Vibrio cholerae, detection genes from

K8. Kobayashi, K., Seto, K., Ueguchi, M., Makino, M., Ishibashi, M., Akasaka, S., and Yamamoto, K., A new simple method of detecting cholera enterotoxin gene from Vibrio cholerae 01 isolates, lgaku noAyumi 150, 509-510 (1989). 

In the first primary structures of microbial sialidases, obtained by cloning and sequencing of the respective genes from Clostridium perfringens [769], Vibrio cholerae [770], Clostridium sordellii [77 ] and Salmonella typhimurium [772], an amino acid sequence motif was detected, which is repeated four-fold in each protein S-X-D-X-G-X-T-W [773]. This motif, named the Asp-box, was found in all 16 sialidases of animals, trypanosomes, and bacteria, which have so far been sequenced (see refs. [660,768] and Table 18). In viral sialidases, however, the motif was rarely detectable (e.g. only the sialidase from N9 influenza A virus strain exhibits the complete motif [786] and has probably undergone mutational alterations). 

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