| Project/Area Number |
08670308
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Bacteriology (including Mycology)
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| Research Institution | Kagawa Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
OKABE Akinobu Kagawa Med.Univ.Professor, 医学部, 教授 (20093677)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KATAYAMA Seiichi Kagawa Med.Univ.Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助手 (70169473)
MATSUSHITA Osamu Kagawa Med.Univ.Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助手 (00209537)
MINAMI Junzaburo Kagawa Med.Univ.Associated Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (40157566)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
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| Keywords | DNA-binding protein / Gene cloning / Phospholipase C / Bacterial toxin / Clostridium perfringens / Molecular biology / ウェルシュ菌 / Clostridium perfringens / DNA結合蛋白 / 細菌の遺伝子発現 |
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| Research Abstract |
Phospholipase C (PLC) is one of the major virulence factors of Clostridium perfringens. The expression of a PLC-encoding gene (plc) is regulated by bent DNA locating upstream of a plc promoter and also by plc-binding protein, which can bind to the coding region of the gene. The plc-binding protein was partially purified from C.perfringens NCTC 8237, a PLC high-producing strain. One polypeptide, of which molecular mass was estimated to be 56 kDa by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) , bound to a fragment within the plc coding region. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined and PCR product was generated using degenerate primers corresponding to the sequence. A 6-kb EcoRI fragment from the NCTC 8237 chromosome, which hybridized with the PCR product, was cloned into pUC19. Nucleotide sequencing of this fragment and similarity search of the predicted amino acid sequence revealed that the gene encoding for the 56 K polypeptide is hemD-ctyGC and other open reading frames found in the fragment are all related to the enzymes for heme biosynthesis. When the 6-kb fragment was cloned into a shuttle-vector pJIR418 and C.perfringens strain 13 was transformed with the plasmid, othe hemD-cysGC-encoding gene was expressed in the transformant. However, extract from the transformant did not show a positive gel retardation to the plc gene. It may be possible that the plc-binding protein comigrates with the 56 K polypeptide on SDS-PAGE.Study was also conducted on a role of the bent DNA locating upstream of the plc promoter. It has been shown to play a role in the regulation of the plc gene expression in response to alteration of temperature.
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