Veerachat Laitong. Alteration in Multinucleated giant cell formation, invasion and proteomic profile of Burkholderia pseudomallei Type III Secretion System knockout mutants. Master's Degree(Immunology). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Alteration in Multinucleated giant cell formation, invasion and proteomic profile of Burkholderia pseudomallei Type III Secretion System knockout mutants
การเปลี่ยนแปลงการเกิด Multinucleated giant call, การบุกรุกเข้าสู่โฮสต์เซลล์และการแสดงออกของโปรตีนจากเชื้อ Burkholderia pseudomallei ที่มีการกลายพันธุ์ของยีนใน Type III Secretion System
Abstract:
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a pathogen that causes serious infections in melioidosis patients.
Its aerosol infectivity and significant morbidity and mortality have led to fears that it will be used as a
potential bioterrorism agent. Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) have been shown to be virulence
factors in B. pseudomallei and many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. In this study, a B.
pseudomallei strain carrying polar mutation in bsaQ gene, disrupting structural component of Bsa
T3SS, was constructed and examined for the ability to secrete proteins in Bsa T3SS and invade and
survive within host cells. Mutation of bsaQ causes a profound effect on the secretion of BopE effector
and BipD translocator protein into the culture supernatant, demonstrating the importance of BsaQ type
III apparatus for protein secretion pathway. Comparisons of multinucleated giant cell (MNGC)
formation and invasion of wild-type and bsaQ polar mutant in tissue culture assays indicated the
defective of the mutant strain in MNGC formation and invasion. Intracellular localization of B.
pseudomallei strains in the infected host cells relative to LAMP-1 (late endosome marker) containing
vesicles revealed that more bsaQ mutant than wild-type was present within the endocytic vacuoles,
suggesting that this mutant transited more slowly from the vacuoles of macrophages. Therefore,
defective in MNGC induction of the bsaQ polar mutant may result from the delayed escape of the
bacteria from the phagocytic vacuoles into host cytosol. The deficiencies in B. pseudomallei invasion
and intracellular survival are believed to result from the inability of effector proteins secretion.
Although the role of BipB translocation apparatus protein was previously described for a role
in the intracellular lifestyle of B. pseudomallei, its molecular and pathogenic mechanisms remain
unclear. Using gel-based analysis whole cell extracts of wild-type and its bipB isogenic mutant,
combined with MALDI-TOF MS/MS revealed several differential expressed proteins, including
secreted/periplasmic proteins, oxidative, osmotic and other stress regulatory proteins, chaperons,
transcriptional/translational regulators, biosynthetic enzymes, protease/peptidase, proteins involved in
cell wall synthesis, fatty synthesis and other miscellaneous proteins. Of these proteins, forty-two were
found to be down-regulated and nineteen proteins were found to be up-regulated, but in addition, three
proteins were absolutely missing in the bipB mutant. The majority of differentially expressed proteins
detected in this study was not previously reported to contribute to virulence and are candidates for more
further detailed studies, representing potential new B. pseudomallei virulence determinant(s).