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The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 35, Issue 3 168-173, Copyright © 1991 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Antigenic shifts in serotype determinants of Campylobacter coli are accompanied by changes in the chromosomal DNA restriction endonuclease digestion pattern

S. D. Mills, L. A. Kurjanczyk, B. Shames, J. N. Hennessy and J. L. Penner
Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Changes in somatic (O) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigenic specificities of Campylobacter coli serostrains were observed after continuous laboratory subculture. Two serostrains (C. coli O34 and C. coli O48) lost O specificity and did not react with homologous or any of the available heterologous antisera. The C. coli serostrain for serogroup O5, after subculture, yielded a variant that had acquired a new specificity which was detectable with a heterologous antiserum. In a repeat experiment with the original isolate of the O5 strain, a second variant was obtained which had not only acquired the same new determinant but had, unlike the first variant, lost reactivity with the homologous antiserum. Immunoblot experiments with homologous and heterologous antisera indicated that changes in antigenic specificity were associated with the O side chains of the LPS molecules. Results of restriction endonuclease analysis of chromosomal DNA of the variants and their parents revealed minor differences in restriction patterns which suggested that C. coli is capable of undergoing genomic re-arrangements that lead to changes in LPS specificity and structure.


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