Peer Reviewed
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-12-2007
Keywords
Adhesins, Bacterial, Agglutinins, Blood Platelets, Carrier Proteins, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Humans, Platelet Adhesiveness, Streptococcus gordonii
Funder/Sponsor
This work was funded by a postdoctoral research fellowship to S.W.K. (PD2005/06), a program grant to D.C. (RP2002/09) from the Health Research Board of Ireland, and a Wellcome Trust project grant (064832) to H.F.J.
Abstract
Streptococcus gordonii colonization of damaged heart surfaces in infective endocarditis is dependent upon the recognition of host receptors by specific bacterial surface proteins. However, despite several attempts to identify the mechanisms involved in this interaction, the nature of the bacterial proteins required remains poorly understood. This study provides clear evidence that several S. gordonii surface proteins participate in the interaction with platelets to support platelet adhesion and induce platelet aggregation. S. gordonii strains were found to support strong (DL1-Challis, SK12, SK184, and Blackburn) or moderate (UB1545 delta hsa and CH1-Challis) adhesion or failed to support platelet adhesion (M5, M99, and Channon). In addition, under flow conditions, platelets rolled and subsequently adhered to immobilized S. gordonii at low shear (50 s(-1)) in an Hsa-dependent manner but did not interact with S. gordonii DL1 at any shear rate of >50 s(-1). S. gordonii strains either induced (DL1-Challis, SK12, SK184, UB1545 delta hsa, and M99) or failed to induce (M5, CH1-Challis, Channon, and Blackburn) platelet aggregation. Using a proteomic approach to identify differential cell wall protein expression between aggregating (DL1) and nonaggregating (Blackburn) strains, we identified antigen I/antigen II family proteins SspA and SspB. The overexpression of SspA or SspB in platelet-nonreactive Lactococcus lactis induced GPIIb/GPIIIa-dependent platelet aggregation similar to that seen with S. gordonii DL1. However, they failed to support platelet adhesion. Thus, S. gordonii has distinct mechanisms for supporting platelet adhesion and inducing platelet aggregation. Differential protein expression between strains may be important for the pathogenesis of invasive diseases such as infective endocarditis.
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Citation
Kerrigan SW, Jakubovics NS, Keane C, Maguire P, Wynne K, Jenkinson HF, Cox D. Role of Streptococcus gordonii surface proteins SspA/SspB and Hsa in platelet function. Infection and Immunity. 2007;75(12):5740-7
PubMed ID
17893126
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DOI Link
10.1128/IAI.00909-07
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