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Askora A, El-Telbany M, El-Didamony G, Ariny E, Askoura M. Characterization of φEf-vB1 prophage infecting oral Enterococcus faecalis and enhancing bacterial biofilm formation. J Med Microbiol 2020; 69:1151-1168. [PMID: 32840477 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Introduction. Enterococcus faecalis is a facultative, anaerobic, opportunistic pathogen associated with medical and dental diseases. Bacterial phenotypic traits and pathogenesis are often influenced by lysogeny.Aim. The aim of this study was to characterize both the morphology and complete genome sequences of induced prophages purified from E. faecalis clinical isolates.Methodology. E. faecalis isolates were recovered from the roots of teeth of patients attending an endodontic clinic. The morphological features of isolated phage were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). DNA sequencing was performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform.Results. TEM indicated that the isolated φEf-vB1 prophage belongs to the family Siphoviridae. The φEf-vB1 prophage was stable over a wide range of temperatures and pH. Sequencing of φEf-vB1 DNA revealed that the phage genome is 37 561 bp in length with a G+C content of 37.6mol% and contained 53 ORFs. Comparison with previously predicted prophage genomes using blast revealed that φEf-vB1 has a high sequence similarity to previously characterized phage genomes. The lysogenic E. faecalis strain exhibited a higher biofilm formation capacity relative to the non-lysogenic strain.Conclusion. The current findings highlight the role of lysogeny in modification of E. faecalis properties and reveal the potential importance of prophages in E. faecalis biology and pathogenesis.
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- Ahmed Askora
- Department of Microbiology and Botany, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology and Botany, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology and Botany, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology and Botany, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
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Stevens RH, Zhang H, Sedgley C, Bergman A, Manda AR. The prevalence and impact of lysogeny among oral isolates of Enterococcus faecalis. J Oral Microbiol 2019; 11:1643207. [PMID: 31489125 PMCID: PMC6711143 DOI: 10.1080/20002297.2019.1643207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 10/29/2022] Open
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Bacterial phenotypic properties are frequently influenced by the uptake of extrachromosomal genetic elements, such as plasmids and bacteriophage genomes. Such modifications can result in enhanced pathogenicity due to toxin production, increased toxin release, altered antigenicity, and resistance to antibiotics. In the case of bacteriophages, the phage genome can stably integrate into the bacterial chromosome as a prophage, to produce a lysogenic cell. Oral enterococcal strains have been isolated from subgingival plaque and the root canals of endodontically-treated teeth that have failed to heal. Previously, we isolated a bacteriophage, phage ɸEf11, induced from a lysogenic Enterococcus faecalis strain recovered from the root canal of a failed endodontic case. PCR analysis using phage ɸEf11-specific oligonucleotide primers, disclosed that lysogens containing ɸEf11 prophages were commonly found among oral E. faecalis strains, being detected in 19 of 61 (31%) strains examined. Furthermore, in comparison to an isogenic cured strain, cultures of a lysogen harboring an ɸEf11 prophage exhibited altered phenotypic characteristics, such as increased persistence at high density, enhanced biofilm formation, and resistance to a bacteriophage lytic enzyme. From these results we conclude that lysogeny is common among oral E. faecalis strains, and that it alters properties of the lysogenic cell.
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- Roy H Stevens
- Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Endodontology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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A novel phage from periodontal pockets associated with chronic periodontitis. Virus Genes 2019; 55:381-393. [PMID: 30927185 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-019-01658-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Bacteriophages often constitute the majority of periodontal viral communities, but phages that infect oral bacteria remain uncharacterized. Here, we present the genetic analysis of the genome of a novel siphovirus, named Siphoviridae_29632, which was isolated from a patient with periodontitis using a viral metagenomics-based approach. Among 43 predicted open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome, the viral genes encoding structural proteins were distinct from the counterparts of other viruses, although a distant homology is shared among viral morphogenesis proteins. A total of 28 predicted coding sequences had significant homology to other known phage ORF sequences. In addition, the prevalence of Siphoviridae_29632 in a cohort of patients with chronic periodontitis was 41.67%, which was significantly higher than that in the healthy group (4.55%, P < 0.001), suggesting that this virus as well as its hosts may contribute to the ecological environment favored for chronic periodontitis.
