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Gaccioli F, Stephens K, Sovio U, Jessop F, Wong HS, Lager S, Cook E, de Goffau MC, Le Doare K, Peacock SJ, Parkhill J, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants. Nat Microbiol 2023; 8:2338-2348. [PMID: 38030897 PMCID: PMC10686823 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01528-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
Abstract
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus; GBS) is a common cause of sepsis in neonates. Previous work detected GBS DNA in the placenta in ~5% of women before the onset of labour, but the clinical significance of this finding is unknown. Here we re-analysed this dataset as a case control study of neonatal unit (NNU) admission. Of 436 infants born at term (≥37 weeks of gestation), 7/30 with placental GBS and 34/406 without placental GBS were admitted to the NNU (odds ratio (OR) 3.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.3-7.8). We then performed a validation study using non-overlapping subjects from the same cohort. This included a further 239 cases of term NNU admission and 686 term controls: 16/36 with placental GBS and 223/889 without GBS were admitted to the NNU (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.2-4.6). Of the 36 infants with placental GBS, 10 were admitted to the NNU with evidence of probable but culture-negative sepsis (OR 4.8, 95% CI 2.2-10.3), 2 were admitted with proven GBS sepsis (OR 66.6, 95% CI 7.3-963.7), 6 were admitted and had chorioamnionitis (inflammation of the foetal membranes) (OR 5.3, 95% CI 2.0-13.4), and 5 were admitted and had funisitis (inflammation of the umbilical cord) (OR 6.7, 95% CI 12.5-17.7). Foetal cytokine storm (two or more pro-inflammatory cytokines >10 times median control levels in umbilical cord blood) was present in 36% of infants with placental GBS DNA and 4% of cases where the placenta was negative (OR 14.2, 95% CI 3.6-60.8). Overall, ~1 in 200 term births had GBS detected in the placenta, which was associated with infant NNU admission and morbidity.
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- Francesca Gaccioli
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Trophoblast Research (CTR), Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Trophoblast Research (CTR), Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Histopathology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research, St George's University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Centre for Trophoblast Research (CTR), Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Centre for Trophoblast Research (CTR), Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Vancolen S, Ayash T, Allard MJ, Sébire G. Sex-Specific Dysconnective Brain Injuries and Neuropsychiatric Conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder Caused by Group B Streptococcus-Induced Chorioamnionitis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:14090. [PMID: 37762401 PMCID: PMC10531534 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241814090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Global health efforts have increased against infectious diseases, but issues persist with pathogens like Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Preclinical studies have elaborated on the mechanistic process of GBS-induced chorioamnionitis and its impact on the fetal programming of chronic neuropsychiatric diseases. GBS inoculation in rodents demonstrated the following: (i) silent and self-limited placental infection, similar to human chorioamnionitis; (ii) placental expression of chemokines attracting polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells; (iii) in vitro cytokine production; (iv) PMN infiltration in the placenta (histologic hallmark of human chorioamnionitis), linked to neurobehavioral impairments like cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorders (ASD); (v) upregulation of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in the placenta and fetal blood, associated with higher ASD risk in humans; (vi) sex-specific effects, with higher IL-1β release and PMN recruitment in male placenta; (vii) male offspring exhibiting ASD-like traits, while female offspring displayed attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-like traits; (viii) IL-1 and/or NF-kB blockade alleviate placental and fetal inflammation, as well as subsequent neurobehavioral impairments. These findings offer potential therapeutic avenues, including sex-adapted anti-inflammatory treatment (e.g., blocking IL-1; repurposing of FDA-approved IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) treatment). Blocking the IL-1 pathway offers therapeutic potential to alleviate chorioamnionitis-related disabilities, presenting an opportunity for a human phase II RCT that uses IL-1 blockade added to the classic antibiotic treatment of chorioamnionitis.
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- Seline Vancolen
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada;
- Department of Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Lentini G, Famà A, De Gaetano GV, Coppolino F, Mahjoub AK, Ryan L, Lien E, Espevik T, Beninati C, Teti G. Caspase-8 inhibition improves the outcome of bacterial infections in mice by promoting neutrophil activation. Cell Rep Med 2023:101098. [PMID: 37390829 PMCID: PMC10394171 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101098] [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: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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During differentiation, neutrophils undergo a spontaneous pro-inflammatory program that is hypothesized here to be under caspase-8 control. In mice, intraperitoneal administration of the caspase-8 inhibitor z-IETD-fmk is sufficient to unleash the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and neutrophil influx in the absence of cell death. These effects are due to selective inhibition of caspase-8 and require tonic interferon-β (IFN-β) production and RIPK3 but not MLKL, the essential downstream executioner of necroptotic cell death. In vitro, stimulation with z-IETD-fmk is sufficient to induce significant cytokine production in murine neutrophils but not in macrophages. Therapeutic administration of z-IETD-fmk improves clinical outcome in models of lethal bacterial peritonitis and pneumonia by augmenting cytokine release, neutrophil influx, and bacterial clearance. Moreover, the inhibitor protects mice against high-dose endotoxin shock. Collectively, our data unveil a RIPK3- and IFN-β-dependent pathway that is constitutively activated in neutrophils and can be harnessed therapeutically using caspase-8 inhibition.
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- Germana Lentini
- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Program in Innate Immunity, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy; Scylla Biotech Srl, Messina, Italy
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Stephens K, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Group B Streptococcus and the risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality following term labor. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2023; 228:S1305-S1312. [PMID: 37164497 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.07.051] [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: 05/15/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus) colonizes the genital tract of approximately 20% of pregnant women. In the absence of intervention, approximately 1% of infants born to colonized mothers exhibit a clinical infection. This has led to implementation of screening and intervention in the form of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis in many countries, including the United States. However, screening has not been introduced in a substantial minority of other countries because of the absence of supportive level 1 evidence, the very large number needed to treat to prevent 1 case, and concerns about antimicrobial resistance. Optimal screening would involve rapid turnaround (to facilitate intrapartum testing) and report antibiotic sensitivity, but no such method exists. There is significant scope for a personalized medicine approach, targeting intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis to cases at greatest risk, but the pathogen and host factors determining the risk of invasive disease are incompletely understood. Epidemiologic data have indicated the potential of prelabor invasion of the uterus by group B Streptococcus, and metagenomic analysis revealed the presence of group B Streptococcus in the placenta in approximately 5% of pregnant women at term before onset of labor and membrane rupture. However, the determinants and consequences of prelabor invasion of the uterus by group B Streptococcus remain to be established. The vast majority (98%) of invasive neonatal disease is caused by 6 serotypes, and hexavalent vaccines against these serotypes have completed phase 2 trials. However, an obstacle to phase 3 studies is conducting an adequately powered trial to demonstrate clinical effectiveness given that early-onset disease affects approximately 1 in 1000 births in the absence of vaccination.
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- Katie Stephens
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Akt Inhibition Promotes Autophagy and Clearance of Group B Streptococcus from the Alveolar Epithelium. Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11101134. [PMID: 36297190 PMCID: PMC9611837 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11101134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a gram-positive bacterium that is harmless for healthy individuals but may provoke invasive disease in young infants and immunocompromised hosts. GBS invades the epithelial barriers to enter the bloodstream, and thus strategies that enhance epithelial cell responses may hamper GBS invasion. In the present study, we sought to investigate whether the inhibition of Akt, a kinase that regulates host inflammatory responses and autophagy via suppression of mTOR, can enhance the response of non-phagocytic alveolar epithelial cells against GBS. Treatment of the alveolar epithelial cell line A549 with the Akt inhibitor MK-2206 resulted in the enhanced production of reactive oxygen species and inflammatory mediators in response to GBS. Additionally, Akt inhibition via MK-2206 resulted in elevated LC3II/I ratios and increased autophagic flux in alveolar epithelial cells. Importantly, the inhibition of Akt promoted GBS clearance both in alveolar epithelial cells in vitro and in lung tissue in vivo in a murine model of GBS pneumonia. The induction of autophagy was essential for GBS clearance in MK-2206 treated cells, as knockdown of ATG5, a critical component of autophagy, abrogated the effect of Akt inhibition on GBS clearance. Our findings highlight the role of Akt kinase inhibition in promoting autophagy and GBS clearance in the alveolar epithelium. The inhibition of Akt may serve as a promising measure to strengthen epithelial barriers and prevent GBS invasion in susceptible hosts.
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Wu X, Xiong F, Fang H, Zhang J, Chang M. Crosstalks between NOD1 and Histone H2A Contribute to Host Defense against Streptococcus agalactiae Infection in Zebrafish. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10070861. [PMID: 34356784 PMCID: PMC8300774 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10070861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Correlation studies about NOD1 and histones have not been reported. In the present study, we report the functional correlation between NOD1 and the histone H2A variant in response to Streptococcus agalactiae infection. In zebrafish, NOD1 deficiency significantly promoted S. agalactiae proliferation and decreased larval survival. Transcriptome analysis revealed that the significantly enriched pathways in NOD1−/− adult zebrafish were mainly involved in immune and metabolism. Among 719 immunity-associated DEGs at 48 hpi, 74 DEGs regulated by NOD1 deficiency were histone variants. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis identified that H2A, H2B, and H3 had significant associations with NOD1 deficiency. Above all, S. agalactiae infection could induce the expression of intracellular histone H2A, as well as NOD1 colocalized with histone H2A, both in the cytoplasm and cell nucleus in the case of S. agalactiae infection. The overexpression of H2A variants such as zfH2A-6 protected against S. agalactiae infection and could improve cell survival in NOD1-deficient cells. Furthermore, NOD1 could interact with zfH2A-6 and cooperate with zfH2A-6 to inhibit the proliferation of S. agalactiae. NOD1 also showed a synergetic effect in inducing the expression of many antibacterial genes, especially antibacterial pattern recognition receptors PGRP2, PGRP5, and PGRP6. Collectively, these results firstly highlight the roles of NOD1 deficiency in the regulation of immune-related and metabolic pathways, and the correlation between zebrafish NOD1 and histone H2A variant in the defense against S. agalactiae infection.
