Hickey Christina A, Kuhn Kristine A, Donermeyer David L, Porter Nathan T, Jin Chunsheng, Cameron Elizabeth A, Jung Haerin, Kaiko Gerard E, Wegorzewska Marta, Malvin Nicole P, Glowacki Robert W P, Hansson Gunnar C, Allen Paul M, Martens Eric C, Stappenbeck Thaddeus S
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Cell Host Microbe. 2015 May 13;17(5):672-80. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.002.
Microbes interact with the host immune system via several potential mechanisms. One essential step for each mechanism is the method by which intestinal microbes or their antigens access specific host immune cells. Using genetically susceptible mice (dnKO) that develop spontaneous, fulminant colitis, triggered by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (B. theta), we investigated the mechanism of intestinal microbial access under conditions that stimulate colonic inflammation. B. theta antigens localized to host immune cells through outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that harbor bacterial sulfatase activity. We deleted the anaerobic sulfatase maturating enzyme (anSME) from B. theta, which is required for post-translational activation of all B. theta sulfatase enzymes. This bacterial mutant strain did not stimulate colitis in dnKO mice. Lastly, access of B. theta OMVs to host immune cells was sulfatase dependent. These data demonstrate that bacterial OMVs and associated enzymes promote inflammatory immune stimulation in genetically susceptible hosts.
微生物通过多种潜在机制与宿主免疫系统相互作用。每种机制的一个关键步骤是肠道微生物或其抗原进入特定宿主免疫细胞的方式。我们使用因具核梭杆菌(B. theta)引发自发性暴发性结肠炎的基因易感小鼠(dnKO),研究了在刺激结肠炎症的条件下肠道微生物进入的机制。B. theta抗原通过具有细菌硫酸酯酶活性的外膜囊泡(OMV)定位于宿主免疫细胞。我们从B. theta中删除了厌氧硫酸酯酶成熟酶(anSME),这是所有B. theta硫酸酯酶翻译后激活所必需的。这种细菌突变株不会在dnKO小鼠中刺激结肠炎。最后,B. theta OMV进入宿主免疫细胞依赖于硫酸酯酶。这些数据表明,细菌OMV和相关酶在基因易感宿主中促进炎症性免疫刺激。