Streptococcus mitis and S. oralis lack a requirement for CdsA, the enzyme required for synthesis of major membrane phospholipids in bacteria

HM Adams, LR Joyce, Z Guan, RL Akins… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Experimental evolution studies have hinted at unique physiology in the Gram-positive
bacteria Streptococcus mitis and S. oralis. These organisms commonly cause bacteremia and …

Strain dependent genetic networks for antibiotic-sensitivity in a bacterial pathogen with a large pan-genome

T van Opijnen, S Dedrick, J Bento - PLoS pathogens, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… events that can vary widely between strains, which suggests that in some cases the
emergence of resistance could be strain specific and at least for species with a large pan-genome

[PDF][PDF] Accurate reconstruction of the pan-and core-genomes of bacteria with PEPPA

Z Zhou, M Achtman - bioRxiv, 2020 - scholar.archive.org
… of a bacterial pan-genome. PEPPA was compared with four state-of-the-art pan-genome
, and was almost as fast in calculating a pan-genome as any of them. As a demonstration of …

Species designations belie phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity in oral streptococci

IM Velsko, B Chakraborty, MM Nascimento, RA Burne… - Msystems, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
… mutans antagonism, we screened our isolates using two approaches to detect bacterial
pan-genome–phenotype association. We searched for genes associated with these phenotypes …

PcsB Expression Diversity Influences on Streptococcus mitis Phenotypes Associated With Host Persistence and Virulence

EN Harth-Chu, LA Alves, JD Theobaldo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… Taxonomically grouped into the Mitis group along with Streptococcus oralis and … mitis
typically co-inhabits mucosal niches of streptococcal pathogens including Streptococcus pyogenes …

Comparative genomic analyses of Streptococcus mutans provide insights into chromosomal shuffling and species-specific content

F Maruyama, M Kobata, K Kurokawa, K Nishida… - BMC genomics, 2009 - Springer
… genome content (the pan-genome) of all contemporary Streptococcus agalactiae strains
will … pyogenes belongs to the same genus, it has a smaller pan-genome and greater level of …

Genomic identification of streptococcal strains and relation to clinical characteristics. A substudy to The Partial Oral Treatment of Endocarditis (POET) Trial.

JJ Christensen, CS Jensen, R Dargis… - Medical Research …, 2022 - esmed.org
… and Streptococcus mitis/oralis having the highest IE prevalence and the highest associated
IE risk after adjusting for IE risk factors 8. However, sometimes the results may be difficult to …

Whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics in lactic acid bacteria

L Colombini - 2022 - usiena-air.unisi.it
Pan genome can be open if the addition of new genomes increases the pan genome size, or
… number of genomes, the addition of a new one will not increase the size of its pan genome. …

Genomic and phenotypic diversity of Streptococcus mutans

CM Bedoya-Correa, RJR Rodríguez… - Journal of Oral …, 2019 - Elsevier
… mutans has provided information on the genomic diversity of this species which appears to
continue to grow due to an open pan-genome [9], as will be discussed in this section. Three …

[PDF][PDF] … : Characterization, differentiation and identification of pneumococcus and other species within the Mitis Group of the genus Streptococcus by tandem mass …

L Gonzales-Siles, A Busquets, A Karlsson… - 2018 - research.chalmers.se
… three species of the Streptococcus Mitis Group included in … This is reflected in the species
pan-genome” concept (ie, the … majority of genes of the pan-genome are absent in many strains…