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Developing Innolysins Against Campylobacter jejuni Using a Novel Prophage Receptor-Binding Protein.

ABSTRACT: Campylobacter contaminated poultry remains the major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide, calling for novel antibacterials. We previously developed the concept of Innolysin composed of an endolysin fused to a phage receptor binding protein (RBP) and provided the proof-of-concept that Innolysins exert bactericidal activity against Escherichia coli. Here, we have expanded the Innolysin concept to target Campylobacter jejuni. As no C. jejuni phage RBP had been identified so far, we first showed that the H-fiber originating from a CJIE1-like prophage of C. jejuni CAMSA2147 functions as a novel RBP. By fusing this H-fiber to phage T5 endolysin, we constructed Innolysins targeting C. jejuni (Innolysins Cj). Innolysin Cj1 exerts antibacterial activity against diverse C. jejuni strains after in vitro exposure for 45 min at 20°C, reaching up to 1.30 ± 0.21 log reduction in CAMSA2147 cell counts. Screening of a library of Innolysins Cj composed of distinct endolysins for growth inhibition, allowed us to select Innolysin Cj5 as an additional promising antibacterial candidate. Application of either Innolysin Cj1 or Innolysin Cj5 on chicken skin refrigerated to 5°C and contaminated with C. jejuni CAMSA2147 led to 1.63 ± 0.46 and 1.18 ± 0.10 log reduction of cells, respectively, confirming that Innolysins Cj can kill C. jejuni in situ. The receptor of Innolysins Cj remains to be identified, however, the RBP component (H-fiber) recognizes a novel receptor compared to lytic phages binding to capsular polysaccharide or flagella. Identification of other unexplored Campylobacter phage RBPs may further increase the repertoire of new Innolysins Cj targeting distinct receptors and working as antibacterials against Campylobacter.

SUBMITTER: Zampara A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882524 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Developing Innolysins Against Campylobacter jejuni Using a Novel Prophage Receptor-Binding Protein.

Zampara Athina A Sørensen Martine C Holst MCH Gencay Yilmaz Emre YE Grimon Dennis D Kristiansen Sebastian Hougaard SH Jørgensen Lallana Skaarup LS Kristensen Josephine Rejgaard JR Briers Yves Y Elsser-Gravesen Anne A Brøndsted Lone L

Frontiers in microbiology 20210201

Campylobacter contaminated poultry remains the major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide, calling for novel antibacterials. We previously developed the concept of Innolysin composed of an endolysin fused to a phage receptor binding protein (RBP) and provided the proof-of-concept that Innolysins exert bactericidal activity against Escherichia coli. Here, we have expanded the Innolysin concept to target Campylobacter jejuni. As no C. jejuni phage RBP had been i ...[more]

PMID: 33597938

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Project description:Temperate bacteriophages (prophages) have recently been demonstrated in Campylobacter jejuni. However, what they do there is largely unknown. In the series of studies that are the subject of these submissions we have investigated the relative expression levels of proteins in C. jejuni isolates that differ in the presence or absence of the CJIE1 prophage. At the time of the initial investigations whole genome sequence data were not available for the isolates used, though DNA microarray data indicated that the isolates were very closely related. The overall project was carried out through four separate experiments. The first set of experiments (experiment 1) therefore compared protein expression in 4-plex iTRAQ experiments using three isolates carrying the (previously sequenced) prophage with a fourth isolate that was epidemiologically and genetically related to these isolates but which naturally lacked the CJIE1 prophage. Three replicate experiments were done. These isolates were grown on medium containing blood to obtain optimal growth and determine whether any differences were found. Three replicate experiments were done. However, since these growth conditions may not mimic in vivo growth of the organism the results may not be considered relevant or very interesting. Previous work in the scientific literature indicated that growth on medium lacking blood but containing sodium deoxycholate induced the expression of at least some proteins associated with virulence and provided data thought to be of relevance to the virulence of the bacterium. Therefore two isolates were chosen, one with and one without the CJIE1 prophage. Each of three replicates of a 4-plex iTRAQ experiment compared protein expression of the two isolates (00-2425 and 00-2426) after growth on Mueller-Hinton agar with and without 0.1% sodium deoxycholate. There was pretty good overlap between the proteins expressed in the first two experiments but, because all results were expressed as log2 change values, it was difficult to determine whether the expression of some proteins was completely absent in one or the other isolate. As well, protein expression overall showed quite extensive differences compared with the first experiment that we attributed to the lack of blood in the growth medium; we thought we might be seeing a response to limited iron as well. Finally, the response to the deoxycholate was extensive, and we wished to further explore this phenomenon as a means of determining or verifying what effects were due to the presence of the CJIE1 prophage and which were due to other differences. Further 4-plex iTRAQ experiments compared protein expression for each of isolate after growth on medium containing blood, without blood, without blood plus sodium deoxycholate, and without blood plus 2.5% Oxgall. Comparison of the results for isolate 00-2425 (with the CJIE1 prophage) and 00-2426 (without the prophage) identified a small number of proteins that could not be detected in one or the other isolate and allowed discrimination of the effects of the prophage from the responses to iron limitation and bile salt preparations. This dataset is associated with the first experiment, experiment 1, which compares C. jejuni isolates carrying the CJIE1 prophage (00-2425, 00-2538, 00-2544) with a very closely related isolate lacking the prophage (00-2426)

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Developing Innolysins Against Campylobacter jejuni Using a Novel Prophage Receptor-Binding Protein.

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