The TcdE holin drives toxin secretion and virulence in Clostridioides difficile.
DiBenedetto, N. V.; Oberkampf, M.; Cersosimo, L.; Yeliseyev, V.; Bry, L.; Peltier, J.; Dupuy, B.
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Clostridioides difficile is the leading cause of healthcare associated infections. The Pathogenicity Locus (PaLoc) toxins TcdA and TcdB promote host disease. These toxins lack canonical N-terminal signal sequences for translocation across the bacterial membrane, suggesting alternate mechanisms of release, which have included targeted secretion and passive release from cell lysis. While the holin TcdE has been implicated in TcdA and TcdB release, its role in vivo remains unknown. Here, we show profound reductions in toxin secretion in tcdE mutants in the highly virulent strains UK1 (epidemic ribotype 027, Clade 3) and VPI10463 (ribotype 087, Clade 1). Notably, tcdE deletion in either strain rescued highly susceptible gnotobiotic mice from lethal infection by reducing acute extracellular toxin to undetectable levels, limiting mucosal damage, and enabling long-term survival, in spite of continued toxin gene expression in tcdE mutants. Our findings confirm TcdEs critical functions in vivo for toxin secretion and C. difficile virulence.
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