Affiliation:
1. First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Osaka University, Japan.
Abstract
We have constructed a plasmid to express and secrete dextranase in the oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii. The dextranase gene from Arthrobacter sp. strain CB-8 was linked to a promoter and a DNA sequence encoding the signal peptide of Streptococcus downei glucosyltransferase I (gtfI) followed by the Escherichia coli rrnBt1t2 terminator and inserted in the shuttle vector pVA838. S. gordonii transformed with this plasmid (pMNK-4) expressed and secreted mature Arthrobacter dextranase. The transformant was found to repress the firm adherence of water-insoluble glucan in a coculture experiment with cariogenic bacteria, Streptococcus sobrinus, in the presence of sucrose. Such genetically engineered oral bacteria could provide a therapy to prevent dental caries.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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21 articles.
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