Comparative inflammatory properties of staphylococcal superantigenic enterotoxins SEA and SEG: implications for septic shock
The severity of Staphylococcus aureus sepsis is positively associated with staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) and negatively associated with the enterotoxin gene cluster (egc), which encodes five staphylococcal enterotoxins [1]. We postulated that the variable, clinical severity of S. aureus sepsis...
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Published in | Journal of leukocyte biology Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 753 - 758 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Society for Leukocyte Biology
01.10.2006
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Summary: | The severity of Staphylococcus aureus sepsis is positively associated with staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) and negatively associated with the enterotoxin gene cluster (egc), which encodes five staphylococcal enterotoxins [1]. We postulated that the variable, clinical severity of S. aureus sepsis might be a result of differences in the inflammatory properties of staphylococcal superantigens. We therefore compared the inflammatory properties of SEA with those of staphylococcal entérotoxin G (SEG), a member of the five egc superantigens. We found that SEA and SEG had similar superantigenic properties, as they induced CD69 expression on T lymphocytes and selective expansion of Vβ subpopulations. Contrary to SEG, however, SEA induced a strong proinflammatory/Th1 response, including TNF‐α and MIP‐1α production. These results suggest that the association of SEA with the severity of S. aureus septic shock, characterized by a deleterious, inflammatory cascade, may be explained partly by the specific proinflammatory properties of this superantigen. |
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ISSN: | 0741-5400 1938-3673 |
DOI: | 10.1189/jlb.0306232 |