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Gao S, Jin W, Quan Y, Li Y, Shen Y, Yuan S, Yi L, Wang Y, Wang Y. Bacterial capsules: Occurrence, mechanism, and function. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes 2024; 10:21. [PMID: 38480745 PMCID: PMC10937973 DOI: 10.1038/s41522-024-00497-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
Abstract
In environments characterized by extended multi-stress conditions, pathogens develop a variety of immune escape mechanisms to enhance their ability to infect the host. The capsules, polymers that bacteria secrete near their cell wall, participates in numerous bacterial life processes and plays a crucial role in resisting host immune attacks and adapting to their niche. Here, we discuss the relationship between capsules and bacterial virulence, summarizing the molecular mechanisms of capsular regulation and pathogenesis to provide new insights into the research on the pathogenesis of pathogenic bacteria.
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- Shuji Gao
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
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- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China
- College of Life Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang, 471934, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China.
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China.
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471000, China.
- Henan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Detection and Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Poultry, Luoyang, 471003, China.
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Otsuji K, Fukuda K, Maruoka T, Ogawa M, Saito M. Acquisition of genetic mutations in Group A Streptococci at infection site and subsequent systemic dissemination of the mutants with lethal mutations in a streptococcal toxic shock syndrome mouse model. Microb Pathog 2020; 143:104116. [PMID: 32135223 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2020] [Revised: 02/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is caused mainly by Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococci, GAS), and it has a fatality rate of 25%. Mutations in CsrRS and RopB, which suppress the transcription of many virulence factors, were recently found in clinical isolates from STSS patients, but it is not fully understood when and where GAS acquires the mutations in the host. To resolve this question, we used our mouse model of human STSS to recover GAS strains from injections sites, spleens and blood of moribund mice with STSS-like symptoms, and analyzed the sequence of the covR/covS genes and ropB gene that encode CsrRS and RopB. Fifteen out of twenty mice that were inoculated transdermally into muscles with GAS organisms became moribund with STSS-like symptoms after more than 20 days after inoculation. We found that all the disseminated GAS strains recovered from the blood and spleens of the moribund mice had mutations in either the covR genes or the covS genes. The mutation sites in the GAS strains recovered from the blood and spleen were identical in each mouse, whereas the strains recovered from the muscles included a mix of disseminated strains, other mutant strains, and the parent strain. The mutant strains killed mice significantly earlier than the parent strain. Our data indicated that GAS organisms remained at the injection site, and various mutants appeared there, among which the strain that acquires the mutation in the covR/S gene is expected to overexpress various virulence factors simultaneously and cause systemic infection such as STSS.
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- Ken Otsuji
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
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Lamb LE, Siggins MK, Scudamore C, Macdonald W, Turner CE, Lynskey NN, Tan LKK, Sriskandan S. Impact of contusion injury on intramuscular emm1 group a streptococcus infection and lymphatic spread. Virulence 2018; 9:1074-1084. [PMID: 30052105 PMCID: PMC6068544 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2018.1482180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Invasive group A Streptococcus (iGAS) is frequently associated with emm1 isolates, with an attendant mortality of around 20%. Cases occasionally arise in previously healthy individuals with a history of upper respiratory tract infection, soft tissue contusion, and no obvious portal of entry. Using a new murine model of contusion, we determined the impact of contusion on iGAS bacterial burden and phenotype. Calibrated mild blunt contusion did not provide a focus for initiation or seeding of GAS that was detectable following systemic GAS bacteremia, but instead enhanced GAS migration to the local draining lymph node following GAS inoculation at the same time and site of contusion. Increased migration to lymph node was associated with emergence of mucoid bacteria, although was not specific to mucoid bacteria. In one study, mucoid colonies demonstrated a significant increase in capsular hyaluronan that was not linked to a covRS or rocA mutation, but to a deletion in the promoter of the capsule synthesis locus, hasABC, resulting in a strain with increased fitness for lymph node migration. In summary, in the mild contusion model used, we could not detect seeding of muscle by GAS. Contusion promoted bacterial transit to the local lymph node. The consequences of contusion-associated bacterial lymphatic migration may vary depending on the pathogen and virulence traits selected.
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- L E Lamb
- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK.,b Royal Centre for Defence Medicine , University of Birmingham , Birmingham , UK
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- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK
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- c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus , MRC Harwell , Oxfordshire , UK
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- d Department of Bio-engineering , Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London , London , UK
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- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK
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- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK
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- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK
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- a Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Department of Medicine , Imperial College London , London , UK
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Yagmur E, Koch A, Haumann M, Kramann R, Trautwein C, Tacke F. Hyaluronan serum concentrations are elevated in critically ill patients and associated with disease severity. Clin Biochem 2012; 45:82-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2011.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2011] [Revised: 10/21/2011] [Accepted: 10/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Saito M, Kajiwara H, Iida KI, Hoshina T, Kusuhara K, Hara T, Yoshida SI. Systemic cytokine response in moribund mice of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome model. Microb Pathog 2010; 50:109-13. [PMID: 21146602 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2010.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2009] [Revised: 11/25/2010] [Accepted: 12/02/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Streptococcus pyogenes causes severe invasive disease in humans, including streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). We previously reported a mouse model that is similar to human STSS. When mice were infected intramuscularly with 10(7) CFU of S. pyogenes, all of them survived acute phase of infection. After 20 or more days of infection, a number of them died suddenly accompanied by S. pyogenes bacteremia. We call this phenomenon "delayed death". We analyzed the serum cytokine levels of mice with delayed death, and compared them with those of mice who died in the acute phase of intravenous S. pyogenes infection. The serum levels of TNF-α and IFN-γ in mice of delayed death were more than 100 times higher than those in acute death mice. IL-10 and IL-12, which were not detected in acute death, were also significantly higher in mice of delayed death. IL-6 and MCP-1 (CCL-2) were elevated in both groups of mice. It was noteworthy that not only pro-inflammatory cytokines but also anti-inflammatory cytokines were elevated in delayed death. We also found that intravenous TNF-α injection accelerated delayed death, suggesting that an increase of serum TNF-α induced S. pyogenes bacteremia in our mouse model.
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- Mitsumasa Saito
- Molecular Structure & Function Program, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Seki M, Saito M, Iida KI, Taniai H, Soejima T, Nakayama H, Yoshida SI. Onset of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is accelerated by bruising in a mouse model. Microb Pathog 2008; 44:339-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2007.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2007] [Revised: 10/18/2007] [Accepted: 10/18/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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