Title |
Gene expression profile and pathogenicity of biofilm-forming Prevotella intermedia strain 17
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Published in |
BMC Microbiology, January 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-9-11 |
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Authors |
Takeshi Yamanaka, Tomoyo Furukawa, Chiho Matsumoto-Mashimo, Kazuyoshi Yamane, Chieko Sugimori, Takayuki Nambu, Naoki Mori, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Clay B Walker, Kai-Poon Leung, Hisanori Fukushima |
Abstract |
Prevotella intermedia (P. intermedia), a gram-negative, black-pigmented anaerobic rod, has been implicated in the development of chronic oral infection. P. intermedia strain 17 was isolated from a chronic periodontitis lesion in our laboratory and described as a viscous material producing strain. The stock cultures of this strain still maintain the ability to produce large amounts of viscous materials in the spent culture media and form biofilm-like structures. Chemical analyses of this viscous material showed that they were mainly composed of neutral sugars with mannose constituting 83% of the polysaccharides. To examine the biological effect of the extracellular viscous materials, we identified and obtained a naturally-occurring variant strain that lacked the ability to produce viscous materials in vitro from our stock culture collections of strain 17, designated as 17-2. We compared these two strains (strains 17 versus 17-2) in terms of their capacities to form biofilms and to induce abscess formation in mice as an indication of their pathogenicity. Further, gene expression profiles between these two strains in planktonic condition and gene expression patterns of strain 17 in solid and liquid cultures were also compared using microarray assays. |
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