Different bacteriocin activities of Streptococcus mutans reflect distinct phylogenetic lineages

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Balakrishnan, M
Simmonds, RS
Kilian, M
Tagg, JR [1 ]
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[1] Univ Otago, Dept Microbiol, Dunedin, New Zealand
[2] Univ Aarhus, Dept Med Microbiol & Immunol, Aarhus C, Denmark
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10.1099/0022-1317-51-11-941
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Bacteriocins produced by mutans streptococci are known as mutacins. In this study 16 broadly active mutacin-producifig Streptococcus mutans strains from New Zealand, North America and Europe were classified into four groups (A-D) on the basis of differences in their activity in deferred antagonism tests against either the homologous producer strain (to test for presence of self-immunity) or indicator strains Staphylococcus aureus 46 and Enterococcus faecium TE1. Two of the strains included in the study (UA140 and UA96) were representatives of the group I and 11 mutacin producer strains previously described by Caufield and co-workers. One of the New Zealand isolates of group A (S. mutans strain N) appeared to produce inhibitory activity similar to that of the group I prototype strain UA140. Four other New Zealand isolates of group B (S. mutans strains M19, M34, B34 and D14) had mutacin II-like activity. The group B mutacin producers differed from the group A mutacin producers in their additional activity against Staph. aureus 46. Seven S. mutans strains (M46, B46, B57, M12, M28, B28 and 13M) were distinguished from the group A and group B mutacin producers in that they inhibited E. faecium TEL These were called group C mutacin producers. Strains H7 and H23 resembled the group C strains in their action on both indicator strains TE1 and 46. However, these two strains failed to exhibit immunity to their own inhibitory products in the deferred antagonism test and were separately classified as group D mutacin producers. Phylogenetic analysis of the strains by several genotypic and phenotypic characteristics revealed that the mutacin groups were associated with distinct evolutionary lineages of S. mutans.
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