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The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 160: 860-869.
Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists

Expression of Two Different Antiphagocytic M Proteins by Streptococcus pyogenes of the OF+ Lineage1

Anette Thern, Maria Wästfelt and Gunnar Lindahl2

Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

All clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus) share the ability to resist phagocytosis and grow in human blood. In many strains, this property is due to the expression of a single antiphagocytic M protein, while other strains express more than one M-like molecule, of which the role in phagocytosis resistance is unclear. In particular, all S. pyogenes strains of the OF+ lineage, representing approximately half of all isolates, express two M-like proteins, Mrp and Emm, which are immunologically unrelated. These two proteins bind different ligands that have been implicated in phagocytosis resistance: Mrp binds fibrinogen and Emm binds the complement inhibitor C4BP. Using a clinical isolate of the common serotype 22, we created mutants affected in the mrp and emm genes and characterized them in phagocytosis experiments and by electron microscopy. A double mutant mrp-emm- showed strongly decreased resistance to phagocytosis, while mrp- and emm- single mutants grew well in blood. However, optimal growth required the expression of both Mrp and Emm. Experiments in which coagulation was inhibited using the specific thrombin inhibitor, hirudin, rather than heparin, indicated that Emm is more important than Mrp for resistance to phagocytosis. Tuftlike surface structures typical for S. pyogenes were still present in the mrp-emm- double mutant, but not in a mutant affected in the regulatory gene mga, indicating that the presence of these surface structures is not directly correlated to phagocytosis resistance. Our data imply that OF+ strains of S. pyogenes express two antiphagocytic M proteins with different ligand-binding properties.




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