An amino acid substitution in PBP-3 in Haemophilus influenzae associate with the invasion to bronchial epithelial cells

Haemophilus influenzae is a common pathogen of respiratory infections. We examined whether beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant (BLNAR) strains that are known to have ampicillin resistance due to a substitution of amino acid of penicillin binding protein (PBP)-3, differ from beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-susceptible strains with regard to invasion of bronchial epithelium. After 3h incubation of each of 34 beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-susceptible and 57 BLNAR strains in the presence of BEAS-2B cells, a human bronchial epithelium cell line, extracellular bacteria were killed using gentamicin and intracellular bacteria numbered. All nine strains in which the efficiency of invasion was 1% or higher were BLNAR strains. The rate of invasion was significantly greater in strains with PBP-3 amino acid substitution (Met377 to Ile, Ser385 to Thr, Leu389 to Phe, and Asn526 to Lys) (n=34) than in those with no amino acid substitution. Electron microscopy showed that high invasive BLNAR strains were observed in cytoplasm of BEAS-2B cell layer. The injured cells were 9.44+/-1.76% among attaching cells examined by trypan blue staining after 6h. These data may suggest that the amino acid substitution of the PBP in BLNAR strains may at least partly play roles in macropinocytosis, leading to the invasion and injury to epithelial cells.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

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2010

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:165

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Microbiological research - 165(2010), 1 vom: 30., Seite 11-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Okabe, Tadashi [VerfasserIn]
Yamazaki, Yoshitaka [VerfasserIn]
Shiotani, Miho [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Takefumi [VerfasserIn]
Shiohara, Mayumi [VerfasserIn]
Kasuga, Eriko [VerfasserIn]
Notake, Shigeyuki [VerfasserIn]
Yanagisawa, Hideji [VerfasserIn]

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7C782967RD
Ampicillin
Journal Article
Penicillin-Binding Proteins

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Date Completed 29.01.2010

Date Revised 21.11.2013

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.micres.2008.03.003

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NLM178974951