Outer Membrane Vesicles of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Exert Immunomodulatory Effects on Porcine Alveolar Macrophages

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Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are spontaneously released by Gram-negative bacteria, including Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, which causes contagious pleuropneumonia in pigs and leads to considerable economic losses in the swine industry worldwide. A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs have previously been demonstrated to contain Apx toxins and proteases, as well as antigenic proteins. Nevertheless, comprehensive characterizations of their contents and interactions with host immune cells have not been made. Understanding the protein compositions and immunomodulating ability of A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs could help illuminate their biological functions and facilitate the development of OMV-based applications. In the current investigation, we comprehensively characterized the proteome of native A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs. Moreover, we qualitatively and quantitatively compared the OMV proteomes of a wild-type strain and three mutant strains, in which relevant genes were disrupted to increase OMV production and/or produce OMVs devoid of superantigen PalA. Furthermore, the interaction between A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs and porcine alveolar macrophages was also characterized. Our results indicate that native OMVs spontaneously released by A. pleuropneumoniae MIDG2331 appeared to dampen the innate immune responses by porcine alveolar macrophages stimulated by either inactivated or live parent cells. The findings suggest that OMVs may play a role in manipulating the porcine defense during the initial phases of the A. pleuropneumoniae infection. IMPORTANCE Owing to their built-in adjuvanticity and antigenicity, bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are gaining increasing attention as potential vaccines for both human and animal use. OMVs released by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, an important respiratory pathogen in pigs, have also been investigated for vaccine development. Our previous studies have shown that A. pleuropneumoniae secretes OMVs containing multiple immunogenic proteins. However, immunization of pigs with these vesicles was not able to relieve the pig lung lesions induced by the challenge with A. pleuropneumoniae, implying the elusive roles that A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs play in host-pathogen interaction. Here, we showed that A. pleuropneumoniae secretes OMVs whose yield and protein content can be altered by the deletion of the nlpI and palA genes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that A. pleuropneumoniae OMVs dampen the immune responses in porcine alveolar macrophages stimulated by A. pleuropneumoniae cells, suggesting a novel mechanism that A. pleuropneumoniae might use to evade host defense.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer e01819-22
TidsskriftMicrobiology Spectrum
Vol/bind10
Udgave nummer5
Antal sider19
ISSN2165-0497
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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Funding Information:
We thank Janine T. Bossé (Imperial College, London, UK) for providing the A. pleuropneumoniae MIDG2331 strain. We also acknowledge the technical support provided by the Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy (CFIM) at the University of Copenhagen during TEM, cryo-TEM, and confocal laser scanning microscopy imaging. Thanks also go to assistant professor Bradley Joseph Whitehead (Aarhus University) for performing nanoparticle tracking analysis. We also thank Bernt Thiede at the Proteomic Unit, Department of Biosciences, and Verena Mertes at the University of Oslo for performing the LC-MS analysis. Special thanks go to Karin Tarp (Technical University of Denmark) for invaluable technical support in high-throughput qPCR analysis. Zhuang Zhu was supported by a Ph.D. stipend (CSC no. 201806910069) from the China Scholarship Council. H.C.W.-L. was supported by the University of Oslo. We declare no conflict of interest.

Funding Information:
Zhuang Zhu was supported by a Ph.D. stipend (CSC no. 201806910069) from the China Scholarship Council. H.C.W.-L. was supported by the University of Oslo. We declare no conflict of interest.

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© 2022 Zhu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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