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Publication : Cellular microbiology

The allele encoding the mycobacterial Erp protein affects lung disease in mice

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Published in Cellular microbiology - 01 Jan 2003

de Mendonça-Lima L, Bordat Y, Pivert E, Recchi C, Neyrolles O, Maitournam A, Gicquel B, Reyrat JM

Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 12542471

Cell. Microbiol. 2003 Jan;5(1):65-73

Erp (exported repetitive protein), also known as P36, Pirg and Rv3810, is a member of a mycobacteria-specific family of extracellular proteins. These proteins consist of three domains, the N- and C-terminal domains are similar in all mycobacterial species, however, the central domain contains a repeated PGLTS module and differs considerably between species. The erp knockout mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis displays very low levels of multiplication both in macrophage cell lines and in vivo in a mouse model of infection. The high interspecies variability of the central repeated region of the Erp protein led us to investigate whether these orthologous proteins were functionally equivalent in a mouse model of tuberculosis. We expressed a gene fusion with the erp gene of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium leprae or M. tuberculosis in trans in an erp-M. tuberculosis mutant and found that these three alleles restored multiplication to similar levels in the spleen of infected mice. However, these alleles gave different levels of colonization in the lung, for the early time-points. Quantitative histological analyses of the lungs of infected animals showed that the nature of the erp allele strongly affected the number and the size of lung lesions, demonstrating the importance of surface determinants for virulence and tissue damage.