Abstract
BackgroundThe presence of Campylobacter jejuni temperate bacteriophages has increasingly been associated with specific biological effects. It has recently been demonstrated that the presence of the prophage CJIE1 is associated with increased adherence and invasion of C. jejuni isolates in cell culture assays.ResultsQuantitative comparative proteomics experiments were undertaken using three closely related isolates with CJIE1 and one isolate without CJIE1 to determine whether there was a corresponding difference in protein expression levels. Initial experiments indicated that about 2% of the total proteins characterized were expressed at different levels in isolates with or without the prophage. Some of these proteins regulated by the presence of CJIE1 were associated with virulence or regulatory functions. Additional experiments were conducted using C. jejuni isolates with and without CJIE1 grown on four different media: Mueller Hinton (MH) media containing blood; MH media containing 0.1% sodium deoxycholate, which is thought to result in increased expression of virulence proteins; MH media containing 2.5% Oxgall; and MHwithout additives. These experiments provided further evidence that CJIE1 affected protein expression, including virulence-associated proteins. They also demonstrated a general bile response involving a majority of the proteome and clearly showed the induction of almost all proteins known to be involved with iron acquisition. The data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange with identifiers PXD000798, PXD000799, PXD000800, and PXD000801.ConclusionThe presence of the CJIE1 prophage was associated with differences in protein expression levels under different conditions. Further work is required to determine what genes are involved in causing this phenomenon.
Highlights
The presence of Campylobacter jejuni temperate bacteriophages has increasingly been associated with specific biological effects
Expression of prophageencoded DNAses dramatically reduces the rate of natural transformation [1,2], and the presence of homologs of the CJIE1 prophage is associated with increases in adhesion and invasion [3]
Differential expression of proteins in isolates with and without the CJIE1 prophage in rich medium, experiment 1 Initial experiments were undertaken to detect any differences in protein expression between the four closely related isolates with and without the CJIE1 prophage
Summary
The presence of Campylobacter jejuni temperate bacteriophages has increasingly been associated with specific biological effects. It has recently been demonstrated that the presence of the prophage CJIE1 is associated with increased adherence and invasion of C. jejuni isolates in cell culture assays. Expression of prophageencoded DNAses dramatically reduces the rate of natural transformation [1,2], and the presence of homologs of the CJIE1 prophage is associated with increases in adhesion and invasion [3]. Recent advances in quantitative proteomic characterization include relative protein quantification by stable isotope labelling of proteins or peptides and label-free quantification [11]. Label-free quantitation of peptides/proteins using spectral counting has been used successfully for E. coli [12]. A method of stable isotope labelling, isobaric Tags for Relative and Absolute Quantitation (iTRAQ), has been described for quantitation of protein expression levels across multiple samples [13]. A method of stable isotope labelling, isobaric Tags for Relative and Absolute Quantitation (iTRAQ), has been described for quantitation of protein expression levels across multiple samples [13]. iTRAQ labelling has been used successfully for assessing proteome changes in Acinetobacter baumanii [14]
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