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Intracellular adaptation of Brucella abortus.

ABSTRACT: Macrophages were infected with virulent Brucella abortus strain 2308 or attenuated strain 19. Intracellular bacteria were recovered at different times after infection and their proteomes compared. The virulent strain initially reduced most biosynthesis and altered its respiration; adaptations reversed later in infection. The attenuated strain was unable to match the magnitude of the virulent strain's adjustments. The results provide insight into mechanisms utilized by Brucella to establish intracellular infections.

SUBMITTER: Lamontagne J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2771391 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intracellular adaptation of Brucella abortus.

Lamontagne Julie J Forest Anik A Marazzo Elena E Denis François F Butler Heather H Michaud Jean-François JF Boucher Lyne L Pedro Ida I Villeneuve Annie A Sitnikov Dmitri D Trudel Karine K Nassif Najib N Boudjelti Djamila D Tomaki Fadi F Chaves-Olarte Esteban E Guzmán-Verri Caterina C Brunet Sylvain S Côté-Martin Alexandra A Hunter Joanna J Moreno Edgardo E Paramithiotis Eustache E

Journal of proteome research 20090301 3

Macrophages were infected with virulent Brucella abortus strain 2308 or attenuated strain 19. Intracellular bacteria were recovered at different times after infection and their proteomes compared. The virulent strain initially reduced most biosynthesis and altered its respiration; adaptations reversed later in infection. The attenuated strain was unable to match the magnitude of the virulent strain's adjustments. The results provide insight into mechanisms utilized by Brucella to establish intra ...[more]

PMID: 19216536

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Project description:The O antigen of Brucella abortus has been described as a major virulence determinant based on the attenuated survival of fortuitously isolated rough variants. However, the lack of genetic definition of these mutants and the virulence of naturally occurring rough species, Brucella ovis and Brucella canis, has confused interpretation. To better characterize the role of O antigen in virulence and survival, transposon mutagenesis was used to generate B. abortus rough mutants defective in O-antigen presentation. Sequence analysis of DNA flanking the site of Tn5 insertion was used to verify insertion in genes encoding lipopolysaccharide (LPS) biosynthetic functions. Not surprisingly, each of the rough mutants was attenuated for survival in mice, but unexpected differences among the mutants were observed. In an effort to define the basis for the observed differences, the structure of the rough LPS and the sensitivity of these mutants to individual killing mechanisms were examined in vitro. All of the B. abortus rough mutants exhibited a 4- to 5-log-unit increase, compared to the smooth parental strain, in sensitivity to complement-mediated lysis. Little change was evident in the sensitivity of these organisms to hydrogen peroxide, consistent with an inability of O antigen to exclude relatively small molecules. Sensitivity to polymyxin B, which was employed as a model cationic, amphipathic peptide similar to defensins found in phagocytic cells, revealed survival differences among the rough mutants similar to those observed in the mouse. One mutant in particular exhibited hypersensitivity to polymyxin B and reduced survival in mice. This mutant was characterized by a truncated rough LPS. DNA sequence analysis of this mutant revealed a transposon interruption in the gene encoding phosphomannomutase (pmm), suggesting that this activity may be required for the synthesis of a full-length core polysaccharide in addition to O antigen. B. abortus O antigen appears to be essential for extra- and intracellular survival in mice.

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Intracellular adaptation of Brucella abortus.

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Intracellular adaptation of Brucella abortus.

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