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Infection and Immunity, January 2000, p. 403-406, Vol. 68, No. 1
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ExoT of Cytotoxic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Prevents Uptake by Corneal Epithelial Cells

Brigitte A. Cowell,1 David Y. Chen,1 Dara W. Frank,2 Amy J. Vallis,2 and Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig1,*

School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720,1 and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 532262

Received 29 June 1999/Returned for modification 23 September 1999/Accepted 8 October 1999

The presence of invasion-inhibitory activity that is regulated by the transcriptional activator ExsA of cytotoxic Pseudomonas aeruginosa has previously been proposed. The results of this study show that both ExoT and ExoS, known type III secreted effector proteins of P. aeruginosa that are regulated by ExsA, possess this activity. Invasion was reduced 94.4% by ExoT and 96.0% by ExoS. Invasion-inhibitory activity is not linked to ADP-ribosylation activity, at least for ExoS, since a noncatalytic mutant also inhibits uptake by an epithelial cell line (invasion was reduced 96.0% by ExoSE381A).


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Optometry, 688 Minor Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020. Phone: (510) 643-0990. Fax: (510) 643-5109. E-mail: fleiszig{at}socrates.berkeley.edu.


Infection and Immunity, January 2000, p. 403-406, Vol. 68, No. 1
0019-9567/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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