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Mannose phosphotransferase system subunit IID of Streptococcus mutans elicits maturation and activation of dendritic cells: Sungho Jeong, Chaeyeon Park, Dongwook Lee, Hyun Jung Ji, Ho Seong Seo, Cheol-Heui Yun, Jintaek Im, Seung Hyun Han; J. Microbiol. 2025;63(10):e2505014. Published online October 31, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.71150/jm.2505014

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Abstract PDF: Streptococcus mutans is a Gram-positive pathogen that causes dental caries and subsequent pulpal infection leading to pulpitis. Although dendritic cells (DCs) are known to be involved in disease progression and immune responses during S. mutans infection, little is known about which component of S. mutans is responsible for the DC responses. Although the mannose phosphotransferase system (Man-PTS) is the primary sugar transporter of S. mutans, it is also a potential virulence factor. Since Man-PTS subunit IID (ManIID) embedded on the bacterial membrane is indispensable for Man-PTS function, we investigated its role in the maturation and activation of DCs stimulated with a ManIID-deficient strain (Δpts) of S. mutans and recombinant ManIID (rManIID) protein. When mouse bone marrow-derived DCs were treated with heat-killed S. mutans wild-type (WT) or Δpts, bacterial adherence and internalization of Δpts were lower than those of WT. Moreover, the heat-killed S. mutans Δpts strain was inferior to the wild-type in inducing expression of phenotypic maturation markers, such as CD80, CD86, MHC-I, and MHC-II, and proinflammatory cytokine, IL-6. In line with the trends in marker expression, the endocytic capacity of DCs treated with the Δpts strain was comparable to that of untreated DCs whereas DCs treated with the WT strain dose-dependently lost their endocytic capacity. Furthermore, rManIID dose-dependently promoted both phenotypic maturation marker expression and IL-6 production by DCs. Collectively, these results demonstrate that ManIID plays a crucial role in the adhesion and internalization of S. mutans into DCs and is one of the major immune-stimulating agents responsible for maturation and activation of DCs during S. mutans infection.

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Effective mucosal live attenuated Salmonella vaccine by deleting phosphotransferase system component genes ptsI and crr: Yong Zhi , Shun Mei Lin , A-Yeung Jang , Ki Bum Ahn , Hyun Jung Ji , Hui-Chen Guo , Sangyong Lim , Ho Seong Seo; J. Microbiol. 2019;57(1):64-73. Published online October 2, 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-019-8416-0

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Salmonella enterica is a major human pathogen that causes invasive non-typhoidal Salmonellosis (iNTS), resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Although a number of pre-clinical and clinical studies have reported on the feasibility of developing a safe and effective vaccine against iNTS, there have been no licensed Salmonella vaccines available to protect against NTS strains. Vaccine formulations of highest priority for NTS are live attenuated vaccines, which can elicit effective induction of intestinal mucosal and intracellular bacteria-specific cell mediated immune responses. Since glucose is crucial for intracellular survival and replication in host cells, we constructed strains with mutations in components of the glucose uptake system, called the phosphotransferase system (PTS), and compared the relative virulence and immune responses in mice. In this study, we found that the strain with mutations in both ptsI and crr (KST0556) was the most attenuated strain among the tested strains, and proved to be highly effective in inducing a mucosal immune response that can protect against NTS infections in mice. Thus, we suggest here that KST0556 (ΔptsIΔcrr) is a potential live vaccine candidate for NTS, and may also be a candidate for a live delivery vector for heterologous antigens. Moreover, since PTS is a well-conserved glucose transporter system in both Gramnegative and Gram-positive bacteria, the ptsI and crr genes may be potential targets for creating live bacterial vectors or vaccine strains.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major respiratory pathogen that causes millions of deaths worldwide. Although subunit vaccines formulated with the capsular polysaccharides or their protein conjugates are currently-available, low-cost vaccines with wide serotype coverage still remain to be developed, especially for developing countries. Recently, gamma- irradiation has been considered as an effective inactivation
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Deinococcus radiodurans is a poly-extremophilic organism, capable of tolerating a wide variety of different stresses, such as gamma/ultraviolet radiation, desiccation, and oxidative stress. PprM, a cold shock protein homolog, is involved in the radiation resistance of D. radiodurans, but its role in the oxidative stress response has not been investigated. In this study, we investigated the effect of pprM mutation on catalase gene expression. pprM disruption decreased the mRNA and protein levels of KatE1, which is the major catalase in D. radiodurans, under normal culture conditions. A pprM mutant strain (pprMMT) exhibited decreased catalase activity, and its resistance to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) decreased accordingly compared with that of the wild-type strain. We confirmed that RecG helicase negatively regulates katE1 under normal culture conditions. Among katE1 transcriptional regulators, the positive regulator drRRA was not altered in pprM-, while the negative regulators perR, dtxR, and recG were activated more than 2.5-fold in pprMMT. These findings suggest that PprM is necessary for KatE1 production under normal culture conditions by down-regulation of katE1 negative regulators.

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