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- Xiaoman Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; (X.W.); (F.X.); (H.F.); (J.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; (X.W.); (F.X.); (H.F.); (J.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; (X.W.); (F.X.); (H.F.); (J.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; (X.W.); (F.X.); (H.F.); (J.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; (X.W.); (F.X.); (H.F.); (J.Z.)
- Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Correspondence:
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The Dwindling Microbiota of Aerobic Vaginitis, an Inflammatory State Enriched in Pathobionts with Limited TLR Stimulation. Diagnostics (Basel) 2020; 10:diagnostics10110879. [PMID: 33126716 PMCID: PMC7692151 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics10110879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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While bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a well-known type of vaginal dysbiosis, aerobic vaginitis (AV) is an inflammatory condition that remains understudied and under-recognised. It predisposes women to serious complications including urogenital infections and pregnancy problems. Here, we investigated the bacterial community in AV to explore its possible role in AV pathogenesis. We collected vaginal lavage fluid samples of women (n = 58) classified by wet-mount microscopy as suffering from AV or BV and included an asymptomatic reference group without signs of AV or BV. AV samples showed reduced absolute abundances of bacteria in general and specifically of lactobacilli by qPCR, but 16S rRNA gene sequencing and amplicon sequence variant analysis revealed that Lactobacillus remained the dominant taxon in 25% of the AV samples studied. The other AV samples showed high relative abundances of Streptococcus agalactiae and, unexpectedly, the anaerobes Gardnerella vaginalis and Prevotella bivia in more than half of the AV samples studied. Yet, despite increased relative abundance of these potential pathogens or pathobionts in the AV bacterial communities, the AV samples only slightly stimulated Toll-like receptor 4 and showed reduced activation of Toll-like receptor 2/6, receptors of two pathways central to mucosal immunity. Our findings indicate that the reduced total bacterial abundance with associated enrichment in certain pathobionts in AV might be mainly a consequence of the inflammatory conditions and/or altered hormonal regulation rather than bacteria being a major cause of the inflammation.
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains the leading cause of neonatal meningitis, a disease associated with high rates of adverse neurological sequelae. The in vivo relationship between GBS and brain tissues remains poorly characterized, partly because past studies had focused on microbial rather than host processes. Additionally, the field has not capitalized on systems-level technologies to probe the host-pathogen relationship. Here, we use multiplexed quantitative proteomics to investigate the effect of GBS infection in the murine brain at various levels of tissue complexity, beginning with the whole organ and moving to brain vascular substructures. Infected whole brains showed classical signatures associated with the acute-phase response. In isolated brain microvessels, classical blood-brain barrier proteins were unaltered, but interferon signaling and leukocyte recruitment proteins were upregulated. The choroid plexus showed increases in peripheral immune cell proteins. Proteins that increased in abundance in the vasculature during GBS invasion were associated with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigen processing and endoplasmic reticulum dysfunction, a finding which correlated with altered host protein glycosylation profiles. Globally, there was low concordance between the infection proteome of whole brains and isolated vascular tissues. This report underscores the utility of unbiased, systems-scale analyses of functional tissue substructures for understanding disease.IMPORTANCE Group B Streptococcus (GBS) meningitis remains a major cause of poor health outcomes very early in life. Both the host-pathogen relationship leading to disease and the massive host response to infection contributing to these poor outcomes are orchestrated at the tissue and cell type levels. GBS meningitis is thought to result when bacteria present in the blood circumvent the selectively permeable vascular barriers that feed the brain. Additionally, tissue damage subsequent to bacterial invasion is mediated by inflammation and by immune cells from the periphery crossing the blood-brain barrier. Indeed, the vasculature plays a central role in disease processes occurring during GBS infection of the brain. Here, we employed quantitative proteomic analysis of brain vascular substructures during invasive GBS disease. We used the generated data to map molecular alterations associated with tissue perturbation, finding widespread intracellular dysfunction and punctuating the importance of investigations relegated to tissue type over the whole organ.
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Auger JP, Benoit-Biancamano MO, Bédard C, Segura M, Gottschalk M. Differential role of MyD88 signaling in Streptococcus suis serotype 2-induced systemic and central nervous system diseases. Int Immunol 2020; 31:697-714. [PMID: 30944920 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxz033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important porcine bacterial pathogen and a zoonotic agent responsible for sudden death, septic shock and meningitis, with exacerbated inflammation being a hallmark of the systemic and central nervous system (CNS) infections. However, S. suis serotype 2 strains are genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous, being composed of a multitude of sequence types (STs) whose virulence greatly varies. Yet, most studies have used 'classical' virulent Eurasian ST1 or ST7 strains, even though ST25 and ST28 strains account for most isolates in North America. While recognition of S. suis by innate immune cells has been associated with the myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88)-dependent Toll-like receptor (TLR) pathway in vitro, particularly surface-associated TLR2, little information is available regarding its role in vivo. This study demonstrates for the first time a differential role of MyD88 signaling in S. suis-induced systemic and CNS diseases, regardless of strain background diversity. The MyD88-dependent pathway is critical for the development of systemic disease via its role in inflammation, which subsequently controls bacterial burden. However, and differently from what has been described in vitro, TLR2 and TLR4 individually do not contribute to systemic disease, suggesting possible compensation in their absence and/or a collaborative role with other MyD88-dependent TLRs. On the other hand, CNS disease does not necessarily require MyD88 signaling and, consequently, neither TLR2 nor TLR4, suggesting a partial implication of other pathways. Finally, regardless of its notable heterogeneity, recognition of S. suis serotype 2 appears to be similar, indicating that recognized components are conserved motifs.
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- Jean-Philippe Auger
- Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP) and Swine and Poultry Infectious Disease Research Center (CRIPA), Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP) and Swine and Poultry Infectious Disease Research Center (CRIPA), Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP) and Swine and Poultry Infectious Disease Research Center (CRIPA), Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Research Group on Infectious Diseases in Production Animals (GREMIP) and Swine and Poultry Infectious Disease Research Center (CRIPA), Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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Pal A, Pal A, Mallick AI, Biswas P, Chatterjee PN. Molecular characterization of Bu-1 and TLR2 gene in Haringhata Black chicken. Genomics 2020; 112:472-483. [PMID: 30902756 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 02/17/2019] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Haringhata Black is the only registered indigenous poultry genetic resource of West Bengal till date. Molecular characterization of HB revealed that Bu-1 to be highly glycoylated transmembrane protein unlike mammalian Bu-1, whereas TLR2 of HB chicken was observed to be rich in Leucine rich repeat. HB chicken was observed to be genetically close to chicken of Japan, while distant to chicken breed of UK and Chicago. Avian species wise evolution study indicates genetic closeness of HB chicken with turkey. Differential mRNA expression profile for the immune response genes (TLR2, TLR4 and Bu1 gene) were studied for HB chicken with respect to other chicken breed and poultry birds, which reveals that HB chicken were better in terms of B cell mediated immunity and hence better response to vaccination. Hence HB chicken is one of the best poultry genetic resources to be reared under backyard system where biosecurity measures are almost lacking.
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- Aruna Pal
- West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Kolkata 37, India.
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- Indian Institute of technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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- West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Kolkata 37, India
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- West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Kolkata 37, India
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Lentini G, Famà A, Biondo C, Mohammadi N, Galbo R, Mancuso G, Iannello D, Zummo S, Giardina M, De Gaetano GV, Teti G, Beninati C, Midiri A. Neutrophils Enhance Their Own Influx to Sites of Bacterial Infection via Endosomal TLR-Dependent Cxcl2 Production. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 204:660-670. [PMID: 31852751 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1901039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The influx of neutrophils to infection sites is a fundamental step in host defenses against the frequent human pathogen group B Streptococcus (GBS) and other extracellular bacteria. Using a mouse model of GBS-induced peritonitis, we show in this study that the chemokines Cxcl1 and Cxcl2 play distinctive roles in enhancing the recruitment and the antibacterial activities of neutrophils in a manner that is linked to differences in the cellular sources of these mediators. Cell depletion experiments demonstrated that neutrophils make a significant contribution to the in vivo production of Cxcl2 but not Cxcl1. In vitro, neutrophils responded weakly to LPS but released high levels of Cxcl2 after stimulation with GBS or other bacteria. Neutrophil-derived Cxcl2 acted in an autocrinous manner to increase its own production and to enhance antibacterial activities, including the release of oxygen radicals. In both neutrophils and macrophages, the production of Cxcl1/2 largely required the presence of functional UNC93B1, a chaperone protein involved in signaling by endosomal TLRs. Moreover, the phenotype of UNC93B1-defective phagocytes could be recapitulated by the simultaneous absence of TLR7, 9, and 13 but not by the absence of individual TLRs. Collectively, our data show that neutrophils recognize Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria by means of multiple phagosomal TLRs, resulting in de novo synthesis of Cxcl2, amplification of neutrophil recruitment, and potentiation of their antibacterial activities. These data may be useful to devise alternative therapeutic strategies aimed at enhancing the recruitment and the functional activities of polymorphonuclear leukocytes during infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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- Germana Lentini
- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Charybdis Vaccines Srl, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy; and
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy.,Scylla Biotech SRL, 98125 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
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Feuerstein R, Gres V, Elias Perdigó N, Baasch S, Freudenhammer M, Elling R, Henneke P. Macrophages Are a Potent Source of Streptococcus-Induced IFN-β. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 203:3416-3426. [PMID: 31732532 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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IFN-β essentially modulates the host response against mucocutaneous colonizers and potential pathogens, such as group B Streptococcus (GBS). It has been reported that the dominant signaling cascade driving IFN-β in macrophages (MΦ) in streptococcal infection is the cGAS-STING pathway, whereas conventional dendritic cells (DC) exploit endosomal recognition by intracellular TLRs. In this study, we revisited this issue by precisely monitoring the phenotypic dynamics in mixed mouse MΦ/DC cultures with GM-CSF, which requires snapshot definition of cellular identities. We identified four mononuclear phagocyte populations, of which two were transcriptionally and morphologically distinct MΦ-DC-like subsets, and two were transitional types. Notably, GBS induced a TLR7-dependent IFN-β signal only in MΦ-like but not in DC-like cells. IFN-β induction did not require live bacteria (i.e., the formation of cytolytic toxins), which are essential for IFN-β induction via cGAS-STING. In contrast to IFN-β, GBS induced TNF-α independently of TLR7. Subsequent to the interaction with streptococci, MΦ changed their immunophenotype and gained some typical DC markers and DC-like morphology. In summary, we identify IFN-β formation as part of the antistreptococcal repertoire of GM-CSF differentiated MΦ in vitro and in vivo and delineate their plasticity.
