Characterization of smooth and rough morphotypes of Peptostreptococcus micros

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 363-368

  Kremer, Bas H A ^a   Magee, John T ^b   Van Dalen, Philip J ^a   Van Steenbergen, T J Martijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0030968528     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-47-2-363     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Achtman, M., B. A. Crowe, A. Olyhoek, W. Strittmatter, and G. Morelli. 1988. Recent results on epidemic meningococcal meningitis. J. Med. Microbiol. 26:161-187.
2. Birnboim, H. C., and J. Doly. 1979. A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 7:1513-1523.
3. Brook, I., S. Grimm, and R. B. Kielich. 1981. Bacteriology of acute periapical abscess in children. J. Endod. 7:378-380.
4. Dzink, J. L., S. S. Socransky, and A. D. Haffajee. 1988. The predominant cultivable microbiota of active and inactive lesions of destructive periodontal diseases. J. Clin. Periodontol. 15:316-323.
5. Ezaki, T., N. Li, Y. Hashimoto, H. Miura, and H. Yamamoto. 1994. 16S ribosomal DNA sequences of anaerobic cocci and proposal of Ruminococcus hansenii comb. nov. and Ruminococcus productus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 44:130-136.
6. Ezzell, J. W., W. J. Dobrogosz, W. E. Kloos, and C. R. Manclark. 1981. Phase-shift markers in Bordetella: alterations in envelope proteins. J. Infect. Dis. 143:562-569.
7. Finegold, S. M. 1977. Anaerobic bacteria and human disease, p. 44. Academic Press, New York, N.Y.
8. Fukuoka, T., and R. Yanagawa. 1987. Population shift from piliated to non-piliated bacteria in kidneys, bladder and urine of mice infected with Corynebacterium renale strain No. 115 piliated bacteria. Jpn. J. Vet. Sci. 49:1073-1079.
9. Garber, G. E., and A. W. Chow. 1989. Female genital tract infections, p. 429-459. In S. Finegold (ed.), Anaerobic infections in humans. Academic Press, Inc., London, United Kingdom.
10. Gray, M. W., D. Sankoff, and R. J. Cedergren. 1984. On the evolutionary descent of organisms and organelles: a global phylogeny based on a highly conserved structural core in small subunit ribosomal RNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 12:5837-5852.
11. Haffajee, A. D., and S. S. Socransky. 1994. Microbial etiological agents of destructive periodontal disease. Periodontol. 2000 5:78-111.
12. Hindmarch, J. M., J. T. Magee, M. A. Hadfield, and B. I. Duerden. 1990. A pyrolysis-mass spectrometry study of Corynebacterium spp. J. Med. Microbiol. 31:137-149.
13. Hiramune, T., K. Onishi, N. Kikuchi, and R. Yanagawa. 1991. Phase variation of pili of Corynebacterium pilosum. J. Vet. Med. Ser. B 38:303-305.
14. Ingham, H. R., J. B. Selkon, and C. M. Roxby. 1977. Bacteriological study of otogenic cerebral abscesses: chemotherapeutic role of metronidazole. Br. Med. J. ii:991-993.
15. Koga, T., E. Ono, and R. Yanagawa. 1988. Population shift between piliated and non-piliated bacteria in various culture conditions of Corynebacterium renale. Jpn. J. Vet. Sci. 50:1277-1278.
16. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature (London) 227:680-685.
17. Li, N., Y. Hashimoto, and T. Ezaki. 1994. Determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences of all members of the genus Peptostreptococcus and their phylogenetic position. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 116:1-6.
18. Magee, J. 1993. Whole-organism fingerprinting, p. 383-427. In M. Goodfellow and A. G. O'Donnell (ed.), Handbook of new bacterial systematics. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom.
19. Magee, J. T., J. M. Hindmarch, K. W. Bennett, B. I. Duerden, and R. E. Aries. 1989. A pyrolysis mass spectrometry study on fusobacteria. J. Med. Microbiol. 28:227-236.
20. Mitchelmore, I. J., A. J. Prior, P. Q. Montgomery, and S. Tabaqchali. 1995. Microbiological features and pathogenesis of peritonsillar abscesses. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14:870-877.
