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Journal Article
Synergistic streptococcal phage λSA2 and B30 endolysins kill streptococci in cow milk and in a mouse model of mastitis
2015
Overview
Bovine mastitis results in billion dollar losses annually in the USA alone. Streptococci are among the most relevant causative agents of this disease. Conventional antibiotic therapy is often unsuccessful and contributes to development of antibiotic resistance. Bacteriophage endolysins represent a new class of antimicrobials against these bacteria. In this work, we characterized the endolysins (lysins) of the streptococcal phages λSA2 and B30 and evaluated their potential as anti-mastitis agents. When tested in vitro against live streptococci, both enzymes exhibited near-optimum lytic activities at ionic strengths, pH, and Ca²⁺ concentrations consistent with cow milk. When tested in combination in a checkerboard assay, the lysins were found to exhibit strong synergy. The λSA2 lysin displayed high activity in milk against Streptococcus dysgalactiae (reduction of CFU/ml by 3.5 log units at 100 μg/ml), Streptococcus agalactiae (2 log), and Streptococcus uberis (4 log), whereas the B30 lysin was less effective. In a mouse model of bovine mastitis, both enzymes significantly reduced intramammary concentrations of all three streptococcal species (except for B30 vs. S. dysgalactiae), and the effects on mammary gland wet weights and TNFα concentrations were consistent with these findings. Unexpectedly, the synergistic effect determined for the two enzymes in vitro was not observed in the mouse model. Overall, our results illustrate the potential of endolysins for treatment of Streptococcus-induced bovine mastitis.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Analysis
/ Animals
/ Bacteria
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
/ calcium
/ Cattle
/ Endopeptidases - isolation & purification
/ Enzymes
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Lysins
/ Mammary Glands, Human - microbiology
/ Mastitis
/ Mice
/ Microbial Genetics and Genomics
/ Microbial Viability - drug effects
/ Milk
/ Peptides
/ Phages
/ Plasmids
/ Proteins
/ Streptococcal Infections - drug therapy
/ Streptococcal Infections - microbiology
/ Streptococcus - drug effects
/ Streptococcus Phages - enzymology
/ Studies
