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Infect Immun, May 1998, p. 1813-1821, Vol. 66, No. 5
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular Characterization of the Aeromonas hydrophila aroA Gene and Potential Use of an Auxotrophic aroA Mutant as a Live Attenuated Vaccine

Carmen Hernanz Moral,1 Emilio Flaño del Castillo,2 Pilar López Fierro,2 Alberto Villena Cortés,2 Juan Anguita Castillo,1 Alberto Cascón Soriano,1 María Sánchez Salazar,1 Blanca Razquín Peralta,2 and Germán Naharro Carrasco1,*

Departamento de Patología (Animal Sanidad Animal), Unidad de Microbiología e Inmunología,1 and Departamento de Biología Celular y Anatomía,2 Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain

Received 20 June 1997/Returned for modification 27 August 1997/Accepted 4 February 1998

The aroA gene of Aeromonas hydrophila SO2/2, encoding 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase, was cloned by complementation of the aroA mutation in Escherichia coli K-12 strain AB2829, and the nucleotide sequence was determined. The nucleotide sequence of the A. hydrophila aroA gene encoded a protein of 440 amino acids which showed a high degree of homology to other bacterial AroA proteins. To obtain an effective attenuated live vaccine against A. hydrophila infections in fish, the aroA gene was inactivated by the insertion of a DNA fragment containing a kanamycin resistance determinant and reintroduced by allelic exchange into the chromosome of A. hydrophila AG2 by means of the suicide vector pSUP202. The A. hydrophila mutant AG2 aroA::Kar was highly attenuated when inoculated intraperitoneally into a rainbow trout, with a 50% lethal dose of >2 × 108 CFU. The mutants were not recoverable from the internal organs after 48 h postinoculation. Immunohistochemical studies demonstrated that immunopositive materials, but not whole cells, reacting with a polyclonal antiserum against A. hydrophila were present in the kidney and spleen 9 days postinjection. Vaccination of rainbow trout with the AroA mutant as a live vaccine conferred significant protection against the wild-type strain of A. hydrophila.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departamento de Patología (Animal Sanidad Animal), Unidad de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad de Vet., Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain. Phone: 34/87/291294. Fax: 34/291304. E-mail: dsagnc{at}unileon.es.

Infect Immun, May 1998, p. 1813-1821, Vol. 66, No. 5
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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