Journal
JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 2246-2253Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00215
Keywords
Streptococcus agalactiae; serum resistance; reprogramming metabolomics; grouper
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- NSFC projects [41276145]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou [201504010025]
- key project of the Natural Science foundation of Guangdong [2015A030308009]
- 973 project [2012CB114406]
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Streptococcus agalactiae causes severe systemic infections in human and fish. In the present study, we established a pathogen-plasma interaction model by which we explored how S. agalactiae evaded serum-mediated killing. We found that S. agalactiae grew faster in the presence of yellow grouper plasma than in the absence of the plasma, indicating S. agalactiae evolved a way of evading the fish immune system. To determine the events underlying this phenotype, we applied GC-MS-based metabolomics approaches to identify differential metabolomes between S. agalactiae cultured with and without yellow grouper plasma. Through bioinformatics analysis, decreased malic acid and increased adenosine were identified as the most crucial metabolites that distinguish the two groups. Meanwhile, they presented with decreased TCA cycle and elevated purine metabolism, respectively. Finally, exogenous malic acid and adenosine were used to reprogram the plasma-resistant metabolome, leading to elevated and decreased susceptibility to the plasma, respectively. Therefore, our findings reveal for the first time that S. agalactiae utilizes a metabolic trick to respond to plasma killing as a result of serum resistance, which may be reverted or enhanced by exogenous malic acid and adenosine, respectively, suggesting that the metabolic trick can be regulated by metabolites.
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