Nontoxic, immunologically crossreactive toxin A protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

摘要

A nontoxic, immunologically crossreactive toxin A protein produced by a PAO-PR1 mutant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The protein, in activated form, has substantially no adenosine diphosphate-ribosylating activity, and is nontoxic to cells known to be susceptible to the parent PAO-1 strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from which strain PAO-PR1 was derived. The nontoxic toxin A protein is immunologically indistinguishable from, and has a molecular weight similar to, native toxin A protein produced by the PAO-1 strain.