Highly Differentiated Human Airway Epithelial Cells: a Model to Study Host Cell-parasite Interactions in Pertussis

Overview

Journal Infect Dis (Lond)

Publisher Informa Healthcare

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2015 Oct 23

PMID 26492208

Citations 11

Authors

Claudia Guevara

Chengxian Zhang

Jennifer A Gaddy

Junaid Iqbal

Julio Guerra

David P Greenberg

Michael D Decker

Nicholas Carbonetti

Timothy D Starner

Paul B McCray Jr

Frits R Mooi

Oscar G Gomez-Duarte

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Abstract

Background: Bordetella pertussis colonizes the human respiratory mucosa. Most studies on B. pertussis adherence have relied on cultured mammalian cells that lack key features present in differentiated human airway cells or on animal models that are not natural hosts of B. pertussis. The objectives of this work were to evaluate B. pertussis infection in highly differentiated human airway cells in vitro and to show the role of B. pertussis fimbriae in cell adherence.

Methods: Primary human airway epithelial (PHAE) cells from human bronchi and a human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cell line were grown in vitro under air-liquid interface conditions.

Results: PHAE and HBE cells infected with B. pertussis wild-type strain revealed bacterial adherence to the apical surface of cells, bacteria-induced cytoskeleton changes, and cell detachment. Mutations in the major fimbrial subunits Fim2/3 or in the minor fimbrial adhesin subunit FimD affected B. pertussis adherence to predominantly HBE cells. This cell model recapitulates the morphologic features of the human airway infected by B. pertussis and confirms the role of fimbriae in B. pertussis adherence. Furthermore, HBE cells show that fimbrial subunits, and specifically FimD adhesin, are critical in B. pertussis adherence to airway cells.

Conclusions: The relevance of this model to study host-parasite interaction in pertussis lies in the striking physiologic and morphologic similarity between the PHAE and HBE cells and the human airway ciliated and goblet cells in vivo. These cells can proliferate in vitro, differentiate, and express the same genetic profile as human respiratory cells in vivo.

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