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Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess
This study aimed to analyze the influence of the main aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and the regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess. In addition, the possible regulatory effects of the main encoding gene iucB on the regulator of mucoid pheno...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36439210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.968955 |
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author | Liu, Shixing Huang, Zeyu Kong, Jingchun Zhao, Yining Xu, Mengxin Zhou, Beibei Zheng, Xiangkuo Ye, Dandan Zhou, Tieli Cao, Jianming Zhou, Cui |
author_facet | Liu, Shixing Huang, Zeyu Kong, Jingchun Zhao, Yining Xu, Mengxin Zhou, Beibei Zheng, Xiangkuo Ye, Dandan Zhou, Tieli Cao, Jianming Zhou, Cui |
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description | This study aimed to analyze the influence of the main aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and the regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess. In addition, the possible regulatory effects of the main encoding gene iucB on the regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA were explored, thus providing novel strategies for the prevention and control of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) causing liver abscess. The virulence-related genes iucB and rmpA of K. pneumoniae were detected by PCR. iucB and rmpA were cloned into K. pneumoniae strain by using plasmid pET28b as vector. Quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) was employed to detect the relative expression of rmpA gene in K. pneumoniae. We investigated the potential effects of aerobactin coding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of K. pneumoniae by establishing the Galleria mellonella infection model. Capsule quantitative experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB on the modulation of regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA. The results of the G. mellonella infection model indicated that iucB gene could significantly enhance the virulence of K. pneumoniae, but the presence of rmpA gene did not markedly affect the virulence of K. pneumoniae. RT-qPCR showed that iucB inhibited the expression of rmpA gene. Quantitative capsulation experiments showed that the presence of rmpA gene could not increase the capsulation production of K. pneumoniae. The main encoding gene of aerobactin, namely iucB, could substantially enhance the virulence of K. pneumoniae. The gene iucB might be involved in the biosynthesis of the capsular polysaccharide through an unknown mechanism instead of the gene rmpA. Overall, these findings provide important theoretical support for the treatment of infections caused by hvKp. |
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spelling | pubmed-96917562022-11-26 Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess Liu, Shixing Huang, Zeyu Kong, Jingchun Zhao, Yining Xu, Mengxin Zhou, Beibei Zheng, Xiangkuo Ye, Dandan Zhou, Tieli Cao, Jianming Zhou, Cui Front Cell Infect Microbiol Cellular and Infection Microbiology This study aimed to analyze the influence of the main aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and the regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess. In addition, the possible regulatory effects of the main encoding gene iucB on the regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA were explored, thus providing novel strategies for the prevention and control of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) causing liver abscess. The virulence-related genes iucB and rmpA of K. pneumoniae were detected by PCR. iucB and rmpA were cloned into K. pneumoniae strain by using plasmid pET28b as vector. Quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) was employed to detect the relative expression of rmpA gene in K. pneumoniae. We investigated the potential effects of aerobactin coding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of K. pneumoniae by establishing the Galleria mellonella infection model. Capsule quantitative experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB on the modulation of regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA. The results of the G. mellonella infection model indicated that iucB gene could significantly enhance the virulence of K. pneumoniae, but the presence of rmpA gene did not markedly affect the virulence of K. pneumoniae. RT-qPCR showed that iucB inhibited the expression of rmpA gene. Quantitative capsulation experiments showed that the presence of rmpA gene could not increase the capsulation production of K. pneumoniae. The main encoding gene of aerobactin, namely iucB, could substantially enhance the virulence of K. pneumoniae. The gene iucB might be involved in the biosynthesis of the capsular polysaccharide through an unknown mechanism instead of the gene rmpA. Overall, these findings provide important theoretical support for the treatment of infections caused by hvKp. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9691756/ /pubmed/36439210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.968955 Text en Copyright © 2022 Liu, Huang, Kong, Zhao, Xu, Zhou, Zheng, Ye, Zhou, Cao and Zhou https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Cellular and Infection Microbiology Liu, Shixing Huang, Zeyu Kong, Jingchun Zhao, Yining Xu, Mengxin Zhou, Beibei Zheng, Xiangkuo Ye, Dandan Zhou, Tieli Cao, Jianming Zhou, Cui Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title | Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title_full | Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title_fullStr | Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title_short | Effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucB and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
title_sort | effects of aerobactin-encoding gene iucb and regulator of mucoid phenotype rmpa on the virulence of klebsiella pneumoniae causing liver abscess |
topic | Cellular and Infection Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36439210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.968955 |
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