Investigation of Streptococcus salivarius-mediated inhibition of pneumococcal adherence to pharyngeal epithelial cells

BMC Microbiology

Research Article

Philip A. Wescombe¹  John D. F. Hale¹  John R. Tagg²  Roy M. Robins-Browne³  Eileen M. Dunne⁴  Jayne Manning⁵  Catherine Satzke⁶  E. Kim Mulholland⁷ 

[1] Blis Technologies Ltd, Dunedin, New Zealand;Blis Technologies Ltd, Dunedin, New Zealand;Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia;Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia;London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK;

关键词: Probiotics;    Probiotic mechanisms;    Respiratory tract;    Streptococcus salivarius;    Streptococcus pneumoniae;    Pneumococcus;    Colonisation;    Adherence;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12866-016-0843-z

 received in 2016-02-04, accepted in 2016-09-20,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPneumococcal adherence to the nasopharyngeal epithelium is a critical step in colonisation and disease. The probiotic bacterium, Streptococcus salivarius, can inhibit pneumococcal adherence to epithelial cells in vitro. We investigated the mechanism(s) of inhibition using a human pharyngeal epithelial cell line (Detroit 562) following pre-administration of two different strains of S. salivarius.ResultsWhilst the bacteriocin-encoding megaplasmids of S. salivarius strains K12 and M18 were essential to prevent pneumococcal growth on solid media, they were not required to inhibit pneumococcal adherence. Experiments testing S. salivarius K12 and two pneumococcal isolates (serotypes 19F and 6A) showed that inhibition of 19F may involve S. salivarius-mediated blocking of pneumococcal binding sites: a negative correlation was observed between adherence of K12 and 19F, and no inhibition occurred when K12 was prevented from contacting epithelial cells. K12-mediated inhibition of adherence by 6A may involve additional mechanisms, since no correlation was observed between adherence of K12 and 6A, and K12 could inhibit 6A adherence in the absence of cell contact.ConclusionsThese results suggest that S. salivarius employs several mechanisms, including blocking pneumococcal binding sites, to reduce pneumococcal adherence to pharyngeal epithelial cells. These findings extend our understanding of how probiotics may inhibit pneumococcal adherence and could assist with the development of novel strategies to prevent pneumococcal colonisation in the future.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2016