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Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5592-5597, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Globally Disseminated M1 Subclone of Group A Streptococci Differs from Other Subclones by 70 Kilobases of Prophage DNA and Capacity for High-Frequency Intracellular Invasion

P. P. Cleary,* D. LaPenta, R. Vessela, H. Lam, and D. Cue

Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Received 24 April 1998/Returned for modification 2 July 1998/Accepted 10 August 1998

The M1inv+ subclone of M1 group A streptococci that spread globally in the late 1980s and early 1990s was previously identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), M protein, and SpeA exotoxin sequence analyses. Strains representing this subclone were characterized with regard to carriage of bacteriophage and capacity to invade cultured human epithelial cells. The M1inv+ subclone was found to harbor two entirely different prophages, phage T13 and phage T14, which together supplement its genome with nearly 70 kb of DNA. Phage T14 encodes the SpeA exotoxin and is closely related to the classic converting phage T12. Plaque-forming characteristics and RFLP analyses of phages T13 and T14 were compared to each other and to phage T12. Other subclones of M1, isolated in the 1970s to the early 1980s, lacked both prophages. The M1inv+ subclone was previously reported to be efficiently internalized by human epithelial cells. This potential was confirmed and expanded by comparing a variety of clinical isolates. The capacity for high-frequency invasion of epithelial cells was not transmitted to a laboratory strain of group A streptococci by the above-mentioned bacteriophages.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Box 196 UMHC, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 624-6190. Fax: (612) 626-0623. E-mail: cleary{at}lenti.med.umn.edu.

Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5592-5597, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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