The Hha-TomB toxin-antitoxin module in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium limits its intracellular survival profile and regulates host immune response
- 1 February 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cell Biology and Toxicology
- Vol. 38 (1), 111-127
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10565-021-09587-z
Abstract
The key to bacterial virulence relies on an exquisite balance of signals between microbe and hosts. Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) system is known to play a vital role in response to stress adaptation, drug resistance, biofilm formation, intracellular survival, persistence as well as pathogenesis. In the present study, we investigated the role of Hha-TomB TA system in regulating virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in a host model system, where we showed that deletion of hha and tomB genes displayed impaired cell adhesion, invasion, and uptake. The isogenic hha and tomB mutant strain was also found to be deficient in intracellular replication in vitro, with a highly repressed Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-2 (SPI-2) genes and downregulation of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-1 (SPI-1) genes. In addition, the Delta hha and Delta tomB did not show acute colitis in C57BL/6 mice and displayed less dissemination to systemic organs followed by their cecal pathology. The TA mutants also showed reduction in serum cytokine and nitric oxide levels both in vitro and in vivo. However, the inflammation phenotype was restored on complementing strain of TA gene to its mutant strain. In silico studies depicted firm interaction of Hha-TomB complex and the regulatory proteins, namely, SsrA, SsrB, PhoP, and PhoQ. Overall, we demonstrate that this study of Hha-TomB TA system is one of the prime regulating networks essential for S. Typhimurium pathogenesis.Funding Information
- Department of Biotechnology , Ministry of Science and Technology (BT/PR11757/BRB/10/1309/2014)
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