Multiple phase variation in haemolytic, adhesive and antigenic properties of Streptococcus gordonii

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 181-189

  Jones, G W ^a   Clewell, D B ^a,b   Charles, L G ^a   Vickerman, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Phase variation; Streptococcus gordonii; Surface antigens; haemolysin

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE; LACTOSE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CELL AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUUS CABALLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0030033776     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-1-181     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Appelbaum, B., Golub, E., Holt, S. & Rosan, B. (1979). In vitro studies of dental plaque formation: adsorption of oral streptococci to hydroxyapatite. Infect Immun 25, 717-728.
2. Bayliss, R., Clarke, C., Oakley, C. M., Somerville, W. & Whitfield, A. G. W. (1983a). The teeth and infective endocarditis. Br Heart J 50, 506-512.
3. Bayliss, R., Clarke, C., Oakley, C. M., Somerville, W. & Young, S. E. J. (1983b). The microbiology and pathogenesis of infective endocarditis. Br Heart J 50, 513-519.
4. Clark, W., Bammann, L. & Gibbons, R. (1978). Comparative estimates of bacterial affinities and adsorption sites on hydroxyapatite surfaces. Infect Immun 19, 846-853.
5. Clewell, D. B., Yagi, Y., Dunny, G. M. & Schultz, S. K. (1974). Characterisation of three plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid molecules in a strain of Streptococcus faecalis: identification of a plasmid determining erythromycin resistance. J Bacteriol 117, 283-289.
6. Demuth, D. R., Davis, C. A., Corner, A. M., Lamont, R. J., Leboy, P. S. & Malamud, D. (1988). Cloning and expression of a Streptococcus sanguis surface antigen that interacts with a human salivary agglutinin. Infect Immun 56, 2484-2490.
7. Erickson, P. R. & Herzberg, M. C. (1990). Purification and partial characterisation of a 65-kDa platelet aggregation-associated protein antigen from the surface of Streptococcus sanguis. J Bacteriol 265, 14080-14087.
8. Fenno, J. C., LeBlanc, D. & Fives-Taylor, P. (1989). Nucleotide sequence analysis of a type 1 fimbrial gene of Streptococcus gordonii FW213. Infect Immun 57, 3527-3533.
9. Frandsen, E. V. G., Pedrazzoli, V. & Kilian, M. (1991). Ecology of viridans streptococci in the oral cavity and pharynx. Oral Microbiol Immunol 6, 129-133.
10. Ganeskunar, N., Song, M. & McBride, B. C. (1988). Cloning of a Streptococcus sanguis adhesin which mediates binding to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite. Infect Immun 56, 1150-1157.
11. Gibbons, R. J. & van Houte, J. (1975). Bacterial adherence in oral microbial ecology. Annu Rev Microbiol 29, 19-44.
12. Gibbons, R. J., Hay, D. I. & Schlesinger, D. H. (1991). Delineation of a segment of adsorbed salivary acidic proline-rich proteins which promotes adhesion of Streptococcus gordonii to apatitic surfaces. Infect Immun 59, 2945-2954.
13. Haisman, R. J. & Jenkinson, H. F. (1991). Mutants of Streptococcus gordonii Challis over-producing glucosyltransferase. J Gen Microbiol 137, 483-489.
14. Hamada, S., Torii, M., Tsuchitani, Y. & Kotani, S. (1980). Isolation and immunobiological classification of Streptococcus sanguis from human tooth surfaces. J Clin Microbiol 12, 243-249.
15. Hudson, M. C. & Curtiss, R. (1990). Regulation of expression of Streptococcus mutans genes important to virulence. Infect Immun 58, 464-470.
16. Jenkinson, H. F. (1986). Cell-surface proteins of Streptococcus sanguis associated with cell hydrophobicity and coaggregation properties. J Gen Microbiol 132, 1575-1589.
17. Jenkinson, H. F. (1992). Adherence, coaggregation, and hydrophobicity of Streptococcus gordonii associated with expression of cell surface lipoproteins. Infect Immun 60, 1225-1228.
