Evaluation of human trophoblasts and ovine testis cell lines for the study of the intracellular pathogen Brucella ovis.

Since pathogenic Brucella survive and replicate inside phagocytes, cellular models of infection constitute important tools in brucellosis research. We describe the behavior of B. ovis PA (which causes a type of ovine brucellosis mainly affecting the male reproductive tract) and representative attenuated mutants in two commercially available cell lines of non-professional phagocytes related to Brucella tissue preference: OA3.Ts ovine testis cells and JEG-3 human trophoblasts. In comparison with J774.A1 macrophages and HeLa cells, intracellular bacteria were enumerated at several post-infection time points and visualized by confocal microscopy. Replication of B. ovis in OA3.Ts and JEG-3 cells was equivalent to that observed in J774.A1 macrophages-despite the more efficient internalization in the latter-and better than in HeLa cells. Multiplication and/or survival in all phagocytes was dependent on virB2 and vjbR but independent of cgs, despite the attenuation in mice of the Δcgs mutant. However, Omp25c was required for B. ovis internalization only in HeLa cells, and removal of Omp31 increased bacterial internalization in human HeLa and JEG-3 cells. The results presented here demonstrate variability in the interaction of B. ovis with different host cells and provide advantageous models of non-professional phagocytes to study the intracellular behavior of B. ovis.

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