Cloning and surface expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O antigen in Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Goldberg, J B
RESUMO
As a step toward developing recombinant oral vaccines, we have explored the feasibility of expression of O polysaccharide antigens from Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Escherichia coli. We cloned in E. coli HB101 a 26.2-kilobase DNA fragment from P. aeruginosa strain PA103 that specifies the production of the O polysaccharide of Fisher immunotype 2 (IT-2) strains. The recombinant organism incorporated the P. aeruginosa IT-2 O polysaccharide onto the core of the E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Transfer of the recombinant plasmid to three LPS-rough strains of P. aeruginosa resulted in synthesis of IT-2 O antigen, and two of these transconjugant strains also synthesized a second O polysaccharide, presumably representing expression of a repressed, or an incomplete, set of genes for an endogenous O polysaccharide. Rabbits injected with the purified recombinant LPS made antibody specific for P. aeruginosa IT-2 O side chains, as did mice fed the recombinant E. coli strain. Expression of P. aeruginosa O antigens by enteric bacteria makes it possible to study these recombinant strains as oral vaccines to prevent P. aeruginosa infections.
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