The Cell Cycle-Specific Growth-Inhibitory Factor Produced by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Is a Cytolethal Distending Toxin
AUTOR(ES)
Sugai, Motoyuki
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans has been shown to produce a soluble cytotoxic factor(s) distinct from leukotoxin. We have identified in A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4 a cluster of genes encoding a cytolethal distending toxin (CDT). This new member of the CDT family is similar to the CDT produced by Haemophilus ducreyi. The CDT from A. actinomycetemcomitans was produced in Escherichia coli and was able to induce cell distension, growth arrest in G2/M phase, nucleus swelling, and chromatin fragmentation in HeLa cells. The three proteins, CDTA, -B and -C, encoded by the cdt locus were all required for toxin activity. Antiserum raised against recombinant CDTC completely inhibited the cytotoxic activity of culture supernatant and cell homogenate fractions of A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4. These results strongly suggest that the CDT is responsible for the cytotoxic activity present in the culture supernatant and cell homogenate fractions of A. actinomycetemcomitans Y4. This CDT is a new putative virulence factor of A. actinomycetemcomitans and may play a role in the pathogenesis of periodontal diseases.
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