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- Reinhild Feuerstein
- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and.,Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and.,Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; and .,Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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Sex-specific maternofetal innate immune responses triggered by group B Streptococci. Sci Rep 2019; 9:8587. [PMID: 31197179 PMCID: PMC6565749 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45029-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is one of the most common bacteria isolated in human chorioamnionitis, which is a major risk factor for premature birth and brain injuries. Males are at greater risk than females for developing lifelong neurobehavioural disorders, although the origins of this sex bias remain poorly understood. We previously showed that end-gestational inflammation triggered by GBS led to early neurodevelopmental impairments mainly in the male rat progeny. Identifying key inflammatory players involved in maternofetal immune activation by specific pathogens is critical to develop appropriate novel therapeutic interventions. We aimed to map out the GBS-induced profile of innate immune biomarkers in the maternal-placental-fetal axis, and to compare this immune profile between male and female tissues. We describe here that the GBS-induced immune signalling involved significantly higher levels of interleukin (IL)-1β, cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant-1 (CINC-1/CXCL1) and polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) infiltration in male compared to female maternofetal tissues. Although male - but not female - fetuses presented increased levels of IL-1β, fetuses from both sexes in-utero exposed to GBS had increased levels of TNF-α in their circulation. Levels of IL-1β detected in fetal sera correlated positively with the levels found in maternal circulation. Here, we report for the first time that the maternofetal innate immune signalling induced by GBS presents a sexually dichotomous profile, with more prominent inflammation in males than females. These sex-specific placental and fetal pro-inflammatory responses are in keeping with the higher susceptibility of the male population for preterm birth, brain injuries and neurodevelopmental disorders such as cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorders.
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Parida R. Human MOSPD2: A bacterial Lmb mimicked auto-antigen is involved in immune infertility. J Transl Autoimmun 2019; 1:100002. [PMID: 32743492 PMCID: PMC7388392 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtauto.2019.100002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Autoantibody production is one of the leading factors of immune infertility, an autoimmune disease of the male reproductive system. The potential involvement of MHC-class II derived self-peptides against bacterial proteins in the antisperm antibody (ASA) production has been reported previously. Apparently, Streptococcus agalactiae has been considered as an important pathogen to impart infection-induced infertility in a bacteriospermia associated leukocytospermia (LCS/BS) state. Hence, the present study attempts to confirm S. agalactiae specific Laminin binding protein (Lmb) derived self-peptide ('KDSYTKKAKAFKKEA') namely human Motile Sperm domain-containing protein 2 (MOSPD2) as an auto-antigen in LCS/BS condition. Semen samples were collected from infertile men with LCS/BS (n = 17) and their fertile counterparts (n = 10). Gram-positive bacteria were predominantly identified in the entire 17 LCS samples using culture method followed by 16S rDNA sequencing technique. TLRs 2 and 4 expression used as markers of immune response in spermatozoa and sperm dysfunction were elevated in the LCS/BS spermatozoa as compared to their fertile counterparts. A significant increase in oxidative stress indices i.e., protein carbonylation, lipid peroxidation and acridine orange test (AOT), was also observed in the LCS/BS spermatozoa. Spermatozoa lysate (both auto and heterologous), bacterial lysate (control) and synthesized MOSPD2 self-peptide were used to test their antigenicity against the autoantibodies by rocket immunoelectrophoresis (RIEP) assay. Seminal plasma from LCS/BS patients with S. agalactiae was used as the source of autoantibodies. Spermatozoa and bacteria lysate; and MOSPD2 self-peptide were able to bind autoantibodies in the seminal plasma. Besides, the self-peptide showed a dose dependent increase in the precipitation of antibody. T-cell epitope mapping of 48 Enterococcus faecalis and 91Staphylococcus aureus surface proteins confirmed MOSPD2 as a global auto-antigen. Thus, augmentation of TLR expression in LCS/BS spermatozoa inferred MOSPD2 to be a putative immunogen. Altogether, these findings will delineate the significance of MOSPD2 auto-antigen in a bacteria derived immune infertility condition.
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- Rajeshwari Parida
- Department of Zoology, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, 753003, Odisha, India
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Sutton JA, Rogers LM, Dixon B, Kirk L, Doster R, Algood HM, Gaddy JA, Flaherty R, Manning SD, Aronoff DM. Protein kinase D mediates inflammatory responses of human placental macrophages to Group B Streptococcus. Am J Reprod Immunol 2019; 81:e13075. [PMID: 30582878 PMCID: PMC6459189 DOI: 10.1111/aji.13075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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PROBLEM During pregnancy, Group B Streptococcus (GBS) can infect fetal membranes to cause chorioamnionitis, resulting in adverse pregnancy outcomes. Macrophages are the primary resident phagocyte in extraplacental membranes. Protein kinase D (PKD) was recently implicated in mediating pro-inflammatory macrophage responses to GBS outside of the reproductive system. This work aimed to characterize the human placental macrophage inflammatory response to GBS and address the extent to which PKD mediates such effects. METHOD Primary human placental macrophages were infected with GBS in the presence or absence of a specific, small molecule PKD inhibitor, CRT 0066101. Macrophage phenotypes were characterized by evaluating gene expression, cytokine release, assembly of the NLRP3 inflammasome, and NFκB activation. RESULTS GBS evoked a strong inflammatory phenotype characterized by the release of inflammatory cytokines (TNFα, IL-1β, IL-6 (P ≤ 0.05), NLRP3 inflammasome assembly (P ≤ 0.0005), and NFκB activation (P ≤ 0.05). Pharmacological inhibition of PKD suppressed these responses, newly implicating a role for PKD in mediating immune responses of primary human placental macrophages to GBS. CONCLUSION PKD plays a critical role in mediating placental macrophage inflammatory activation in response to GBS infection.
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- Jessica A. Sutton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37208, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Healthcare Systems, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Healthcare Systems, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37208, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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Patras KA, Nizet V. Group B Streptococcal Maternal Colonization and Neonatal Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Preventative Approaches. Front Pediatr 2018; 6:27. [PMID: 29520354 PMCID: PMC5827363 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2018.00027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) colonizes the gastrointestinal and vaginal epithelium of a significant percentage of healthy women, with potential for ascending intrauterine infection or transmission during parturition, creating a risk of serious disease in the vulnerable newborn. This review highlights new insights on the bacterial virulence determinants, host immune responses, and microbiome interactions that underpin GBS vaginal colonization, the proximal step in newborn infectious disease pathogenesis. From the pathogen perspective, the function GBS adhesins and biofilms, β-hemolysin/cytolysin toxin, immune resistance factors, sialic acid mimicry, and two-component transcriptional regulatory systems are reviewed. From the host standpoint, pathogen recognition, cytokine responses, and the vaginal mucosal and placental immunity to the pathogen are detailed. Finally, the rationale, efficacy, and potential unintended consequences of current universal recommended intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis are considered, with updates on new developments toward a GBS vaccine or alternative approaches to reducing vaginal colonization.
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- Kathryn A Patras
- Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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Ding T, Lambert LA, Aronoff DM, Osteen KG, Bruner-Tran KL. Sex-Dependent Influence of Developmental Toxicant Exposure on Group B Streptococcus-Mediated Preterm Birth in a Murine Model. Reprod Sci 2017; 25:662-673. [PMID: 29153057 DOI: 10.1177/1933719117741378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Infectious agents are a significant risk factor for preterm birth (PTB); however, the simple presence of bacteria is not sufficient to induce PTB in most women. Human and animal data suggest that environmental toxicant exposures may act in concert with other risk factors to promote PTB. Supporting this "second hit" hypothesis, we previously demonstrated exposure of fetal mice (F1 animals) to the environmental endocrine disruptor 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) leads to an increased risk of spontaneous and infection-mediated PTB in adult animals. Surprisingly, adult F1males also confer an enhanced risk of PTB to their control partners. Herein, we used a recently established model of ascending group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection to explore the impact of a maternal versus paternal developmental TCDD exposure on infection-mediated PTB in adulthood. Group B Streptococcus is an important contributor to PTB in women and can have serious adverse effects on their infants. Our studies revealed that although gestation length was reduced in control mating pairs exposed to low-dose GBS, dams were able to clear the infection and bacterial transmission to pups was minimal. In contrast, exposure of pregnant F1females to the same GBS inoculum resulted in 100% maternal and fetal mortality. Maternal health and gestation length were not impacted in control females mated to F1males and exposed to GBS; however, neonatal survival was reduced compared to controls. Our data revealed a sex-dependent impact of parental TCDD exposure on placental expression of Toll-like receptor 2 and glycogen production, which may be responsible for the differential impact on fetal and maternal outcomes in response to GBS infection.
