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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
卷 81, 期 10, 页码 3903-3911出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00778-13
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- National Institutes of Health [DC006917]
- UCSD Glycotechnology Core Facility for analyses of sugar composition and linkage
- Wadsworth Center Electron Microscopy and Light Microscopy Core Facilities
The arginine deiminase system (ADS) is associated with arginine catabolism and plays a role in virulence of several pathogenic bacteria. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, the ADS genes exist as a locus consisting of arcABCDT. A recent genome-wide mutagenesis approach revealed that both arcD and arcT are potentially essential in a chinchilla otitis media (OM) model. In the present study, we generated Delta arcD, Delta arcT, and Delta arcDT mutants by homologous recombination and evaluated their infectivity. Our results showed that only arcD, and not arcT, of an OM isolate is required during chinchilla middle ear infection. Additionally, D39 Delta arcD exhibited enhanced nasopharyngeal colonization and was attenuated in both mouse pneumonia and bacteremia models. In vitro, D39 Delta arcD displayed enhanced adherence to A549 epithelial cells and increased phagocytosis by J774A. 1 macrophages compared to those with the parental strain. This mutant also exhibited an impaired capsule, as detected using electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and a capsule assay. We demonstrated that the capsule defect in the D39 Delta arcD mutant may not be associated with a deficiency in arginine but rather is likely caused by a loss of interaction between the capsule and the transmembrane protein ArcD.
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