Distinct virulence ranges for infection of mice by Bordetella pertussis revealed by engineering of the sensor-kinase BvgS.
In: PloS one, Jg. 13 (2018-10-11), Heft 10, S. e0204861
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The whooping cough agent Bordetella pertussis coordinately regulates the expression of its virulence factors with the two-component system BvgAS. In laboratory conditions, specific chemical modulators are used to trigger phenotypic modulation of B. pertussis from its default virulent Bvg+ phase to avirulent Bvg- or intermediate Bvgi phases, in which no virulence factors or only a subset of them are produced, respectively. Whether phenotypic modulation occurs in the host remains unknown. In this work, recombinant B. pertussis strains harboring BvgS variants were tested in a mouse model of infection and analyzed using transcriptomic approaches. Recombinant BP-BvgΔ65, which is in the Bvgi phase by default and can be up-modulated to the Bvg+ phase in vitro, could colonize the mouse nose but was rapidly cleared from the lungs, while Bvg+-phase strains colonized both organs for up to four weeks. These results indicated that phenotypic modulation, which might have restored the full virulence capability of BP-BvgΔ65, does not occur in mice or is temporally or spatially restricted and has no effect in those conditions. Transcriptomic analyses of this and other recombinant Bvgi and Bvg+-phase strains revealed that two distinct ranges of virulence gene expression allow colonization of the mouse nose and lungs, respectively. We also showed that a recombinant strain expressing moderately lower levels of the virulence genes than its wild type parent was as efficient at colonizing both organs. Altogether, genetic modifications of BvgS generate a range of phenotypic phases, which are useful tools to decipher host-pathogen interactions.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Distinct virulence ranges for infection of mice by Bordetella pertussis revealed by engineering of the sensor-kinase BvgS.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lesne, E ; Coutte, L ; Solans, L ; Slupek, S ; Debrie, AS ; Dhennin, V ; Froguel, P ; Hot, D ; Locht, C ; Antoine, R ; Jacob-Dubuisson, F |
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Zeitschrift: | PloS one, Jg. 13 (2018-10-11), Heft 10, S. e0204861 |
Veröffentlichung: | San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science, 2018 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0204861 |
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