TY - JOUR
T1 - Phage conversion of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus
T2 - Molecular analysis of a PVL-converting phage, φSLT
AU - Narita, Sachiko
AU - Kaneko, Jun
AU - Chiba, Jun ichi
AU - Piémont, Yves
AU - Jarraud, Sophie
AU - Etienne, Jerome
AU - Kamio, Yoshiyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank to T. Okubo of Gunma University School of Medicine and Dr H. Shiraishi of Miyagi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment for the gift of indicator strain RN4220 and PVL-negative strains, respectively. This work was supported in part by grants from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan (11460034, 11694191, and 11760050) and Uehara Memorial Foundation.
PY - 2001/5/2
Y1 - 2001/5/2
N2 - Staphylococcal Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is an important virulence factor, which causes leukocytolysis and tissue necrosis. Our previous report on the existence of the PVL genes (lukS-PV and lukF-PV) on the genome of prophage φPVL in the Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 suggested the horizontal transmission of PVL genes by temperate bacteriophage among S. aureus (Kaneko, et al., 1998. Gene 215, 57-67). Here, we demonstrated the phage conversion of S. aureus leading to the production of PVL by discovery of a novel PVL-carrying phage, φSLT (Staphylococcal Leukocytolytic Toxin) from a clinical isolate of S. aureus. φSLT was able to lysogenize several clinical isolates of PVL-negative S. aureus strains as well as strain RN4220 at the conserved 29-bp sequence (attB) and all the lysogenized S. aureus strains had the ability to produce PVL. φSLT had an elongated head of about 100 × 50 nm and a flexible tail of 400 nm long, that was quite different from φPVL which had an isometric hexagonal head of about 60 nm diameter. The linear double-stranded φSLT genome comprised 42,942 bp with 29-bp attachment core sequences and contained 62 open reading frames. Only 6.4 kbp region containing lysis cassette, PVL genes, attP, integrase, and orf204 of φSLT was identical to that of φPVL, while other regions were different from those of φPVL. Thus, it can be concluded that PVL genes are carried by different temperate phages, which have the same attachment site.
AB - Staphylococcal Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is an important virulence factor, which causes leukocytolysis and tissue necrosis. Our previous report on the existence of the PVL genes (lukS-PV and lukF-PV) on the genome of prophage φPVL in the Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 suggested the horizontal transmission of PVL genes by temperate bacteriophage among S. aureus (Kaneko, et al., 1998. Gene 215, 57-67). Here, we demonstrated the phage conversion of S. aureus leading to the production of PVL by discovery of a novel PVL-carrying phage, φSLT (Staphylococcal Leukocytolytic Toxin) from a clinical isolate of S. aureus. φSLT was able to lysogenize several clinical isolates of PVL-negative S. aureus strains as well as strain RN4220 at the conserved 29-bp sequence (attB) and all the lysogenized S. aureus strains had the ability to produce PVL. φSLT had an elongated head of about 100 × 50 nm and a flexible tail of 400 nm long, that was quite different from φPVL which had an isometric hexagonal head of about 60 nm diameter. The linear double-stranded φSLT genome comprised 42,942 bp with 29-bp attachment core sequences and contained 62 open reading frames. Only 6.4 kbp region containing lysis cassette, PVL genes, attP, integrase, and orf204 of φSLT was identical to that of φPVL, while other regions were different from those of φPVL. Thus, it can be concluded that PVL genes are carried by different temperate phages, which have the same attachment site.
KW - Bi-component toxin
KW - Panton-Valentine leukocidin
KW - Phage conversion
KW - Staphylococcus aureus
KW - Temperate phage
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U2 - 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00390-0
DO - 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00390-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 11368915
AN - SCOPUS:0035795580
VL - 268
SP - 195
EP - 206
JO - Gene
JF - Gene
SN - 0378-1119
IS - 1-2
ER -