In vivo Modulation of Campylobacter jejuni Virulence in Response to Environmental Stress (CROSBI ID 190434)
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Klančnik, Anja ; Vučković, Darinka ; Plankl, Mojca ; Abram, Maja ; Smole Možina, Sonja
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In vivo Modulation of Campylobacter jejuni Virulence in Response to Environmental Stress
Campylobacters have developed a number of mechanisms for responding to environmental conditions, although the different virulence properties of these cells following exposure to stress are still poorly understood. We analysed in vitro stress responses and the consequent in vivo modulation of Campylobacter jejuni pathogenicity in BALB/c mice, as a result of the exposure of the C. jejuni to environmental stress (starvation, oxidative stress, heat shock). In vitro, the influence of starvation and oxidative stress was milder than that of heat shock, although the majority of the stress conditions influenced the survival of C. jejuni. During starvation, C. jejuni viability was maintained longer than its culturability. Additionally, starvation elicited transformation of stressed bacteria to coccoid forms. In contrast, bacteria exposed to oxygen remained culturable, but their viability decreased. Pre-starvation did not contribute to improved survival of C. jejuni cells during oxygen exposure. Changes in bacteria numbers and the levels of several cytokines (interleukins 6 and 10, tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-γ) were followed in vivo, in liver homogenates from the mice intravenously infected with either control (untreated) or stressed C. jejuni. The systemic infection with the control or stressed C. jejuni occurred with different production dynamics of the cytokines investigated. Starvation was the most powerful stress factor, which significantly decreased infectious potential of C. jejuni during the first three days post-infection. The most pronounced differences in cytokine production were found in interferon-γ and interleukin 10 production, which indicates that these have roles in the immune response to C. jejuni infection. These in vivo studies of environmental impact on bacterial virulence reveal that microbial adaptation during stress challenge is crucial not just for pathogen survival out of the host, but also during host–pathogen interactions, and thus for the bacterial pathogenicity.
Foodborne pathogens; Campylobacter jejuni; stress response; pathogenicity; mice
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Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Biotehnologija