Chemical analyses, local Shwartzman reactivity, and body weight-decreasing activity of aqueous-phenol extracts of Mycoplasma salivarium cells. Biological activities of Mycoplasma salivarium.
Aqueous-phenol extracts of Mycoplasma salivarium ATCC 23064 cells (APM) showed demonstrable differences from lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) of Veillonella rodentium ATCC 17743. These were as follows: smaller amounts of amino sugars and an absence of 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonate; local Shwartzman reactivity and body weight-decreasing activity, even though the activities were rather weak compared with those of LPSs. Therefore, phenol-water extractive components of Mycoplasma salivarium might be of pathogenic importance in mediating damaging effects on the periodontium.
Totsuka
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Department of Oral Bacteriology, Nagasaki University School of Dentistry, Japan.
Shibata
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Watanabe
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D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000032:analysis*; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000378:metabolism; D019800:Phenol; D010636:Phenols; D011817:Rabbits; D012790:Shwartzman Phenomenon; D014678:Veillonella / Q000032:analysis
D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D010636:Phenols; D019800:Phenol