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Infect Immun. 1991 October; 59(10): 3596-3603

Physical mapping of virulence-associated genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by transverse alternating-field electrophoresis.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262.

ABSTRACT

The relative chromosomal locations of 20 virulence-associated genes in four clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were investigated by using transverse alternating-field electrophoresis. Each strain had a characteristic restriction pattern when digested with either SpeI or DraI and electrophoresed with 15-s pulses. All four strains had restriction fragments that hybridized with each of the gene probes used, although there were variations in fragment size. An SpeI physical map constructed by Ratnaningsih et al. (E. Ratnaningsih, S. Dharmsthiti, V. Krishnapillai, A. Morgan, M. Sinclair, and B. W. Holloway, J. Gen. Microbiol. 136:2351-2357, 1990) for one of these strains, PAO1, was used to identify the location of 11 previously unmapped genes. The physical locations of the remaining genes were found to be consistent with their genetically mapped loci. Whereas phospholipase C and alginate structural and regulatory genes were associated in three separate clusters in the early, middle, and late regions of the chromosome, no virulence cluster was identified. Our data suggest that the pathogenicity of P. aeruginosa results from the gradual acquisition of genes encoding various virulence determinants.

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