Role of YadA in arthritogenicity of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8: experimental studies with rats.
AUTOR(ES)
Gripenberg-Lerche, C
RESUMO
Outer membrane protein YadA, the Yersinia adhesin, is one of the plasmid-encoded virulence factors of yersiniae. To evaluate the role of YadA in the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis experimentally, we used YadA- strain YeO8-116, a kanamycin GenBlock insertion mutant derived from Yersinia enterocolitica O:8 wild-type strain 8081. As control strains, a plasmid-cured derivative (8081-c) of 8081 and a YopH- mutant (8081-yoph) were used. In addition, YeO8-116, with the yadA mutation transcomplemented with plasmid pMW10, was used. YeO8-116 induced arthritis to a considerably lesser extent than did wild-type strain 8081 when inoculated intravenously into Lewis rats. In rats surviving for over 14 days after the bacterial inoculation, the arthritis incidences were 6% (4 of 72) among those inoculated with the yadA mutant and 51% (33 of 65) among those inoculated with wild-type strain 8081. When the yadA gene was transcomplemented back to YeO8-116, YeO8-116/pMW10 induced arthritis in 47% (9 of 19) of the inoculated rats. Plasmid-cured strain 8081-c did not induce arthritis in any of the 24 inoculated rats, whereas YopH- mutant 8081-yoph induced arthritis in 20% (5 of 25) of the rats inoculated. Although the 50% lethal dose of YeO8-116 was about sixfold higher than that of 8081, the kinetics of bacterial elimination from the spleen and mesenteric lymph nodes were about the same with both strains. Antibody responses in rats infected with the two strains were also indistinguishable. Our results indicate that YadA contributes to the arthritogenicity of Y. enterocolitica in the rat model.
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