Metalloprotease is Not Essential for Vibrio Vulnificus Virulence in Mice

Overview

Journal Infect Immun

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2000 May 19

PMID 10816513

Citations 34

Authors

C P Shao

L. I. Hor

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Abstract

Previous work suggested that a metalloprotease, Vvp, may be a virulence factor of Vibrio vulnificus, which causes severe wound infection and septicemia in humans. To determine the role of Vvp in pathogenesis, we isolated an isogenic protease-deficient (PD) mutant of Vibrio vulnificus by in vivo allelic exchange. This PD mutant was as virulent as its parental strain in mice infected intraperitoneally and was 10-fold more virulent in mice infected via the oral route. Furthermore, the PD mutant was indistinguishable from its parental strain in invasion from peritoneal cavity into blood stream, enhancement of vascular permeability, growth in murine blood, and utilization of hemoglobin and transferrin. These data suggest that Vvp is not essential for virulence in the mouse. However, the cytolysin activity in the culture supernatant of the PD mutant was found to be twofold higher than that of the wild-type strain and remained for a much longer period. The higher cytolysin activity of the PD mutant may be associated with the enhanced virulence in mice infected via the oral route.

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