title: Differentiation of Moraxella nonliquefaciens, M. lacunata, and M. bovis by using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and hybridization with pilin-specific DNA probes.
abstract: Genetic relationships among strains of Moraxella nonliquefaciens, M. lacunata, and M. bovis were studied by using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and DNA-DNA hybridization. The 74 isolates analyzed for electrophoretic variation at 12 enzyme loci were assigned to 59 multilocus genotypes. The multilocus genotypes were grouped in four major clusters, one representing strains of M. nonliquefaciens, two representing strains of M. lacunata, and one comprising strains of M. bovis and the single strain of M. equi analyzed. DNA-DNA hybridization with total genomic probes also revealed four major distinctive entities that corresponded to those identified by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. The two distinct clusters recognized among the M. lacunata strains apparently corresponded to the species previously designated M. lacunata and M. liquefaciens. Distinction of the four entities was improved by hybridization with polymerase chain reaction products of nonconserved parts of pilin genes as DNA probes. With these polymerase chain reaction probes, new isolates of M. nonliquefaciens, M. lacunata, M. liquefaciens, and M. bovis can be identified easily by hybridization.
authors.affiliation: Kaptein W. Wilhelmsen og Frues Bakteriologiske Institutt, University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, Norway.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tønjum
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Caugant
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bøvre
mesh_terms: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D015342:DNA Probes; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004586:Electrophoresis; D004798:Enzymes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009016:Moraxella / Q000145:classification* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013045:Species Specificity; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D015342:DNA Probes; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004798:Enzymes; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins