Isolation of the membranes of an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli and distribution of enterotoxin activity in different subcellular fractions
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Isolation of the membranes of an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli and distribution of enterotoxin activity in different subcellular fractions
Abstract
The intracellular localization of enterotoxin in Escherichia coli AP1, a strain of porcine origin which produces high levels of heat-labile, but no heat-stable enterotoxin, has been examined. The cytoplasmic and outer membranes of this strain both contained enterotoxin activity, while the membranes isolated from a serologically related non-enterotoxigenic strain (E. coli AP2) also of porcine origin, did not show enterotoxin activity. The periplasmic fraction isolated from the enterotoxigenic strain contained considerable enterotoxin activity, but this activity was associated with outer membrane fragments present in the periplasmic fraction. Thus, of the total cellular enterotoxin activity, about 55%, 15% and 30% were present in the outer membrane, cytoplasmic membrane and the cell cytoplasm, respectively. The specific activity of enterotoxin was 20 units per mg protein in the cytoplasm and 90 and 150 units per mg protein in the cytoplasmic and outer membranes, respectively.
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