Shah Nita R, Hancock Robert E W, Fernandez Rachel C
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014 Aug;58(8):4931-4. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02590-14. Epub 2014 May 27.
Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, has many strategies for evading the human immune system. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an important Gram-negative bacterial surface structure that activates the immune system via Toll-like receptor 4 and enables susceptibility to cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs). We show modification of the lipid A region of LPS with glucosamine increased resistance to numerous CAMPs, including LL-37. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this glucosamine modification increased resistance to outer membrane perturbation.
百日咳博德特氏菌是百日咳的病原体,它有多种逃避人类免疫系统的策略。脂多糖(LPS)是一种重要的革兰氏阴性细菌表面结构,它通过Toll样受体4激活免疫系统,并使细菌易受阳离子抗菌肽(CAMP)的作用。我们发现,用氨基葡萄糖对LPS的脂质A区域进行修饰可增强对包括LL-37在内的多种CAMP的抗性。此外,我们证明这种氨基葡萄糖修饰增强了对细菌外膜扰动的抗性。