Intracellularly Released Cholesterol from Polymer-Based Delivery Systems Alters Cellular Responses to Pneumolysin and Promotes Cell Survival.
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2021
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Kammann, T.
Hoff, J.
Yildirim, I.
Shkodra, B.
Müller, T.
Weber, C.
Gräler, M.H.
Maus, U.A.
Paton, J.C.
Singer, M.
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Metabolites, 2021; 11(12):821-1-821-14
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Tobias Kammann, Jessica Hoff, Ilknur Yildirim, Blerina Shkodra, Tina Müller, ChristineWeber, Markus H. Gräler, Ulrich A. Maus, James C. Paton, Mervyn Singer, Anja Traeger, Ulrich S. Schubert, Michael Bauer, and Adrian T. Press
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Cholesterol is highly abundant within all human body cells and modulates critical cellular functions related to cellular plasticity, metabolism, and survival. The cholesterol-binding toxin pneumolysin represents an essential virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae in establishing pneumonia and other pneumococcal infections. Thus, cholesterol scavenging of pneumolysin is a promising strategy to reduce S. pneumoniae induced lung damage. There may also be a second cholesterol-dependent mechanism whereby pneumococcal infection and the presence of pneumolysin increase hepatic sterol biosynthesis. Here we investigated a library of polymer particles varying in size and composition that allow for the cellular delivery of cholesterol and their effects on cell survival mechanisms following pneumolysin exposure. Intracellular delivery of cholesterol by nanocarriers composed of Eudragit E100–PLGA rescued pneumolysin-induced alterations of lipid homeostasis and enhanced cell survival irrespective of neutralization of pneumolysin.
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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).