HHQ and PQS, two Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing molecules, down-regulate the innate immune responses through the nuclear factor-kappaB pathway.

Kiwan Kim; Young Uk Kim; Byung Hee Koh; Soo Seok Hwang; Seol-Hee Kim; Francois Lépine; You-Hee Cho; Gap Ryol Lee

HHQ and PQS, two Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing molecules, down-regulate the innate immune responses through the nuclear factor-kappaB pathway.

Kiwan Kim ¹ Young Uk Kim ¹ Byung Hee Koh ¹ Soo Seok Hwang ¹ Seol-Hee Kim ¹ Francois Lépine ² You-Hee Cho ¹ Gap Ryol Lee ^{1, *}

* Corresponding author

1 Department of Life Science

2 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier

Abstract : To explore whether bacterial secreted 4-hydroxy-2-alkylquinolines (HAQs) can regulate host innate immune responses, we used the extracts of bacterial culture supernatants from a wild-type (PA14) and two mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that have defects in making HAQs. Surprisingly, the extract of supernatants from the P. aeruginosa pqsA mutant that does not make HAQs showed strong stimulating activity for the production of innate cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 in the J774A.1 mouse monocyte/macrophage cell line, whereas the extract from the wild-type did not. The addition of 4-hydroxy-2-heptylquinoline (HHQ) or 2-heptyl-3,4-dihydroxyquinoline (PQS, Pseudomonas quinolone signal) to mammalian cell culture media abolished this stimulating activity of the extracts of supernatants from the pqsA mutant on the expression of innate cytokines in J774A.1 cells and in the primary bronchoalveolar lavage cells from C57BL/6 mice, suggesting that HHQ and PQS can suppress the host innate immune responses. The pqsA mutant showed reduced dissemination in the lung tissue compared with the wild-type strain in a mouse in vivo intranasal infection model, suggesting that HHQ and PQS may play a role in the pathogenicity of P. aeruginosa. HHQ and PQS reduced the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) binding to its binding sites and the expression of NF-kappaB target genes, and PQS delayed inhibitor of kappaB degradation, indicating that the effect of HHQ and PQS was mediated through the NF-kappaB pathway. Our results suggest that HHQ and PQS produced by P. aeruginosa actively suppress host innate immune responses.

Keywords : 4-hydroxy-2-alkylquinolines immune evasion innate cytokine innate immunity macrophage nuclear factor-κB quorum sensing

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Life Sciences [q-bio] / Biotechnology

Computer Science [cs] / Biotechnology

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