ExoU contributes to late killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - infected endothelial cells

• Autor(a) principal: Saliba,Alessandra Mattos
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Outros Autores: Nishi,Rebeca, Assis,Maria Cristina, Plotkowski,Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822003000500008
• topic: Type III secretion system; ExoU; endothelial cells; bacterial cytotoxicity

To ascertain the role of ExoU in late P. aeruginosa cytotoxicity, endothelial cells (EC) were exposed to wild type PA103, PA103deltaexoU and PA103::exsA for 1h and to gentamicin in culture medium. After 24h, the viability of PA103-infected cells (33.7 ± 14.3%) was significantly lower than the viability of PA103deltaexoU- (77.7 ± 6.3%) or PA103::exsA- (79.5 ± 23.3%) infected EC. P. aeruginosa cytotoxicity did not depend on the bacterial ability to interact with EC because the percentage of cells with associated PA103 (35.9 ± 15.8%) was similar to the percentage in PA103deltaexoU- (34.2 ± 16.0%) and lower than the percentage in PA103::exsA-infected cultures (82.9 ± 18.9%). Cell treatment with cytochalasin D reduced the PA103 internalization by EC but did not interfere with its ability to kill host cells.