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- Tianbing Ding
- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,2 Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,3 Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,4 VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA
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- 1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Kolter J, Henneke P. Codevelopment of Microbiota and Innate Immunity and the Risk for Group B Streptococcal Disease. Front Immunol 2017; 8:1497. [PMID: 29209311 PMCID: PMC5701622 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The pathogenesis of neonatal late-onset sepsis (LOD), which manifests between the third day and the third month of life, remains poorly understood. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the most important cause of LOD in infants without underlying diseases or prematurity and the third most frequent cause of meningitis in the Western world. On the other hand, GBS is a common intestinal colonizer in infants. Accordingly, despite its adaption to the human lower gastrointestinal tract, GBS has retained its potential virulence and its transition from a commensal to a dangerous pathogen is unpredictable in the individual. Several cellular innate immune mechanisms, in particular Toll-like receptors, the inflammasome and the cGAS pathway, are engaged by GBS effectors like nucleic acids. These are likely to impact on the GBS-specific host resistance. Given the long evolution of streptococci as a normal constituent of the human microbiota, the emergence of GBS as the dominant neonatal sepsis cause just about 50 years ago is remarkable. It appears that intensive usage of tetracycline starting in the 1940s has been a selection advantage for the currently dominant GBS clones with superior adhesive and invasive properties. The historical replacement of Group A by Group B streptococci as a leading neonatal pathogen and the higher frequency of other β-hemolytic streptococci in areas with low GBS prevalence suggests the existence of a confined streptococcal niche, where locally competing streptococcal species are subject to environmental and immunological selection pressure. Thus, it seems pivotal to resolve neonatal innate immunity at mucous surfaces and its impact on microbiome composition and quality, i.e., genetic heterogeneity and metabolism, at the microanatomical level. Then, designer pro- and prebiotics, such as attenuated strains of GBS, and oligonucleotide priming of mucosal immunity may unfold their potential and facilitate adaptation of potentially hazardous streptococci as part of a beneficial local microbiome, which is stabilized by mucocutaneous innate immunity.
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- Julia Kolter
- Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Intrinsic Maturational Neonatal Immune Deficiencies and Susceptibility to Group B Streptococcus Infection. Clin Microbiol Rev 2017; 30:973-989. [PMID: 28814408 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00019-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Although a normal member of the gastrointestinal and vaginal microbiota, group B Streptococcus (GBS) can also occasionally be the cause of highly invasive neonatal disease and is an emerging pathogen in both elderly and immunocompromised adults. Neonatal GBS infections are typically transmitted from mother to baby either in utero or during passage through the birth canal and can lead to pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis within the first few months of life. Compared to the adult immune system, the neonatal immune system has a number of deficiencies, making neonates more susceptible to infection. Recognition of GBS by the host immune system triggers an inflammatory response to clear the pathogen. However, GBS has developed several mechanisms to evade the host immune response. A comprehensive understanding of this interplay between GBS and the host immune system will aid in the development of new preventative measures and therapeutics.
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Combination therapy with ampicillin and azithromycin improved outcomes in a mouse model of group B streptococcal sepsis. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0182023. [PMID: 28759625 PMCID: PMC5536305 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that β-lactam monotherapy of streptococcal infections may incite stronger inflammation and is inferior to combination therapy with macrolides. We hypothesized that use of macrolides alone or in combination with a β-lactam for group B streptococcal (GBS) sepsis would improve outcomes by reducing inflammation. METHODS TNF-α was measured from supernatants of RAW 264.7 cells stimulated with GBS isolates, in presence of four treatment regimens: ampicillin alone, azithromycin alone, or combination of azithromycin plus ampicillin. Mouse model of GBS sepsis was developed and treated with same four regimens. Clinical sepsis scores were monitored; serum cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10) and chemokines (MIP-1α) were measured at the end. RESULTS GBS isolates exposed to azithromycin or combination (compared to ampicillin alone) stimulated less TNF production in vitro. In the murine sepsis model, mortality was lower along with decreased sepsis scores in mice treated with combination therapy. Mean serum IL-6 was lower in mice treated with azithromycin alone (66±52 pg/ml) or combination of ampicillin plus azithromycin (52±22 pg/ml) compared to ampicillin alone (260±160 pg/ml) (p<0.005). CONCLUSIONS Combination therapy of ampicillin+azithromycin improved outcomes in a murine GBS sepsis model; this therapeutic approach deserves additional study.
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Upadhyay K, Park JE, Yoon TW, Halder P, Kim YI, Metcalfe V, Talati AJ, English BK, Yi AK. Group B Streptococci Induce Proinflammatory Responses via a Protein Kinase D1-Dependent Pathway. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2017; 198:4448-4457. [PMID: 28461572 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Group B streptococci (GBS) are one of the leading causes of life-threatening illness in neonates. Proinflammatory responses to GBS mediated through host innate immune receptors play a critical role in the disease manifestation. However, the mechanisms involved in proinflammatory responses against GBS, as well as the contribution of signaling modulators involved in host immune defense, have not been fully elucidated. In the present study, we investigated the role of protein kinase D (PKD)1 in the proinflammatory responses to GBS. We found that both live and antibiotic-killed GBS induce activation of PKD1 through a pathway that is dependent on the TLR signaling adaptor MyD88 and its downstream kinase IL-1R-associated kinase 1, but independent of TNFR-associated factor 6. Our studies using pharmacological PKD inhibitors and PKD1-knockdown macrophages revealed that PKD1 is indispensable for GBS-mediated activation of MAPKs and NF-κB and subsequent expression of proinflammatory mediators. Furthermore, systemic administration of a PKD inhibitor protects d-galactosamine-sensitized mice from shock-mediated death caused by antibiotic-killed GBS. These findings imply that PKD1 plays a critical regulatory role in GBS-induced proinflammatory reactions and sepsis, and inhibition of PKD1 activation together with antibiotic treatment in GBS-infected neonates could be an effective way to control GBS diseases.
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- Kirtikumar Upadhyay
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.,Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163; and
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163; and
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.,Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163; and
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.,Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103
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- Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI 48912
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163; and
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Borghesi A, Stronati M, Fellay J. Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease in Otherwise Healthy Infants: Failure of Specific Neonatal Immune Responses. Front Immunol 2017; 8:215. [PMID: 28326082 PMCID: PMC5339282 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Only a small proportion of newborn infants exposed to a pathogenic microorganism develop overt infection. Susceptibility to infection in preterm infants and infants with known comorbidities has a likely multifactorial origin and can be often attributed to the concurrence of iatrogenic factors, environmental determinants, underlying pathogenic processes, and probably genetic predisposition. Conversely, infection occurring in otherwise healthy full-term newborn infants is unexplained in most cases. Microbial virulence factors and the unique characteristics of the neonatal immune system only partially account for the interindividual variability in the neonatal immune responses to pathogens. We here suggest that neonatal infection occurring in otherwise healthy infants is caused by a failure of the specific protective immunity to the microorganism. To explain infection in term and preterm infants, we propose an extension of the previously proposed model of the genetic architecture of infectious diseases in humans. We then focus on group B streptococcus (GBS) disease, the best characterized neonatal infection, and outline the potential molecular mechanisms underlying the selective failure of the immune responses against GBS. In light of the recent discoveries of pathogen-specific primary immunodeficiencies and of the role of anticytokine autoantibodies in increasing susceptibility to specific infections, we hypothesize that GBS disease occurring in otherwise healthy infants could reflect an immunodeficiency caused either by rare genetic defects in the infant or by transmitted maternal neutralizing antibodies. These hypotheses are consistent with available epidemiological data, with clinical and epidemiological observations, and with the state of the art of neonatal physiology and disease. Studies should now be designed to comprehensively search for genetic or immunological factors involved in susceptibility to severe neonatal infections.
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- Alessandro Borghesi
- School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, San Matteo Hospital, Pavia, Italy
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, San Matteo Hospital, Pavia, Italy
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- School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Immune-responsiveness of CD4 + T cells during Streptococcus suis serotype 2 infection. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38061. [PMID: 27905502 PMCID: PMC5131321 DOI: 10.1038/srep38061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis infection, a major swine and human pathogen, is only partially understood and knowledge on the host adaptive immune response is critically scarce. Yet, S. suis virulence factors, particularly its capsular polysaccharide (CPS), enable this bacterium to modulate dendritic cell (DC) functions and potentially impair the immune response. This study aimed to evaluate modulation of T cell activation during S. suis infection and the role of DCs in this response. S. suis-stimulated total mouse splenocytes readily produced TNF-α, IL-6, IFN-γ, CCL3, CXCL9, and IL-10. Ex vivo and in vivo analyses revealed the involvement of CD4+ T cells and a Th1 response. Nevertheless, during S. suis infection, levels of the Th1-derived cytokines TNF-α and IFN-γ were very low. A transient splenic depletion of CD4+ T cells and a poor memory response were also observed. Moreover, CD4+ T cells secreted IL-10 and failed to up-regulate optimal levels of CD40L and CD69 in coculture with DCs. The CPS hampered release of several T cell-derived cytokines in vitro. Finally, a correlation was established between severe clinical signs of S. suis disease and impaired antibody responses. Altogether, these results suggest S. suis interferes with the adaptive immune response.
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Dauby N, Chamekh M, Melin P, Slogrove AL, Goetghebuer T. Increased Risk of Group B Streptococcus Invasive Infection in HIV-Exposed but Uninfected Infants: A Review of the Evidence and Possible Mechanisms. Front Immunol 2016; 7:505. [PMID: 27899925 PMCID: PMC5110531 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a major cause of neonatal sepsis and mortality worldwide. Studies from both developed and developing countries have shown that HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) infants are at increased risk of infectious morbidity, as compared to HIV-unexposed uninfected infants (HUU). A higher susceptibility to GBS infections has been reported in HEU infants, particularly late-onset diseases and more severe manifestations of GBS diseases. We review here the possible explanations for increased susceptibility to GBS infection. Maternal GBS colonization during pregnancy is a major risk factor for early-onset GBS invasive disease, but colonization rates are not higher in HIV-infected compared to HIV-uninfected pregnant women, while selective colonization with more virulent strains in HIV-infected women is suggested in some studies. Lower serotype-specific GBS maternal antibody transfer and quantitative and qualitative defects of innate immune responses in HEU infants may play a role in the increased risk of GBS invasive disease. The impact of maternal antiretroviral treatment and its consequences on immune activation in HEU newborns are important to study. Maternal immunization presents a promising intervention to reduce GBS burden in the growing HEU population.
