Estudo das alterações biológicas causadas pela aderência de cepas de Escherichia coli enteroagregativa (EAEC) com macrófagos humanos ativados da linhagem U-937

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Aline de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14420
• topic: EAEC; Macrophages; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Filamentation; SOS response; EAEC; Macrófagos; Espécies reativas de oxigênio (ERO); Filamentação; Resposta SOS; Escherichia coli; Aderências; Diarréia; Macrófagos; Proteína reguladora do ferro; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::MICROBIOLOGIA::MICROBIOLOGIA APLICADA::MICROBIOLOGIA MEDICA

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli is a pathogen related to cases development of acute or persistent diarrhea. The inflammatory response induced by EAEC is linked to induction of IL-8 release, which acts stimulating neutrophils diapedesis through the epithelium. Macrophages, similarly to neutrophils, are phagocytic cells that produce reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as H2O2. Iron is an essential microelement to bacteria, been used as cofactor of enzymes in fundamental cellular processes but it is involved in ROS generation through Fenton reaction. On this report we evaluated the consequences of different EAEC strains interaction with activated human macrophages (U937 lineage). All tested strains showed filaments on the adherence tests with macrophages, unlike to what occurs in the interaction with other cellular lineages as HEp-2, T84 e Caco-2. Considering the possibility of H2O2 macrophage produced generates hydroxyl radical through Fenton reaction, the strains were grown in medium containing iron chelator 2,2-dipiridil. Iron chelation did not suppress filamentation, however decreased the adherence of 042 e 17-2 strains. Strains pretreated with a H2O2 subletal dose (60 µM) by 60 minutes, which resulted in a bacterial adaptative response, also did not decrease the filamentation associated to adherence beside H2O2 pretreatment decreased the adherence of EAEC strains tested. In order to verify if H2O2 induces filamentation through DNA lesions and SOS induction, we evaluated the survival of a triple mutant deficient in three enzymes involved in BER and a mutant deficient in SOS response induction, both E. coli K12 derived. Both mutants presented similar survival levels like wild strain. This result suggest that H2O2 is not involved in SOS induction and filamentation response. Activated macrophages show microbicidal action, which is related to enzymes such as IDO (indoleamine dioxygenase), associated to reduction of L-tryptophan available to microorganism. In this way, we performed adhrence macrophages assays supplementing the interaction medium with L-tryptophan. Our results showed that tryptophan addition reduced the filamentation of adhered EAEC strains. Thus, we suggested that L-tryptophan reduction could be responsible for SOS response induction and bacterial filamentation.