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Campylobacter Protein Glycosylation Affects Host Cell Interactions
Christine M. Szymanski,1,
Donald H. Burr,2 and Patricia Guerry1*
Enteric Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring ,1
Food and Drug Administration, Beltsville, Maryland2
Received 15 October 2001/
Returned for modification 12 December 2001/
Accepted 16 January 2002

ABSTRACT
Campylobacter jejuni 81-176
pgl mutants impaired in general
protein glycosylation showed reduced ability to adhere to and
invade INT407 cells and to colonize intestinal tracts of mice.

TEXT
There is an increasing awareness of the existence of prokaryotic
glycoproteins (
36), often in complex surface structures such
as pili (
7,
8,
28,
39), S layers (
37), and flagella (
6,
10,
11,
12,
19,
23,
44). Among glycosylated flagellins, those of
Campylobacter spp. are the best characterized (
11,
16,
42).
The nature and extent of flagellin glycosylation have been determined
for strain 81-176, one of the best-characterized strains of
Campylobacter jejuni (
2,
3,
5,
21,
29,
41,
45,
46) and one which
has been documented to cause diarrheal disease in two volunteer
feeding studies
5; D. T. Tribble, unpublished data). Flagellin
from 81-176 contains 19 sites of O-linked glycosylation to the
monosaccharide pseudaminic acid (5,7-diacetamido-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-
L-
glycero-
L-
manno-nonulosonic
acid) and analogs of pseudaminic acid (
42). Additionally,
C. jejuni 81-176 has been shown to contain a general protein glycosylation
(
pgl) system affecting many other soluble and membrane-associated
proteins (
41). The only reported phenotype of
pgl mutants has
been the loss of immunogenicity of multiple proteins as detected
by Western blot analyses using polyclonal, hyperimmune rabbit
antisera, changes that were identical to those seen following
chemical deglycosylation of the same protein preparations (
42).
However, neither the identity of the proteins glycosylated by
the
pgl system nor the chemical nature of the attached carbohydrate(s)
has been reported. This study describes additional phenotypes
of 81-176
pglB and
pglE mutants. The predicted protein encoded
by
pglB shows significant similarity to domains of an oligosaccharide
transferase of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (
48) and an ortholog
in
Methanobacterium spp. (
38). PglE shows highest similarity
to a putative aminotransferase involved in lipopolysaccharide
synthesis in
Bacteroides fragilis (
9). The protein also shows
homology to proteins involved in glycosylation of pilin in
Neisseria spp. (
20,
31) and flagellin in
Caulobacter crescentus (
23) and
Aeromonas caviae (
13,
32).
Growth comparisons.
Cell morphology, as determined by transmission electron microscopy, was similar for 81-176 and pglB and pglE mutants (results not shown). Bacterial growth curves (Fig. 1) indicated that both mutants had slightly faster doubling times relative to 81-176. However, only the pglE mutant demonstrated a statistically significant increase in growth rate (P < 0.05) compared to the wild type by paired t-test analysis. Complementation of the pglE mutation in trans with plasmid pCS101, an Escherichia coli-Campylobacter shuttle vector containing an intact copy of pglE and its putative promoter (41), restored the wild-type doubling time.
Since numerous soluble and membrane proteins appear to be glycosylated
by the
pgl system, it was possible that the mutants would display
increased sensitivity to growth inhibitors. The sensitivity
of wild-type 81-176 and the
pglE mutant to a variety of agents
was determined by the method of Yethon et al. (
47). Cultures
were adjusted to an optical density at 600 nm (OD
600) of 0.1
in Mueller-Hinton (MH) broth supplemented with inhibitors. Growth
was compared following incubation at 37°C under microaerophilic
conditions with overnight shaking for 14 h. Growth was considered
positive if the OD
600 was greater than 0.2 (
47). No differences
between the wild type and the
pglE mutant were observed for
growth in 0.05 mg of sodium dodecyl sulfate per ml (
40,
47),
0.1 and 0.2% (wt/vol) sodium deoxycholate (
34), or 0.0625 and
0.125 M NaCl (
1,
33) (data not shown). In addition, no differences
