Serotype-related HEp-2 cell interaction of Yersinia enterocolitica.
AUTOR(ES)
Lassen, J
RESUMO
The ability of human clinical isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica to interact with HEp-2 cells was found to vary considerably between the serotypes O:3, O:8, and O:9. Although all three serotypes adhered initially to the cell surface, regardless of incubation temperature of the bacterial inoculum or presence of the 40- to 48-megadalton virulence plasmid, the ability to localize intracellularly was not uniformly expressed. By using a combined light optical method based on differential interference contrast and UV incident light microscopy, we found that in serotype O:3, resistance to internalization was dependent upon prior growth at 37 degrees C and carriage of the virulence plasmid; in serotype O:9, this property was plasmid dependent but not temperature dependent; in serotype O:8, it was constitutive. The ability of serotype O:3 to resist internalization was correlated with the expression of plasmid-associated fibrillae on the bacterial surface. No relationship between fibrillation and HEp-2 cell interaction was apparent for serotype O:8 or O:9. Serotypes O:8 and O:9, unlike the O:3 strains studied, associated with HEp-2 cells in greater number after cultivation at 22 degrees C than after cultivation at 37 degrees C. We failed to establish a correlation between the expression of surface fibrillae and the ability to evoke guinea pig conjunctivitis.
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