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Infection and Immunity, May 2000, p. 3010-3014, Vol. 68, No. 5
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Classical and El Tor Biotypes of Vibrio cholerae Differ in Timing of Transcription of tcpPH during Growth in Inducing Conditions

Yvette M. Murley,1,dagger Jaideep Behari,1 Robert Griffin,1 and Stephen B. Calderwood1,2,*

Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114,1 and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 021152

Received 25 October 1999/Accepted 28 January 2000

Two protein pairs in Vibrio cholerae, ToxRS and TcpPH, are necessary for transcription from the toxT promoter and subsequent expression of cholera virulence genes. We have previously shown that transcription of tcpPH in classical strains of V. cholerae is activated at mid-log-phase growth in ToxR-inducing conditions, while transcription of tcpPH in El Tor strains is not. In this study, we showed that while transcription of tcpPH differs at mid-log-phase growth in ToxR-inducing conditions between the biotypes, transcription is equivalently high during growth in AKI conditions. We used tcpPH::gusA transcriptional fusions to quantitate expression of tcpPH in each biotype throughout growth in ToxR-inducing conditions and showed that although transcription of tcpPH is reduced at mid-log-phase growth in an El Tor strain, transcription is turned on later in growth to levels in excess of those in the classical strain (although cholera toxin is not produced). This suggests that the difference in expression of cholera virulence factors in response to ToxR-inducing conditions between the El Tor and classical biotypes of V. cholerae may be related to the timing of transcription of tcpPH rather than the absolute levels of transcription.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114. Phone: (617) 726-3811. Fax: (617) 726-7416. E-mail: scalderwood{at}partners.org.

dagger Present address: Molecular Circuitry, Inc., King of Prussia, PA 19406.

Infection and Immunity, May 2000, p. 3010-3014, Vol. 68, No. 5
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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