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Effects of staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) on the mice bone marrow mature granulocytes production and functions

Abstract

The staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) are proteins produced and secreted by the gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and are responsible for most of the pathological conditions seen in infections caused by S. aureus, including the pulmonary infections in hospitalar environment. Previous studies carried out in humans have reported a correlation between levels of IgE antibodies to SEs and respiratory diseases exacerbation, including allergic asthma. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying such inflammatory exacerbation in asthmatic individuals under exposure to SEs. Our recently studies have been showing that staphylococcal enterotoxin type A (SEA) and type B (SEB), given intratracheally to rats and mice, are able to induce a marked increase on mature and immature granulocyte (neutrophil/eosinophil) counts in bone marrow. Thus, the action of SEs on bone marrow can represent an important step on the mechanism by the SEA (or SEB) pre-exposition can exacerbate the allergic pulmonary inflammation in atopic human (BACHERT et al., 2007; ROSSI & MONASTEROLO, 2004) and in animal experimental models (MARIANO et al., 2009). However, little is known about the SEs actions on the production and/or function of bone marrow cells. Therefore, the aim of this study is investigate the role (direct or indirect) of SEA or SEB on the production and function of granulocytes from mice bone marrow. Thus, the following parameters will be investigated in SEA or SEB-mice exposure: 1) Dose and time-course of the modification on bone marrow cell counts after SEA or SEB exposition mice; 2) On the supernatant and cellular suspensions from SEs-treated mice bone marrow we will invastigate the levels of cytokines (GM-CSF, IL-5, IL-4, IL-3 e TNF-a), quemokines (eotaxina, SDF-1±/CXCL12, G-CSF, MIP2/CXCL2 e KC/CXCL1), tachykinins from sensorial fibers (substance P and neurokinin A and the expression of their respective receptors: NK1 and NK2), and nitrite/nitrate (and expression of nitric oxide synthase isoforms: eNOS, bNOS e iNOS); 3) On bone marrow granulocyte (neutrophil and eosinophil) from SEs-treated mice we will invastigate the ability of adhesion and quimiotactic response in vitro and the expression of adhesion molecules involved on the granulocyte mobilization to inflammatory sites. Every parameters above will be also invastigate on bone marrow from naive mice, after in vitro incubation with SEs. Taken in consideration the high number of hospital infections induced by Staphylococcus aureus, and the recent evidences that SEs are the main ethiologic factor for alergic respiratory diseases, the findings from this project can provide advancement on the elucidation of the SEs mechanisms during Staphylococcus aureus pulmonary infections and on the allergic exacerbations by gram-positive bacterial exposition. (AU)

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TAKESHITA, W. M.; GUSHIKEN, V. O.; FERREIRA-DUARTE, A. P.; PINHEIRO-TORRES, A. S.; RONCALHO-BUCK, I. A.; SQUEBOLA-COLA, D. M.; MELLO, G. C.; ANHE, G. F.; ANTUNES, E.; DESOUZA, I. A.. Staphylococcal enterotoxin A regulates bone marrow granulocyte trafficking during pulmonary inflammatory disease in mice. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, v. 287, n. 3, p. 267-275, . (09/16522-0)
FERREIRA-DUARTE, ANA P.; PINHEIRO-TORRES, ANELIZE S.; ANHE, GABRIEL F.; CONDINO-NETO, ANTONIO; ANTUNES, EDSON; DESOUZA, IVANI A.. MHC Class II Activation and Interferon-gamma Mediate the Inhibition of Neutrophils and Eosinophils by Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Type A (SEA). FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY, v. 7, . (12/05561-8, 09/16522-0)

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