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Genomic and antigenic differences between the European and African/Australian clusters of subsp. SC

The GenBank accession numbers for the nucleotide sequences determined in this work are: AF165134 for the 3·4 kb dIII fragment from subsp. SC strain L2; AF165135 for the analogous locus in strain Afadé (containing and IS); and AF1651136 for the DNA segment containing [MmymyLC] and ORF6[MmymyLC] from subsp. LC strain Y-goat.

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Abstract

subsp. small-colony type (SC), the aetiological agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), can be grouped into two major, epidemiologically distinct, clusters. One cluster contains strains isolated from different European countries since 1980 and a second cluster contains African and Australian strains collected over the last 50 years. Genetic analysis of representative strains from the two clusters revealed a genomic segment of 884 kb, located close to a copy of IS, which is present in all strains of the African cluster but lacking in all strains of the European cluster. This segment contains a copy of IS, a gene for a potential lipoprotein, , open reading frames encoding a putative surface-located membrane protein and a hypothetical proline-rich membrane protein, and two open reading frames showing similarity to putative ABC transporters. The product of the gene, lipoprotein B (LppB), has an apparent molecular mass of 70 kDa and was shown to be surface located. It is detected with monospecific antibodies in all strains of the African cluster tested, but not in European-cluster strains. DNA sequence analysis of the splicing site at which European strains differ from African-cluster strains by the lack of the 884 kb segment showed that the European cluster has arisen by deletion from a strain of the African cluster. Hence, subsp. SC strains isolated in different European countries from the newly reemerging outbreaks of CBPP, which occurred after the eradication of the epizootic in Europe in the middle of the 20th century, represent a phylogenetically newer cluster that has been derived from a strain of the older cluster of subsp. SC which is still endemic on the African continent.

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Keyword(s): ABC, ATP-binding cassette , CBPP, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia , contagious bovine pleuropneumonia , DIG, digoxigenin , epidemiology , genomic deletion , lipoprotein , SC, small-colony type and virulence
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Genomic and antigenic differences between the European and African/Australian clusters of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SCThe GenBank accession numbers for the nucleotide sequences determined in this work are: AF165134 for the 3·4 kb HindIII fragment from M. mycoides subsp. mycoides SC strain L2; AF165135 for the analogous locus in strain Afadé (containing lppB and IS1634); and AF1651136 for the DNA segment containing lppB[MmymyLC] and ORF6[MmymyLC] from M. mycoides subsp. mycoides LC strain Y-goat.
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