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. 1980 Jul;143(1):441–447. doi: 10.1128/jb.143.1.441-447.1980

Lincomycin increases synthetic rate and periplasmic pool size for cholera toxin.

M H Levner, C Urbano, B A Rubin
PMCID: PMC294266  PMID: 7400099

Abstract

Increased enterotoxigenicity of Vibrio cholerae 569B grown with low concentrations of lincomycin, previously described in terms of increased extracellular biological activity (capillary permeability factor and fluid accumulation in ligated rabbit ileal loops), was further characterized. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and single radial immunodiffusion showed that lincomycin-stimulated cells produced increased molar quantities of cholera toxin (CT) both extra- and intracellularly. The intracellular CT was released in comparable amounts by sonication, deoxycholate extraction, and polymyxin B treatment. Polymyxin B release of CT was nearly complete under conditions wherein only 6% of total cellular beta-galactosidase was released, implying a periplasmic pool of CT in stimulated cells. No intracellular choleragenoid (CT subunit B) was found in stimulated cells by polymyxin B release. No proteolysis of 14C-labeled CT was detected after prolonged incubation with sonicated nonstimulated cultures or sonicated concentrated cells. These data support the conclusion that the stimulatory effect of lincomycin involves an increase in the rate of synthesis of the CT molecule, and argue against alternative models involving inhibition of putative normal degradation of CT, increased release of otherwise cell-bound CT, or activation of inactive, or less active, forms of CT.

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