Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1995-11-24
2000-07-04
Houtteman, Scott W.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
536 237, C12Q 168
Patent
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060836911
ABSTRACT:
Compositions and methods for detecting the conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are disclosed. Chronic respiratory infections with mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa are the leading cause of high mortality and morbidity in cystic fibrosis. The initially colonizing strains are nonmucoid but in the cystic fibrosis lung they invariably convert into the mucoid form causing further disease deterioration and poor prognosis. Mucoidy is a critical P. aeruginosa virulence factor in cystic fibrosis that has been associated with biofilm development and resistance to phagocytosis. The molecular basis of this conversion to mucoidy is also disclosed. The present invention provides for detecting the switch from nonmucoid to mucoid state as caused by either frameshift deletions and duplications or nonsense changes in the second gene of the cluster, mucA. Inactivation of mucA results in constitutive expression of genes, such as algD, dependent on algU for transcription. Also disclosed is a novel alginate biosynthesis heterologous expression system for use in screening candidate substances that inhibit conversion to mucoidy.
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