Many bacteria symbiotic and parasitic in humans are included in the genera Bacteroides, Prevotella, Porphyromonas and others, which belong to the phylum Bacteroidetes. We have been studying gingipain, a major secretory protease of Porphyromonas gingivalis which is a periodontopathogenic bacterium belonging to the genus Porphyromonas, and pili which contribute to host colonization in the bacterium. In the process, it was found that gingipain was secreted by a system not reported previously. Furthermore, this secretion system was found to exist widely in the Bacteroidetes phylum bacteria and closely related to the gliding motility of bacteroidete bacteria, and it was named the Por secretion system (later renamed the type IX secretion system). Regarding P. gingivalis pili, it was found that the pilus protein is transported as a lipoprotein to the cell surface, and the pilus formation occurs due to degradation by arginine-gingipain. Pili with this novel formation mechanism was found to be widely present in bacteria belonging to the class Bacteroidia in the phylum Bacteroidetes and was named the type V pili.
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{"title":"Award Lecture.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enterococci belong to the group of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), and inhabit the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide variety of animals from insects and to human, and the commensal organism in humans and animals. The commensal/probiotic role of enterococci has evolved through thousands of years in mutual coexistence. Enterococcus have many favorable traits that have been appreciated in food fermentation and preservation, and many serve as probiotics to promote health. While lactobacillus have been shown to confer numerous benefits on and often regarded as health bringing organisms, enterococci have become more recognized as emerging human pathogens in recent years. Mac Callum and Hastings characterized an organism, now known to be Enterococcal faecalis, which was isolated from a lethal case of endocarditis on 1899. The report was the first detailed description of its pathogenic capabilities. Over the past few decades, multi-drug resistance enterococci have become as important health-care associated pathogen, and leading causes of drug resistance infection. The modern life style including the broad use of antibiotics in medical practice and animal husbandry have selected for the convergence of potential virulence factors to the specific enterococcus species such as E. faecium and E. faecalis. The development of modern medical care of intensive and invasive medical therapies and treatments for human disease, and existence of severe compromised patients in hospitals has contributed to the increased prevalence of these opportunistic organisms. The virulence factors converged in E. faecalis and E. faecium which have been isolated in nosocomial infections, include antibiotic resistance, extracellular proteins (toxins), extrachromosome and mobile genetic elements, cell wall components, biofilm formation, adherence factors, and colonization factor such as bacteriocin, etc. In these potential virulence factors, I presented characteristics of enterococcal conjugative plasmid, cytolysin, collagen binding protein of adhesion, bacteriocins, and drug resistances. I made reference to our original reports, and review books for this review. The review books are "Enterococci: from Commensals to Leading Causes of Drug Resistant Infection, NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health. Ed. by Michael S Gilmore, Don B Clewell, Yasuyoshi Ike, and Nathan Shankar", and "The Enterococci: Pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, and Antibiotic Resistance, Gilmore M., Clewell D., Courvadin P., Dunny G., Murray B., Rice L., (ed) 2002. ASM Press".
肠球菌(Enterococci)属于乳酸菌(LAB)的一门,栖息在从昆虫到人类的各种动物的胃肠道中,是人与动物的共生生物。肠球菌的共生/益生菌作用已经在相互共存中进化了数千年。肠球菌在食品发酵和保存中具有许多有利的特性,其中许多是促进健康的益生菌。虽然乳酸菌已被证明具有许多益处,并经常被视为带来健康的生物体,但肠球菌近年来已被越来越多地认为是新兴的人类病原体。麦卡勒姆和黑斯廷斯描述了一种生物,现在被称为粪肠球菌,它是1899年从一个致命的心内膜炎病例中分离出来的。该报告首次详细描述了其致病能力。在过去的几十年里,多重耐药肠球菌已成为重要的卫生保健相关病原体和耐药感染的主要原因。现代生活方式,包括在医疗实践和畜牧业中广泛使用抗生素,已经选择了潜在的毒力因子收敛到特定的肠球菌物种,如粪肠球菌和粪肠球菌。现代医疗保健的发展,强化和侵入性医疗疗法和人类疾病治疗的发展,以及医院中存在严重受损的病人,都助长了这些机会性生物体的流行。在医院感染中分离到的粪肠杆菌和粪肠杆菌的毒力因子集中在抗生素耐药性、细胞外蛋白(毒素)、染色体外和可移动遗传因子、细胞壁成分、生物膜形成、粘附因子和定植因子如细菌素等。在这些潜在的毒力因子中,我介绍了肠球菌结合质粒、溶细胞素、黏附胶原结合蛋白、细菌素和耐药性的特点。我参考了我们的原始报告,并为这次评论复习了书籍。这些评论书籍是《肠球菌:从共生菌到耐药感染的主要原因》,NCBI书架。国家医学图书馆,国家卫生研究所的一项服务。由Michael S Gilmore, Don B Clewell, Yasuyoshi Ike和Nathan Shankar主编,以及《肠球菌:发病机制,分子生物学和抗生素耐药性》,Gilmore M., Clewell D., Courvadin P., Dunny G., Murray B., Rice L.,(编辑)2002。ASM新闻”。
{"title":"Pathogenicity of Enterococci.","authors":"Yasuyoshi Ike","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Enterococci belong to the group of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), and inhabit the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide variety of animals from insects and to human, and the commensal organism in humans and animals. The commensal/probiotic role of enterococci has evolved through thousands of years in mutual coexistence. Enterococcus have many favorable traits that have been appreciated in food fermentation and preservation, and many serve as probiotics to promote health. While lactobacillus have been shown to confer numerous benefits on and often regarded as health bringing organisms, enterococci have become more recognized as emerging human pathogens in recent years. Mac Callum and Hastings characterized an organism, now known to be Enterococcal faecalis, which was isolated from a lethal case of endocarditis on 1899. The report was the first detailed description of its pathogenic capabilities. Over the past few decades, multi-drug resistance enterococci have become as important health-care associated pathogen, and leading causes of drug resistance infection. The modern life style including the broad use of antibiotics in medical practice and animal husbandry have selected for the convergence of potential virulence