title: Microarray analysis identifies apoptosis regulatory gene expression in HCT116 cells infected with thermostable direct hemolysin-deletion mutant of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
abstract: The thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) is considered as a major virulence factor of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. We observed this potential in several human cancer cell lines by using the TDH-producing wild-type (RIMD2210633) as well as tdh-deletion mutant of V. parahaemolyticus and found that the deletion of tdh did not affect cytotoxicity to any of the cell lines tested. DNA fragmentation and annexin V staining showed that both wild-type and tdh-mutant trigger apoptosis in these cells. To understand the molecular basis of cell death in the absence of TDH, gene expression profile of human colon cancer cell line HCT116 infected with tdh-deletion mutant was carried out using human cDNA microarrays consisting of 33,000 known genes. In infected cells, differentially expressed genes including genes for early growth response, growth arrest and DNA damage, and activating transcription factor that affect programmed cell death pathways were detected. Interestingly, mutant strains having a deletion in type III secretion system 1 (TTSS1) failed to elicit DNA fragmentation in HCT116 cells. Our results strongly suggest that apoptosis requires functional TTSS1 and TTSS1-dependent translocation factor(s) to be associated with the host cell death, and thus pathogenesis of V. parahaemolyticus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacterial Infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Rabindra N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Bhattacharjee
authors.forename: Kwon-Sam
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Yutaro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uematsu
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Shizuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akira
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Honda
mesh_terms: D017304:Annexin A5 / Q000737:chemistry; D017209:Apoptosis; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015153:Blotting, Western; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004249:DNA Damage; D053938:DNA Fragmentation; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D016650:Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate / Q000737:chemistry; D017353:Gene Deletion; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D009154:Mutation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000382:microbiology*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D014736:Vibrio parahaemolyticus / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017304:Annexin A5; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; C068489:thermostable direct hemolysin; D016650:Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate