Application of In Vivo Induced Antigen Technology (IVIAT) to Bacillus anthracis
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Peppercorn, Amanda
Young, John S.
Drysdale, Melissa
Baresch, Andrea
Bikowski, Margaret V.
Ashford, David A.
Quinn, Conrad P.
Handfield, Martin
Hillman, Jeffrey D.
Lyons, C. Rick
Koehler, Theresa M.
Sonenshein, Abraham L.
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Rollins, Sean M., Amanda Peppercorn, John S. Young, Melissa Drysdale, Andrea Baresch, Margaret V. Bikowski, David A. Ashford, et al. 2008. Application of in vivo induced antigen technology (IVIAT) to Bacillus anthracis. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1824.Abstract
In vivo induced antigen technology (IVIAT) is an immuno-screening technique that identifies bacterial antigens expressed during infection and not during standard in vitro culturing conditions. We applied IVIAT to Bacillus anthracis and identified PagA, seven members of a N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase autolysin family, three P60 family lipoproteins, two transporters, spore cortex lytic protein SleB, a penicillin binding protein, a putative prophage holin, respiratory nitrate reductase NarG, and three proteins of unknown function. Using quantitative real-time PCR comparing RNA isolated from in vitro cultured B. anthracis to RNA isolated from BALB/c mice infected with virulent Ames strain B. anthracis, we confirmed induced expression in vivo for a subset of B. anthracis genes identified by IVIAT, including L-alanine amidases BA3767, BA4073, and amiA (pXO2-42); the bacteriophage holin gene BA4074; and pagA (pXO1-110). The exogenous addition of two purified putative autolysins identified by IVIAT, N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidases BA0485 and BA2446, to vegetative B. anthracis cell suspensions induced a species-specific change in bacterial morphology and reduction in viable bacterial cells. Many of the proteins identified in our screen are predicted to affect peptidoglycan re-modeling, and our results support significant cell wall structural remodeling activity during B. anthracis infection. Identification of L-alanine amidases with B. anthracis specificity may suggest new potential therapeutic targets.Other Sources
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