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. 1994 Aug;62(8):3299–3304. doi: 10.1128/iai.62.8.3299-3304.1994

A mutant toxin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus thermostable direct hemolysin which has lost hemolytic activity but retains ability to bind to erythrocytes.

G Q Tang 1, T Iida 1, K Yamamoto 1, T Honda 1
PMCID: PMC302959  PMID: 8039901

Abstract

A mutant toxin, R7, of thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) with a single amino acid substitution at glycine 62 was analyzed. The hemolytic activity of R7 decreased to less than 1/1,000 of that of wild-type TDH, and its mouse lethality was undetectable. This mutant toxin, however, showed a marked inhibitory effect on hemolysis by wild-type TDH. Enzyme immunoassay and flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that R7 retained approximately 50% of the ability to bind to erythrocytes compared with that of wild-type TDH, suggesting that its inhibition of hemolysis by wild-type TDH might be due to blocking the binding sites on the erythrocyte membrane. Wild-type TDH affected the erythrocyte membrane by causing an influx of calcium and propidium iodide, while R7 showed no detectable effects of these kinds. These results suggest that hemolysis by TDH consists of at least two steps, binding and postbinding, and that R7 is likely to be a postbinding activity-deficient mutant toxin of TDH.

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