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Thannesberger J, Hellinger HJ, Klymiuk I, Kastner MT, Rieder FJJ, Schneider M, Fister S, Lion T, Kosulin K, Laengle J, Bergmann M, Rattei T, Steininger C. Viruses comprise an extensive pool of mobile genetic elements in eukaryote cell cultures and human clinical samples. FASEB J 2017; 31:1987-2000. [PMID: 28179422 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201601168r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Viruses shape a diversity of ecosystems by modulating their microbial, eukaryotic, or plant host metabolism. The complexity of virus-host interaction networks is progressively fathomed by novel metagenomic approaches. By using a novel metagenomic method, we explored the virome in mammalian cell cultures and clinical samples to identify an extensive pool of mobile genetic elements in all of these ecosystems. Despite aseptic treatment, cell cultures harbored extensive and diverse phage populations with a high abundance of as yet unknown and uncharacterized viruses (viral dark matter). Unknown phages also predominated in the oropharynx and urine of healthy individuals and patients infected with cytomegalovirus despite demonstration of active cytomegalovirus replication. The novelty of viral sequences correlated primarily with the individual evaluated, whereas relative abundance of encoded protein functions was associated with the ecologic niches probed. Together, these observations demonstrate the extensive presence of viral dark matter in human and artificial ecosystems.-Thannesberger, J., Hellinger, H.-J., Klymiuk, I., Kastner, M.-T., Rieder, F. J. J., Schneider, M., Fister, S., Lion, T., Kosulin, K., Laengle, J., Bergmann, M., Rattei, T., Steininger, C. Viruses comprise an extensive pool of mobile genetic elements in eukaryote cell cultures and human clinical samples.
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- Jakob Thannesberger
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- CUBE-Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Medical Research, Core Facility Molecular Biology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Monitoring of Microbial Contaminants, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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- Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
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- Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- CUBE-Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;
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Edlund A, Santiago-Rodriguez TM, Boehm TK, Pride DT. Bacteriophage and their potential roles in the human oral cavity. J Oral Microbiol 2015; 7:27423. [PMID: 25861745 PMCID: PMC4393417 DOI: 10.3402/jom.v7.27423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The human oral cavity provides the perfect portal of entry for viruses and bacteria in the environment to access new hosts. Hence, the oral cavity is one of the most densely populated habitats of the human body containing some 6 billion bacteria and potentially 35 times that many viruses. The role of these viral communities remains unclear; however, many are bacteriophage that may have active roles in shaping the ecology of oral bacterial communities. Other implications for the presence of such vast oral phage communities include accelerating the molecular diversity of their bacterial hosts as both host and phage mutate to gain evolutionary advantages. Additional roles include the acquisitions of new gene functions through lysogenic conversions that may provide selective advantages to host bacteria in response to antibiotics or other types of disturbances, and protection of the human host from invading pathogens by binding to and preventing pathogens from crossing oral mucosal barriers. Recent evidence suggests that phage may be more involved in periodontal diseases than were previously thought, as their compositions in the subgingival crevice in moderate to severe periodontitis are known to be significantly altered. However, it is unclear to what extent they contribute to dysbiosis or the transition of the microbial community into a state promoting oral disease. Bacteriophage communities are distinct in saliva compared to sub- and supragingival areas, suggesting that different oral biogeographic niches have unique phage ecology shaping their bacterial biota. In this review, we summarize what is known about phage communities in the oral cavity, the possible contributions of phage in shaping oral bacterial ecology, and the risks to public health oral phage may pose through their potential to spread antibiotic resistance gene functions to close contacts.
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- Anna Edlund
- Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.,School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Western University College of Dental Medicine, Pomona, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA;
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Novak KF, Lee LN, LeBlanc DJ. Functional analysis of pVT745, a plasmid from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. ORAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 1998; 13:124-8. [PMID: 9573804 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302x.1998.tb00723.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Plasmid pVT745 is a 25.1-kb replicon isolated from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strain VT745. A previous report described the hybridization of pVT745 in 5 strain-specific patterns to chromosomal DNA from 15 other A. actinomycetemcomitans strains. However, pVT745 does not share homology with the chromosome of the strain from which it was isolated, VT745. It was hypothesized that the shared areas of homology might represent insertion sequence elements and/or transposons possibly encoding resistance to one or more antibiotics. An antibiogram of strain VT745 demonstrated that this strain was uniformly susceptible to all antibiotics examined. Because insertion sequence elements and transposons are mobile genetic elements, a series of cell passaging experiments, followed by Southern hybridization was conducted in a attempt to detect transposition of pVT745 homologous DNA within the chromosomes of several A. actinomycetemcomitans strains. The results of these experiments suggested stability of the homologous DNA both within the chromosome and on the plasmid. It was also possible that pVT745 represented a lysogenic bacteriophage. Phage induction experiments were conducted under conditions that induced a previously described A. actinomycetemcomitans lysogenic phage, but no phage could be induced from strain VT745. Attempts to obtain isolates of VT745 cured of pVT745 were also unsuccessful.