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- Nicolas Dauby
- Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium; Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium
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- Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Gosselies , Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Group B Streptococci, CHU Sart-Tilman, Université de Liège (ULg) , Liège , Belgium
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa; Centre for Infectious Disease and Epidemiologic Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics, CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium; Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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Kobayashi M, Vekemans J, Baker CJ, Ratner AJ, Le Doare K, Schrag SJ. Group B Streptococcus vaccine development: present status and future considerations, with emphasis on perspectives for low and middle income countries. F1000Res 2016; 5:2355. [PMID: 27803803 PMCID: PMC5070600 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.9363.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Globally, group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains the leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in young infants, with its greatest burden in the first 90 days of life. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) for women at risk of transmitting GBS to their newborns has been effective in reducing, but not eliminating, the young infant GBS disease burden in many high income countries. However, identification of women at risk and administration of IAP is very difficult in many low and middle income country (LMIC) settings, and is not possible for home deliveries. Immunization of pregnant women with a GBS vaccine represents an alternate pathway to protecting newborns from GBS disease, through the transplacental antibody transfer to the fetus in utero. This approach to prevent GBS disease in young infants is currently under development, and is approaching late stage clinical evaluation. This manuscript includes a review of the natural history of the disease, global disease burden estimates, diagnosis and existing control options in different settings, the biological rationale for a vaccine including previous supportive studies, analysis of current candidates in development, possible correlates of protection and current status of immunogenicity assays. Future potential vaccine development pathways to licensure and use in LMICs, trial design and implementation options are discussed, with the objective to provide a basis for reflection, rather than recommendations.
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- Miwako Kobayashi
- National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
- Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
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- Initiative for Vaccine Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
- Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
- Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
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- Centre for International Child Health, Imperial College, London, UK
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- National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
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Santos-Sierra S, Golenbock DT, Henneke P. Toll-like receptor-dependent discrimination of streptococci. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/09680519060120050601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus agalactiae cause distinct infectious diseases in small children. Similarly, these bacteria elicit very different host-cell responses in vitro. Inactivated S. agalactiae by far exceeds S. pneumoniae in the activation of inflammatory cytokines and upstream signaling intermediates such as the MAP kinase JNK. The inflammatory response to both Streptococcus spp. is mediated by MyD88, an essential adapter protein of Toll-like receptors (TLRs), although the specific TLRs that are involved have not been fully resolved. Furthermore, during logarithmic growth, S. pneumoniae releases pneumolysin that interacts with TLR4 whereas S. agalactiae releases diacylated molecules that interact with TLR2/6. Interaction of these soluble bacterial products with their cognate TLRs is critical for limiting bacterial dissemination and and systemic inflammation in mice. This might be due, in part, to TLR-mediated apoptosis induced by these factors. In conclusion related streptococcal species induce specific events in TLR-mediated signal transduction. Comparative analysis of the host-cell response to these bacteria reveals molecules such as JNK as valuable targets for adjunctive sepsis therapy.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Freiburg, Germany, philipp.henneke@ uniklinik-freiburg.de
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Mohammadi N, Midiri A, Mancuso G, Patanè F, Venza M, Venza I, Passantino A, Galbo R, Teti G, Beninati C, Biondo C. Neutrophils Directly Recognize Group B Streptococci and Contribute to Interleukin-1β Production during Infection. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0160249. [PMID: 27509078 PMCID: PMC4980021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 07/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β has a crucial role in host defenses against group B streptococcus (GBS), a frequent human pathogen, by recruiting neutrophils to infection sites. We examined here the cell types and mechanisms involved in IL-1β production during infection. Using a GBS-induced peritonitis model in mice, we first found that a large proportion of exudate cells contain intracellular IL-1β by immunofluorescence. Of the IL-1β positive cells, 82 and 7% were neutrophils and macrophages, respectively, suggesting that the former cell type might significantly contribute to IL-1β production. Accordingly, depletion of neutrophils with anti-Ly6G antibodies resulted in a significant reduction in the levels of IL-1β, but not of TNF-α or IL-6. We next found that neutrophils are capable of releasing mature IL-1β and TNF-α directly in response to in vitro stimulation with GBS. The production of pro-IL-1β and TNF-α in these cells required the Toll-like receptor (TLR) adaptor MyD88 and the chaperone protein UNC93B1, which is involved in mobilization of a subfamily of TLRs to the endosomes. Moreover, pro-IL-1β processing and IL-1β release was triggered by GBS hemolysin and required components of the canonical inflammasome, including caspase-1, ASC and NLRP3. Collectively our findings indicate that neutrophils make a significant contribution to IL-1β production during GBS infection, thereby amplifying their own recruitment. These cells directly recognize GBS by means of endosomal TLRs and cytosolic sensors, leading to activation of the caspase-1 inflammasome.
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- Nastaran Mohammadi
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
- Charybdis Vaccines Srl, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
- Scylla Biotech Srl, 98125, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125, Messina, Italy
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LaRock CN, Nizet V. Inflammasome/IL-1β Responses to Streptococcal Pathogens. Front Immunol 2015; 6:518. [PMID: 26500655 PMCID: PMC4597127 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Inflammation mediated by the inflammasome and the cytokine IL-1β are some of the earliest and most important alarms to infection. These pathways are responsive to the virulence factors that pathogens use to subvert immune processes, and thus are typically activated only by microbes with potential to cause severe disease. Among the most serious human infections are those caused by the pathogenic streptococci, in part because these species numerous strategies for immune evasion. Since the virulence factor armament of each pathogen is unique, the role of IL-1β and the pathways leading to its activation varies for each infection. This review summarizes the role of IL-1β during infections caused by streptococcal pathogens, with emphasis on emergent mechanisms and concepts countering paradigms determined for other organisms.
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- Christopher N LaRock
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego , La Jolla, CA , USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego , La Jolla, CA , USA ; Skaggs School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego , La Jolla, CA , USA
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Kroin JS, Buvanendran A, Li J, Moric M, Im HJ, Tuman KJ, Shafikhani SH. Short-term glycemic control is effective in reducing surgical site infection in diabetic rats. Anesth Analg 2015; 120:1289-96. [PMID: 25695673 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000000650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients and animals with diabetes exhibit enhanced vulnerability to bacterial surgical infections. Despite multiple retrospective studies demonstrating the benefits associated with glycemic control in reducing bacterial infection after cardiac surgery, there are fewer guidelines on the use of glycemic control for noncardiac surgeries. In the current study, we investigated whether long-term (begun 2 weeks before surgery) or immediate (just before surgery) glycemic controls, continued postoperatively, can reduce surgical site infection in type 1 diabetic-induced rats. METHODS Rats were injected with streptozotocin to induce type 1 diabetes. Four groups of animals underwent surgery and thigh muscle Staphylococcus aureus bacteria challenge (1 × 10 colony forming units) at the time of surgery. Group 1 diabetic rats received insulin treatment just before surgery and continued until the end of study (short-term glycemic control group). Group 2 diabetic rats received insulin treatment 2 weeks before surgery and continued until the end of study (long-term glycemic control). Group 3 diabetic rats received no insulin treatment (no glycemic control group). Group 4 nondiabetic rats served as a healthy control group. Rats were euthanized at 3 or 6 days after surgery. Blood glucose and muscle bacterial burden were measured at 3 or 6 days after surgery. RESULTS Glycemic control was achieved in both long- and short-term insulin-treated diabetic rats. Compared with untreated diabetic rats, the bacterial burden in muscle was significantly lower in both groups of glycemic controlled diabetic rats at 3 (all P < 0.003) and 6 (all P < 0.0001) days after surgery. CONCLUSIONS A short-term glycemic control regimen, initiated just before surgery and bacterial exposure, was as effective in reducing surgical site infection as a long-term glycemic control in type 1 diabetic rats. These data suggest that immediately implementing glycemic control in type 1 diabetic surgical patients before undergoing noncardiac surgery may decrease the risk of infection.
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- Jeffrey S Kroin
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; †Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; and ‡Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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Theilacker C, Diederich AK, Otto A, Sava IG, Wobser D, Bao Y, Hese K, Broszat M, Henneke P, Becher D, Huebner J. Enterococcus faecalis Glycolipids Modulate Lipoprotein-Content of the Bacterial Cell Membrane and Host Immune Response. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0132949. [PMID: 26172831 PMCID: PMC4501811 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2014] [Accepted: 06/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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In this study, we investigated the impact of the cell membrane composition of E. faecalis on its recognition by the host immune system. To this end, we employed an E. faecalis deletion mutant (ΔbgsA) that does not synthesize the major cell membrane glycolipid diglycosyl-diacylglycerol (DGlcDAG). Proteomic analysis revealed that 13 of a total of 21 upregulated surface-associated proteins of E. faecalis ΔbgsA were lipoproteins. This led to a total lipoprotein content in the cell membrane of 35.8% in ΔbgsA compared to only 9.4% in wild-type bacteria. Increased lipoprotein content strongly affected the recognition of ΔbgsA by mouse macrophages in vitro with an increased stimulation of TNF-α production by heat-fixed bacteria and secreted antigens. Inactivation of the prolipoprotein diacylglycerol transferase (lgt) in ΔbgsA abrogated TNF-α induction by a ΔbgsA_lgt double mutant indicating that lipoproteins mediate increased activation of mouse macrophages by ΔbgsA. Heat-fixed ΔbgsA bacteria, culture supernatant, or cell membrane lipid extract activated transfected HEK cells in a TLR2-dependent fashion; the same was not true of wild-type bacteria. In mice infected intraperitoneally with a sublethal dose of E. faecalis we observed a 70% greater mortality in mice infected with ΔbgsA compared with wild-type-infected mice. Increased mortality due to ΔbgsA infection was associated with elevated plasma levels of the inflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IL-6 and MIP-2. In summary, our results provide evidence that an E. faecalis mutant lacking its major bilayer forming glycolipid DGlcDAG upregulates lipoprotein expression leading to increased activation of the host innate immune system and virulence in vivo.
