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Zhang X, Lin Y, Xu X, Wen S, Wang Z, Gu J, He Q, Cai X. HtrA is involved in stress response and adhesion in Glaesserella parasuis serovar 5 strain Nagasaki. Vet Microbiol 2023; 282:109748. [PMID: 37120968 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2023.109748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Glaesserella parasuis is an important pathogen that causes fibrinous polyserositis, peritonitis and meningitis in pigs, leading to considerable economic losses to the swine industry worldwide. It is well established that the serine protease HtrA is closely associated with bacterial virulence, but the role of HtrA in G. parasuis pathogenesis remains largely unknown. To characterize the function of the htrA gene in G. parasuis, a ΔhtrA mutant was constructed. We found that the ΔhtrA mutant showed significant growth inhibition under heat shock and alkaline stress conditions, indicating HtrA is involved in stress tolerance and survival of G. parasuis. In addition, deletion of htrA gene resulted in decreased adherence to PIEC and PK-15 cells and increased phagocytic resistance to 3D4/2 macrophages, suggesting that htrA is essential for adherence of G. parasuis. Scanning electron microscopy revealed morphological surface changes of the ΔhtrA mutant, and transcription analysis confirmed that a number of adhesion-associated genes are downregulated, which corroborated the aforementioned phenomenon. Furthermore, G. parasuis HtrA induced a potent antibody response in piglets with Glässer's disease. These observations confirmed that the htrA gene is related to the survival and pathogenicity of G. parasuis.
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- Xuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Xu Y, Yang L, Wang Y, Zhu Z, Yan J, Qin S, Chen L. Prophage-encoded gene VpaChn25_0734 amplifies ecological persistence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus CHN25. Curr Genet 2022; 68:267-287. [PMID: 35064802 PMCID: PMC8783578 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-022-01229-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a waterborne pathogen that can cause acute gastroenteritis, wound infection, and septicemia in humans. The molecular basis of its pathogenicity is not yet fully understood. Phages are found most abundantly in aquatic environments and play a critical role in horizontal gene transfer. Nevertheless, current literature on biological roles of prophage-encoded genes remaining in V. parahaemolyticus is rare. In this study, we characterized one such gene VpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) in V. parahaemolyticus CHN25 genome. A deletion mutant ΔVpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) was obtained by homologous recombination, and a revertant ΔVpaChn25_0734-com (543-bp) was also constructed. The ΔVpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) mutant was defective in growth and swimming mobility particularly at lower temperatures and/or pH 7.0–8.5. Cell surface hydrophobicity and biofilm formation were significantly decreased in the ΔVpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) mutant (p < 0.05). Based on the in vitro Caco-2 cell model, the deletion of VpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) gene significantly reduced the cytotoxicity of V. parahaemolyticus CHN25 to human intestinal epithelial cells (p < 0.05). Comparative secretomic and transcriptomic analyses revealed a slightly increased extracellular proteins, and thirteen significantly changed metabolic pathways in the ΔVpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) mutant, showing down-regulated carbon source transport and utilization, biofilm formation, and type II secretion system (p < 0.05), consistent with the observed defective phenotypes. Taken, the prophage-encoded gene VpaChn25_0734 (543-bp) enhanced V. parahaemolyticus CHN25 fitness for survival in the environment and the host. The results in this study facilitate better understanding of pathogenesis and genome evolution of V. parahaemolyticus, the leading sea foodborne pathogen worldwide.
