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Cloning and Nucleotide Sequencing of the Clostridium Perfringens Epsilon-toxin Gene and Its Expression in Escherichia Coli

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Journal Infect Immun
Date 1992 Jan 1
PMID 1729175
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The sequence of 20 amino acids from the N terminus of Clostridium perfringens epsilon-toxin was determined. Some differences between this sequence and the previously published sequence (A. S. Bhown and A. F. S. A. Habeeb, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 78:889-896, 1977) were found. A degenerate 23-bp pair oligonucleotide probe was designed from the amino acid sequence data and used to isolate a DNA fragment containing the gene encoding epsilon-toxin (etx) from C. perfringens type B. The gene encoded a protein with a molecular weight of 32,981. Upstream of the gene, promoter sequences which resembled the Escherichia coli sigma 70 consensus sequences were identified. The gene was expressed in E. coli, and the cloned gene product reacted with epsilon-toxin-specific monoclonal antibodies and had a molecular weight and isoelectric point similar to those of the native protein. Downstream of etx, two overlapping open reading frames were identified. Each encoded part of a protein which was homologous to the transposase from Staphylococcus aureus transposon Tn4001. Southern hybridization experiments indicated that the etx gene was found only in C. perfringens types B and D, the types which produce epsilon-toxin.

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