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- Christian Theilacker
- Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- * E-mail:
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Department of Microbial Physiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany
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- Research Center for Nutrition and Food Science, Technical University Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Center for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Department of Microbial Physiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Bi D, Qiao L, Bergelson I, Ek CJ, Duan L, Zhang X, Albertsson AM, Pettengill M, Kronforst K, Ninkovic J, Goldmann D, Janzon A, Hagberg H, Wang X, Mallard C, Levy O. Staphylococcus epidermidis Bacteremia Induces Brain Injury in Neonatal Mice via Toll-like Receptor 2-Dependent and -Independent Pathways. J Infect Dis 2015; 212:1480-90. [PMID: 25883383 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Staphylococcus epidermidis causes late-onset sepsis in preterm infants. Staphylococcus epidermidis activates host responses in part via Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). Epidemiologic studies link bacteremia and neonatal brain injury, but direct evidence is lacking. METHODS Wild-type and TLR2-deficient (TLR2-/-) mice were injected intravenously with S. epidermidis at postnatal day 1 prior to measuring plasma and brain cytokine and chemokine levels, bacterial clearance, brain caspase-3 activation, white/gray matter volume, and innate transcriptome. RESULTS Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia spontaneously resolved over 24 hours without detectable bacteria in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). TLR2-/- mice demonstrated delayed S. epidermidis clearance from blood, spleen, and liver. Staphylococcus epidermidis increased the white blood cell count in the CSF, increased interleukin 6, interleukin 12p40, CCL2, and CXCL1 concentrations in plasma; increased the CCL2 concentration in the brain; and caused rapid (within 6 hours) TLR2-dependent brain activation of caspase-3 and TLR2-independent white matter injury. CONCLUSIONS Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia, in the absence of bacterial entry into the CSF, impairs neonatal brain development. Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia induced both TLR2-dependent and -independent brain injury, with the latter occurring in the absence of TLR2, a condition associated with an increased bacterial burden. Our study indicates that the consequences of transient bacteremia in early life may be more severe than commonly appreciated, and our findings may inform novel approaches to reduce bacteremia-associated brain injury.
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- Dan Bi
- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Song Jiang Central Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Prentice Women's Hospital, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Illinois
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- 3M Corporate Research Materials Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Centre for the Developing Brain, Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Pediatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
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- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Centre for the Developing Brain, Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Lemire P, Roy D, Fittipaldi N, Okura M, Takamatsu D, Bergman E, Segura M. Implication of TLR- but not of NOD2-signaling pathways in dendritic cell activation by group B Streptococcus serotypes III and V. PLoS One 2014; 9:e113940. [PMID: 25436906 PMCID: PMC4250082 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is an important agent of life-threatening invasive infection. It has been previously shown that encapsulated type III GBS is easily internalized by dendritic cells (DCs), and that this internalization had an impact on cytokine production. The receptors underlying these processes are poorly characterized. Knowledge on the mechanisms used by type V GBS to activate DCs is minimal. In this work, we investigated the role of Toll-like receptor (TLR)/MyD88 signaling pathway, the particular involvement of TLR2, and that of the intracellular sensing receptor NOD2 in the activation of DCs by types III and V GBS. The role of capsular polysaccharide (CPS, one of the most important GBS virulence factors) in bacterial-DC interactions was evaluated using non-encapsulated mutants. Despite differences in the role of CPS between types III and V GBS in bacterial internalization and intracellular survival, no major differences were observed in their capacity to modulate release of cytokines by DC. For both serotypes, CPS had a minor role in this response. Production of cytokines by DCs was shown to strongly rely on MyD88-dependent signaling pathways, suggesting that DCs recognize GBS and become activated mostly through TLR signaling. Yet, GBS-infected TLR2-/- DCs only showed a partial reduction in the production of IL-6 and CXCL1 compared to control DCs. Surprisingly, CXCL10 release by type III or type V GBS-infected DCs was MyD88-independent. No differences in DC activation were observed between NOD2-/- and control DCs. These results demonstrate the involvement of various receptors and the complexity of the cytokine production pathways activated by GBS upon DC infection.
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- Paul Lemire
- Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Bacterial and Parasitic Diseases Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Bacterial and Parasitic Diseases Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
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Landwehr-Kenzel S, Henneke P. Interaction of Streptococcus agalactiae and Cellular Innate Immunity in Colonization and Disease. Front Immunol 2014; 5:519. [PMID: 25400631 PMCID: PMC4212683 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B streptococcus, GBS) is highly adapted to humans, where it is a normal constituent of the intestinal and vaginal flora. Yet, GBS has highly invasive potential and causes excessive inflammation, sepsis, and death at the beginning of life, in the elderly and in diabetic patients. Thus, GBS is a model pathobiont that thrives in the healthy host, but has not lost its potential virulence during coevolution with mankind. It remains incompletely understood how the innate immune system contains GBS in the natural niches, the intestinal and genital tracts, and which molecular events underlie breakdown of mucocutaneous resistance. Newborn infants between days 7 and 90 of life are at risk of a particularly striking sepsis manifestation (late-onset disease), where the transition from colonization to invasion and dissemination, and thus from health to severe sepsis is typically fulminant and not predictable. The great majority of late-onset sepsis cases are caused by one clone, GBS ST17, which expresses HvgA as a signature virulence factor and adhesin. In mice, HvgA promotes the crossing of both the mucosal and the blood–brain barrier. Expression levels of HvgA and other GBS virulence factors, such as pili and toxins, are regulated by the upstream two-component control system CovR/S. This in turn is modulated by acidic epithelial pH, high glucose levels, and during the passage through the mouse intestine. After invasion, GBS has the ability to subvert innate immunity by mechanisms like glycerinaldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase-dependent induction of IL-10 and β-protein binding to the inhibitory phagocyte receptors sialic acid binding immunoglobulin-like lectin 5 and 14. On the host side, sensing of GBS nucleic acids and lipopeptides by both Toll-like receptors and the inflammasome appears to be critical for host resistance against GBS. Yet, comprehensive models on the interplay between GBS and human immune cells at the colonizing site are just emerging.
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- Sybille Landwehr-Kenzel
- Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité University Medicine Berlin , Berlin , Germany ; Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, Charité University Medicine Berlin , Berlin , Germany ; Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin , Berlin , Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany ; Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany
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Hematopoietic but not endothelial cell MyD88 contributes to host defense during gram-negative pneumonia derived sepsis. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1004368. [PMID: 25254554 PMCID: PMC4177915 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2014] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important cause of sepsis. The common Toll-like receptor adapter myeloid differentiation primary response gene (MyD)88 is crucial for host defense against Klebsiella. Here we investigated the role of MyD88 in myeloid and endothelial cells during Klebsiella pneumosepsis. Mice deficient for MyD88 in myeloid (LysM-Myd88(-/-)) and myeloid plus endothelial (Tie2-Myd88(-/-)) cells showed enhanced lethality and bacterial growth. Tie2-Myd88(-/-) mice reconstituted with control bone marrow, representing mice with a selective MyD88 deficiency in endothelial cells, showed an unremarkable antibacterial defense. Myeloid or endothelial cell MyD88 deficiency did not impact on lung pathology or distant organ injury during late stage sepsis, while LysM-Myd88(-/-) mice demonstrated a strongly attenuated inflammatory response in the airways early after infection. These data suggest that myeloid but not endothelial MyD88 is important for host defense during gram-negative pneumonia derived sepsis.
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Role of Toll-like receptor 13 in innate immune recognition of group B streptococci. Infect Immun 2014; 82:5013-22. [PMID: 25225249 DOI: 10.1128/iai.02282-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Murine Toll-like receptor 13 (TLR13), an endosomal receptor that is not present in humans, is activated by an unmethylated motif present in the large ribosomal subunit of bacterial RNA (23S rRNA). Little is known, however, of the impact of TLR13 on antibacterial host defenses. Here we examined the role of this receptor in the context of infection induced by the model pathogen group B streptococcus (GBS). To this end, we used bacterial strains masked from TLR13 recognition by virtue of constitutive expression of the ErmC methyltransferase, which results in dimethylation of the 23S rRNA motif at a critical adenine residue. We found that TLR13-mediated rRNA recognition was required for optimal induction of tumor necrosis factor alpha and nitrous oxide in dendritic cell and macrophage cultures stimulated with heat-killed bacteria or purified bacterial RNA. However, TLR13-dependent recognition was redundant when live bacteria were used as a stimulus. Moreover, masking bacterial rRNA from TLR13 recognition did not increase the ability of GBS to avoid host defenses and replicate in vivo. In contrast, increased susceptibility to infection was observed under conditions in which signaling by all endosomal TLRs was abolished, i.e., in mice with a loss-of-function mutation in the chaperone protein UNC93B1. Our data lend support to the conclusion that TLR13 participates in GBS recognition, although blockade of the function of this receptor can be compensated for by other endosomal TLRs. Lack of selective pressure by bacterial infections might explain the evolutionary loss of TLR13 in humans. However, further studies using different bacterial species are needed to prove this hypothesis.