21. Moore, W. E. C., L. V. Holdeman, E. P. Cato, R. M. Smibert, J. A. Burmeister, and R. R. Ranney. 1983. Bacteriology of moderate (chronic) periodontitis in mature adult humans. Infect. Immun. 42:510-515.
22. Moore, W. E. C., L. V. Holdeman, E. P. Cato, R. M. Smibert, J. A. Burmeister, K. G. Palcanis, and R. R. Ranney. 1985. Comparative bacteriology of juvenile periodontitis. Infect. Immun. 48:507-519.
23. Murdoch, D. A., I. J. Mitchelmore, and S. Tabaqchali. 1988. Isolation of Peptostreptococcus micros from polymicrobial abscesses. Lancet i:594.
24. Murdoch, D. A., I. J. Mitchelmore, and S. Tabaqchali. 1994. The clinical importance of gram-positive cocci isolated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1987. J. Med. Microbiol. 41:36-44.
25. Murdoch, D. A., and J. T. Magee. 1995. A numerical taxonomic study of the gram-positive anaerobic cocci. J. Med. Microbiol. 43:148-155.
26. Oguntebi, B., A. M. Slee, J. M. Tanzer, and K. Langeland. 1982. Predominant microflora associated with human dental periapical abscesses. J. Clin. Microbiol: 15:964-966.
27. Rams, T. E., D. Feik, M. A. Listgarten, and J. Slots. 1992. Peptostreptococcus micros in human periodontitis. Oral Microbiol. Immunol. 7:1-6.
28. Rosenberg, M., D. Gutnick, and E. Rosenberg. 1980. Adherence of bacteria to hydrocarbons: a simple method for measuring cell-surface hydrophobicity. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 9:29-33.
29. Tanner, A., M. F. J. Maiden, B. J. Paster, and F. E. Dewhirst. 1994. The impact of 16S ribosomal RNA-based phylogeny on the taxonomy of oral bacteria. Periodontol. 2000 5:26-51.
30. Tinsley, C. R., and J. E. Heckels. 1986. Variation in the expression of pili and outer membrane protein by Neisseria meningitidis during the course of meningococcal infection. J. Gen. Microbiol. 132:2483-2490.
31. Towbin, H., T. Staehelin, and J. Gordon. 1979. Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:4350-4354.
32. van Dalen, P. J., T. J. M. van Steenbergen, M. M. Cowan, H. J. Busscher, and J. de Graaff. 1993. Description of two morphotypes of Peptostreptococcus micros. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 43:787-793.
33. van Dalen, P. J. 1994. Characterization of two morphotypes of Peptostreptococcus micros. Ph.D. thesis. Febodruk BV, Enschede, The Netherlands.
34. van Dalen, P. J., T. J. M. van Steenbergen, and J. de Graaff. 1995. Two serotypes of Peptostreptococcus micros, p. 85-86. In Medical and dental aspects of anaerobes. Science Reviews, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
35. Weisburg, W. G., S. M. Barns, D. A. Pelletier, and D. J. Lane. 1991. 16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study. J. Bacteriol. 173:697-703.
36. Weiser, J. N., R. Austrian, P. K. Sreenivasan, and H. R. Masure. 1994. Phase variation in pneumococcal opacity: relationship between colonial morphology and nasopharyngeal colonization. Infect. Immun. 62:2582-2589.
37. Weiss, A. A., E. L. Hewlett, G. A. Myers, and S. Falkow. 1983. Tn5-induced mutation affecting virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis. Infect. Immun. 42:33-41.
38. Williams, B. L., G. F. McCann, and F. D. Schoenknecht. 1983. Bacteriology of dental abscesses of endodontic origin. J. Clin. Microbiol. 18:770-774.
39. Woese, C. R., R. Gutell, R. Gupta, and H. F. Noller. 1983. Detailed analysis of the higher-order structure of 16S-like ribosomal ribonucleic acids. Microbiol. Rev. 47:621-669.
40. Woese, C. R. 1987. Bacterial evolution. Microbiol. Rev. 51:221-271.