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Published online ahead of print on 18 June 2009 as doi:10.1099/mic.0.028969-0
Microbiology 2009;155:2818.

Microbiology (2009), DOI 10.1099/mic.0.028969-0
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Microbiology 0 (2009), mic.0.028969; DOI  10.1099/mic.0.028969-0
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Burkholderia cenocepacia zinc metalloproteases influence resistance to antimicrobial peptides

Cora Kooi and Pamela A. Sokol1

University of Calgary

Burkholderia cenocepacia secretes two zinc-dependent metalloproteases, designated ZmpA and ZmpB. Previously, ZmpA and ZmpB have been shown to cleave several proteins important in host defense. In this study, the ability of ZmpA and ZmpB to digest and inactivate antimicrobial peptides involved in innate immunity was examined. ZmpB but not ZmpA cleaved β-defensin-1. ZmpA but not ZmpB cleaved the cathelicidin LL-37. Both enzymes cleaved elafin and secretory leucocyte inhibitor, which are antimicrobial peptides as well as neutrophil elastase inhibitors. Both ZmpA and ZmpB cleaved protamine, a fish antimicrobial peptide and a zmpAzmpB mutant was more sensitive to protamine killing than the parental strain. ZmpA or ZmpB cleavage of elafin inactivated its anti-protease activity. The effect of ZmpA and ZmpB on neutrophil proteases elastase and cathepsin G was also examined but neither enzyme was active against these host proteases. These studies suggest that ZmpA and ZmpB may influence the resistance of B. cenocepacia to host antimicrobial peptides as well as alter the host protease/anti-protease balance in chronic respiratory infections.

1 E-mail: psokol{at}ucalgary.ca






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