Open AccessPrevalence of Known P-Fimbrial G Alleles in Escherichia coli and Identification of a New Adhesin Class
Author(s) -
Shan D. Manning,
Lixin Zhang,
Betsy Foxman,
Angela Spindler,
Patricia Tallman,
Carl F. Marrs
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1098-6588
pISSN - 1071-412X
DOI - 10.1128/cdli.8.3.637-640.2001
Subject(s) - bacterial adhesin , escherichia coli , gene , cloning (programming) , biology , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , allele , computer science , programming language
Screening a large Escherichia coli collection for P-fimbrial adhesin classes identified 20 unclassifiable strains. Cloning and sequencing of papG from an unclassifiable strain identified another G allele. The novel adhesin gene has 65% identity to the class I adhesin gene, 44% identity to the class II adhesin gene, and 43% identity to the class III adhesin gene.