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Protein D expression promotes the adherence and internalization of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae into human monocytic cells

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Summary, in English

Protein D, having a glycerol-3-phosphodiester phosphodiesterase activity, is found at the surface of all Haemophilus influenzae strains and is a possible virulence factor. In the present study, the involvement of protein D in the entry of NTHi into human monocytic cells is reported. Primary monocytes and the monocytic cell lines U-937 and THP-1 were infected with NTHi strain 772 and the mutant 772 Delta hpd 1 (lacking the gene for protein D). NTHi 772 adhered to and entered monocytic cells up to four-fold more efficiently compared to 772 Delta hpd 1. When an Escherichia coli transformant expressing protein D was incubated with monocytic cells, the number of intracellular bacteria increased 1.6-fold compared to protein D-deficient controls. Any correlation between internalization and phosphorylcholine expression was not detected. In conclusion, our data suggest that surface-expressed protein D promotes the adherence of NTHi to human monocytes leading to a higher number of internalized bacteria.

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Pages

151-158

Publication/Series

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volume

31

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Academic Press

Topic

  • Infectious Medicine

Keywords

  • non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae
  • internalization
  • glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase
  • protein D
  • monocytes

Status

Published

Research group

  • Clinical Microbiology, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1096-1208