Endosymbiotic bacterium Protochlamydia can survive in acanthamoebae following encystation

• Nakamura, Shinji

• Matsuo, Junji

• Hayashi, Yasuhiro

• Kawaguchi, Kouhei

• Yoshida, Mitsutaka

• Takahashi, Kaori

• Mizutani, Yoshihiko

• Yao, Takashi

• Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Protochlamydia belonging to environmental chlamydiae can survive in acanthamoebae following encystation

抄録

Whether endosymbionts can survive amoebal encystations remains a significant challenge in cellular biology. The survival of the endosymbiotic bacteria Protochlamydia belonging to environmental chlamydiae in acanthamoebae following encystation was therefore assessed. The bacteria were observed in cysts and the bacterial transcripts (16S rRNA and/or groEL) were also detected in amoeba cultures following encystation. Furthermore, the bacterial replication and the growth was confirmed in trophozoites reverted from cysts. Thus, these results demonstrated that Protochlamydia could survive in acanthamoebae following encystation. Our findings suggest that amoeba cysts might be further studied in order to elucidate the their role in the environmental survival of endosymbionts.

収録刊行物

• Environmental Microbiology Reports

  Environmental Microbiology Reports 2 (4), 611-618, 2010-08

  Wiley-Blackwell

キーワード

• environmental chlamydia
• Protochlamydia
• Acanthamoeba
• cyst
• survival

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050845763937107456
• NII論文ID: 120002414851
• HANDLE: 2115/43885
• ISSN: 17582229
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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