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Effects of complement regulators bound to Escherichia coli K1 and Group B Streptococcus on the interaction with host cells

In English

Författare

  • Ravi Maruvada
  • Anna Blom
  • Nemani V. Prasadarao

Summary, in English

Escherichia coli K1 and Group B Streptococcus (GBS) are the most common bacteria that cause meningitis during the neonatal period. Complement, the first line of defence in the host, acts on these bacteria to opsonize with various components of complement for subsequent presentation to phagocytes. To counteract these opsonization effects, E. coli and GBS bind to the complement regulators C4 binding protein and Factor H, respectively. Nonetheless, the deposition of complement components on these two bacteria from neonatal serum and their effect on the host cell interaction is unclear. Here we demonstrated that the deposition of complement proteins from adult serum prevented the invasion of E. coli into human brain microvascular endothelial cells, whereas the invasion of GBS was enhanced. In contrast, treatment with cord serum had no effect on the invasion of both these bacteria. We also examined the effect of the deposited complement proteins on phagocytosis using THP-1 cells and THP-1 cells differentiated into macrophages. Escherichia coli treated with adult serum neither attached nor entered these cells, whereas GBS was phagocytosed and survived efficiently. We further demonstrate that the inhibitory effect of complement proteins is the result of the bound complement inhibitors C4b-binding protein, in the case of E. coli, and Factor H, in the case of GBS. Taken together, these results suggest that E. coli and GBS utilize contrasting mechanisms of complement-mediated interactions with their target cells for successful establishment of disease.

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

265-276

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Immunology

Volym

124

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Immunology in the medical area

Nyckelord

  • meningitis
  • invasion
  • endothelial cells
  • bacteria
  • complement

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Protein Chemistry, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0019-2805