Characterization of bacteriophage nucleic acids obtained from Clostridium botulinum types C and D.

Abstract:

:Nontoxigenic strains of Clostridium botulinum types C and D are converted to toxigenic strains by infection with specific Tox+ bacteriophages. The nucleic acids were extracted from five converting phages, c-st, c-468, c-203, c-d6f, and d-1873, and one nonconverting phage, c-n71, and treated with nucleases. The nucleic acids isolated were not digested by RNase A, but were digested by DNase I and exonuclease III, indicating that they were double-stranded DNA. On the basis of the restriction endonuclease digestion patterns on 0.8% agarose gel electrophoresis, the length of c-st, c-n71, c-468, and c-d6f phage DNAs was estimated to be about 110 kilobase pairs and that of c-203 and d-1873 was about 150 kilobase pairs. The digestion patterns of c-st, c-468, and c-n71 phage DNAs by PstI and HindIII were very similar. High homology was observed in the dot hybridization test. For other phages and nucleases, a good similarity was not observed. Only a little similarity was observed between c-203 and c-d6f phages. The existence of the structural genes for the toxin in both c-st and c-n71 phages was confirmed by the hybridization test with these phage DNAs and the oligonucleotide probe which represented the DNA sequence predicted for the N-terminal amino acids (2 to 17) of C. botulinum type C toxin. The loss of the converting ability of c-n71 phage may be caused not by the deletion of the tox+ gene but rather by the base mutation in c-st phage DNA.

journal_name

Appl Environ Microbiol

authors

Fujii N,Oguma K,Yokosawa N,Kimura K,Tsuzuki K

doi

10.1128/AEM.54.1.69-73.1988

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-01-01 00:00:00

pages

69-73

issue

1

eissn

0099-2240

issn

1098-5336

journal_volume

54

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