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ArticleBMC microbiology2019

Characterization of genomic DNA of lactic acid bacteria for activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells.

Akira Horie, Yasuyuki Tomita, Konomi Ohshio, Daisuke Fujiwara, Toshio Fujii

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Article in BMC microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Akira HorieCentral Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Co., Ltd., Japan 1-13-5, Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa, Yokohama, 2360004, Japan.
Yasuyuki TomitaCentral Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Co., Ltd., Japan 1-13-5, Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa, Yokohama, 2360004, Japan.
Konomi OhshioCentral Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Co., Ltd., Japan 1-13-5, Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa, Yokohama, 2360004, Japan.
Daisuke FujiwaraCentral Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Co., Ltd., Japan 1-13-5, Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa, Yokohama, 2360004, Japan.
Toshio FujiiCentral Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Co., Ltd., Japan 1-13-5, Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa, Yokohama, 2360004, Japan. tfujii@kirin.co.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-7259-7980
Kirin (Japan) · JPKyowa Kirin (Japan) · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLactococcus lactis strain Plasma (LC-Plasma) possesses strong stimulatory activity for plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) via the TLR9-Myd88 pathway. To reveal the effective lactic acid bacteria (LAB) genome structure for pDCs stimulatory activity, we performed in vitro screening, using randomly selected 200 bp DNA fragments from the LC-Plasma genome.

resultsWe found that the CpG motif copy number in the fragments was positively and significantly correlated with pDCs stimulatory activity (R = 0.491, p < 0.01). However, the determination coefficient (R

conclusionsOur data suggested that the G + C content of DNA is one of the critical factors for pDCs stimulatory activity by DNA fragments. Furthermore, we found that the copy number in the low-G + C regions strongly affected the pDCs stimulatory activity of whole cells of LAB strains. These results should be useful for the design of new DNA fragments containing CpG motifs. This study also demonstrated an in silico screening method for identifying bacterial species that are able to activate pDCs.

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Genome, BacterialAnimalsBase CompositionCells, CulturedCpG IslandsDendritic CellsDNA, BacterialFemaleGenomicsLactobacillalesMiceMice, 129 StrainOligodeoxyribonucleotidesDNA, BacterialOligodeoxyribonucleotidesCpGG + C contentsLactococcus lactis subsp. lactis LC-plasmaPlasmacytoid dendritic cellsTLR9Type I interferon

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PMID31060586
PMCPMC6501324
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