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Infection and Immunity, April 2001, p. 2650-2658, Vol. 69, No. 4
0019-9567/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.4.2650-2658.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Proinflammatory and Proapoptotic Activities Associated with Bordetella pertussis Filamentous Hemagglutinin

Tzvia Abramson,1 Hassya Kedem,1 and David A. Relman1,2,3,*

Department of Medicine1 and Department of Microbiology and Immunology,2 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 943043

Received 24 October 2000/Returned for modification 21 November 2000/Accepted 20 December 2000

Filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) is a dominant cell surface-associated Bordetella pertussis adhesin. Recognition that this protein is secreted in significant amounts and that bacterial adhesins may have other actvities, prompted an assessment of FHA effects on human macrophages. Incubation of human macrophage-like U937 cells with preparations of FHA resulted in dose-dependent cytotoxicity, with death of 95% of treated cells after 24 h. Based on the use of four independent methods, death of these cells could be largely attributed to apoptosis. FHA-associated apoptosis was also observed in THP-1 macrophage-like cells, fresh human peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM), and BEAS-2B human bronchial epithelial cells. Infection of MDM with wild-type B. pertussis resulted in apoptosis within 6 h, while infection with an FHA-deficient derivative strain was only 50% as effective. FHA-associated cytotoxicity was preceded by host cell secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha ), a potential proapoptotic factor. However, pretreatment of cells with a neutralizing anti-TNF-alpha monoclonal antibody inhibited only 16% of the FHA-associated apoptosis. On the other hand, a blocking monoclonal antibody directed against TNF-alpha receptor 1 inhibited FHA-associated apoptosis by 47.7% (P = 0.0001), suggesting that this receptor may play a role in the death pathway activated by FHA. Our in vitro data indicate that secreted and cell-associated FHA elicits proinflammatory and proapoptotic responses in human monocyte-like cells, MDM, and bronchial epithelial cells and suggest a previously unrecognized role for this prominent virulence factor in the B. pertussis-host interaction.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: VA Palo Alto Health Care System 154T, 3801 Miranda Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. Phone: (650) 852-3308. Fax: (650) 852-3291. E-mail: relman{at}cmgm.stanford.edu.

Infection and Immunity, April 2001, p. 2650-2658, Vol. 69, No. 4
0019-9567/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.4.2650-2658.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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