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Infect Immun. 1990 April; 58(4): 874-878

A rns-like regulatory gene for colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) that controls expression of CFA/I pilin.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University Health Sciences Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.

ABSTRACT

Colonization factor antigens (CFA) are needed for adherence of human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains to their hosts. The CFA/II antigens, CS1 and CS2, which are found in some ETEC strains, require the plasmid-encoded gene rns for expression (J. Caron, L. M. Coffield, and J. R. Scott, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:963-967, 1989). Other ETEC strains express CFA/I, whose synthesis and assembly require genes on two unlinked regions (regions 1 and 2) of a plasmid (G. A. Willshaw, H. R. Smith, and B. Rowe, FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 16:101-106, 1983). We report that CFA/I region 2 DNA can substitute for rns to cause expression of CS1 and CS2. The cfaR gene in region 2 is defined by a mutation abolishing both expression of CFA/I and complementation of a rns mutant for expression of CS1 or CS2. In a strain containing only region 1, complementation for expression of CFA/I by a plasmid containing rns+ is inefficient but is adequate to cause hemagglutination by the CFA/I adhesin.

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