PMID- 31069020 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200930 IS - 2000-2297 (Print) IS - 2000-2297 (Electronic) IS - 2000-2297 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 1 DP - 2019 TI - Effect of reduced nutritional supply on the metabolic activity and survival of cariogenic bacteria in vitro. PG - 1605788 LID - 10.1080/20002297.2019.1605788 [doi] LID - 1605788 AB - Sealed cariogenic bacteria are deprived from dietary carbohydrate, but could be provided with nutrients by pulpal fluids, with adaptive strain-specific activities being possible. We investigated survival and metabolic activity of the cariogenic bacteria Streptococcus sobrinus, Actinomyces naeslundii and Lactobacillus rhamnosus in different carbohydrate-limited media without carbon source (CLM), or containing glucose (CLM-G), albumin (CLM-A), or alpha1-acid glycoprotein (CLM-AGP) in vitro. Bacterial metabolite concentrations (lactate, pyruvate, oxaloacetate, citrate, acetate, formate, ethanol, acetoin) after 20 and 4 hours incubation, and bacterial numbers (CFU) after 24 hours incubation were analyzed using multivariate-analysis-of-variance (MANOVA). The medium (p = 0.02/MANOVA), strain and incubation-time (both p < 0.001) had significant impact on metabolite concentrations. Bacteria secreted mainly lactate (80.3 microg/10(6) bacteria S. sobrinus) and acetate (54.5 microg/10(6) bacteria A. naeslundii). Nearly all metabolites were produced in higher concentrations in S. sobrinus than in A. naeslundii or L. rhamnosus (p < 0.05/HSD). Metabolite concentration was significantly higher in CLM-G than in other media for most metabolites (p < 0.05). L. rhamnosus showed significantly lower survival than S. sobrinus and A. naeslundii (p < 0.05/HSD) regardless of the media, while S. sobrinus and A. naeslundii showed medium-specific survival. Survival of carbon starvation was strain- and medium-specific. Sustained organic acid production was found for all strains and media. FAU - Ganas, Petra AU - Ganas P AD - Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. FAU - Schwendicke, Falk AU - Schwendicke F AD - Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190422 PL - United States TA - J Oral Microbiol JT - Journal of oral microbiology JID - 101551049 PMC - PMC6493303 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Actinomyces naeslundii OT - Dental caries OT - Lactobacillus rhamnosus OT - Streptococcus sobrinus OT - carbon metabolism OT - selective excavation OT - stress adaptation OT - survival rate EDAT- 2019/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/10 06:01 PMCR- 2019/01/01 CRDT- 2019/05/10 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/03/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/04/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/05/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/10 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1605788 [pii] AID - 10.1080/20002297.2019.1605788 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Oral Microbiol. 2019 Apr 22;11(1):1605788. doi: 10.1080/20002297.2019.1605788. eCollection 2019.