Excretion of extracellular lipids by Streptococcus mutans BHT and FA-1

Author:

Cabacungan E,Pieringer R A

Abstract

Streptococcus mutans BHT and FA-1, when grown to log phase on chemically defined medium containing [14C]glycerol, excreted 15% of the total biosynthesized 14C-lipid into the medium. When grown to early stationary phase, 28 to 33% of the 14C-lipid was found in the medium. The radioactive lipids of these varieties of S. mutans were identified as diacylglycerol, diglucosyl diacylglycerol (DGD), monoglucosyl diacylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and smaller amounts of two other lipids tentatively were identified as amino acyl-PG and glycerol phosphoryl-DGD. All lipids were found as extracellular and intracellular components from cells grown to either log or stationary phase. However, there were some shifts in the relative percentage of these lipids as the cells changed from log to stationary phase. For example, the intracellular lipid content of log-phase S. mutans BHT was composed of 49% PG and 19% DGD, but these percents shifted to 18% PG and 57% DGD when the cells were grown to stationary phase. However, the extracellular lipids of this organism contained 50 to 60% PG and 20% DGD in both log and stationary phases.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

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