IgM cleavage by Streptococcus suis reduces IgM bound to the bacterial surface and is a novel complement evasion mechanism
Viktoria Rungelrath, Christine Weiße, Nicole Schütze, Uwe Müller, Marita Meurer, Manfred Rohde, Jana Seele, Peter-Valentin Weigand, Michael Kirschfink, Andreas Beineke, Wieland Schrödl, René Bergmann & Christoph Georg Baums
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) causes meningitis, arthritis and endocarditis in piglets. The aim of this study was to characterize the IgM degrading enzyme of S. suis (IdeSsuis) and to investigate the role of IgM cleavage in evasion of the classical complement pathway and pathogenesis. Targeted mutagenesis of a cysteine in the putative active center of IdeSsuis abrogated IgM cleavage completely. In contrast to wt rIdeSsuis, point mutated rIdeSsuis_C195S did not reduce complement-mediated hemolysis indicating that...
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