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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2003, p. 5290-5296, Vol. 69, No. 9
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5290-5296.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Effect of Acidic pH on Expression of Surface-Associated Proteins of Streptococcus oralis

Joanna C. Wilkins, David Beighton, and Karen A. Homer*

Department of Microbiology, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Dental Institute, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Received 20 March 2003/ Accepted 26 June 2003

Streptococcus oralis, a member of the mitis group of oral streptococci, is implicated in the pathogenesis of infective endocarditis and is the predominant aciduric non-mutans-group streptococcus in dental plaque. We undertook to identify the most abundant surface-associated proteins of S. oralis and to investigate changes in protein expression when the organism was grown under acidic culture conditions. Surface-associated proteins were extracted from cells grown in batch culture, separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, excised, digested with trypsin, and analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Putative functions were assigned by homology to a translated genomic database of Streptococcus pneumoniae. A total of 27 proteins were identified; these included a lipoprotein, a ribosome recycling factor, and the glycolytic enzymes phosphoglycerate kinase, fructose bisphosphate aldolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, and enolase. The most abundant protein, phosphocarrier protein HPr, was present as three isoforms. Neither lactate dehydrogenase nor pyruvate oxidase, dominant intracellular proteins, were present among the proteins on the gels, demonstrating that proteins in the surface-associated pool did not arise as a result of cell lysis. Eleven of the proteins identified were differentially expressed when cells were grown at pH 5.2 versus pH 7.0, and these included superoxide dismutase, a homologue of dipeptidase V from Lactococcus lactis, and the protein translation elongation factors G, Tu, and Ts. This study has extended the range of streptococcal proteins known to be expressed at the cell surface. Further investigations are required to ascertain their functions at this extracellular location and determine how their expression is influenced by other environmental conditions.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, GKT Dental Institute, King’s College London, Caldecot Rd., Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RW, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 20 7346 3272. Fax: 44 020 7346 3073. E-mail: karen.a.homer{at}kcl.ac.uk.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2003, p. 5290-5296, Vol. 69, No. 9
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5290-5296.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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