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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-6
pubmed:abstractText
Four out of 522 streptococcal isolates from the peripheral blood of patients with bacteremia exhibited typical properties of Streptococcus mutans in terms of sucrose-dependent adhesion, expression of glucosyltransferases, fermentation profiles of sugars, the presence of surface protein antigen, and DNA-DNA hybridization. Two strains were determined as serotype f and e by immunodiffusion, whereas the other two isolates did not react with the specific antiserum to S. mutans serotype c. e. or f of the eight different serotypes of mutans streptococci. The latter two untypable isolates, however, expressed a new antigenic determinant that was different from serotype c/e/f specificity as revealed by immunodiffusion. Analysis of the cell wall polysaccharides revealed very low contents of glucose in the untypable isolates. Furthermore, Southern blot analysis demonstrated that the untypable strains lacked at least one gene corresponding to a glucose-adding enzyme. These results indicate that the serologically untypable nature is due to the loss of glucosidic residue from the serotype-specific polysaccharide antigens of S. mutans.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0909-8836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
109
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
330-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Antigens, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Antigens, Surface, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Bacteremia, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Bacterial Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Biochemical Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Biochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Blotting, Southern, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Cell Wall, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-DNA, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Epitopes, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Fermentation, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Glucosyltransferases, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Immunodiffusion, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Nucleic Acid Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Polysaccharides, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Rhamnose, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Serotyping, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Streptococcal Infections, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Streptococcus mutans, pubmed-meshheading:11695754-Sucrose
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Biochemical and genetic characterization of serologically untypable Streptococcus mutans strains isolated from patients with bacteremia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pedodontics, Osaka University Faculty of Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan. fujiwara@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article