Prevalence of genetic differences in phosphorylcholine expression between nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus
dc.contributor.author | McCrea, Kirk W | |
dc.contributor.author | Xie, Jingping | |
dc.contributor.author | Marrs, Carl F | |
dc.contributor.author | Gilsdorf, Janet R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-07T17:43:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-07T17:43:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | BMC Microbiology. 2010 Nov 12;10(1):286 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/112769 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract Background Although non-typeable (NT) Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus are closely related human commensals, H. haemolyticus is non-pathogenic while NT H. influenzae is an important cause of respiratory tract infections. Phase-variable phosphorylcholine (ChoP) modification of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) is a NT H. influenzae virulence factor that, paradoxically, may also promote complement activation by binding C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is known to bind more to ChoP positioned distally than proximally in LOS, and the position of ChoP within LOS is dictated by specific licD alleles (designated here as licD I , licD III , and licD IV ) that are present in a lic1 locus. The lic1 locus contains the licA-licD genes, and ChoP-host interactions may also be influenced by a second lic1 locus that allows for dual ChoP substitutions in the same strain, or by the number of licA gene tetranucleotide repeats (5'-CAAT-3') that reflect phase-variation mutation rates. Results Using dot-blot hybridization, 92% of 88 NT H. influenzae and 42.6% of 109 H. haemolyticus strains possessed a lic1 locus. Eight percent of NT H. influenzae and none of the H. haemolyticus strains possessed dual copies of lic1. The licD III and licD IV gene alleles were distributed similarly (18-22%) among the NT H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus strains while licD I alleles were present in 45.5% of NT H. influenzae but in less than 1% of H. haemolyticus strains (P < .0001). NT H. influenzae had an average of 26.8 tetranucleotide repeats in licA compared to14.8 repeats in H. haemolyticus (P < .05). In addition, NT H. influenzae strains that possessed a licD III allele had increased numbers of repeats compared to NT H. influenzae with other licD alleles (P < .05). Conclusions These data demonstrate that genetic similarities and differences of ChoP expression exist between NT H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus and strengthen the hypothesis that, at the population level, these differences may, in part, provide an advantage in the virulence of NT H. influenzae. | |
dc.title | Prevalence of genetic differences in phosphorylcholine expression between nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus | |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112769/1/12866_2010_Article_1242.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-2180-10-286 | en_US |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
dc.rights.holder | McCrea et al. | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-08-07T17:43:15Z | |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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