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Role of fibronectin-binding protein A in intestinal colonization Free

Abstract

is a frequent cause of severe, recurrent, post-antibiotic diarrhoea and pseudomembranous colitis. Its pathogenicity is mediated mainly by two toxins, TcdA and TcdB. However, different adhesins have also been described as important colonization factors which are implicated in the first step of the intestinal infection. In this study, we focused our interest on one of these adhesins, fibronectin-binding protein A (FbpA), and on its role in the intestinal colonization process. A mutant of FbpA (CDΔFbpA) was constructed in strain 630Δerm by using ClosTron technology. This mutant was characterized and and compared to the isogenic wild-type strain. Adhesion of the CDΔFbpA mutant to the human colonic epithelial cell line Caco-2 and to mucus-secreting HT29-MTX cells was examined. Surprisingly, the CDΔFbpA mutant adhered more than the wild-type parental strain. The CDΔFbpA mutant was also analysed in three different mouse models by following the intestinal implantation kinetics (faecal shedding) and caecal colonization (7 days post-challenge). We showed that in monoxenic mice, CDΔFbpA shed in faeces at the same rate as that of the isogenic wild-type strain but its colonization of the caecal wall was significantly reduced. In dixenic mice, the shedding rate was slower for the CDΔFbpA mutant than for the isogenic wild-type strain during the first days of infection, but no significant difference was observed in caecal colonization. Similar rates of intestinal implantation and caecal colonization were observed for both strains in assays performed in human microbiota-associated mice. Taken together, our data suggest that FbpA plays a role in intestinal colonization by .

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Role of fibronectin-binding protein A in Clostridium difficile intestinal colonization
J. Med. Microbiol. 60, 1155 (2011); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.029553-0
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