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Infection and Immunity, August 1999, p. 3780-3785, Vol. 67, No. 8
Departments of Preventive
Dentistry1 and Oral
Microbiology3 and Division of Special
Care Dentistry2, Osaka University Faculty of
Dentistry, Suita-Osaka, Japan
Received 9 March 1999/Returned for modification 20 April
1999/Accepted 5 May 1999
Porphyromonas gingivalis, a putative
periodontopathogen, can bind to human salivary components with its
fimbriae. We have previously shown that fimbriae specifically bind to a
peptide domain shared by a major salivary component, i.e., proline-rich (glyco)proteins (PRPs). The synthetic domain peptide PRP-C (pPRP-C) significantly inhibits the fimbrial binding to PRPs. In this study, a
recombinant strain of Streptococcus gordonii secreting
pPRP-C was generated as a model of a possible approach to prevent the oral colonization by the pathogen. A duplicate DNA fragment
(prpC) encoding pPRP-C was obtained by self-complementary
annealing of synthetic oligonucleotides. prpC was connected
downstream to a promoter and a gene encoding a signal peptide of
Streptococcus downei glucosyltransferase I in frame. The
linked fragments were inserted into the plasmid pMNK-4 derived from
pVA838. The constructed plasmid was inserted to produce the
transformant S. gordonii G9B, which then successfully
secreted recombinant pPRP-C (r-pPRP-C) of the expected size. The
concentrated bacterial culture supernatant containing r-pPRP-C
inhibited the binding of P. gingivalis cells and fimbriae
to PRP1 in a dose-dependent manner up to 72 and 77%, respectively. The
r-pPRP-C concentrate also inhibited the coaggregation of P. gingivalis with various streptococcal strains as effectively as
synthetic pPRP-C in a dose-dependent manner. Collectively, pPRP-C was
found to be able to prevent P. gingivalis adherence to
salivary receptor protein and plaque-forming bacteria. These results
suggest that this recombination approach with a nonperiodontopathic bacterium may be suitable for the therapeutic prevention of P. gingivalis adherence to the oral cavity.
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Secretion of Functional Salivary Peptide by Streptococcus
gordonii Which Inhibits Fimbria-Mediated Adhesion of
Porphyromonas gingivalis
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of
Special Care Dentistry, Osaka University Faculty of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita-Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Phone: 81-6-6879-2280. Fax:
81-6-6879-2284. E-mail: amanoa{at}dent.osaka-u.ac.jp.
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