Purification and partial characterization of heat-stable enterotoxin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Takeda, Y
RESUMO
Heat-stable enterotoxin was purified from a strain of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 53402 A-1 from human intestine. The cells were cultured in Casamino Acids-yeast extract-salts medium, and the purification procedure consisted of protamine sulfate treatment of the culture supernatant, ultrafiltration with an Amicon PM-10 membrane, diethylaminoethyl-cellulose column chromatography, hydroxyapatite column chromatography, Bio-Gel P-10 gel filtration, 90% ethanol extraction, and preparative polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis. About 300-fold purification was achieved, with a yield of about 12%. However, the homogeneity of the purified heat-stable enterotoxin was not rigorously demonstrated. The purified heat-stable enterotoxin had an absorption maximum at about 275 nm, and its isoelectric point was about 3.90. The molecular weight of the purified heat-stable enterotoxin was ca. 4,000 by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration. The minimum effective dose of purified heat-stable enterotoxin was about 2.5 ng in the suckling mouse assay. The purified heat-stable enterotoxin gave a positive reaction in not only the suckling mouse assay but also the mouse intestinal loop test and the guinea pig skin permeability test.
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