期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23179742
关键词
Rhodococcus equi; extracellular vesicles; virulence plasmid; macrophage; inflammatory response
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31960694, 31760035]
- Excellent Youth Project of Ningxia Natural Science Foundation [2021AAC05008]
- Ningxia Overseas Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project
This study examines the properties of R. equi-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their role in mediating inflammatory responses in macrophages. The results show that R. equi-EVs can induce macrophage cytotoxicity and increase the expression of inflammatory factors through the TLR2-NF-κB/MAPK pathway. The study also compares the differences in macrophage inflammatory responses mediated by EVs derived from virulent and avirulent strains of R. equi.
Rhodococcus equi (R. equi) is a Gram-positive coccobacillus that causes pneumonia in foals of less than 3 months, which have the ability of replication in macrophages. The ability of R. equi persist in macrophages is dependent on the virulence plasmid pVAPA. Gram-positive extracellular vesicles (EVs) carry a variety of virulence factors and play an important role in pathogenic infection. There are few studies on R. equi-derived EVs (R. equi-EVs), and little knowledge regarding the mechanisms of how R. equi-EVs communicate with the host cell. In this study, we examine the properties of EVs produced by the virulence strain R. equi 103(+) (103(+)-EVs) and avirulenct strain R. equi 103(-) (103(-)-EVs). We observed that 103(+)-EVs and 103(-)-EVs are similar to other Gram-positive extracellular vesicles, which range from 40 to 260 nm in diameter. The 103(+)-EVs or 103(-)-EVs could be taken up by mouse macrophage J774A.1 and cause macrophage cytotoxicity. Incubation of 103(+)-EVs or 103(-)-EVs with J774A.1 cells would result in increased expression levels of IL-1 beta, IL-6, and TNF-alpha. Moreover, the expression of TLR2, p-NF-kappa B, p-p38, and p-ERK were significantly increased in J774A.1 cells stimulated with R. equi-EVs. In addition, we presented that the level of inflammatory factors and expression of TLR2, p-NF-kappa B, p-p38, and p-ERK in J774A.1 cells showed a significant decreased when incubation with proteinase K pretreated-R. equi-EVs. Overall, our data indicate that R. equi-derived EVs are capable of mediating inflammatory responses in macrophages via TLR2-NF-kappa B/MAPK pathways, and R. equi-EVs proteins were responsible for TLR2-NF-kappa B/MAPK mediated inflammatory responses in macrophage. Our study is the first to reveal potential roles for R. equi-EVs in immune response in R. equi-host interactions and to compare the differences in macrophage inflammatory responses mediated by EVs derived from virulent strain R. equi and avirulent strain R. equi. The results of this study have improved our knowledge of the pathogenicity of R. equi.
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