title: The genetic composition of Oxalobacter formigenes and its relationship to colonization and calcium oxalate stone disease.
abstract: Oxalobacter formigenes is a unique intestinal organism that relies on oxalate degradation to meet most of its energy and carbon needs. A lack of colonization is a risk factor for calcium oxalate stone disease. Protection against calcium oxalate stone disease appears to be due to the oxalate degradation that occurs in the gut on low calcium diets with a possible further contribution from intestinal oxalate secretion. Much remains to be learned about how the organism establishes and maintains gut colonization and the precise mechanisms by which it modifies stone risk. The sequencing and annotation of the genomes of a Group 1 and a Group 2 strain of O. formigenes should provide the informatic tools required for the identification of the genes and pathways associated with colonization and survival. In this review we have identified genes that may be involved and where appropriate suggested how they may be important in calcium oxalate stone disease. Elaborating the functional roles of these genes should accelerate our understanding of the organism and clarify its role in preventing stone formation.
authors: Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. knight74@uab.edu
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Knight
authors: Rajendar
authors: R
authors: Deora
authors: Dean G
authors: DG
authors: Assimos
authors: Ross P
authors: RP
authors: Holmes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D002129:Calcium Oxalate / Q000378:metabolism*; D004032:Diet; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D007422:Intestines / Q000187:drug effects / Q000382:microbiology; D064307:Microbiota; D053040:Nephrolithiasis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D010070:Oxalates / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism; D020624:Oxalobacter formigenes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D019936:Probiotics; D012307:Risk Factors; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D010070:Oxalates; D002129:Calcium Oxalate
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