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Signal transduction via MyD88, an adaptor protein engaged by the Toll-like receptor (TLR) and interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) family receptors, has a crucial role in host defenses against group B streptococcus (GBS). To examine the contribution of IL-1R signaling to MyD88-dependent host defenses, we analyzed GBS infection in type I IL-1R (IL-1RI)-deficient mice. Most of these animals displayed clinical signs of sepsis and neurological disease and died after a challenge with a bacterial dose that did not cause illness or death in any of the wild-type animals. Moreover, bacterial numbers in the blood and brains of the immunodefective mice were considerably increased. The ability of blood leukocytes or bone marrow-derived macrophages to kill GBS in vitro was not affected by a lack of IL-1RI. However, it was found in a newly developed model of GBS-induced peritoneal inflammation that IL-1 signaling selectively promoted the production of the chemokines KC and MIP-1α and neutrophil recruitment. Moreover, the secretion of KC and MIP-1α, but not tumor necrosis factor alpha, by peritoneal macrophages stimulated with GBS was significantly decreased in the absence of IL-1RI. Accordingly, the number of neutrophils in the blood and the concentration of myeloperoxidase, a neutrophil marker, in infected organs were severely reduced in the immunodefective mice during GBS disease, concomitantly with a reduction in tissue KC and MIP-1α levels. In conclusion, IL-1RI plays a crucial role in host defenses against GBS by inducing the high-level production of chemokines and the subsequent recruitment of neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocytes to infection sites. Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a serious and frequent human pathogen. Experimental infection with this bacterium has been widely used to understand the mechanism whereby the body’s first line of defense, represented by cells and molecules of the innate immune system, fights infections. In both humans and mice, defective function of the adaptor molecule MyD88 has been associated with extreme susceptibility to infection by GBS and other extracellular bacteria. We show here that lack of signaling by interleukin-1 (IL-1) cytokines can largely, although not completely, explain the increased susceptibility to infection observed in the absence of MyD88 function. We show, in particular, that IL-1 signaling through the IL-1 receptor promotes the production of the leukocyte attractant chemokines KC and MIP-1α and recruitment of neutrophils to GBS infection sites, thereby enabling these leukocytes to clear the infection. Our findings indicate that stimulation of IL-1 signaling may be useful as an alternative therapeutic strategy to treat GBS infections.
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The interleukin-1β/CXCL1/2/neutrophil axis mediates host protection against group B streptococcal infection. Infect Immun 2014; 82:4508-17. [PMID: 25114117 DOI: 10.1128/iai.02104-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies have indicated that group B streptococcus (GBS), a frequent human pathogen, potently induces the release of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), an important mediator of inflammatory responses. Since little is known about the role of this cytokine in GBS disease, we analyzed the outcome of infection in IL-1β-deficient mice. These animals were markedly sensitive to GBS infection, with most of them dying under challenge conditions that caused no deaths in wild-type control mice. Lethality was due to the inability of the IL-1β-deficient mice to control local GBS replication and dissemination to target organs, such as the brain and the kidneys. Moreover, in a model of inflammation induced by the intraperitoneal injection of killed GBS, a lack of IL-1β was associated with selective impairment in the production of the neutrophil chemokines CXCL1 and CXCL2 and in neutrophil recruitment to the peritoneal cavity. Decreased blood neutrophil counts and impaired neutrophil recruitment to the brain and kidneys were also observed during GBS infection in IL-1β-deficient mice concomitantly with a reduction in CXCL1 and CXCL2 tissue levels. Notably, the hypersusceptibility to GBS infection observed in the immune-deficient animals was recapitulated by neutrophil depletion with anti-Gr1 antibodies. Collectively, our data identify a cytokine circuit that involves IL-1β-induced production of CXCL1 and CXCL2 and leads the recruitment of neutrophils to GBS infection sites. Moreover, our data point to an essential role of these cells in controlling the progression and outcome of GBS disease.
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Kwa MQ, Nguyen T, Huynh J, Ramnath D, De Nardo D, Lam PY, Reynolds EC, Hamilton JA, Sweet MJ, Scholz GM. Interferon regulatory factor 6 differentially regulates Toll-like receptor 2-dependent chemokine gene expression in epithelial cells. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:19758-68. [PMID: 24872416 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.584540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Epidermal and mucosal epithelial cells are integral to host defense. They not only act as a physical barrier but also utilize pattern recognition receptors, such as the Toll-like receptors (TLRs), to detect and respond to pathogens. Members of the interferon regulatory factor (IRF) family of transcription factors are key components of TLR signaling as they impart specificity to downstream responses. Although IRF6 is a critical regulator of epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation, its role in TLR signaling has not previously been addressed. We show here that IRF6 is activated by IRAK1 as well as by MyD88 but not by TRIF or TBK1. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments further demonstrated that IRF6 can interact with IRAK1. Gene silencing in epithelial cells along with gene promoter reporter assays showed that IRAK1 mediates TLR2-inducible CCL5 gene expression at least in part by promoting IRF6 activation. Conversely, IRAK1 regulated CXCL8 gene expression independently of IRF6, thus identifying a molecular mechanism by which TLR2 signaling differentially regulates the expression of specific chemokines in epithelial cells. Bioinformatics analysis and mutagenesis-based experiments identified Ser-413 and Ser-424 as key regulatory sites in IRF6. Phosphomimetic mutation of these residues resulted in greatly enhanced IRF6 dimerization and trans-activator function. Collectively, our findings suggest that, in addition to its importance for epithelial barrier function, IRF6 also contributes to host defense by providing specificity to the regulation of inflammatory chemokine expression by TLR2 in epithelial cells.
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- Mei Qi Kwa
- From the Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, and Bio21 Institute, and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- From the Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, and Bio21 Institute, and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- From the Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, and Bio21 Institute, and
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- Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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- the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- From the Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne Dental School, and Bio21 Institute, and Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, and
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Elling R, Hufnagel M, de Zoysa A, Lander F, Zumstein K, Krueger M, Henneke P. Synchronous recurrence of group B streptococcal late-onset sepsis in twins. Pediatrics 2014; 133:e1388-91. [PMID: 24709927 PMCID: PMC4006428 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-0426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains the leading cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in industrialized countries. Whereas the use of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis has led to a significant decline in early-onset sepsis, the incidence of late-onset sepsis has remained unchanged. Whether late-onset sepsis usually originates from established mucocutaneous GBS colonization of the infant or whether it results from an acute exogenous GBS infection remains controversial. Here we report on twins who both twice developed GBS sepsis in a strikingly parallel fashion, with both instances originating from a single hypervirulent GBS clone. Factored together, the presentation as cervical soft tissue infection in both cases, the synchronicity of the episodes, and the detection of GBS DNA in breast milk all strongly suggest an enteral mode of transmission with a short incubation period.
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- Roland Elling
- Centers for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and,Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Respiratory and Vaccine Preventable Bacteria Reference Unit, Microbiology Services Division, Health Protection Agency, Colindale, London, United Kingdom; and
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- Centers for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and,Clinic and Policlinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Centers for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;
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Andrade EB, Alves J, Madureira P, Oliveira L, Ribeiro A, Cordeiro-da-Silva A, Correia-Neves M, Trieu-Cuot P, Ferreira P. TLR2-Induced IL-10 Production Impairs Neutrophil Recruitment to Infected Tissues during Neonatal Bacterial Sepsis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2013; 191:4759-68. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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O’Hare FM, William Watson R, Molloy EJ. Toll-like receptors in neonatal sepsis. Acta Paediatr 2013; 102:572-8. [PMID: 23419040 DOI: 10.1111/apa.12201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Revised: 11/18/2012] [Accepted: 02/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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UNLABELLED Toll-like receptors are vital transmembrane receptors that initiate the innate immune response to many micro-organisms. The discovery of these receptors has improved our understanding of host-pathogen interactions, and these receptors play an important role in the pathogenesis of multiple neonatal conditions such as sepsis and brain injury. Toll-like receptors, especially TLRs 2 and 4, are associated with necrotizing enterocolitis, periventricular leukomalacia and sepsis. CONCLUSION Toll-like receptor modulation may potentially be used as immunomodulators in the management of neonatal sepsis.
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- Fiona M O’Hare
- Department of Neonatology; National Maternity Hospital; Dublin Ireland
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- School of Medicine & Medical Science; University College Dublin; Dublin Ireland
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- Department of Neonatology; National Maternity Hospital; Dublin Ireland
- School of Medicine & Medical Science; University College Dublin; Dublin Ireland
- Department of Paediatrics; Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Dublin Ireland
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Lachance C, Segura M, Gerber PP, Xu J, Gottschalk M. Toll-like receptor 2-independent host innate immune response against an epidemic strain of Streptococcus suis that causes a toxic shock-like syndrome in humans. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65031. [PMID: 23724118 PMCID: PMC3665724 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2013] [Accepted: 04/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Streptococcus suis is an emerging zoonotic agent causing meningitis and septicemia. Outbreaks in humans in China with atypical cases of streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome have been described to be caused by a clonal epidemic S. suis strain characterized as sequence type (ST) 7 by multilocus sequence typing, different from the classical ST1 usually isolated in Europe. Previous in vitro studies showed that Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 plays a major role in S. suis ST1 interactions with host cells. In the present study, the in vivo role of TLR2 in systemic infections caused by S. suis ST1 or ST7 strains using TLR2 deficient (TLR2(-/-)) mice was evaluated. TLR2-mediated recognition significantly contributes to the acute disease caused by the highly virulent S. suis ST1 strain, since the TLR2(-/-) mice remained unaffected when compared to wild type (WT) mice. The lack of mortality could not be associated with a lower bacterial burden; however, a significant decrease in the induction of pro-inflammatory mediators, as evaluated by microarray, real-time PCR and protein assays, was observed. On the other hand, TLR2(-/-) mice infected with the epidemic ST7 strain presented no significant differences regarding survival and expression of pro-inflammatory mediators when compared to the WT mice. Together, these results show a TLR2-independent host innate immune response to S. suis that depends on the strain.
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- Claude Lachance
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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von Bernuth H, Picard C, Puel A, Casanova JL. Experimental and natural infections in MyD88- and IRAK-4-deficient mice and humans. Eur J Immunol 2013; 42:3126-35. [PMID: 23255009 PMCID: PMC3752658 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201242683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2012] [Revised: 08/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Most Toll-like-receptors (TLRs) and interleukin-1 receptors (IL-1Rs) signal via myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) and interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK-4). The combined roles of these two receptor families in the course of experimental infections have been assessed in MyD88- and IRAK-4-deficient mice for almost fifteen years. These animals have been shown to be susceptible to 46 pathogens: 27 bacteria, eight viruses, seven parasites, and four fungi. Humans with inborn MyD88 or IRAK-4 deficiency were first identified in 2003. They suffer from naturally occurring life-threatening infections caused by a small number of bacterial species, although the incidence and severity of these infections decrease with age. Mouse TLR- and IL-1R-dependent immunity mediated by MyD88 and IRAK-4 seems to be vital to combat a wide array of experimentally administered pathogens at most ages. By contrast, human TLR- and IL-1R-dependent immunity mediated by MyD88 and IRAK-4 seems to be effective in the natural setting against only a few bacteria and is most important in infancy and early childhood. The roles of TLRs and IL-1Rs in protective immunity deduced from studies in mutant mice subjected to experimental infections should therefore be reconsidered in the light of findings for natural infections in humans carrying mutations as discussed in this review.
