PMID: 11934563Apr 6, 2002Paper

Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from airways of cystic fibrosis patients, and their small colony variants

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology
Beata SadowskaBarbara Róźalska

Abstract

The colonization of respiratory tract by Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent feature of cystic fibrosis (CF), especially in pediatric patients. The formation of small colony variants (SCVs), which produce reduced amounts of alpha-toxin, is one of the proposed ways of staphylococcal accommodation in an intracellular niche. The aim of the present study was to compare some properties of S. aureus SCVs and their parent strains. A site-directed S. aureus hemB mutant and parent strain 8325-4 were included in the study (control pair). Normal and SCV strain pairs from CF patients as well as control strains were tested for the susceptibility to defensins, killing activity of professional phagocytes and adhesion to A549 cell line. Because S. aureus are exposed to many cationic proteins in the host, we challenged a clinical isolate with minimal subinhibitory concentration (subMIC) of protamine and found that hemin and menadione auxotrophic SCVs emerged. SCVs were more resistant than normal strains to protamine but not to dermaseptin. The susceptibility to the bactericidal activity of magainin was the same for normal and SCV strains. The protamine resistance of normal as well as SCVs was strongly enhanced by high salt concentration. The ad...Continue Reading

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