Kolar Stacey L, Kyme Pierre, Tseng Ching Wen, Soliman Antoine, Kaplan Amber, Liang Jiurong, Nizet Victor, Jiang Dianhua, Murali Ramachandran, Arditi Moshe, Underhill David M, Liu George Y
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; Research Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Research Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Dec 9;18(6):694-704. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.11.001.
In response to tissue injury, hyaluronan (HA) polymers are cleaved by host hyaluronidases, generating small fragments that ligate Toll-like receptors (TLRs) to elicit inflammatory responses. Pathogenic bacteria such as group B Streptococcus (GBS) express and secrete hyaluronidases as a mechanism for tissue invasion, but it is not known how this activity relates to immune detection of HA. We found that bacterial hyaluronidases secreted by GBS and other Gram-positive pathogens degrade pro-inflammatory HA fragments to their component disaccharides. In addition, HA disaccharides block TLR2/4 signaling elicited by both host-derived HA fragments and other TLR2/4 ligands, including lipopolysaccharide. Application of GBS hyaluronidase or HA disaccharides reduced pulmonary pathology and pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in an acute lung injury model. We conclude that breakdown of host-generated pro-inflammatory HA fragments to disaccharides allows bacterial pathogens to evade immune detection and could be exploited as a strategy to treat inflammatory diseases.
针对组织损伤,宿主透明质酸酶会切割透明质酸(HA)聚合物,产生小片段,这些小片段会连接Toll样受体(TLR)以引发炎症反应。诸如B族链球菌(GBS)等致病细菌表达并分泌透明质酸酶作为组织入侵机制,但尚不清楚这种活性与HA的免疫检测有何关系。我们发现GBS和其他革兰氏阳性病原体分泌的细菌透明质酸酶将促炎性HA片段降解为其组成二糖。此外,HA二糖可阻断宿主来源的HA片段和其他TLR2/4配体(包括脂多糖)引发的TLR2/4信号传导。在急性肺损伤模型中,应用GBS透明质酸酶或HA二糖可减轻肺部病理变化和促炎细胞因子水平。我们得出结论,宿主产生的促炎性HA片段分解为二糖使细菌病原体能够逃避免疫检测,并且可作为治疗炎症性疾病的一种策略加以利用。