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MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 205-212Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.2001.0465
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CNS; internalization; signal transduction; pathogenesis
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Three coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species (CNS) (Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus xylosus and Staphylococcus hyicus), from the milk of cows with mastitis, were used to evaluate adherence to and internalization by bovine mammary epithelia[ cells, and to investigate involvement of host cell signal transduction and host cell cytoskeleton rearrangement on internalization of CNS. S. xylosus showed highest adherence and internalization values of the species evaluated. Host cell cytoskeleton polymerization and protein kinase (PK) phosphorylation were required for internalization of CNS. Both protein kinase C (PKC) and tyrosine kinase (TPK) pathways were involved, but internalization of S. xylosus occurred preferentially through epidermal growth factor TPK activity. S. epidermidis and S. hyicus seemed to exploit other TPK pathways. Results of this study showed that S. xylosus, S. hyicus and S. epidermidis were able to adhere and internalize bovine mammary cells in a process that appeared to be receptor(s) mediated and exploited host signal transduction and cytoskeleton to induce an uptake signal. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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