PMID: 8941766Jun 1, 1996Paper

Characterization of Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens by enzyme production, restriction endonuclease and ribosomal RNA gene restriction analyses

Oral Microbiology and Immunology
M A PearceD A Devine

Abstract

Restriction endonuclease analysis, rRNA gene restriction analysis (ribotyping), multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and lipase production were investigated for their potential to differentiate isolates belonging to the closely-related species Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens. Of 122 strains identified originally as P. intermedia, 52 were assigned to P. intermedia and 68 to P. nigrescens using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. All 39 P. intermedia and 52 out of 53 P. nigrescens tested produced lipase. Restriction endonuclease analysis identified clonal variants, but did not facilitate the differentiation of strains into species. Taq I ribotyping of 99 strains revealed that all P. intermedia demonstrated a species-specific fragment of 0.40 kbp, which was always associated with a second fragment of 0.57 kbp, and all P. nigrescens tested shared a species-specific fragment of 2.21 kbp. Two strains atypical by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis had none of the above species-specific fragments. Thus, lipase production and restriction endonuclease analysis did not distinguish between P. intermedia and P. nigrescens, but Taq I ribotyping did and also allowed the characterization of individual strains.

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