Mechanism of Asp24 Upregulation in Brucella abortus Rough Mutant with a Disrupted O-Antigen Export System and Effect of Asp24 in Bacterial Intracellular Survival

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Tian, Mingxing

作者： Tian, Mingxing;Qu, Jing;Han, Xiangan;Ding, Chan;Wang, Shaohui;Peng, Daxin;Yu, Shengqing

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期刊名称：INFECTION AND IMMUNITY （ 影响因子：3.441； 五年影响因子：3.702 ）

ISSN： 0019-9567

年卷期： 2014 年 82 卷 7 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： We previously showed that Brucella abortus rough mutant strain 2308 Delta ATP (called the Delta rfbE mutant in this study) exhibits reduced intracellular survival in RAW264.7 cells and attenuated persistence in BALB/c mice. In this study, we performed microarray analysis to detect genes with differential expression between the Delta rfbE mutant and wild-type strain S2308. Interestingly, acid shock protein 24 gene (asp24) expression was significantly upregulated in the Delta rfbE mutant compared to S2308, as confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blotting. Further studies using additional strains indicated that the upregulation of asp24 occurred only in rough mutants with disrupted O-antigen export system components, including the ATP-binding protein gene rfbE (bab1_0542) and the permease gene rfbD (bab1_0543), while the Delta wboA rough mutant (which lacks an O-antigen synthesis-related glycosyltransferase) and the RB51 strain (a vaccine strain with the rough phenotype) showed no significant changes in asp24 expression compared to S2308. In addition, abolishing the intracellular O-antigen synthesis of the Delta rfbE mutant by deleting the wboA gene (thereby creating the Delta rfbE Delta wboA double-knockout strain) recovered asp24 expression. These results indicated that asp24 upregulation is associated with intracellular O-antigen synthesis and accumulation but not with the bacterial rough phenotype. Further studies indicated that asp24 upregulation in the Delta rfbE mutant was associated neither with bacterial adherence and invasion nor with cellular necrosis on RAW264.7 macrophages. However, proper expression of the asp24 gene favors intracellular survival of Brucella in RAW264.7 cells and HeLa cells during an infection. This study reveals a novel mechanism for asp24 upregulation in B. abortus mutants.

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