論文

査読有り 国際誌
2018年

Mycolicibacterium smegmatis, Basonym Mycobacterium smegmatis, Expresses Morphological Phenotypes Much More Similar to Escherichia coli Than Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Quantitative Structome Analysis and CryoTEM Examination.

Frontiers in microbiology
  • Hiroyuki Yamada
  • ,
  • Masashi Yamaguchi
  • ,
  • Yuriko Igarashi
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  • Kinuyo Chikamatsu
  • ,
  • Akio Aono
  • ,
  • Yoshiro Murase
  • ,
  • Yuta Morishige
  • ,
  • Akiko Takaki
  • ,
  • Hiroji Chibana
  • ,
  • Satoshi Mitarai

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開始ページ
1992
終了ページ
1992
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.3389/fmicb.2018.01992

A series of structome analyses, that is, quantitative and three-dimensional structural analysis of a whole cell at the electron microscopic level, have already been achieved individually in Exophiala dermatitidis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Myojin spiral bacteria, and Escherichia coli. In these analyses, sample cells were processed through cryo-fixation and rapid freeze-substitution, resulting in the exquisite preservation of ultrastructures on the serial ultrathin sections examined by transmission electron microscopy. In this paper, structome analysis of non pathogenic Mycolicibacterium smegmatis, basonym Mycobacterium smegmatis, was performed. As M. smegmatis has often been used in molecular biological experiments and experimental tuberculosis as a substitute of highly pathogenic M. tuberculosis, it has been a task to compare two species in the same genus, Mycobacterium, by structome analysis. Seven M. smegmatis cells cut into serial ultrathin sections, and, totally, 220 serial ultrathin sections were examined by transmission electron microscopy. Cell profiles were measured, including cell length, diameter of cell and cytoplasm, surface area of outer membrane and plasma membrane, volume of whole cell, periplasm, and cytoplasm, and total ribosome number and density per 0.1 fl cytoplasm. These data are based on direct measurement and enumeration of exquisitely preserved single cell structures in the transmission electron microscopy images, and are not based on the calculation or assumptions from biochemical or molecular biological indirect data. All measurements in M. smegmatis, except cell length, are significantly higher than those of M. tuberculosis. In addition, these data may explain the more rapid growth of M. smegmatis than M. tuberculosis and contribute to the understanding of their structural properties, which are substantially different from M. tuberculosis, relating to the expression of antigenicity, acid-fastness, and the mechanism of drug resistance in relation to the ratio of the targets to the corresponding drugs. In addition, data obtained from cryo-transmission electron microscopy examination were used to support the validity of structome analysis. Finally, our data strongly support the most recent establishment of the novel genus Mycolicibacterium, into which basonym Mycobacterium smegmatis has been classified.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01992
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258411
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145149
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01992
  • PubMed ID : 30258411
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC6145149

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