18. Jenkinson, H. F., Terry, S. D., McNab, R. & Tannock, G. W. (1993). Inactivation of the gene encoding surface protein SspA in Streptococcus gordonii DL1 affects cell interactions with human salivary agglutinin and oral actinomyces. Infect Immun 61, 3199-3208.
19. Kolenbrander, P. E. & London, J. (1993). Adhere today, here tomorrow: oral bacterial adherence. J Bacteriol 175, 3247-3252.
20. Kolenbrander, P. E., Anderson, R. N. & Moore, L. V. H. (1990). Intrageneric coaggregation among strains of human oral bacteria: potential role in primary colonisation of the tooth surface. Appl Environ Microbiol 56, 3890-3894.
21. Kolenbrander, P. E., Andersen, R. N. & Ganeshkumar, N. (1994). Nucleotide sequence of the Streptococcus gordonii PK488 coaggregation adhesin gene, scaA, and ATP-binding cassette. Infect Immun 62, 4469-4480.
22. Laemmli, U. K. (1970). Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227, 680-685.
23. Lamont, R. J., Rosan, B., Baker, C. T. & Nelson, G. M. (1988). Characterization of an adhesin antigen of Streptococcus sanguis G9B. Infect Immun 56, 2417-2423.
24. Lamont, R. J., Gil, S., DeMuth, D. R., Malamud, D. & Rosan, B. (1994). Molecules of Streptococcus gordonii that bind to Porphyromonas gingivalis. Microbiology 140, 867-872
25. Lawson, J. & Gooder, H. (1970). Growth and development of competence in group H streptococci. J Bacteriol 102, 820-825.
26. Markwell, M. A. K., Hass, S. M., Bieber, L. L. & Talbot, N. E. (1978). A modification of the Lowry procedure to simplify protein determination in membrane and lipoprotein samples. Anal Biochem 187, 206-210.
27. McIntire, F. C., Vatter, A. E., Baros, J. & Arnold, J. (1978). Mechanism of coaggregation between Actinomyces viscosus T14V and Streptococcus sanguis 34. Infect Immun 21, 978-988.
28. Miller, J. F., Mekalanos, J. J. & Falkow, S. (1989). Coordinate regulation and sensory transduction in the control of bacterial virulence. Science 243, 916-922.
29. Morris, E. J. & McBride, B. C. (1984). Adherence of Streptococcus sanguis to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite: evidence for two binding sites. Infect Immun 43, 656-663.
30. Murphy, G. L., Connell, T. D., Barritt, D. S., Koomey, M. & Cannon, J. C. (1989). Phase variation of gonococcal protein II: regulation of gene expression by slipped strand mispairing of a repetitive DNA sequence. Cell 56, 539-547.
31. Nyvad, B. & Kilian, M. (1987). Microbiology of the early colonisation of human enamel and root surfaces in vivo. Scand J Dent Res 96, 369-380.
32. Nyvad, B. & Kilian, M. (1990). Comparison of the initial streptococcal microflora on dental enamel in caries active and in caries - inactive individuals. Caries Res 24, 267-272.
33. Parker, M. T. & Ball, L. C. (1976). Streptococci and aerococci associated with systemic infection in man. J Med Microbiol 9, 275-302.
34. Raina, J. L. & Macrina, F. L. (1982). A competence specific inducible protein promotes in vivo recombination in Streptococcus sanguis. Mol & Gen Genet 185, 21-29.
35. Rosan, B., Baker, C. T., Nelson, G. N., Berman, R., Lamont, R. J. & Demuth, D. R. (1989). Cloning and expression of an adhesin antigen of Streptococcus sanguis G9B in Escherichia coli. J Gen Microbiol 135, 531-538.
36. Scannapieco, F. A., Haraszthy, G. G., Cho, M. I. & Levine, M. J. (1992). Characterization of an amylase-binding component of Streptococcus gordonii G9B. Infect Immun 60, 4726-4733.
