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J Med Microbiol 52 (2003), 103-108; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.04920-0
© 2003 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

PATHOGENICITY AND VIRULENCE

Cytolethal distending toxin B gene (cdtB) homologues in taxa 2, 3 and 8 and in six canine isolates of Helicobacter sp. flexispira

Silja Kostia1, Pirjo Veijalainen2, Urszula Hirvi1 and Marja-Liisa Hänninen1

1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, PO Box 57 (Hämeentie 57), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 2National Veterinary and Food Research Institute, Department of Virology, Hämeentie 57, 00580 Helsinki, Finland

Correspondence Marja-Liisa Hänninen marja-liisa.hanninen{at}helsinki.fi

Received 22 March 2002 Accepted 19 August 2002

The presence of the cytolethal distending toxin B gene (cdtB) was examined in eight Helicobacter sp. flexispira reference strains, Helicobacter trogontum ATCC 700114T and 12 Finnish porcine H. trogontum strains and canine flexispira isolates. Part of the cdtB gene was amplified by PCR with degenerate primers VAT2 and DHF1, cloned and sequenced. The presence/absence of the cdtB gene as determined by PCR was confirmed by Southern hybridization and toxin production by HeLa cell-line experiments. PCR amplification resulted in approximately 700 bp fragments from Helicobacter sp. flexispira taxa 2 (ATCC 49314), 3 (ATCC 49320) and 8 (ATCC 43880, ATCC 49308, ATCC 43879), from six canine isolates as well as from the control strains Helicobacter bilis and Helicobacter hepaticus. The hybridization patterns of HaeIII-, HindIII- and AseI-digested chromosomal DNA confirmed the results of the PCR experiments. The cdtB-positive strains had effects ranging from weak to strong on HeLa cell cultures. PCR amplification from the reference strains Helicobacter sp. flexispira taxa 1 (ATCC 43968), 4 (ATCC 49310) and 5 (ATCC 43966) and H. trogontum (ATCC 700114T), and also six of the Finnish strains, was unsuccessful. No toxic effect on HeLa cells was evident when bacterial suspensions of PCR-negative strains were used for toxicity assay. Our results are in accordance with previous observations that the cdtB gene is not present in all Helicobacter species. Further, the presence/absence of the cdtB gene in Helicobacter sp. flexispira strains was in accordance with recent taxonomic analysis of the same strains, which suggests that it could serve as a useful marker in Helicobacter taxonomy.




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