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Differences in pathogenicity and virulence-associated gene expression among Pasteurella multocida strains with high and low virulence in a lung tissue model.

Abstract：

:Pasteurella multocida capsular type A can cause a pulmonary infection, leading to serious pecuniary losses in cattle. The heterogeneity of infection outcome of P. multocida strains showing different virulence may be related to divergent expression of virulence genes. In this study, we compared the transcriptional response of virulence-associated genes in high (PMPAN001) and low (PMPAN007) virulence P. multocida capsular type A strains in lung tissues and in vitro. These clinical isolates differ in their organ bacterial loads, mRNA abundance of the same virulence genes between lung and culture medium, and extent of lung damage. Among the eight virulence-associated genes (fimA, tbpA, exbD, fur, oma87, pmHAS, nanH, and tonB), seven genes showed higher expression in lung compared with in vitro at 16 h (P ≤ 0.05) in PMPAN001, but not in PMPAN007. FimA, exbD, fur, oma87, pmHAS, and tonB gene transcripts showed significantly higher expression in PMPAN001 than in PMPAN007 in the lung tissues at 16 h post-infection (P ≤ 0.05). Specially, the virulence gene, nanH, in both strains was associated with poor expression in vitro and lung tissue (mean relative mRNA abundance values < 0.6). Strain PMPAN001 had a higher proliferation rate in vivo than strain PMPAN007. The bacterial loads of PMPAN001 in the organs increased from 12 h post-infection, with maximum bacteria count ranging from 1 million to 20 million/mg. In addition, lungs treated with PMPAN001 produced serious and extensive lesions marked with inflammation at 20 h. Overall, our results reveal that the highly expressed virulence-associated genes, fimA, exbD, fur, oma87, pmHAS, and tonB can be used as markers for assessing the virulence of P. multocida capsular type A strains.

journal_name

Microb Pathog

journal_title

Microbial pathogenesis

authors

Cheng Y,Wang K,Lin L,Zhao X,Pan Z,Zhou Z

doi

10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103911

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-03-01 00:00:00

pages

103911

eissn

0882-4010

issn

1096-1208

pii

S0882-4010(19)31595-5

journal_volume

140

pub_type

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Differences in pathogenicity and virulence-associated gene expression among Pasteurella multocida strains with high and low virulence in a lung tissue model.