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Oral Microbial Communities: Genomic Inquiry and Interspecies Communication
Edited by: Paul E. Kolenbrander
ISBN 13: 9781555815035
American Society for Microbiology 2012 395 Pages Hard Cover
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Description:

Oral bacteria are the first human microbiome to encounter the food we eat. To date, most research has focused on the role of oral bacteria in the development and progression of caries and periodontal disease; however, little is known about the microbial communities that maintain a healthy oral cavity. This book, Oral Microbial Communities: Genomic Inquiry and Interspecies Communication, helps readers understand how multispecies microbial communities function to maintain and promote oral health as well as disease. It explores the immense opportunities presented by readily accessible, genetically tractable, genome-sequenced oral species that naturally form multispecies communities.

Emphasizing the use of genomic inquiry to probe questions, Oral Microbial Communities examines multispecies community interactions, spatiotemporal organization, and gene function. Readers will find coverage of all the major microbe species currently under investigation by leading oral microbiologists. In particular, the book highlights model systems that study oral bacterial interactions, including biofilm growth using saliva as the source of nutrition.

The book’s 25 chapters have been contributed by an international team of leading oral microbiologists. As a result, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the role of the oral microbiome in health, oral disease, and systemic disease. Moreover, they will gain a new appreciation of how oral microbial communities form, evolve, and communicate the intricacies of multispecies community life.

Key Features

Emphasizes multispecies community interactions and spatiotemporal organization
Offers new insights into the genomics of Streptococcus, Actinomyces and Veillonella, the three most prevalent primary oral cavity colonizers
Provides thorough coverage of inter-kingdom communities of Candida with oral bacteria and colonization of host tissue
Analyzes the role of autoinducer-2 as a universal chemical signal in oral multispecies communication
Explores the application and results of genomic inquiry of oral microbe species
Highlights the results from studies of the healthy oral cavity and their implications for promoting human oral health

Table of Contents:

I. THE HUMAN ORAL MICROBIOME

1. Interspecies Interactions Promote Multispecies Communities, Paul E. Kolenbrander and Saravanan Periasamy

2. The Oral Microbiome, Kanitsak Boonanantanasarn and Steven R. Gill

II. INITIAL COLONIZERS

3. Genomes of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus infantis, Hervé S. G. Tettelin and Mogens Kilian

4. Biological Implications of the Streptococcus sanguinis Genome, Todd Kitten, Lauren Senty Turner, and Ping Xu

5. Actinomyces oris Fimbriae: an Adhesive Principle in Bacterial Biofilms and Tissue Tropism, Hung Ton-That, Asis Das, and Arunima Mishra

6. Insights into Genus Veillonella in the Genomics Era, Natalia I. Chalmers, Tsute Chen, and Christopher V. Hughes

III. CROSSROADS BETWEEN HEALTH AND DISEASE

7. Fusobacteria: Bridging between Health and Disease: a Metatranscriptomic Approach, Gilad Bachrach, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, and Itamar Simon

8. The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Genome: Diversity of Pathogenic Potential, Knud Poulsen, Hervé Tettelin, and Mogens Kilian

9. Porphyromonas gingivalis: the Role of Surface Structures in Virulence and Biofilm Development, Mary Ellen Davey, Heike Boisvert, and Annette Arndt

10. Genome Functions of Tannerella forsythia in Bacterial Communities, Ashu Sharma

11. Treponomics: Treponema denticola Genome and Functions, J. Christopher Fenno

12. Candida albicans Colonization and Community Development, Howard F. Jenkinson and Carol A. Munro

13. Functional Genomics of Streptococcus mutans, Robert A. Burne, Jacqueline Abranches, Sang-Joon Ahn, Jose A. Lemos, Zezhang T. Wen, and Lin Zeng

IV. INTERACTIONS WITH HOST CELLS

14. Interactions of Porphyromonas gingivalis with Human Gingival Epithelium, Özlem Yilmaz

15. Fusobacterium nucleatum Interaction with Host Cells, Yiping W. Han

V. SIGNALS

16. Competence-Stimulating Peptides in Oral Bacterial Signaling: Possible Implications in a Community Life, Fernanda Cristina Petersen and Anne Aamdal Scheie

17. Autoinducer-2-Regulated Genes in Streptococcus mutans and Impact on Oral Bacterial Communities, Julie A. Perry and Dennis G. Cvitkovitch

18. Alternative Autoinducer-2 Quorum-Sensing Response Circuits: Impact on Microbial Community Development, Donald R. Demuth, Elizabeth Novak, and Hanjuan Shao

VI. MULTISPECIES COMMUNITY ANALYSIS

19. Cell-Cell Contact-Induced Gene Regulation in Streptococcus gordonii-Actinomyces oris Communities, Nicholas S. Jakubovics

20. Metabolite Sensing in a Model Polymicrobial Community, Matthew Ramsey, Megan Boulette, Peter Jorth, and Marvin Whiteley

21. Heterotypic Streptococcus gordonii-Porphyromonas gingivalis Communities: Formation, Gene Regulation, and Development, Masae Kuboniwa and Richard J. Lamont

22. Antagonistic, Synergistic, and Counteroffensive Strategies for Streptococcal Interspecies Interactions, Jens Kreth, Justin Merritt, Fengxia Qi, Xiuzhu Dong, and Wenyuan Shi

23. Role for Autoinducer-2 in the Development of Commensal Streptococcal Biofilms, Alexander H. Rickard, Adam J. Underwood, and Shawn R. Campagna

24. The Streptococcus-Veillonella Community: How Genome Sequencing Aids Our Understanding of Interspecies Interaction, Fengxia Qi and Joseph J. Ferretti

25. Spatiotemporal Organization of Multispecies Communities in the Human Oral Microbiome, Robert J. Palmer, Jr., and Paul E. Kolenbrander

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