, however, also produced fimbrial or fibrillar surface antigens, in addition to CS6, which probably represent additional coli surface antigens responsible for the observed adhesive properties of these ETEC serotypes.
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Infect Immunjournal_title
Infection and immunityauthors
Knutton S,McConnell MM,Rowe B,McNeish ASdoi
10.1128/IAI.57.11.3364-3371.1989subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-11-01 00:00:00pages
3364-71issue
11eissn
0019-9567issn
1098-5522journal_volume
57pub_type
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