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The Analysis of Expression of Autoinducer Synthesis Genes Involved in Quorum Sensing among Catheter Associated Bacteria  

Lee, Mi-Hye (Department of Biological Engineering, Kyonggi University)
Seo, Pil-Soo (Department of Korea Biological Resource Center, Kyonggi University)
Lee, Ji-Youl (Department of Urology, School of Medicine, The Catholic University)
Peck, Kyong-Ran (Division of Infectious Diseases, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Lee, Sang-Seob (Department of Biological Engineering, Kyonggi University)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.42, no.4, 2006 , pp. 277-285 More about this Journal
Abstract
The most biofilm forming bacteria in catheter, Esctherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus were isolated and identified from a patient's catheter occuring catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI). We examined mRNA expression and its quantification of AIs synthetic genes encoding signal substance of quorum sensing from each bacterial species in order to elucidated quorum sensing mechanism. Both pure cultures for each bacterial strains and a mixed cultures with three were grown for 24 hr and 30 days. Initial densities to be able to detect mRNA expression oil single strains culture were shown at $2.4{\times}10^5$ CFU/ml, $5.4{\times}10^6$ CFU/ml of E. coli for ygaG and S. aureus for luxS, and at $6.9{\times}10^4$ CFU/ml of P. aeruginosa for rhlI and lasI. Also, in mixed culture of three, initial cell densities of mRNA expression were appear to at $7.3{\times}10^5$ CFU/ml, $1.6{\times}10^7$ CFU/ml of E. coli for ygaG and S. aureus for luxS, and at $2.1{\times}10^5$ CFU/ml of P. aeruginosa for rhlI and lasI. Each AIs synthetic gene was expressed in initial cell density and the mRNA expression of the genes were detected continously during 30 days. And then, the quantification of mRNA expression level of ygaG, rhlI, last, and luxS which were related AIs synthesis was done each time point by real-time RT-PCR. Interestingly, the mRNA levels of ygaG, rhlI, lasI, and luxS from the mixed culture was higher than those from each single strain culture. In the case of E. coli ygaG, the amount of transcript from the mixed culture was at least 30 times for that from single culture. In the case of P. aeruginosa rhlI and lasI, the amount of transcript from the mixed culture was at least 40 times and 250 times for that from single strain culture. In the case of S. aureus luxS, the amount of transcript from the mixed culture was at least 5 times for that from single strain culture. And specially, the mRNA expression of rhlI and lasI of P. aeruginosa showed the highest efficency among four AIs synthetic genes.
Keywords
autoinducer (AIs); biofilm; catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI); quorum sensing (QS); real-time RT-PCR;
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