The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 45, Issue 2 90-96, Copyright © 1996 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

A low molecular weight outer-membrane protein of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with adherence to INT407 cells and chicken caeca

S. Zhao, J. Meng, M. P. Doyle, R. Meinersman, G. Wang and P. Zhao
Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement, University of Georgia, Griffin 30223, USA.

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 and O26:H11 have been shown to produce a low mol.wt outer-membrane protein (OMP) that is unique to a few serotypes of E. coli. A mutant (A10) of E. coli O157:H7 strain HA1 deficient in the OMP was constructed by TnphoA mutagenesis and assayed for its adherent ability. Adherence of A10 to intestinal epithelial cells (INT407) was significantly less than that of its parent strain (HA1). Adherence of HA1 to INT407 cells was significantly decreased by treatment with a monoclonal antibody (4E8C12) that specifically binds to the OMP. When chickens were infected experimentally with E. coli O157:H7 strains, the average number of cfu of strain A10 recovered from chicken caeca was significantly less than those of strain HA1 and wild-type strain 932 at 14 and 21 days after peroral inoculation. These data suggest that the OMP of EHEC is associated with adherence of E. coli O157:H7 to epithelial cells in vitro and chicken caeca in vivo.

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