Physical and genetic mapping of the Salmonella dublin virulence plasmid pSDL2. Relationship to plasmids from other Salmonella strains.
AUTOR(ES)
Beninger, P R
RESUMO
Plasmids of approximately 80 kb in size are found in nearly all clinical isolates of Salmonella dublin and are believed to be essential for virulence. We have shown previously that the 80-kb plasmid pSDL2 is required for the S. dublin Lane strain to establish a lethal systemic infection in BALB/c mice after oral or intraperitoneal inoculation. We now present a physical and genetic characterization of pSDL2. We have established a complete restriction endonuclease cleavage map of pSDL2 for five enzymes: Xba I, Bam HI, Xho I, Sal I, and Hind III. The region specifying autonomous replication has been localized to a 10.5-kb region of the Sal I A fragment by subcloning on the vector pBR322. Using transposon insertion mutagenesis with Tn5-oriT, a region encoding the virulence phenotype has been mapped within a 6.4-kb portion of the Sal I B fragment. Deletions generated by partial Eco RI restriction digestion demonstrate that at least 50 kb of the plasmid DNA are not required for replication or virulence functions, confirming the map location of these phenotypes. Plasmids of different sizes and restriction patterns were found in mouse virulent strains of S. dublin Vi+, S. enteritidis, and S. choleraesuis. By Southern hybridization, these putative virulence plasmids share a common 4-kb Eco RI fragment with the virulence region of pSDL2, and the plasmids from S. dublin Vi+ and S. enteritidis were shown to express mouse virulence comparable to pSDL2.
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