| 'Soft-particle' analysis of the electrophoretic mobility of a fibrillated and non-fibrillated oral streptococcal strain: Streptococcus salivarius. | |
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PMID: 9779584 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The electrophoretic mobility of microbial cell surfaces can be analysed in terms of a so-called soft layer model, in which the electrophoretic mobility is described as originating from the potentials over the surface charge layer and the membrane fixed charges. Often, the polyelectrolyte layer deforms under the influence of ionic strength variations. In the soft layer analysis of electrophoretic mobilities this is expressed in the softness 1/lambda. Here, we determined the softness of two oral streptococcal strains, S. salivarius HB and HBC12 from particulate microelectrophoresis in KCl solutions of varying ionic strength. Electron microscopy of negatively-stained organisms and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that strain HB had several classes of proteinaceous fibrils with lengths up to 178 nm on its outermost surface, while variant HBC12 had a bald, peptidoglycan-rich outer surface. The fibrillated strain HB appeared as relatively soft (1/lambda equals 1.4 nm) from analysis of its electrophoretic mobility, while the bald variant HBC12 was hard (1/lambda equals 0.7 nm) due to its comparatively rigid, peptidoglycan-rich outer surface, characteristic to Gram-positive bacteria. The presence of proteinaceous fibrils on strain HB slightly shielded the membrane fixed charges on HBC12. |
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Authors:
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R Bos; H C van der Mei; H J Busscher |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Biophysical chemistry Volume: 74 ISSN: 0301-4622 ISO Abbreviation: Biophys. Chem. Publication Date: 1998 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1998-11-18 Completed Date: 1998-11-18 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0403171 Medline TA: Biophys Chem Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 251-5 Citation Subset: IM |
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Laboratory for Materia Technica, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. R.Bos@med.rug.nl |
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Electrophoresis Humans Microscopy, Electron Mouth / microbiology Streptococcus / chemistry*, ultrastructure |
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