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Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is frequently isolated from localized aggressive periodontitis and periodontitis associated with systemic diseases. A. actinomycetemcomitans produces a leukotoxin, which induces apoptosis in human leukocytes. The leukotoxin expression is dependent on the upstream sequence, likely including the promoter, of the gene encoding leukotoxin; strains with the truncated/short upstream sequence express more leukotoxin than strains with the general/long upstream. This chapter addresses the determination of the type of the leukotoxin promoter by PCR analysis, and detection of the apoptosis in the coculture of human monocyte cell line (THP-1) with A. actinomycetemcomitans by the DNA ladder formation, membrane perturbation, and lactate dehydrogenase release.
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Nagasawa, T., Kato, S., Furuichi, Y. (2021). Evaluation of the Virulence of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Through the Analysis of Leukotoxin. In: Nagano, K., Hasegawa, Y. (eds) Periodontal Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2210. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0939-2_18
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