The Hemolytic and Cytolytic Activities of Serratia Marcescens Phospholipase A (PhlA) Depend on Lysophospholipid Production by PhlA

Overview

Journal BMC Microbiol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2009 Dec 17

PMID 20003541

Citations 29

Authors

Ken Shimuta

Makoto Ohnishi

Sunao Iyoda

Naomasa Gotoh

Nobuo Koizumi

Haruo Watanabe

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Abstract

Background: Serratia marcescens is a gram-negative bacterium and often causes nosocomial infections. There have been few studies of the virulence factors of this bacterium. The only S. marcescens hemolytic and cytotoxic factor reported, thus far, is the hemolysin ShlA.

Results: An S. marcescens shlAB deletion mutant was constructed and shown to have no contact hemolytic activity. However, the deletion mutant retained hemolytic activity on human blood agar plates, indicating the presence of another S. marcescens hemolytic factor. Functional cloning of S. marcescens identified a phospholipase A (PhlA) with hemolytic activity on human blood agar plates. A phlAB deletion mutant lost hemolytic activity on human blood agar plates. Purified recombinant PhlA hydrolyzed several types of phospholipids and exhibited phospholipase A1 (PLA1), but not phospholipase A2 (PLA2), activity. The cytotoxic and hemolytic activities of PhlA both required phospholipids as substrates.

Conclusion: We have shown that the S. marcescens phlA gene produces hemolysis on human blood agar plates. PhlA induces destabilization of target cell membranes in the presence of phospholipids. Our results indicated that the lysophospholipids produced by PhlA affected cell membranes resulting in hemolysis and cell death.

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