Physical and genetic chromosomal maps of Streptococcus agalactiae, serotypes II and III; rRNA operon organization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-39

  Dmitriev, Alexander ^a   Suvorov, Alexander ^a   Totolian, Artem ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Genome mapping; Group B streptococcus; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Ribosomal operon

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENOME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; OPERON; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0032189776     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00364-4     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Christensen, K.K., Christensen, P. and Ferrieri, P. (Eds.) (1985) Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Infection, Vol. 35.
2. Baker, C.J. and Edwards, M.S. (1990) Group B streptococcal infections. In: Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant (Remington, J.S. and Klein, J.O., Eds.), pp. 742-811. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
3. Ferrieri, P. (1988) Surface-localized protein antigens of group B streptococci. Rev. Infect. Dis. 10, 363-366.
4. Chmouryguina, I.I., Suvorov, A.N., Ferrieri, P. and Cleary, P.P. (1996) Conservation of the C5a peptidase genes in group A and B streptococci. Infect. Immun. 64, 2387-2390.
5. Heden, L.O., Frithz, E. and Lindahl, G. (1991) Molecular characterization of an IgA receptor from group B streptococci: sequence of the gene, identification of a proline-rich region with unique structure and isolation of N-terminal fragments with IgA-binding capacity. Eur. J. Immunol. 21, 1481-1490.
6. Jerlstrom, P.J., Chhatwal, G.S. and Timmis, K.N. (1991) The IgA binding b antigen of the c protein complex of group B streptococci: sequence determination of its gene and detection of two binding regions. Mol. Microbiol. 5, 843-849.
7. Michel, J.L., Madoff, L.C., Olson, K., Kling, D.E. and Kasper, D.L. (1993) Large, identical, tandem repeating units in the C protein alpha antigen gene, bca, of group B streptococci. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10060-10064.
8. Stalhammar-Carlemalm, M., Stenberg, L. and Lindahl, G. (1993) Protein Rib: A novel group B streptococcal cell surface protein that confers protective immunity and is expressed by most strains causing invasive infections. J. Exp. Med. 177, 1593-1603.
9. Fonstein, M. and Haselkorn, R. (1995) Physical mapping of bacterial genomes. J. Bacteriol. 177, 3361-3369.
10. Chun, J.W., Olken, S.K., Ausubel, D.L., Kasper, D.L. and Michel, J.L. (1994) Molecular analysis of genome DNAs of group B. Abstracts of 4th International ASM Conference on Streptococcal Genetics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, p. 34.
11. Dmitriev, A.V., Pak, J.V., Suvorov, A.N. and Totolian, A.A. (1997) Analysis of pathogenic group B streptococci by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 418, 351-353.
12. Tanaka, D., Gyobu, Y. and Kodama, H. (1995) Typing of group B streptococci by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Kansenshogaku Zasshi 69, 455-460.
13. Dmitriev, A.V., Suvorov, A.N. and Totolian, A.A. (1997) Heterogeneity of the group B streptococcal genome. Folia Vet. 41, 77-80.
14. Hauge, M., Jespersgaard, C., Poulsen, K. and Kilian, M. (1996) Population structure of Streptococcus agalactiae reveals an association between specific evolutionary lineages and putative virulence factors but not disease. Infect. Immun. 64, 919-925.
15. Suvorov, A., Dmitriev, A., Ustinovitch, I., Schalen, C. and Totolian, A. (1997) Molecular analysis of clinical group B streptococcal strains by use of a and b gene probes. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol. 17, 149-154.
16. Suvorov, A.N. and Ferretti, J.J. (1991) Genetic analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes M49 chromosomal DNA. In: Genetics and Molecular Biology of Streptococci, Lactococci and Enterococci (Dunny, G.M., Cleary, P.P. and McKay, L.L., Eds.), pp. 233-236. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
17. Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E.F. and Sambrook, J. (1982) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
18. Suvorov, A.N., Sverdlova, A., Totolian, A.A. and Ferretti, J.J. (1995) Rapid gene analysis of streptococci by PCR. Med. Microbiol. Lett. 4, 341-345.
19. Davidson, B.E., Kordias, N., Bassegio, N., Lim, A., Dobos, M. and Hillier, A.J. (1994) Genomic organization of Lactococci. In: International Association of Biological Standardization, Genetics of Streptococci, Lactococci and Enterococci (Ferretti, J.J., Gilmore, M.S., Klaenhammer, T.R. and Brown, F., Eds.), pp. 411-422.
20. Hantman, M.J., Sun, S., Piggot, P.J. and Daneo-Moore, L. (1995) Chromosome organization of Streptococcus mutans GS-5. J. Gen. Microbiol. 139, 67-77.
21. Suvorov, A.N. and Ferretti, J.J. (1996) Physical and genetic map of an M 1 type strain of Streptococcus pyogenes. J. Bacteriol. 178, 5546-5549.
22. Murray, B.F., Singh, K.V., Ross, R.P., Heath, J.P., Dunny, G.M. and Weinstock, G.M. (1993) Generation of restriction map of Enterococcus faecalis OG1 and investigation of growth requirements and regions encoding biosynthetic function. J. Bacteriol. 175, 5216-5223.
23. Roussel, Y., Pebay, M., Guedon, G., Simonet, J.M. and Decaris. (1994) Physical and genetic map of Streptococcus thermophilus A054. J. Bacteriol. 176, 7413-7422.
24. Tulloch, D.L., Finch, L.R., Hillier, A.J. and Davidson, B.E. (1991) Physical map of the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis DL11 and localization of six putative rRNA operons. J. Bacteriol. 173, 2768-2775.
25. Le Bourgeois, P., Lautier, M., Mata, M. and Ritzenthaler, P. (1992) Physical and genetic map of the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL 1403. J. Bacteriol. 174, 6752-6762.
26. Le Bourgeois, P., Lautier, M., Van Der Berghe, L., Serin, G., Nedjari, H. and Ritzenthaler, P. (1995) Physical and genetic maps of the chromosome of the Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis strain IL 1403 and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris strain MG 1363. In: International Association of Biological Standardization. Genetics of Streptococci, Lactococci and Enterococci (Ferretti, J.J., Gilmore, M.S., Klaenhammer, T.R. and Brown, F., Eds.), pp. 597-603.
27. Kraweic, S. and Riley, M. (1990) Organization of the bacterial chromosome. Microbiol. Rev. 54, 502-539.
28. Suvorov, A.N., Flores, A.E. and Ferrieri, P. (1997) Cloning of the glutamine synthetase gene from group B streptococci. Infect. Immun. 65, 191-196.
29. Sechi, L. and Daneo-Moore, L. (1993) Characterization of intergenic spacers in two rrn operons. J. Bacteriol. 175, 3213-3219.
30. Liu, S.-L. and Sanderson, K.E. (1995) Rearrangements in the genome of the bacterium Salmonella typhi. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 1018-1022.
31. Romling, U., Greipel, J. and Tummler, B. (1995) Gradient of genomic diversity in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa chromosome. Mol. Microbiol. 17, 323-332.
32. Sawada, M., Osawa, S., Kobayashi, H., Hori, H. and Muto, A. (1981) The number of ribosomal RNA genes in Mycoplasma capricolum. Mol. Gen. Genet. 182, 502-504.
33. Gasc, A.M., Kauc, L., Barraille, P., Sicard, M. and Goodgal, S. (1991) Gene localization, size, and physical map of the chromosome of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 173, 7361-7367.