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ArticleCellular microbiology2016

Development of an in vitro colonization model to investigate Staphylococcus aureus interactions with airway epithelia.

Megan R Kiedrowski, Alexandra E Paharik, Laynez W Ackermann, Annie U Shelton, Sachinkumar B Singh, Timothy D Starner, Alexander R Horswill

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Article in Cellular microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Megan R KiedrowskiDepartment of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Alexandra E PaharikDepartment of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Laynez W AckermannDepartment of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Annie U SheltonDepartment of Pediatrics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Sachinkumar B SinghDepartment of Pediatrics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Timothy D StarnerDepartment of Pediatrics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Alexander R HorswillDepartment of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
University of Iowa · US

Funding

Vector Core-Core 2P30DK054759 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Alejandro Antonio Pezzulo · 1998 to 2026
$30.5M
Quorum sensing-dependent interactions with biofilms and innate immunity defensesR01AI078921 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI HORSWILL, ALEXANDER R · 2008 to 2012
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS AI078921NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078921NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK054759
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterial pathogen responsible for a wide range of diseases and is also a human commensal colonizing the upper respiratory tract. Strains belonging to the clonal complex group CC30 are associated with colonization, although the colonization state itself is not clearly defined. In this work, we developed a co-culture model with S. aureus colonizing the apical surface of polarized human airway epithelial cells. The S. aureus are grown at the air-liquid interface to allow an in-depth evaluation of a simulated colonization state. Exposure to wild-type, S. aureus bacteria or conditioned media killed airway epithelial cells within 1 day, while mutant S. aureus strains lacking alpha-toxin (hla) persisted on viable cells for at least 2 days. Recent S. aureus CC30 isolates are natural hla mutants, and we observed that these strains displayed reduced toxicity toward airway epithelial cells. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction of known virulence factors showed the expression profile of S. aureus grown in co-culture correlates with results from previous human colonization studies. Microarray analysis indicated significant shifts in S. aureus physiology in the co-culture model toward lipid and amino acid metabolism. The development of the in vitro colonization model will enable further study of specific S. aureus interactions with the host epithelia.

Indexed as

Bacterial AdhesionBacterial ToxinsCoculture TechniquesEpithelial CellsHemolysin ProteinsHumansMutationRespiratory SystemStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusVirulenceBacterial ToxinsHemolysin Proteinsstaphylococcal alpha-toxin

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PMID26566259
PMCPMC4840028
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