Treponema putidum sp. nov., a medium-sized proteolytic spirochaete isolated from lesions of human periodontitis and acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.

Wyss, C; Moter, A; Choi, B K; Dewhirst, F E; Xue, Y; Schüpbach, P; Göbel, U B; Paster, B J; Guggenheim, B

doi:10.5167/uzh-1644

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Wyss, C., Moter, A., Choi, B. K., Dewhirst, F. E., Xue, Y., Schüpbach, P., Göbel, U. B., Paster, B. J., & Guggenheim, B. (2004). Treponema putidum sp. nov., a medium-sized proteolytic spirochaete isolated from lesions of human periodontitis and acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 54, 1117–1122. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02806-0

Abstract

So far, little phenotypic heterogeneity has been detected in cultured oral treponemes with trypsin-like proteolytic activity, and all have been assigned to the species Treponema denticola. However, comparisons of protein patterns and antigen expression in our collection of proteolytic oral treponemes occasionally identified isolates with a unique phenotype; e.g. strain OMZ 830 (=ATCC 700768), which qualified as a 'pathogen-related oral spirochaete' due to the presence of a approximately 37 kDa protein reactive with the Treponema palli