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Abstract

In and enteroinvasive (EIEC) the expression of the virulence-plasmid(pINV)-carried potential pathogenesis-associated gene, which encodes apyrase (ATP diphosphohydrolase), is regulated by the same regulators that govern the expression of virulence genes. To understand the transcriptional organization of the gene, the authors sequenced an 8023 bp I fragment of the pINV of EIEC strain HN280, which encompasses as well as its adjacent genes. The I fragment displays 99% identity with the corresponding fragment of pWR100, the pINV of strain M90T, and contains four genes. One of these genes, , encodes a secreted protein of unknown activity and is located immediately upstream of . Analyses of sequence, Northern hybridization, RT-PCR and primer extension data and transcriptional fusions indicated that and are co-transcribed as a 2 kb bicistronic, temperature-regulated mRNA from an upstream promoter that precedes . The 2 kb mRNA is post-transcriptionally processed in the intercistronic region, leading to the considerable accumulation of a more stable 1 kb specific mRNA (half-life of 22±03 min, versus 27±4 s for the 2 kb transcript). Upon temperature induction, peak expression of the operon occurs when bacteria enter into the late phases of bacterial growth, where the -specific transcript was found to be much more prevalent if compared to the transcript.

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