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2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Identification of novel toxin genes in CA-MRSA

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 22590403
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Bacteriology (including Mycology)
Research InstitutionJuntendo University

Principal Investigator

HIRAMATSU Keiichi  順天堂大学, 医学部, 教授 (10173262)

Project Period (FY) 2010 – 2012
KeywordsMRSA / leukocidin / CA-MRSA / HA-MRSA / PVL
Research Abstract

Community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) has a stronger virulence than Healthcare-assiciated MRSA. Production of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) is deemed to be responsible for the strong virulence.However, it was not clear that PVL alone could explain the strong virulence of CA-MRSA. We noticed that CA-MRSA strain MW2 produced another set of leukocidins MW1941/1942. We expressed the toxins in E. coli, purified the toxin proteins and measured their lytic activity against human leukocytes. We observed a synergistic lytic activity of PVL and MW1941/1942 against human leukocytes.

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All Journal Article (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The pore-forming activities of Leukocidin/hemolysin toxin family proteins

    • Author(s)
      Isamu HONGO, Miki MATSUO , Shinya MIYAZAKI , Chikara KAITO, Teruyo ITO, Kazuhisa SEKIMIZU, and Keiichi HIRAMATSU
    • Journal Title

      MW1941 and MW1942 of community-acquired MRSA strain, MW2. Submitted to Microbes and Infection

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Published: 2014-08-29  

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