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Intraepithelial lymphocytes were collected from the ileum of adult Hartley strain guinea pigs and used as effector cells in a 60-min bactericidal assay with virulent Shigella sonnei as target cells. Natural killer cytotoxicity (NKC) and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) were measured and correlated with the resistance of the animals to infection by S. sonnei. Normal guinea pig intraepithelial lymphocytes exhibited mean NKC and ADCC values of 22.8 +/- 5.0 and 34.1 +/- 13.6, respectively. These animals were resistant to oral challenge with virulent S. sonnei. Intraepithelial lymphocytes from guinea pigs which were fasted for 4 days demonstrated NKC and ADCC values similar to those of normal animals (31.0 +/- 8.1 and 41.7 +/- 6.7, respectively). These animals also were resistant to oral challenge. Intraepithelial lymphocytes from guinea pigs which were given 1 ml of deodorized tincture of opium 2 h before cell collection demonstrated deficient NKC (4.7 +/- 4.2) and ADCC (5.3 +/- 4.9) values but remained resistant to infection by S. sonnei. When guinea pigs were fasted for 4 days and given opium, deficient NKC (2.0 +/- 2.0) and ADCC (1.3 +/- 1.3) values were demonstrated; this group of animals was susceptible to infection by S. sonnei (P less than 0.04). These experiments demonstrated that opium treatment depresses one form of gut immunity. When combined with starvation, opium treatment may increase susceptibility to infection by shigellae by modulation of immunity in addition to the effects on gut motility and bacterial flora.
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PMID:Cytotoxicity of leukocytes from normal and Shigella-susceptible (opium-treated) guinea pigs against virulent Shigella sonnei. 638 44

One of the strategies that bacteria utilize to combat environmental stress is to synthesize stress-responding proteins. In Escherichia coli, adverse environmental factors, such as starvation, heat, and the presence of acid, oxidants, heavy metals, and antibiotics, trigger the expression of the universal stress protein (USP). The gene of the USP, uspA, in E. coli K-12 and E. coli O157:H7 has been identified and sequenced. In this study, the nucleotide sequence of uspA in a strain of Shigella sonnei implicated in the 1998 parsley-related outbreak of shigellosis was determined. Within an 800-bp region sequenced, there were 17 bp mismatches between the uspA of S. sonnei and that of E. coli K-12. Among the 17 mismatched nucleotides, 8 were within the structure gene of uspA. A total of 12 bp variations were identified between the uspA of S. sonnei and that of E. coli O157:H7, of which 5 bp were internal to the coding region of uspA. However, unlike the mismatches between the uspA of E. coli K-12 and the same gene of E. coli O157:H7 and S. sonnei that resulted in a single amino acid substitution and changed an alanine to an arginine at position 140, the mismatches between S. sonnei and E. coli O157:H7 were silent and did not result in any amino acid substitution.
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PMID:uspA of Shigella sonnei. 1796 24