Effect of type III group B streptococcal capsular polysaccharide on invasion of respiratory epithelial cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Hulse, M L

RESUMO

Group B streptococcal (GBS) capsular polysaccharide is an important virulence factor, and its role in invasion of cultured respiratory epithelial cells was investigated. A type III GBS clinical isolate, COH1, and asialo and unencapsulated isogenic transposon capsule mutants of it were compared in an in vitro invasion assay. The results demonstrated that capsule attenuated the invasion process. Invasion was not affected when the A549 epithelial cells were preincubated with purified type III GBS capsular polysaccharide. Polyclonal type III GBS capsule antibody inhibited invasion by COH1 but did not affect invasion by the capsule mutants. Serotypes Ia, Ib, Ia/c, II, and III all invaded respiratory epithelial cells but demonstrated some strain variation in magnitude of invasion. These observations led us to conclude that type III capsular polysaccharide was not essential for invasion of respiratory epithelial cells by GBS and that bacterial factors other than capsule were responsible for respiratory epithelial cell invasion.

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