Staphylococcus aureus proteins Sbi and Efb recruit human plasmin to degrade complement C3 and C3b

  • Upon host infection, the human pathogenic microbe Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) immediately faces innate immune reactions such as the activated complement system. Here, a novel innate immune evasion strategy of S. aureus is described. The staphylococcal proteins surface immunoglobulin-binding protein (Sbi) and extracellular fibrinogen-binding protein (Efb) bind C3/C3b simultaneously with plasminogen. Bound plasminogen is converted by bacterial activator staphylokinase or by host-specific urokinase-type plasminogen activator to plasmin, which in turn leads to degradation of complement C3 and C3b. Efb and to a lesser extend Sbi enhance plasmin cleavage of C3/C3b, an effect which is explained by a conformational change in C3/C3b induced by Sbi and Efb. Furthermore, bound plasmin also degrades C3a, which exerts anaphylatoxic and antimicrobial activities. Thus, S. aureus Sbi and Efb comprise platforms to recruit plasmin(ogen) together with C3 and its activation product C3b for efficient degradation of these complement components in the local microbial environment and to protect S. aureus from host innate immune reactions.

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Author:Tina K. Koch, Michael Reuter, Diana Barthel, Sascha Böhm, Jean van den Elsen, Peter KraiczyGND, Peter F. ZipfelORCiDGND, Christine SkerkaGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-272697
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047638
ISSN:1932-6203
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23071827
Parent Title (English):PLoS One
Publisher:PLoS
Place of publication:Lawrence, Kan.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2012/10/11
Date of first Publication:2012/10/11
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/10/18
Volume:7
Issue:(10):e47638
Page Number:10
Note:
Copyright: © 2012 Koch et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:35840570X
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 2.0