Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Increases Intracellular Calcium Release in Porcine Ciliated Tracheal Cells

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American Society for Microbiology

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We investigated the effects of intact pathogenic Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, nonpathogenic M. hyopneumoniae, and Mycoplasma flocculare on intracellular free Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) in porcine ciliated tracheal epithelial cells. The ciliated epithelial cells had basal [Ca2+]i of 103 ± 3 nM (n = 217 cells). The [Ca2+]i increased by 250 ± 19 nM (n = 47 cells) from the basal level within 100 s of the addition of pathogenic M. hyopneumoniae strain 91-3 (300 μg/ml), and this increase lasted ∼60 s. In contrast, nonpathogenic M. hyopneumoniae and M. flocculare at concentrations of 300 μg/ml failed to increase [Ca2+]i. In Ca2+-free medium, pathogenic M. hyopneumoniae still increased [Ca2+]i in tracheal cells. Pretreatment with thapsigargin (1 μM for 30 min), which depleted the Ca2+ store in the endoplasmic reticulum, abolished the effect of M. hyoneumoniae. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin (100 ng/ml for 3 h) or U-73122 (2 μM for 100 s), an inhibitor of phospholipase C, also abolished the effect of M. hyopneumoniae. The administration of mastoparan 7, an activator of pertussis toxin-sensitive proteins Gi and Go, increased [Ca2+]i in ciliated tracheal cells. These results suggest that pathogenic M. hyopneumoniae activates receptors that are coupled to Gi or Go, which in turn activates a phospholipase C pathway, thereby releasing Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum. Thus, an increase in Ca2+ may serve as a signal for the pathogenesis of M. hyopneumoniae.

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