Purification and some properties of a non-o1 Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin that is identical to cholera enterotoxin.

AUTOR(ES)

Yamamoto, K

RESUMO

Cholera-like enterotoxin was isolated and purified from the culture supernatant of a non-O1 strain of Vibrio cholerae, E8498, isolated from the environment. Enterotoxin was purified by aluminum hydroxide absorption and elution and successive gel filtrations on Sephadex G-100, Bio-Gel A-5m, and Sephadex G-75. Purified enterotoxin gave a single stained band on polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis, and the mobility was the same as that of cholera enterotoxin. The specific biological activity of the purified enterotoxin was almost the same as that of cholera enterotoxin in the Chinese hamster ovary cell assay, fluid accumulation in mouse ligated intestine, increase in vascular permeability in rabbit skin, and passive immune hemolysis. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis showed that the purified enterotoxin consisted of subunits A and B, identical to those of cholera enterotoxin, and Ouchterlony double gel diffusion tests indicated that the two toxins were immunologically identical. Enterotoxins prepared from several non-O1 strains isolated from human patients were also immunologically identical to cholera enterotoxin.

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