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Differential susceptibility of airway and ocular surface cell lines to FlhDC-mediated virulence factors PhlA and ShlA from Serratia marcescens.

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:Introduction.Serratia marcescens is a bacterial pathogen that causes ventilator-associated pneumonia and ocular infections. The FlhD and FlhC proteins complex to form a heteromeric transcription factor whose regulon, in S. marcescens, regulates genes for the production of flagellum, phospholipase A and the cytolysin ShlA. The previously identified mutation, scrp-31, resulted in highly elevated expression of the flhDC operon. The scrp-31 mutant was observed to be more cytotoxic to human airway and ocular surface epithelial cells than the wild-type bacteria and the present study sought to identify the mechanism underlying the increased cytotoxicity phenotype.Hypothesis/Gap Statement. Although FlhC and FlhD have been implicated as virulence determinants, the mechanisms by which these proteins regulate bacterial cytotoxicity to different cell types remains unclear.Aim. This study aimed to evaluate the mechanisms of FlhDC-mediated cytotoxicity to human epithelial cells by S. marcescens.Methodology. Wild-type and mutant bacteria and bacterial secretomes were used to challenge airway and ocular surface cell lines as evaluated by resazurin and calcein AM staining. Pathogenesis was further tested using a Galleria mellonella infection model.Results. The increased cytotoxicity of scrp-31 bacteria and secretomes to both cell lines was eliminated by mutation of flhD and shlA. Mutation of the flagellin gene had no impact on cytotoxicity under any tested condition. Elimination of the phospholipase gene, phlA, had no effect on bacteria-induced cytotoxicity to either cell line, but reduced cytotoxicity caused by secretomes to airway epithelial cells. Mutation of flhD and shlA, but not phlA, reduced bacterial killing of G. mellonella larvae.Conclusion. This study indicates that the S. marcescens FlhDC-regulated secreted proteins PhlA and ShlA, but not flagellin, are cytotoxic to airway and ocular surface cells and demonstrates differences in human epithelial cell susceptibility to PhlA.

journal_name

J Med Microbiol

journal_title

Journal of medical microbiology

authors

Stella NA,Brothers KM,Shanks RMQ

doi

10.1099/jmm.0.001292

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-12-10 00:00:00

eissn

0022-2615

issn

1473-5644

pub_type

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Differential susceptibility of airway and ocular surface cell lines to FlhDC-mediated virulence factors PhlA and ShlA from Serratia marcescens.