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- Yingwei Xu
- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
- Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University/McGuire VA Medical Centre, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- College of Fishers and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- Key Laboratory for Food Science and Biotechnology of Hunan Province, College of Food Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
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Dabbah M, Lishner M, Jarchowsky-Dolberg O, Tartakover-Matalon S, Brin YS, Pasmanik-Chor M, Neumann A, Drucker L. Ribosomal proteins as distinct "passengers" of microvesicles: new semantics in myeloma and mesenchymal stem cells' communication. Transl Res 2021; 236:117-132. [PMID: 33887527 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2021.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Aberrant mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in multiple myeloma (MM) bone marrows (BM) promote disease progression and drug resistance. Here, we assayed the protein cargo transported from MM-MSCs to MM cells via microvesicles (MVs) with focus on ribosomal proteins (RPs) and assessment of their influence on translation initiation and design of MM phenotype. Proteomics analysis (mass spectrometry) demonstrated increased levels and repertoire of RPs in MM-MSCs MVs compared to normal donors (ND) counterparts (n = 3-8; P = 9.96E - 08). We limited the RPs load in MM-MSCs MVs (starvation, RSK and XPO1 inhibitions), reapplied the modified MVs to MM cell lines (U266, MM1S), and demonstrated that the RPs are essential to the proliferative effect of MM-MSCs MVs on MM cells (n = 3; P < 0.05). We also observed that inhibition with KPT-185 (XPO1 inhibitor) displayed the most extensive effect on RPs delivery into the MVs (↓80%; P = 3.12E - 05). Using flow cytometry we assessed the expression of select RPs (n = 10) in BM-MSCs cell populations (ND and MM; n ≥ 6 each). This demonstrated a heterogeneous expression of RPs in MM-MSCs with distinct subgroups, a phenomenon absent from ND-MSCs samples. These findings bring to light a new mechanism in which the tumor microenvironment participates in cancer promotion. MVs-mediated horizontal transfer of RPs between niche MSCs and myeloma cells is a systemic way to bestow pro-cancer advantages. This capacity also differentiates normal MSCs from the MM-modified MSCs and may mark their reprogramming. Future studies will be aimed at assessing the clinical and therapeutic potential of the increased RPs levels in MM-MSCs MVs.
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- Mahmoud Dabbah
- Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel; Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel; Resaerch Institute, Meir Medical Center, Kfar saba, Israel; Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Hematology Unit, Meir Medical Center, Kfar saba, Israel; Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Autoimmunity laboratory, Meir Medical Center, Kfar saba, Israel; Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Orthopedics Department, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
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- Bioinformatics Unit, G.S.W. Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Oncology Department, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel; Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Li M, Li H, Yang H, Cheng R, Zheng P, Guo R. Comparative proteomic analysis of round and elongated spermatids during spermiogenesis in mice. Biomed Chromatogr 2020; 34:e4799. [DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 01/01/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Meining Li
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyShanxi Medical University Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyShanxi Medical University Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- Center of Reproductive MedicineChildren's Hospital of Shanxi and Women Health Center of Shanxi Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyShanxi Medical University Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyShanxi Medical University Taiyuan Shanxi China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyShanxi Medical University Taiyuan Shanxi China
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Zhang X, Cai X, Qi Y, Liu Y, Cao Q, Wang X, Chen H, Xu X. Improvement in the efficiency of natural transformation of Haemophilus parasuis by shuttle-plasmid methylation. Plasmid 2018; 98:8-14. [PMID: 30003899 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Revised: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Some Haemophilus parasuis strains display resistance to transformation with Escherichia.coli-derived plasmids. This property limits the application of genetic approaches previously developed for H. parasuis. The present study showed that natural transformation with the shuttle plasmid pS2UK led to allelic exchange in H. parasuis strains SH0165 and CF7066. Furthermore, natural transformation with pS2UK yielded allelic exchange mutants in 10 of 17 H. parasuis strains, similar to results using the suicide plasmid pK2UK. Subsequently, 17 H. parasuis strains were transformed with pS2UK by electroporation and 13 obtained the transformants harboring the complete plasmid molecules. As a result, natural transformation of homologous blank strains with the H. parasui-derived plasmids significantly improved the transformation efficiency targeted at obtaining allelic exchange mutants. In addition, shuttle plasmids pS1UG and pSHUK that carried the different homologous arm sequences also displayed the increased transformation efficiency after they were replicated in homologous H. parasuis cells. The approach described here not only improved the efficiency of natural transformation of H. parasuis, but also enlarged the range of transformable H. parasuis strains, thereby enabling application of H. parasuis-specific genetic manipulation techniques in a wider range of isolates.
