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Degradation of interleukin 8 by the serine protease MucD of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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We investigated the influence of the type III effector, ExoS, on the host epithelial cell response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, and we found that disruption of the exoS gene caused a significant increase in the amount of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in the culture medium of Caco-2 cells. We show that IL-8 was degraded in the culture medium following infection of the cells with the wild-type (PAO1), but not the exoS knock-out (the ΔexoS) strain. Purified ExoS protein itself did not degrade IL-8. We next show that IL-8 degradation by PAO1 was inhibited by the addition of serine protease inhibitors. These results strongly suggest that a bacterial serine protease that degrades IL-8 is expressed and secreted into the culture medium of Caco-2 cells infected with PAO1, and that the expression of this protein is repressed in cells infected with the ΔexoS strain. The PAO1 genome encodes 28 different protease genes, including two serine proteases: PA3535 and mucD. PA3535 and mucD gene knock-outs were constructed (ΔmucD and ΔPA3535), and ΔmucD but not ΔPA3535 showed reduced IL-8 degradation. To understand the significance of IL-8 degradation, we next evaluated neutrophil infiltration in lungs excised from mice intranasally infected with the P. aeruginosa strains. Increased neutrophil infiltration was observed in PAO1-infected mice, but not in ΔexoS- or ΔmucD-infected mice. Taken together, our results suggest that P. aeruginosa escapes from phagocytic killing due to IL-8 degradation following the secretion of the MucD serine protease, whose expression appears to be influenced by ExoS.

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This work was supported in part by a Kyoto Pharmaceutical University Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Infection Control Science, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, 5 Misasagi-Nakauchicho, Yamashina, Kyoto, 607-8414, Japan

    Jun Okuda, Naoki Hayashi, Shu Minagawa & Naomasa Gotoh

  2. Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan

    Soichi Tanabe

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Okuda, J., Hayashi, N., Tanabe, S. et al. Degradation of interleukin 8 by the serine protease MucD of Pseudomonas aeruginosa . J Infect Chemother 17, 782–792 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10156-011-0257-7

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