between the wild type and either
pgl mutant were observed for
growth in MH broth at pH 7.2 versus MH broth adjusted to pH
5.0 or 6.0 (data not shown).
Adherence to and invasion of INT407 cells.
Motility has been shown to be required for C. jejuni adherence to and invasion of intestinal epithelial cells. Since pglB and pglE mutants show wild-type levels of motility (41), adherence and invasion assays using a human intestinal epithelial cell line (INT407) were done as previously described (27, 46, 47). The pglB mutant adhered at 38% and invaded at 4.4% of the level of the wild-type strain, while the pglE mutant adhered at 59% and invaded at 9.2% of wild-type levels (Table 1). When the pglE mutant was complemented in trans with pCS101, the strain adhered and invaded at levels comparable to those of the wild type.
Mouse colonization.
Experiments reported herein were conducted according to the
principles set forth in reference
26a. Hsd:ICR mice were fed
6
x 10
9 to 9
x 10
9 organisms and monitored for colonization
for 3 weeks as described previously (
46). Four freshly passed
fecal pellets per animal were homogenized in phosphate-buffered
saline (Sigma) daily and plated on
C. jejuni selective agar
(Remel). An animal was considered to be no longer colonized
by
C. jejuni after three consecutive negative cultures. As shown
in Fig.
2, mice were colonized with wild-type 81-176 for 21
days. Both
pglB and
pglE strains demonstrated a significant
reduction in percent colonization (
P < 0.001, using paired
t-test analysis) as early as day 7 postinfection, and colonization
remained significantly low through 21 days (Fig.
2). The presence
of pCS101 in the
pglE mutant in
trans restored wild-type levels
of colonization at all time points examined.
Conclusions.
Despite an increasing awareness of the presence of glycoproteins
in bacteria, little is understood about the biological significance
of these modifications. Recent studies in bacteria have suggested
that carbohydrate modifications on proteins can play a role
in adhesion (
4,
22,
24,
26), protection against proteolytic
cleavage (
18), solubility (
25), antigenic variation (
11,
15,
17), and protective immunity (
16,
35). The glycosyl modifications
on campylobacter flagellin are immunogenic and surface exposed
in the flagellar filament (
17,
30), suggesting that they may
protect the flagellin protein from the immune system. The glycosyl
modifications synthesized by the
pgl genes on other campylobacter
proteins have also been shown to be highly immunogenic (
41).
The observation that mutations in either
pglB or
pglE in 81-176
resulted in a significant reduction in adherence to and invasion
of INT407 cells in vitro, and a reduced ability to colonize
the intestinal tract of mice suggests a role for the general
protein glycosylation system in virulence. Adherence to and
invasion of
C. jejuni 81-176 have been shown to be multifactorial,
requiring motility (
45,
46), the capsular polysaccharide (
2),
particular ganglioside mimicries in the lipooligosaccharide
(
14), a plasmid-encoded type IV secretion system (
3), protein
adhesins (
29), and potentially other undetermined factors. It
remains to be determined which glycoprotein(s) is responsible
for the observed changes in virulence in the
pgl mutants. Given
the extent of general protein glycosylation in
C. jejuni (
41),
the responsible proteins could be either soluble glycoproteins
affecting key pathogenic processes or surface exposed glycoproteins
that, like their eukaryotic counterparts (
43), play a direct
role in cellular interactions.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Robert Williams for electron microscope analysis.
This work was supported by Naval Medical Research and Development Command Work no. 61102A3M161102BS13 AK.111. and Interagency Agreement FDA 224-93-2444.

FOOTNOTES
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Enteric Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research Center, 503 Robert Grant Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500. Phone: (301) 319-7662. Fax: (301) 319-7679. E-mail:
guerryp{at}nmrc.navy.mil.

Editor: J. T. Barbieri
Present address: Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 

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