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- Xiaojing Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070,China; Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
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Li G, Xie F, Li J, Liu J, Li D, Zhang Y, Langford PR, Li Y, Liu S, Wang C. Identification of novel Haemophilus parasuis serovar 5 vaccine candidates using an immunoproteomic approach. J Proteomics 2017; 163:111-117. [PMID: 28528009 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2017.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Revised: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Haemophilus parasuis is the aetiological agent of Glässer's disease, which is responsible for cases of fibrinous polyserositis, polyarthritis and meningitis. No vaccine is known that provides cross-protection against all serovars. The identification of novel immunoprotective antigens would undoubtedly contribute to the development of efficient subunit vaccines. In the present study, an immunoproteomic approach was used to analyze secreted proteins of H. parasuis and six proteins with high immunogenicity were identified. Five of them were successfully expressed, and their immunogenicity and protective efficacy were assessed in a mouse challenge model. All five proteins elicited strong humoral antibody and cellular immune responses in mice. They all effectively reduced the growth of H. parasuis in mouse organs and conferred different levels of protection (40-80%) against challenge. IgG subtype analysis revealed that the five proteins induce a bias toward a Th1-type immune response, and a significant increase was observed in the cytokine levels of IL-2, IFN-γ and Th2-specific IL-4 in the culture supernatants of splenocytes isolated from immunized mice. The results suggest that both Th1 and Th2 responses are involved in mediating protection. These data suggest that the five proteins could be potential subunit vaccine candidates for use to prevent H. parasuis infection. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Haemophilus parasuis can cause huge financial loss in the swine industry worldwide. There are still no vaccines which can provide cross-protection against all serovars. To address this need, we applied an immunoproteomic approach involving 2-DE, MALDI-TOF/TOF MS and Western-blot to identify the secreted proteins which may be able to provide immunoprotection to this disease. We identified six immunogenic proteins, and the immunogenicity and protective efficacy were validated. This result provides a foundation for developing novel subunit vaccines against Haemophilus parasuis.
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- Gang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China.
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Characterization and Vaccine Potential of Outer Membrane Vesicles Produced by Haemophilus parasuis. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0149132. [PMID: 26930282 PMCID: PMC4773134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Haemophilus parasuis is a Gram-negative bacterium that colonizes the upper respiratory tract of swine and is capable of causing a systemic infection, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. H. parasuis isolates display a wide range of virulence and virulence factors are largely unknown. Commercial bacterins are often used to vaccinate swine against H. parasuis, though strain variability and lack of cross-reactivity can make this an ineffective means of protection. Outer membrane vesicles (OMV) are spherical structures naturally released from the membrane of bacteria and OMV are often enriched in toxins, signaling molecules and other bacterial components. Examination of OMV structures has led to identification of virulence factors in a number of bacteria and they have been successfully used as subunit vaccines. We have isolated OMV from both virulent and avirulent strains of H. parasuis, have examined their protein content and assessed their ability to induce an immune response in the host. Vaccination with purified OMV derived from the virulent H. parasuis Nagasaki strain provided protection against challenge with a lethal dose of the bacteria.
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Dwivedi P, Alam SI, Kumar O, Kumar RB. Comparative analysis of extractable proteins from Clostridium perfringens type A and type C strains showing varying degree of virulence. Anaerobe 2015; 35:77-91. [PMID: 26238688 DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2015.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Revised: 07/19/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The prevailing scenario of bioterrorism warrants development of medical countermeasures with expanded coverage of select agents. Clostridium perfringens is a pathogen of medical, veterinary and military importance, and has been listed as Validated Biological Agent. We employed 2DE-MS approach to identify a total of 134 unique proteins (529 protein spot features) from the extractable proteome of four type A and type C strains. Proteins showing altered expression under host-simulated conditions from virulent type A strain (ATCC13124) were also elucidated. Significant among the differentially expressed proteins were elongation factor, molecular chaperones, ribosomal proteins, carbamoyl phosphate synthase, clpB protein, choloylglycine hydrolase, phosphopyruvate hydratase, and trigger factor. Predictive elucidation, of putative virulence associated proteins and sequence conservation pattern of selected candidates, was carried out using homologous proteins from other bacterial select agents to screen for the commonality of putative antigenic determinants. Pathogens (17 select agents) were observed to form three discrete clusters; composition of I and II being consistent in most of the phylogenetic reconstructions. This work provides a basis for further validation of putative candidate proteins as prophylactic agents and for their ability to provide protection against clusters of pathogenic select bacterial agents; aimed at mitigating the shadows of biothreat.
