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The Borrelia burgdorferi integrin ligand P66 affects gene expression by human cells in culture.

ABSTRACT: Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, establishes persistent infection in immunocompetent animals and humans. Although the infection in humans can be cleared by antibiotic therapy, persistence in reservoir animals is necessary for the maintenance of the bacterium in the natural reservoir host?tick vector infectious cycle. B. burgdorferi binds to ?(1)- and ?(3)-chain integrins, and the P66 outer membrane protein is responsible for at least some of the integrin binding activity of the spirochete. Because integrins are transmembrane, bidirectional signaling molecules, integrin binding may alter the nature of the host response to the bacteria. We used isogenic B. burgdorferi p66(+) and ?p66 strains to analyze the responses of cultured human cells to P66-integrin interaction during infection. Microarray results suggest that the response differs according to the cell type, infection time, and experimental conditions. Clusters of genes in functionally related categories that showed significant changes included proteins involved in cell-extracellular matrix interactions, actin dynamics, stress response, and immune responses. Integrin binding by P66 may therefore help B. burgdorferi establish infection by facilitating tissue invasion and modulating the activation of the immune system to other components of the bacteria, e.g., lipoproteins. These results provide insight into how B. burgdorferi is able to establish infection in immunocompetent hosts.

SUBMITTER: LaFrance ME

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147572 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Borrelia burgdorferi integrin ligand P66 affects gene expression by human cells in culture.

LaFrance Michelle E ME Pierce Jessica V JV Antonara Syliani S Coburn Jenifer J

Infection and immunity 20110516 8

Borrelia burgdorferi, an agent of Lyme disease, establishes persistent infection in immunocompetent animals and humans. Although the infection in humans can be cleared by antibiotic therapy, persistence in reservoir animals is necessary for the maintenance of the bacterium in the natural reservoir host⇔tick vector infectious cycle. B. burgdorferi binds to β(1)- and β(3)-chain integrins, and the P66 outer membrane protein is responsible for at least some of the integrin binding activity of the sp ...[more]

PMID: 21576330

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Project description:The overall goal of these experiments was to determine how human cells respond to ontegrin binding by Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in the Northern hemisphere, yet little is understood about the pathogenic mechanisms of the causative agent, Borrelia burgdorferi. Cells in culture were infected with the bacteria that do and do not express the beta3 integrin ligand P66, which are otherwise isogenic. As additional controls, uninfected cells were also included in the analyses. The cell line used for primary data analyses provided here was Ea.hy926, a macrovascular line (Edgell, C. J.,et al. 1990. Endothelium specific Weibel-Palade bodies in a continuous human cell line, EA.hy926. In vitro Cell. & Dev. Biol. 26:1167-1172, and Edgell, C. J., et al. 1983. Permanent cell line expressing human factor VIII-related antigen established by hybridization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 80:3734-3737). In addition, the human microvascular endothelial cell line HMEC (Ades et al, 1992. HMEC-1: establishment of an immortalized human microvascular endothelial cell line. J Invest Dermatol. 99:683-690) was used. Epithelial cells HEK-293 (which does not express b3 integrins) and HEK-293 transfected to express integrin ?v?3 were also analyzed. Infection times were 1 hour or 3 hours for cells lifted with EDTA and washed prior to bacterial infection, or 3, 6, and 24 hours for samples in which the bacteria were added to adherent cells. RNA was harvested and reverse transcribed. Labeled cDNAs were used to probe 2 color arrays. In each of at least three biological replicate experiments, for each time point, the following comparisons were made. First, cells infected with B. burgdorferi with a marker inserted adjacent to the p66 gene (p66+) were compared to uninfected cells. Second, cells infected with the p66 gene interrupted by the marker (Coburn, J. and Cugini, C. (2003) Targeted mutation of P66 of Borrelia burgdorferi disrupts attachment to integrin ?v?3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:7301-7306) the mutant-infected cells were compared to the uninfected cells. In some experiments, cells infected with p66+ were compared to cells infected with the p66- mutant. Arrays used were HEEBO arrays purchased from Microarrays Inc. (Nashville, TN). Ea.hy926 or HMEC endothelial cell lines, or HEK-293 epithelial cells, or transfected HEK-293 derivative expressing integrin avb3

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