McClean, Siobhan and Healy, Mark E. and Collins, Cassandra and Carberry, Stephen and O'Shaughnessy, Like and Dennehy, Ruth and Adams, Aine and Kennelly, Helen and Corbett, Jennifer and Carty, Fiona and Cahill, Laura A. and Callaghan, Maire and English, Karen and Mahon, Bernard P. and Doyle, Sean and Shinoy, Minu
(2016)
Linocin and OmpW Are Involved in Attachment of the Cystic
Fibrosis-Associated Pathogen Burkholderia cepacia Complex to Lung
Epithelial Cells and Protect Mice against Infection.
Infection and Immunity, 84 (5).
pp. 1424-1437.
ISSN 0019-9567
Abstract
Members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) cause chronic opportunistic lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis
(CF), resulting in a gradual lung function decline and, ultimately, patient death. The Bcc is a complex of 20 species and is rarely
eradicated once a patient is colonized; therefore, vaccination may represent a better therapeutic option. We developed a new
proteomics approach to identify bacterial proteins that are involved in the attachment of Bcc bacteria to lung epithelial cells.
Fourteen proteins were reproducibly identified by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis from four Bcc strains representative of
two Bcc species: Burkholderia cenocepacia, the most virulent, and B. multivorans, the most frequently acquired. Seven proteins
were identified in both species, but only two were common to all four strains, linocin and OmpW. Both proteins were selected
based on previously reported data on these proteins in other species. Escherichia coli strains expressing recombinant linocin and
OmpW showed enhanced attachment (4.2- and 3.9-fold) to lung cells compared to the control, confirming that both proteins are
involved in host cell attachment. Immunoproteomic analysis using serum from Bcc-colonized CF patients confirmed that both
proteins elicit potent humoral responses in vivo. Mice immunized with either recombinant linocin or OmpW were protected
from B. cenocepacia and B. multivorans challenge. Both antigens induced potent antigen-specific antibody responses and stimulated
strong cytokine responses. In conclusion, our approach identified adhesins that induced excellent protection against two
Bcc species and are promising vaccine candidates for a multisubunit vaccine. Furthermore, this study highlights the potential of
our proteomics approach to identify potent antigens against other difficult pathogens.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Additional Information: |
This work was funded in part by Technological Sector Research (Strand
III) support for M.S. Cassandra Collins was funded by Enterprise Ireland
Commercialisation Fund, cofunded by the European Regional Development
Fund (CF0133015). Ruth Dennehy was supported by Science Foundation
Ireland under grant number SFI 11/RFP.1/BMT/3307. |
| Keywords: |
Linocin; OmpW; Cystic Fibrosis; Pathogen; Burkholderia cepacia Complex; Lung;
Epithelial Cells; Infection; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology |
| Item ID: |
7150 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01248-15 |
| Depositing User: |
Bernard Mahon
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Jul 2016 16:17 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Infection and Immunity |
| Publisher: |
American Society of Microbiology |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Funders: |
Enterprise Ireland (EI), European Regional Development Fund, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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