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- Horst von Bernuth
- Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité Hospital - Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
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IKKβ in myeloid cells controls the host response to lethal and sublethal Francisella tularensis LVS infection. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54124. [PMID: 23349802 PMCID: PMC3551972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2012] [Accepted: 12/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background The NF-κB activating kinases, IKKα and IKKβ, are key regulators of inflammation and immunity in response to infection by a variety of pathogens. Both IKKα and IKKβ have been reported to modulate either pro- or anti- inflammatory programs, which may be specific to the infectious organism or the target tissue. Here, we analyzed the requirements for the IKKs in myeloid cells in vivo in response to Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain (Ft. LVS) infection. Methods and Principal Findings In contrast to prior reports in which conditional deletion of IKKβ in the myeloid lineage promoted survival and conferred resistance to an in vivo group B streptococcus infection, we show that mice with a comparable conditional deletion (IKKβ cKO) succumb more rapidly to lethal Ft. LVS infection and are unable to control bacterial growth at sublethal doses. Flow cytometry analysis of hepatic non-parenchymal cells from infected mice reveals that IKKβ inhibits M1 classical macrophage activation two days post infection, which has the collateral effect of suppressing IFN-γ+ CD8+ T cells. Despite this early enhanced inflammation, IKKβ cKO mice are unable to control infection; and this coincides with a shift toward M2a polarized macrophages. In comparison, we find that myeloid IKKα is dispensable for survival and bacterial control. However, both IKKα and IKKβ have effects on hepatic granuloma development. IKKα cKO mice develop fewer, but well-contained granulomas that accumulate excess necrotic cells after 9 days of infection; while IKKβ cKO mice develop numerous micro-granulomas that are less well contained. Conclusions Taken together our findings reveal that unlike IKKα, IKKβ has multiple, contrasting roles in this bacterial infection model by acting in an anti-inflammatory capacity at early times towards sublethal Ft. LVS infection; but in spite of this, macrophage IKKβ is also a critical effector for host survival and efficient pathogen clearance.
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Basset A, Zhang F, Benes C, Sayeed S, Herd M, Thompson C, Golenbock DT, Camilli A, Malley R. Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 mediates inflammatory responses to oligomerized RrgA pneumococcal pilus type 1 protein. J Biol Chem 2012; 288:2665-75. [PMID: 23233677 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.398875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The pneumococcal type 1 pilus is an inflammatory and adherence-promoting structure associated with increased virulence in mouse models. We show that RrgA, an ancillary pilus subunit devoid of a lipidation motif, particularly when presented as part of an oligomer, is a TLR2 agonist. The surface-exposed domain III, and in particular a 49-amino acid sequence (P3), of the protein is responsible for the TLR2 activity of RrgA. A pneumococcal mutant carrying RrgA with a deletion of the P3 region was significantly reduced in its ability to activate TLR2 and induce TNF-α responses after mouse intraperitoneal infection, whereas no such difference could be noted when TLR2(-/-) mice were challenged, further implicating this region in recognition by TLR2. Thus, we conclude that the type 1 pneumococcal pilus can activate cells via TLR2, and the ancillary pilus subunit RrgA is a key component of this activation.
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- Alan Basset
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kenzel S, Mergen M, von Süßkind-Schwendi J, Wennekamp J, Deshmukh SD, Haeffner M, Triantafyllopoulou A, Fuchs S, Farmand S, Santos-Sierra S, Seufert J, van den Berg TK, Kuijpers TW, Henneke P. Insulin modulates the inflammatory granulocyte response to streptococci via phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2012; 189:4582-91. [PMID: 23018458 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Group B streptococci (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae) are a major cause of invasive infections in newborn infants and in patients with type 2 diabetes. Both patient groups exhibit peripheral insulin resistance and alterations in polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PML) function. In this investigation, we studied the PML response repertoire to GBS with a focus on TLR signaling and the modulation of this response by insulin in mice and humans. We found that GBS-induced, MyD88-dependent chemokine formation of PML was specifically downmodulated by insulin via insulin receptor-mediated induction of PI3K. PI3K inhibited transcription of chemokine genes on the level of NF-κB activation and binding. Insulin specifically modulated the chemokine response of PML to whole bacteria, but affected neither activation by purified TLR agonists nor antimicrobial properties, such as migration, phagocytosis, bacterial killing, and formation of reactive oxygen species. The targeted modulation of bacteria-induced chemokine formation by insulin via PI3K may form a basis for the development of novel targets of adjunctive sepsis therapy.
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- Sybille Kenzel
- Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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Immune receptors involved in Streptococcus suis recognition by dendritic cells. PLoS One 2012; 7:e44746. [PMID: 22984550 PMCID: PMC3440357 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2012] [Accepted: 08/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Streptococcus suis is an important swine pathogen and an emerging zoonotic agent of septicemia and meningitis. Knowledge on host immune responses towards S. suis, and strategies used by this pathogen for subversion of these responses is scarce. The objective of this study was to identify the immune receptors involved in S. suis recognition by dendritic cells (DCs). Production of cytokines and expression of co-stimulatory molecules by DCs were shown to strongly rely on MyD88-dependent signaling pathways, suggesting that DCs recognize S. suis and become activated mostly through Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling. Supporting this fact, TLR2−/− DCs were severely impaired in the release of several cytokines and the surface expression of CD86 and MHC-II. The release of IL-12p70 and CXC10, and the expression of CD40 were found to depend on signaling by both TLR2 and TLR9. The release of IL-23 and CXCL1 were partially dependent on NOD2. Finally, despite the fact that MyD88 signaling was crucial for DC activation and maturation, MyD88-dependent pathways were not implicated in S. suis internalization by DCs. This first study on receptors involved in DC activation by S. suis suggests a major involvement of MyD88 signaling pathways, mainly (but not exclusively) through TLR2. A multimodal recognition involving a combination of different receptors seems essential for DC effective response to S. suis.
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Kronforst KD, Mancuso CJ, Pettengill M, Ninkovic J, Power Coombs MR, Stevens C, Otto M, Mallard C, Wang X, Goldmann D, Levy O. A neonatal model of intravenous Staphylococcus epidermidis infection in mice <24 h old enables characterization of early innate immune responses. PLoS One 2012; 7:e43897. [PMID: 22970147 PMCID: PMC3435332 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [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: 06/20/2012] [Accepted: 07/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Staphylococcus epidermidis (SE) causes late onset sepsis and significant morbidity in catheterized preterm newborns. Animal models of SE infection are useful in characterizing disease mechanisms and are an important approach to developing improved diagnostics and therapeutics. Current murine models of neonatal bacterial infection employ intraperitoneal or subcutaneous routes at several days of age, and may, therefore, not accurately reflect distinct features of innate immune responses to bacteremia. In this study we developed, validated, and characterized a murine model of intravenous (IV) infection in neonatal mice <24 hours (h) old to describe the early innate immune response to SE. C57BL/6 mice <24 h old were injected IV with 106, 107, 108 colony-forming units (CFU) of SE 1457, a clinical isolate from a central catheter infection. A prospective injection scoring system was developed and validated, with only high quality injections analyzed. Newborn mice were euthanized between 2 and 48 h post-injection and spleen, liver, and blood collected to assess bacterial viability, gene expression, and cytokine production. High quality IV injections demonstrated inoculum-dependent infection of spleen, liver and blood. Within 2 h of injection, SE induced selective transcription of TLR2 and MyD88 in the liver, and increased systemic production of plasma IL-6 and TNF-α. Despite clearance of bacteremia and solid organ infection within 48 h, inoculum-dependent impairment in weight gain was noted. We conclude that a model of IV SE infection in neonatal mice <24 h old is feasible, demonstrating inoculum-dependent infection of solid organs and a pattern of bacteremia, rapid and selective innate immune activation, and impairment of weight gain typical of infected human neonates. This novel model can now be used to characterize immune ontogeny, evaluate infection biomarkers, and assess preventative and therapeutic modalities.
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- Kenny D. Kronforst
- Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Pathogen Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Biondo C, Malara A, Costa A, Signorino G, Cardile F, Midiri A, Galbo R, Papasergi S, Domina M, Pugliese M, Teti G, Mancuso G, Beninati C. Recognition of fungal RNA by TLR7 has a nonredundant role in host defense against experimental candidiasis. Eur J Immunol 2012; 42:2632-43. [PMID: 22777843 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201242532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Revised: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 06/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
Despite convincing evidence for involvement of members of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family in fungal recognition, little is known of the functional role of individual TLRs in antifungal defenses. We found here that TLR7 was partially required for the induction of IL-12 (IL-12p70) by Candida albicans or Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Moreover, the IL-12p70 response was completely abrogated in cells from 3d mice, which are unable to mobilize TLRs to endosomal compartments, as well as in cells from mice lacking either the TLR adaptor MyD88 or the IRF1 transcription factor. Notably, purified fungal RNA recapitulated IL-12p70 induction by whole yeast. Although RNA could also induce moderate TLR7-dependent IL-23 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) secretion, TLR7 and other endosomal TLRs were redundant for IL-23 or TNF-α induction by whole fungi. Importantly, mice lacking TLR7 or IRF1 were hypersusceptible to systemic C. albicans infection. Our data suggest that IRF1 is downstream of a novel, nonredundant fungal recognition pathway that has RNA as a major target and requires phagosomal recruitment of intracellular TLRs. This pathway differs from those involved in IL-23 or TNF-α responses, which we show here to be independent from translocation of intracellular TLRs, phagocytosis, or phagosomal acidification.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carmelo Biondo
- The Elie Metchnikoff Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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