Evidence that L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase deficiency is lethal in Streptococcus mutans.

Abstract:

:In order to construct an effector strain for the replacement therapy of dental caries, we wished to combine the properties of low-level acid production and high-level colonization potential in a strain of Streptococcus mutans. To this end, we made a deletion in the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) gene cloned from the bacteriocin-producing S. mutans strain JH1000. However, we were unable to substitute the mutant for the wild-type allele by transformation with linear DNA fragments. The mutated gene, carried on a suicide vector, was shown by Southern analysis to integrate into the JH1000 chromosome to yield transformants carrying both the wild-type gene and mutated LDH gene. Three spontaneous self-recombinants of one heterodiploid strain were isolated by screening 1,500 colonies for a loss of the tetracycline resistance encoded by the gene used to mark the LDH deletion. In all three cases, Southern analysis showed that a loss of tetracycline resistance was accompanied by a loss of the mutated LDH gene, resulting in restoration of the wild-type genotype. However, screening the same number of colonies for self-recombinants that did not make lactic acid during anaerobic growth in Todd-Hewitt broth failed to identify clones in which the wild-type allele was lost. A second, simpler screening of more than 80,000 colonies grown aerobically on glucose tetrazolium medium to identify low-level-acid-producing colonies was also unsuccessful. These results are interpreted as indicating that LDH deficiency is lethal in S. mutans under the cultivation conditions used in these experiments. The physiological bases for this hypothesis are described.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Hillman JD,Chen A,Duncan M,Lee SW

doi

10.1128/IAI.62.1.60-64.1994

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-01-01 00:00:00

pages

60-4

issue

1

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

journal_volume

62

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