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Infection and Immunity, April 2000, p. 1765-1772, Vol. 68, No. 4
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Altered Gene Expression in Staphylococcus aureus upon Interaction with Human Endothelial Cells

Aldwin J. M. Vriesema,1,* Henry Beekhuizen,2 Mohamed Hamdi,1 Alexandre Soufan,1 Aart Lammers,3 Ben Willekens,4 Onno Bakker,5 Angelique G. A. Welten,1 Marcel H. A. M. Veltrop,2 Joke S. van de Gevel,2 Jacob Dankert,1 and Sebastian A. J. Zaat1

Departments of Medical Microbiology1 and Endocrinology and Metabolism5 and Institute for Ophthalmology,4 Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Department of Bacteriology, ID-DLO, Lelystad,3 and Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden,2 The Netherlands

Received 30 August 1999/Returned for modification 21 October 1999/Accepted 3 January 2000

Staphylococcus aureus is isolated from a substantial number of patients with infective endocarditis who are not known to have predisposing heart abnormalities. It has been suggested that the infection is initiated by the direct binding of S. aureus to human vascular endothelium. To determine the mutual response of the endothelial cells and the bacteria, we studied the interaction between S. aureus and human vascular endothelium. Scanning electron microscopic analyses showed that binding of S. aureus to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) mainly occurred via thread-like protrusions extending from the cell surface. Bound bacteria appeared to be internalized via retraction of the protrusions into newly formed invaginations of the endothelial cell surface. The growth phase of S. aureus had a major impact on the interaction with HUVEC. Logarithmically growing bacteria showed increased binding to, and were more readily internalized by, HUVEC compared to stationary-phase bacteria. To assess the bacterial response to the cellular environment, an expression library of S. aureus was used to identify genes whose expression was induced after 4 h of exposure to HUVEC. The identified genes could be divided into different categories based on the functions of the encoded proteins (transport, catabolism, biosynthesis, and DNA repair). Further analyses of five of the S. aureus transposon clones showed that HUVEC as well as human serum are stimuli for triggering gene expression in S. aureus.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Department of Biotechnology, Numico Research B.V., P.O. Box 7005, 6700 CA Wageningen, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 317 467 800. Fax: 31 317 466 500. E-mail: Aldwin.Vriesema{at}numico-research.nl.

Infection and Immunity, April 2000, p. 1765-1772, Vol. 68, No. 4
0019-9567/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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