Isolation and characterization of a plasmid DNA from periodontopathogenic bacterium, Eikenella corrodens 1073, which affects pilus formation and colony morphology

Gene ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 351 ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Azakami ◽  
Hiromi Akimichi ◽  
Masakatsu Usui ◽  
Hiromichi Yumoto ◽  
Shigeyuki Ebisu ◽  
...  
1985 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 1028-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENNIS A. ROMERO ◽  
LARRY L. McKAY

Isolation and characterization of a Lactobacillus species capable of proper acid production in a sausage environment is described. The isolate from sausage, categorized as a lactobacillus in the subgenus Streptobacterium, was designated Lactobacillus sp. DR1. Growth occurred at 5 and 42°C but not at 45°C. Fructose, galactose, glucose, mannose, melibiose, N-acetylglucosamine, ribose, sucrose and trehalose were fermented. Gas production from glucose was not observed. In MRS glucose broth, D(−) and L(+) lactic acid were produced. Lactobacillus sp. DR1 contained a single cryptic plasmid of approximately 30 megadaltons (Mdal). In sausage fermentation trials, both Lactobacillus sp. DR1 and plasmid-free derivative DR1C lowered the pH to below 5.3 after 8 h in the smokehouse. Conjugation was demonstrated through the transfer of plasmid pAMβ1, which encodes erythromycin resistance, from Streptococcus lactis 2301β to Lactobacillus sp. DR1. Mutanolysin-generated protoplasts could be regenerated using 0.5 M ammonium chloride, lactose, maltose or sucrose as osmotic stabilizers. Regeneration frequencies ranged from less than 1.0% up to 35%; however, transformation of Lactobacillus sp. DR1 protoplasts by plasmid DNA in the presence of polyethylene glycol (PEG) was unsuccessful.


1991 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 2051-2056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo KANATANI ◽  
Kazushi YOSHIDA ◽  
Takatsugu TAHARA ◽  
Hirosumi MIURA ◽  
Masaru SAKAMOTO ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick V. Asmundson ◽  
William J. Kelly

Author(s):  
Kaitlin A. Tagg ◽  
Carola Venturini ◽  
Muhammad Kamruzzaman ◽  
Andrew N. Ginn ◽  
Sally R. Partridge

1991 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 2051-2156
Author(s):  
Kazuo Kanatani ◽  
Kazushi Yoshida ◽  
Takatsugu Tahara ◽  
Hirosumi Miura ◽  
Masaru Sakamoto ◽  
...  

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1158-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshimitsu Abiko ◽  
Hideo Onose ◽  
Shigeno Saito ◽  
Hisashi Takiguchi

1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 958-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshimitsu Mizunoe ◽  
Sun Nyunt Wai ◽  
Akemi Takade ◽  
Shin-Ichi Yoshida

ABSTRACT An extracellular exopolysaccharide (slime) is produced byVibrio cholerae O139 MO10 in response to nutrient starvation. The presence of this slime layer on the cell surface and its subsequent release have been shown to be associated with biofilm formation and the change from a normal smooth colony morphology to a rugose one. An immunoelectron microscopic examination demonstrated that there is an epitope common to the exopolysaccharide antigen of V. cholerae O1 and that of O139 MO10.


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