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Genetic Loci of Major Antigenic Protein Genes of Edwardsiella tarda

Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan

Received 14 December 2004/ Accepted 24 March 2005

Seven antigenic proteins of Edwardsiella tarda were identified by using a rabbit polyclonal antiserum. Four of these proteins also reacted with a Japanese flounder antiserum. The amino acid sequences had identity to lipoproteins, periplasmic proteins, and exported and secreted proteins with roles in transport of metabolites across the cell membrane, stress response, and motility. These genes and their products are useful for developing DNA or recombinant subunit vaccines to control edwardsiellosis.