Oxalate-Degrading <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>

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  • Hokama Sanehiro
    Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
  • Honma Yasuko
    Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus
  • Toma Claudia
    Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University
  • Ogawa Yoshihide
    Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus

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An oxalate-degrading Enterococcus faecalis was isolated from human stools under anaerobic conditions. The bacteria required a poor nutritional environment and repeated subculturing to maintain their oxalate-degrading ability. The E. faecalis produced 3 proteins (65, 48, and 40kDa) that were not produced by non-oxalate-degrading E. faecalis as examined by SDS-PAGE. Antibodies against oxalyl-coenzyme A decarboxylase (65kDa) and formyl-coenzyme A transferase (48kDa) obtained from Oxalobacter formigenes (an oxalate-degrading anaerobic bacterium in the human intestine) reacted with 2 of the proteins (65 and 48kDa) from the E. faecalis as examined by Western blottings. This is the first report on the isolation of oxalate-degrading facultative anaerobic bacteria from humans.

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