Role of outer membrane protein T in pathogenicity of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli

An outer membrane protein T (OmpT) could play a vital role in the pathogenesis of the neonatal meningitisEscherichia coli(NMEC) in human and animals. However, whetherompTplays a role in avian pathogenicE. coli(APEC) infection remains unclear. In this study we evaluated the potential ofompTin APEC pathogenesis. AnompTgene was deleted from APEC mutant strain (TW-XM) was constructed and characterized. The inactivation ofompTreduced significantly the adherence and invasion capabilities of APEC to mouse brain microvascular endothelial cell (BMEC) bEnd.3 cells at the rates of 43.8% and 28.8% respectively, compared with the wild strain TW-XM. Further studies showed that deletion ofompTgene reduced the bacterial virulence with 15.2-fold in ducklings and 9.7-fold in mouse models based on the measurement of the LD50. Furthermore, experimental infection of animals revealed that, loss ofompTshowed reduced APEC colonization and invasion capacity in brains, lungs and blood by 2-fold, 1.96-fold, and 1.7-fold, respectively, compared with the wild-type strain TW-XM. These virulence-related phenotypes were partially recoverable by genetic complementation. The results of the quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) indicated that the loss ofompTsignificantly decreased the expression levels ofompA,fimCandtshin the mutant strain ΔOmpT, when compared with TW-XM (p<0.01). Collectively, our data showed that inactivation ofompTdecreased adhesion, invasion, colonization, proliferation capacities, possibly by reduced expression levels ofompA,fimCandtsh, which may justify that,ompTis implicated in APEC pathogenicity..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:115

Enthalten in:

Research in veterinary science - 115(2017), Seite 109-116

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hejair, Hassan M.A [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jiale [Sonstige Person]
Zhu, Yingchu [Sonstige Person]
Sun, Min [Sonstige Person]
Dong, Wenyang [Sonstige Person]
Zhang, Yue [Sonstige Person]
Pan, Zihao [Sonstige Person]
Zhang, Wei [Sonstige Person]
Yao, Huochun [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Animal models
Animals
Bacteria
Biotechnology
Brain
Clonal deletion
Colonization
Complementation
Deactivation
Deletion
Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA
E coli
Endothelial cells
Enzymes
Escherichia coli
Experimental infection
Inactivation
Infections
Lungs
Mammals
Membrane proteins
Meningitis
Microvasculature
Neonates
Pathogenesis
Pathogenicity
Pathogens
Plasmids
Polyclonal antibodies
Proteins
RNA polymerase
Reverse transcription
Sepsis
Strain
Virulence

doi:

10.1016/j.rvsc.2017.01.026

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OLC1999145062