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Genetics and Molecular Biology |
Department of Surgery, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, UK1
Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic2
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA3
CSIRO Division of Animal Health, PO Box 24, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia4
Author for correspondence: Tim J. Bull. Tel: +44 181 725 5580. Fax: +44 181 725 3594. e-mail: tim.bull{at}sghms.ac.uk
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is a pathogen that causes chronic inflammation of the intestine in many animals, including primates, and is implicated in Crohn’s disease in humans. It differs from other members of the M. avium complex in having 14–18 copies of IS900 inserted into conserved loci in its genome. In the present study, genomic DNA flanking 14 of these insertions was characterized and homologues in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. avium subsp. avium genomes were identified. These included regions encoding a sigma factor (sigJ) at locus 3, a nitrate reductase (nirA) at locus 4, a transcription regulator (tetR) and polyketide synthase at locus 6, and a 6-O-methylguanine methyltransferase at locus 9. In addition, locus numbers were assigned to 9 of 15 RFLP bands previously described. IS900 insertion at 7 of the 14 characterized loci was into the RBS of a gene substituting an RBS encoded by IS900 sited two bases closer to the initiation codon. IS900 insertion at five loci interrupted an ORF at the target site, one of which encoded a homologue of the immunodominant mycobacterial DesA1 protein. Eleven of eighty-one M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis isolates lacked the insertion site at locus 6 together with flanking genomic DNA. This region was also absent from seven reference strains of M. avium subsp. avium, from one M. avium subsp. silvaticum and from six other mycobacterial species. A multiplex PCR of IS900 loci (MPIL) typing method was developed which was able to discriminate 10 different types of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis from the panel of 81 isolates with consistent differences between those of bovine and ovine origin. Nine MPIL types corresponded with a single PstI/BstEII RFLP type, suggesting that this method may be applicable to typing of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis directly from a sample without the need for culture. The remaining MPIL type corresponded with seven PstI/BstEII RFLP types. Further resolution of these may come from sequencing the remaining four uncharacterized IS900 loci.
Keywords: multiplex, IS900, typing, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
Abbreviations: MPIL, multiplex PCR of IS900 loci
The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AJ011838, AJ250015–AJ250023 and AJ251434–AJ251437.
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