37. Seifert, H. S., Ajioka, R. S., Marchal, C., Sparling, P. F. & So, M. (1988). DNA transformation leads to pilin antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Nature 336, 392-395.
38. Sommer, P., Gleyzal, C., Guerret, S., Etienne, J. & Grimaud, J. A. (1992). Induction of a putative laminin-binding protein of Streptococcus gordonii in human infective endocarditis. Infect Immun 60, 360-365.
39. Stibitz, S., Aaronson, W., Monack, D. & Falkow, S. (1989). Phase variation in Bordetella pertussis by frameshift mutations in a gene for a novel two-component system. Nature 338, 266-269.
40. Sulavik, M. C. (1992). Regulation of glucosyltransferase in Streptococcus gordonii. PhD thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
41. Sulavik, M. C., Tardiff, G. & Clewell, D. B. (1992). Identification of a gene, rgg, which regulates expression of glucosyltransferase and influences the Spp phenotype of Streptococcus gordonii Challis. J Bacteriol 174, 3577-3586.
42. Swanson, J., Morrison, S., Barrera, O. & Hill, S. (1990). Piliation changes in transformation-defective gonococci. J Exp Med 171, 2131-2139.
43. Tardiff, G., Sulavik, M., Jones, G. W. & Clewell, D. B. (1989). Spontaneous switching of the sucrose-promoted colony phenotype in Streptococcus sanguis. Infect Immun 57, 3945-3948.
44. Vacca-Smith, A. M., Jones, C. A., Levine, M. J. & Stinson, M. W. (1994). Glucosyltransferase mediates adhesion of Streptococcus gordonii to human endothelial cells in vitro. Infect Immun 62, 2187-2194.
45. Vickerman, M. M. & Jones, G. W. (1992). Adhesion of glucosyltransferase phase variants to Streptococcus gordonii bacterium-glucan substrata may involve lipoteichoic acid. Infect Immun 60, 4301-4308.
46. Vickerman, M. M. & Jones, G. W. (1995). Sucrose-dependent accumulation of oral streptococci and their adhesion-defective mutants on saliva-coated hydroxyapatite. Oral Microbiol Immunol 10, 175-182.
47. Vickerman, M. M., Clewell, D. B. & Jones, G. W. (1991a). Sucrose-promoted accumulation of growing glucosyltransferase variants of Streptococcus gordonii on hydroxyapatite surfaces. Infect Immun 59, 3523-3530.
48. Vickerman, M. M., Clewell, D. B. & Jones, G. W. (1991b). Ecological implications of glucosyltransferase phase variation in Streptococcus gordonii. Appl Environ Microbiol 57, 3648-3651.
49. Vickerman, M. M., Clewell, D. B. & Jones, G. W. (1992). Glucosyltransferase phase variation in Streptococcus gordonii modifies adhesion to saliva-coated hydroxyapatite surfaces in a sucrose-independent manner. Oral Microbiol Immunol 7, 118-120.
50. Vickerman, M. M., Sulavik, M. C. & Clewell, D. B. (1995). Molecular analysis of Streptococcus gordonii glucosyltransferase phase variation. In Genetics of Streptococci, Enterococci and Lactococci, pp. 309-314. Edited by J. J. Ferretti, M. S. Gilmore & T. R. Klaenhammer. Basel: Karger.
51. Wolff, L. & Liljemark, W. F. (1978). Observation of beta-hemolysis among three strains of Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun 19, 745-748.
52. Woltjes, J. & de Graff, J. (1983). Virulence of beta-hemolytic and non-hemolytic Streptococcus mutans: lethal dose determination in neonatal mice. Antonie Leeuwenhoek 49, 352-360.
53. Woltjes, J., Legdeur-Velthuis, H. & de Graff, J. (1981). Detection and characterisation of hemolysin production in Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun 31, 850-855.
54. Woltjes, J., Legdeur-Velthuis, H., Eggink, C. O. & de Graff, J. (1982). Beta-hemolysis and pigment production by the oral bacterium Streptococcus mutans. Arch Oral Biol 27, 279-281.