Bulati Matteo, Busà Rosalia, Carcione Claudia, Iannolo Gioacchin, Di Mento Giuseppina, Cuscino Nicola, Di Gesù Roberto, Piccionello Antonio Palumbo, Buscemi Silvestre, Carreca Anna Paola, Barbera Floriana, Monaco Francesco, Cardinale Francesca, Conaldi Pier Giulio, Douradinha Bruno
Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta, Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), 90127 Palermo, Italy.
Fondazione Ri.MED, 90133 Palermo, Italy.
Microorganisms. 2021 Jun 17;9(6):1317. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9061317.
Currently, is a pathogen of clinical relevance due to its plastic ability of acquiring resistance genes to multiple antibiotics. During infections, lipopolysaccharides (LPS) play an ambiguous role as they both activate immune responses but can also play a role in immune evasion. The LPS O2a and LPS O2afg serotypes are prevalent in most multidrug resistant strains. Thus, we sought to understand if those two particular LPS serotypes were involved in a mechanism of immune evasion. We have extracted LPS (serotypes O1, O2a and O2afg) from strains and, using human monocytes ex vivo, we assessed the ability of those LPS antigens to induce the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. We observed that, when human monocytes are incubated with LPS serotypes O1, O2a or O2afg strains, O2afg and, to a lesser extent, O2a but not O1 failed to elicit the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, which suggests a role in immune evasion. Our preliminary data also shows that nuclear translocation of NF-κB, a process which regulates an immune response against infections, occurs in monocytes incubated with LPS O1 and, to a smaller extent, with LPS O2a, but not with the LPS serotype O2afg. Our results indicate that multidrug resistant expressing LPS O2afg serotypes avoid an initial inflammatory immune response and, consequently, are able to systematically spread inside the host unharmed, which results in the several pathologies associated with this bacterium.
目前,由于其获得多种抗生素耐药基因的可塑性,[病原体名称未给出]是一种具有临床相关性的病原体。在[病原体名称未给出]感染期间,脂多糖(LPS)发挥着模糊的作用,因为它们既激活免疫反应,但也可能在免疫逃避中起作用。LPS O2a和LPS O2afg血清型在大多数多重耐药[病原体名称未给出]菌株中普遍存在。因此,我们试图了解这两种特定的LPS血清型是否参与免疫逃避机制。我们从[病原体名称未给出]菌株中提取了LPS(血清型O1、O2a和O2afg),并使用人单核细胞进行体外实验,评估这些LPS抗原诱导促炎细胞因子和趋化因子产生的能力。我们观察到,当人单核细胞与LPS血清型O1、O2a或O2afg菌株孵育时,O2afg以及程度较轻的O2a,但不是O1,未能引发促炎细胞因子和趋化因子的产生,这表明其在免疫逃避中发挥作用。我们的初步数据还表明,NF-κB的核转位,这一调节针对感染的免疫反应的过程,发生在与LPS O1孵育的单核细胞中,在较小程度上也发生在与LPS O2a孵育的单核细胞中,但不发生在LPS血清型O2afg中。我们的结果表明,表达LPS O2afg血清型的多重耐药[病原体名称未给出]避免了初始的炎症免疫反应,因此能够在宿主体内系统地无害传播,这导致了与这种细菌相关的多种病理状况。