Molecular analysis of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of serotype specific polysaccharide in the novel serotype k strains of Streptococcus mutans

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 303-309

  Nomura, R ^a   Nakano, K ^a   Ooshima, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glucose side chain; mRNA; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Serotype specific polysaccharide; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHAMNOSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 23944492294     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2005.00231.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ajdic D, McShan WM, McLaughlin RE, Savic G, Chang J, Carson MB, et al. Genome sequence of Streptococcus mutans UA159, a cariogenic dental pathogen. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002: 99: 14434-14439.
2. Fujiwara T, Nakano K, Kawaguchi M, Ooshima T, Sobue S, Kawabata S et al. Biochemical and genetic characterization of serologically untypable Streptococcus mutans strains isolated from patients with bacteremia. Eur J Oral Sci 2001: 109: 330-334.
3. Gauduchon V, Benito Y, Celard M, Mouren C, Delorme V, Philippe-Bert J, et al. Molecular diagnosis of recurrent Streptococcus mutans endocarditis by PCR amplification and sequencing. Clin Microbiol Infect 2001: 7: 36-37.
4. Hirasawa M, Takada K. A new selective medium for Streptococcus mutans and the distribution of S. mutans and S. sobrinus and their serotypes in dental plaque. Caries Res 2003: 37: 212-217.
5. Linzer R, Reddy MS, Levine MJ. Immunochemical aspects of serotype carbohydrate antigens of Streptococcus mutans. In: Hamada S, Michalek SM, Kiyono H, Manaker L, McGhee JR, eds. Molecular microbiology and immunology of Streptococcus mutans. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1986: 29-38.
6. Macrina FL, Evans RP, Tobian JA, Hartley DL, Clewell DB, Jones KR. Novel shuttle plasmid vehicles for Escherichia-Streptococcus transgeneric cloning. Gene 1983: 25: 145-150.
7. Minami T, Fujiwara T, Ooshima T, Nakajima Y, Hamada S. Interaction of structural isomers of sucrose in the reaction between sucrose and glucosyltransferases from mutans streptococci. Oral Microbiol Immunol 1990: 5: 189-194.
8. Nakano K, Nomura R, Nakagawa I, Hamada S, Ooshima T. Demonstration of Streptococcus mutans with a cell wall polysaccharide specific to a new serotype, k, in the human oral cavity. J Clin Microbiol 2004: 42: 198-202.
9. Nakano K, Nomura R, Shimizu N, Nakagawa I, Hamada S, Ooshima T. Development of a PCR method for rapid identification of new Streptococcus mutans serotype k strains. J Clin Microbiol 2004: 42: 4925-4930.
10. Ozaki K, Shibata Y, Yamashita Y, Nakano Y, Tsuda H, Koga T. A novel mechanism for glucose side-chain formation in rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide synthesis. FEBS Lett 2002: 532: 159-163.
11. Shibata Y, Ozaki K, Seki M, Kawato T, Tanaka H, Nakano Y et al. Analysis of loci required for determination of serotype antigenicity in Streptococcus mutans and its clinical utilization. J Clin Microbiol 2003: 41: 4107-4112.
12. Shibata Y, Yamashita Y, Ozaki K, Nakano Y, Koga T. Expression and characterization of streptococcal rgp genes required for rhamnan synthesis in Escherichia coli. Infect Immun 2002: 70: 2891-2898.
13. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 1994: 22: 4673-4680.
14. Tobian JA, Macrina FL. Helper plasmid cloning in Streptococcus sanguis: cloning of tetracycline resistance determinant from the Streptococcus mutans chromosome. J Bacteriol 1982: 152: 215-222.
15. Tsukioka Y, Yamashita Y, Nakano Y, Oho T, Koga T. Identification of a fourth gene involved in dTDP-rhamnose synthesis in Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol 1997: 179: 4411-4414.
16. Tsukioka Y, Yamashita Y, Oho T, Nakano Y, Koga T. Biological function of the dTDP-rhamnose synthesis pathway in Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol 1997: 179: 1126-1134.
17. Ullman RF, Miller SJ, Stampfer MJ, Cunha BA. Streptococcus mutans endocarditis: report of three cases and review of the literature. Heart Lung 1988: 17: 209-212.
18. Vose JM, Smith PW, Henry M, Colan D. Recurrent Streptococcus mutans endocarditis. Am J Med 1987: 82: 630-632.
19. Yamashita Y, Shibata Y, Nakano Y, Tsuda H, Kido N, Ohta M, et al. A novel gene required for rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide synthesis in Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol 1999: 181: 6556-6559.
20. Yamashita Y, Tsukioka Y, Nakano Y, Tomihisa K, Oho T, Koga T. Biological functions of UDP-glucose synthesis in Streptococcus mutans. Microbiology 1998: 144: 1235-1245.
21. Yamashita Y, Tsukioka Y, Tomihisa K, Nakano Y, Koga T. Genes involved in cell wall localization and side chain formation of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide in Streptococcus mutans. J Bacteriol 1998: 180: 5803-5807.