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Departments of
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Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, and
Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267
Surfactant protein A (SP-A) plays an important role in the innate immune defense of the respiratory tract. SP-A binds to lipid A of bacterial LPS, induces aggregation, destabilizes bacterial membranes, and promotes phagocytosis by neutrophils and macrophages. In this study, SP-A interaction with wild-type and mutant LPS of Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, was examined. B. pertussis LPS has a branched core structure with a nonrepeating trisaccharide, rather than a long-chain repeating O-Ag. SP-A did not bind, aggregate, nor permeabilize wild-type B. pertussis. LPS mutants lacking even one of the sugars in the terminal trisaccharide were bound and aggregated by SP-A. SP-A enhanced phagocytosis by human monocytes of LPS mutants that were able to bind SP-A, but not wild-type bacteria. SP-A enhanced phagocytosis by human neutrophils of LPS-mutant strains, but only in the absence of functional adenylate cyclase toxin, a B. pertussis toxin that has been shown to depress neutrophil activity. We conclude that the LPS of wild-type B. pertussis shields the bacteria from SP-A-mediated clearance, possibly by sterically limiting access to the lipid A region.
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