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ArticleScientific reports2019

Dual role of the colonization factor CD2831 in Clostridium difficile pathogenesis.

Vanessa Arato, Gianmarco Gasperini, Fabiola Giusti, Ilaria Ferlenghi, Maria Scarselli, Rosanna Leuzzi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. 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
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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, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vanessa AratoGlaxo Smith Kline Vaccines, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy.
Gianmarco GasperiniGSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH), Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy.
Fabiola GiustiGlaxo Smith Kline Vaccines, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy.
Ilaria FerlenghiGlaxo Smith Kline Vaccines, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy.
Maria ScarselliGlaxo Smith Kline Vaccines, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy.
Rosanna LeuzziGlaxo Smith Kline Vaccines, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy. rosanna.x.leuzzi@gsk.com.
GlaxoSmithKline (Italy) · ITToscana Life Sciences · ITUniversity of Padua · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic bacterium and the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile modulates its transition from a motile to a sessile lifestyle through a mechanism of riboswitches regulated by cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP). Previously described as a sortase substrate positively regulated by c-di-GMP, CD2831 was predicted to be a collagen-binding protein and thus potentially involved in sessility. By overexpressing CD2831 in C. difficile and heterologously expressing it on the surface of Lactococcus lactis, here we further demonstrated that CD2831 is a collagen-binding protein, able to bind to immobilized collagen types I, III and V as well as native collagen produced by human fibroblasts. We also observed that the overexpression of CD2831 raises the ability to form biofilm on abiotic surface in both C. difficile and L. lactis. Notably, we showed that CD2831 binds to the collagen-like domain of the human complement component C1q, suggesting a role in preventing complement cascade activation via the classical pathway. This functional characterization places CD2831 in the Microbial Surface Components Recognizing Adhesive Matrix Molecule (MSCRAMMs) family, a class of virulence factors with a dual role in adhesion to collagen-rich tissues and in host immune evasion by binding to human complement components.

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Bacterial AdhesionBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsCollagenComplement C1qCyclic GMPExtracellular MatrixHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmune EvasionLactococcus lactisProtein DomainsRecombinant ProteinsBacterial Proteinsbis(3',5')-cyclic diguanylic acidCollagenComplement C1qCyclic GMPRecombinant Proteins

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PMID30944377
PMCPMC6447587
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