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Aldolases of the lactic acid bacteria

Demonstration of immunological relationships among eight genera of gram positive bacteria using an anti-pediococcal aldolase serum

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Reciprocal qualitative and quantitative immunological experiments employing an anti-Pediococcus cerevisiae aldolase serum confirmed many of the interspecific relationships demonstrated previously among lactic acid bacteria with antisera prepared against the Streptococcus faecalis fructose diphosphate aldolase. The extent of immunological relatedness observed between the Lactobacillus and Pediococcus aldolases was markedly greater than that noted between Pediococcus and Streptococcus aldolases indicating that the pediococci share closer phylogenetic ties with the rod-shaped lactobacilli than with their spherical counterparts in the streptococci. In addition to confirming the existence of definitive, but distant, relationships between the lactic acid bacteria and certain gram positive nonsporeforming anaerobes, immunological cross-reactivity was also demonstrated between the pediococcal aldolases and those of Aerococcus viridans.

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  1. Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, 20014, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Jack London & Nina M. Chace

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This paper is dedicated with deepest appreciation to Prof. Roger Y. Stanier on the occasion of his 60th birthday in token of what his friendship and guidance have meant to me. — J. L.

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London, J., Chace, N.M. Aldolases of the lactic acid bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 110, 121–128 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00416976

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