Affiliation:
1. School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Abstract
Probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) possesses excellent antibacterial effects on pathogenic enterobacteria. The microcins MccM and MccH47 produced in EcN played critical roles, but they are understudied and poorly characterized, and the individual antibacterial mechanisms are still unclear. In this study, three EcN mutants (ΔmcmA, ΔmchB, and ΔmcmAΔmchB) were constructed and compared with wild-type EcN (EcN wt) to test for inhibitory effects on the growth of Escherichia coli O157: H7, Salmonella enterica (SE), and Salmonella typhimurium (ST). The antibacterial effects on O157: H7 were not affected by the knockout of mcmA (MccM) and mchB (MccH47) in EcN. However, the antibacterial effect on Salmonella declined sharply in EcN mutants ΔmcmA. The overexpressed mcmA gene in EcN::mcmA showed more efficient antibacterial activity on Salmonella than that of EcN wt. Furthermore, the EcN::mcmA strain significantly reduced the abilities of adhesion and invasion of Salmonella to intestinal epithelial cells, decreasing the invasion ability of ST by 56.31% (62.57 times more than that of EcN wt) while reducing the adhesion ability of ST by 50.14% (2.41 times more than that of EcN wt). In addition, the supernatant of EcN::mcmA culture significantly decreased the mRNA expression and secretion of IL-1β, TNF-α, and IL-6 on macrophages induced by LPS. The EcN::mcmA strain generated twice as much orange halo as EcN wt by CAS agar diffusion assay by producing more siderophores. MccM was more closely related to the activity of EcN against Salmonella, and MccM-overproducing EcN inhibited Salmonella growth by producing more siderophores-MccM to compete for iron, which was critical to pathogen growth. Based on the above, EcN::mcmA can be developed as engineered probiotics to fight against pathogenic enterobacteria colonization in the gut.
Funder
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
Guangdong Key Areas R&D Program
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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