Interaction of an Outer Membrane Protein of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli with Cell Surface Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans
AUTOR(ES)
Fleckenstein, James M.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We have previously shown that enterotoxigenic invasion protein A (Tia), a 25-kDa outer membrane protein encoded on an apparent pathogenicity island of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain H10407, mediates attachment to and invasion into cultured human gastrointestinal epithelial cells. The epithelial cell receptor(s) for Tia has not been identified. Here we show that Tia interacts with cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Recombinant E. coli expressing Tia mediated invasion into wild-type epithelial cell lines but not invasion into proteoglycan-deficient cells. Furthermore, wild-type eukaryotic cells, but not proteoglycan-deficient eukaryotic cells, attached to immobilized polyhistidine-tagged recombinant Tia (rTia). Binding of epithelial cells to immobilized rTia was inhibited by exogenous heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans but not by hyaluronic acid, dermatan sulfate, or chondroitin sulfate. Similarly, pretreatment of eukaryotic cells with heparinase I, but not pretreatment of eukaryotic cells with chrondroitinase ABC, inhibited attachment to rTia. In addition, we also observed heparin binding to both immobilized rTia and recombinant E. coli expressing Tia. Heparin binding was inhibited by a synthetic peptide representing a surface loop of Tia, as well as by antibodies directed against this peptide. Additional studies indicated that Tia, as a prokaryotic heparin binding protein, may also interact via sulfated proteoglycan molecular bridges with a number of mammalian heparan sulfate binding proteins. These findings suggest that the binding of Tia to host epithelial cells is mediated at least in part through heparan sulfate proteoglycans and that ETEC belongs on the growing list of pathogens that utilize these ubiquitous cell surface molecules as receptors.
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