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. 2007 Jul;45(7):2296-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02168-06. Epub 2007 May 9.

Insertion sequence 1515 in the ply gene of a type 1 clinical isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae abolishes pneumolysin expression

Fabien Garnier  1 , Rajendra Prasad Janapatla, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Geoffrey Masson, Carole Grélaud, Jean François Stach, François Denis, Marie-Cécile Ploy
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Insertion sequence 1515 in the ply gene of a type 1 clinical isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae abolishes pneumolysin expression

Fabien Garnier et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Jul.

Abstract

A serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae strain isolated by blood culture from a woman with pneumonia was found to harbor insertion sequence (IS) 1515 in the pneumolysin gene, abolishing pneumolysin expression. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an IS in the pneumolysin gene of S. pneumoniae.

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(A) Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of total protein from clinical pneumococcal isolate Lim45 (serotype I) and from a control (C+) pneumolysin-positive pneumococcal isolate. (B) Immunoblot analysis of Ply (pneumolysin) in clinical pneumococcal isolate Lim45 (serotype I) and in a control Ply-positive pneumococcal isolate. The membranes were probed with a rabbit antihuman-pneumolysin polyclonal primary antibody (1:5,000) and then incubated with a donkey anti-rabbit horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (Amersham Biosciences Europe GmbH, Vienna, Austria). Immunoreactive bands were detected with an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Perbio Science Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany). The position of the translational product in the control strain is indicated by Ply (53 kDa). MW, molecular mass.
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