factors to the specific enterococcus species such as E. faecium and E. faecalis. The development of modern medical care of intensive and invasive medical therapies and treatments for human disease, and existence of severe compromised patients in hospitals has contributed to the increased prevalence of these opportunistic organisms. The virulence factors converged in E. faecalis and E. faecium which have been isolated in nosocomial infections, include antibiotic resistance, extracellular proteins (toxins), extrachromosome and mobile genetic elements, cell wall components, biofilm formation, adherence factors, and colonization factor such as bacteriocin, etc. In these potential virulence factors, I presented characteristics of enterococcal conjugative plasmid, cytolysin, collagen binding protein of adhesion, bacteriocins, and drug resistances. I made reference to our original reports, and review books for this review. The review books are \"Enterococci: from Commensals to Leading Causes of Drug Resistant Infection, NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health. Ed. by Michael S Gilmore, Don B Clewell, Yasuyoshi Ike, and Nathan Shankar\", and \"The Enterococci: Pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, and Antibiotic Resistance, Gilmore M., Clewell D., Courvadin P., Dunny G., Murray B., Rice L., (ed) 2002. ASM Press\".</p>","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3412/jsb.72.189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35128526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational Lecture.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.4","DOIUrl":"10.3412/jsb.72.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symposium.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poster.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
and the United States Coast Guard, Mike transitioned into a civilian career as the Director of Environmental Health for the Rappahannock Health District with the State of Virginia. Mike has been with the Department of Homeland Security since 2003 in several positions including the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Preparedness Grants Division and is now in charge of the FEMA Grant training program. Mike brings extensive and diverse knowledge in environmental/public health, national homeland security matters and emergency preparedness experience along with exceptional leadership knowledge and experience. Mike has a BA in Planning and Geography from Emory and Henry College and an MS in Environmental Health from East Tennessee State University.
{"title":"Special Lecture.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.3","url":null,"abstract":"and the United States Coast Guard, Mike transitioned into a civilian career as the Director of Environmental Health for the Rappahannock Health District with the State of Virginia. Mike has been with the Department of Homeland Security since 2003 in several positions including the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Preparedness Grants Division and is now in charge of the FEMA Grant training program. Mike brings extensive and diverse knowledge in environmental/public health, national homeland security matters and emergency preparedness experience along with exceptional leadership knowledge and experience. Mike has a BA in Planning and Geography from Emory and Henry College and an MS in Environmental Health from East Tennessee State University.","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workshop.","authors":"","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.57","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34765233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Streptococcus pyogenes is a β-hemolytic organism responsible for a wide variety of human diseases that commonly occur as self-limiting purulent diseases of the pharynx and skin. Although the occurrence of invasive infections by S. pyogenes is rare, mortality rates remain high even with progressive medical therapy. As a prerequisite for causing the severe invasive disease, S. pyogenes must invade underlying sterile tissues by translocating across the epithelial barrier. In this study, streptolysin S and SpeB were identified as the novel factors that facilitate bacterial translocation via degradation of intercellular junctions. Furthermore, we found that S. pyogenes exploits host plasminogen for acceleration of bacterial invasion into deeper tissues via tricellular tight junctions. Here, I would like to show our study on bacterial translocation across the epithelial barrier through paracellular route.
{"title":"Streptococcus pyogenes translocates across an epithelial barrier.","authors":"Tomoko Sumitomo","doi":"10.3412/jsb.72.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3412/jsb.72.213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Streptococcus pyogenes is a β-hemolytic organism responsible for a wide variety of human diseases that commonly occur as self-limiting purulent diseases of the pharynx and skin. Although the occurrence of invasive infections by S. pyogenes is rare, mortality rates remain high even with progressive medical therapy. As a prerequisite for causing the severe invasive disease, S. pyogenes must invade underlying sterile tissues by translocating across the epithelial barrier. In this study, streptolysin S and SpeB were identified as the novel factors that facilitate bacterial translocation via degradation of intercellular junctions. Furthermore, we found that S. pyogenes exploits host plasminogen for acceleration of bacterial invasion into deeper tissues via tricellular tight junctions. Here, I would like to show our study on bacterial translocation across the epithelial barrier through paracellular route.</p>","PeriodicalId":19308,"journal":{"name":"Nihon saikingaku zasshi. Japanese journal of bacteriology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3412/jsb.72.213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35348914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}