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- K F Novak
- Division of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Barretto Tinoco EM, Stevens R, Haubek D, Lai CH, Balachandran S, Preus H. Relationship of serotype, leukotoxin gene type and lysogeny in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to periodontal disease status. Eur J Oral Sci 1997; 105:310-7. [PMID: 9298362 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1997.tb00246.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans has been associated with different forms of periodontitis, particularly with localized juvenile periodontitis (LJP). The bacterium possesses several virulence factors which have been shown to interact with the host immune system. Among these factors, leukotoxin, surface antigens (serotype) and bacteriophages have been suggested directly or indirectly to influence the course of infection. However, few studies have been able to show associations between these factors and periodontal disease, alone or in combination. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to investigate possible correlations between periodontal disease status and selected virulence factors (serotype, presence of bacteriophages, and the presence of a 530 bp deletion in the promoter region of the leukotoxin gene). 36 subjects took part in the study. Serotype c was the most frequently found serotype among periodontally affected subjects, although serotypes a and b were also present. 27 out of 36 strains harbored bacteriophages, and there was strong evidence that some of the bacteriophages were different from the previously characterized phi Aa phage. A. actinomycetemcomitans containing the F-fragment phage were more frequently associated with periodontal disease. Five strains, all serotype b, 3 from LJP patients and 2 from healthy subjects, showed a 530-bp deletion in the promoter region of the leukotoxin gene.
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- E M Barretto Tinoco
- Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Haubek D, Willi K, Poulsen K, Meyer J, Kilian M. Presence of bacteriophage Aa phi 23 correlates with the population genetic structure of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Eur J Oral Sci 1997; 105:2-8. [PMID: 9085022 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1997.tb00173.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Several bacteriophages associated with the oral bacterium Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans have been identified. Lysogeny might affect the virulence of this bacterium, which has been implicated in the etiology of juvenile and adult periodontitis. We have determined the presence of bacteriophage Aa phi 23-related DNA sequences among 185 A. actinomycetemcomitans strains belonging to 2 well-characterized collections and have related the findings to the population genetic structure of the collections. 2 cloned Aa phi 23-specific DNA probes were used in Southern blot hybridization experiments to detect homologous sequences in whole-cell DNA of the strains. DNA from 65 (35%) of the 185 strains hybridized to either of the DNA probes. The majority (74%) of the hybridizing strains showed an identical hybridization pattern, indicating presence of phage Aa phi 23. Whole-cell DNA from the remaining hybridizing strains hybridized to the probes with different patterns, indicating that DNA sequences related to but different from phage Aa phi 23 occur in these strains. The majority (81%) of the strains which harbored phage Aa phi 23 were of serotype a, whereas serotype d strains appeared to be resistant to infection with this phage. There was a clear correlation between hybridization patterns and genetic subdivisions based on our previous population genetic analyses of A. actinomycetemcomitans. However, there was no significant correlation between occurrence of Aa phi 23 among A. actinomycetemcomitans strains and the periodontal status of the patients from whom the isolates were obtained, suggesting that this bacteriophage does not significantly influence the virulence of A. actinomycetemcomitans.
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- D Haubek
- Department of Oral Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Willi K, Sandmeier H, Asikainen S, Saarela M, Meyer J. Occurrence of temperate bacteriophages in different Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotypes isolated from periodontally healthy individuals. ORAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 12:40-6. [PMID: 9151643 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302x.1997.tb00365.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The occurrence of temperate bacteriophages was studied in 34 isolates of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans derived from 27 periodontally healthy Finnish individuals both by lysis/plaque assays and by DNA hybridizations. In addition the serotype, the ribotype and the arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) profile were determined for each A. actinomycetemcomitans strain. Fourteen isolates showed hybridization patterns very similar to that of a known lysogen when probed with the genome of the previously characterized temperate phage Aa phi 23. Only 6 of these 14 strains had produced lysis or single plaques on suitable indicator strains. Phage Aa phi 247 derived from one of these lysogens was indistinguishable from Aa phi 23 by electron microscopy, and the genomes showed highly related DNA hybridization patterns. The remaining 20 isolates exhibited hybridization patterns very different from that of Aa phi 23 DNA. Seven of these strains also gave lysis or single plaques, suggesting that 21 of the 34 strains were lysogenic. These data indicate that the prophages per se do not represent a virulence factor exclusively associated with periodontal disease. Presence of an Aa phi 23-related prophage correlated with serotype a and AP-PCR type 1 of the bacterial host. This may indicate that Aa phi 23 and related phages have a limited host range.
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- K Willi
- Department of Preventive Dentistry, Dental Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
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