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- Pratistha Dwivedi
- Biotechnology Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior 474002, India
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- Biotechnology Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior 474002, India.
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- Defence Research and Development Organisation, New Delhi, India
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- Biotechnology Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior 474002, India
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He Y, Wang H, Chen L. Comparative secretomics reveals novel virulence-associated factors of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:707. [PMID: 26236293 PMCID: PMC4505105 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Accepted: 06/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a causative agent of serious human seafood-borne gastroenteritis disease and even death. In this study, for the first time, we obtained the secretomic profiles of seven V. parahaemolyticus strains of clinical and food origins. The strains exhibited various toxic genotypes and phenotypes of antimicrobial susceptibility and heavy metal resistance, five of which were isolated from aquatic products in Shanghai, China. Fourteen common extracellular proteins were identified from the distinct secretomic profiles using the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) techniques. Of these, half were involved in protein synthesis and sugar transport of V. parahaemolyticus. Strikingly, six identified proteins were virulence-associated factors involved in the pathogenicity of some other pathogenic bacteria, including the translation elongation factor EF-Tu, pyridoxine 5′-phosphate synthase, σ54 modulation protein, dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase, transaldolase and phosphoglycerate kinase. In addition, comparative secretomics also revealed several extracellular proteins that have not been described in any bacteria, such as the ribosome-recycling factor, translation elongation factor EF-Ts, phosphocarrier protein HPr and maltose-binding protein MalE. The results in this study will facilitate the better understanding of the pathogenesis of V. parahaemolyticus and provide data in support of novel vaccine candidates against the leading seafood-borne pathogen worldwide.
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- Yu He
- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), China Ministry of Agriculture, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University Shanghai, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), China Ministry of Agriculture, College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University Shanghai, China
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Jarocki VM, Tacchi JL, Djordjevic SP. Non-proteolytic functions of microbial proteases increase pathological complexity. Proteomics 2015; 15:1075-88. [PMID: 25492846 PMCID: PMC7167786 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Revised: 10/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Proteases are enzymes that catalyse hydrolysis of peptide bonds thereby controlling the shape, size, function, composition, turnover and degradation of other proteins. In microbes, proteases are often identified as important virulence factors and as such have been targets for novel drug design. It is emerging that some proteases possess additional non‐proteolytic functions that play important roles in host epithelia adhesion, tissue invasion and in modulating immune responses. These additional “moonlighting” functions have the potential to obfuscate data interpretation and have implications for therapeutic design. Moonlighting enzymes comprise a subcategory of multifunctional proteins that possess at least two distinct biological functions on a single polypeptide chain. Presently, identifying moonlighting proteins relies heavily on serendipitous empirical data with clues arising from proteins lacking signal peptides that are localised to the cell surface. Here, we describe examples of microbial proteases with additional non‐proteolytic functions, including streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B, PepO and C5a peptidases, mycoplasmal aminopeptidases, mycobacterial chaperones and viral papain‐like proteases. We explore how these non‐proteolytic functions contribute to host cell adhesion, modulate the coagulation pathway, assist in non‐covalent folding of proteins, participate in cell signalling, and increase substrate repertoire. We conclude by describing how proteomics has aided in moonlighting protein discovery, focusing attention on potential moonlighters in microbial exoproteomes.
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- Veronica M. Jarocki
- The ithree instituteProteomics Core Facility, University of TechnologySydneyNSWAustralia
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- The ithree instituteProteomics Core Facility, University of TechnologySydneyNSWAustralia
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- The ithree instituteProteomics Core Facility, University of TechnologySydneyNSWAustralia
- Proteomics Core FacilityUniversity of TechnologySydneyNSWAustralia
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