Effect of pheromone induction on transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pCF10 in intestinal mucus ex vivo |
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| Authors: | Tine Rask Licht Anette M Hammerum Lars Bogø Jensen Bodil L Jacobsen |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technology Faculty, Firat University, TR-23119, Elazig, Turkey;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | The effect of synthetic sex pheromone on pheromone-inducible conjugation between the isogenic Enterococcus faecalis strains OG1RF and OG1SS was investigated in (i) Todd-Hewitt broth medium and (ii) intestinal mucus isolated from germ-free rats. In broth, the presence of synthetic pheromone cCF10 had no detectable effect on the transfer kinetics observed for the tetracycline resistance encoding plasmid pCF10. In mucus, presence of the same pheromone significantly increased the transfer efficiency observed during the first 2 h of conjugation, while the effect was less pronounced later in the experiment. We suggest that due to differences in diffusion rates and medium-binding of the pheromones, the effect of the synthetic cCF10 was immediately dominated by the effect of pheromones produced by the recipient E. faecalis strain in broth, while this happened later in mucus. |
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| Keywords: | Pheromone pCF10 Intestinal mucus Plasmid transfer rate Enterococcus faecalis |
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