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Oral epithelial cell responses to multispecies microbial biofilms

R Peyyala et al. J Dent Res. 2013 Mar.

Abstract

This report describes the use of a novel model of multispecies biofilms to stimulate profiles of cytokines/chemokines from oral epithelial cells that contribute to local inflammation in the periodontium. Streptococcus gordonii (Sg)/S. oralis (So)/S. sanguinis (Ss) and Sg/Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn)/Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) biofilms elicited significantly elevated levels of IL-1α and showed synergistic stimulatory activity compared with an additive effect of the 3 individual bacteria. Only the Sg/Actinomyces naeslundii (An)/Fn multispecies biofilms elicited IL-6 levels above those of control. IL-8 was a primary response to the Sg/An/Fn biofilms, albeit the level was not enhanced compared with a predicted composite level from the monospecies challenges. These results represent some of the first data documenting alterations in profiles of oral epithelial cell responses to multispecies biofilms.

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Figure 1.

Levels of cytokines elicited by challenge of oral epithelial cells with multispecies biofilms (Biofilm). Mono-Biofilm denotes a composite of responses for the 3 monospecies biofilms represented in the multispecies biofilms. Each bar denotes mean level of triplicate determinations for each condition, and the vertical brackets signify 1 SD. The asterisk (*) denotes a significant difference from basal controls (RGPL-overlaid epithelial cells) at least at p < 0.05. The green horizontal line denotes mean of cells incubated in media and overlaid with RGPL absent bacteria for comparison of responses, and the light green box denotes 1 SD. The pound sign (#) denotes significant difference between multispecies biofilms and composite sum of monospecies biofilms for the 3 bacteria at least at p < 0.05. Basal epithelial cell levels of IL-1α = 245 ± 27; IL-6 = 0.64 ± 0.12; TGFα = 118 ± 16.

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Figure 2.

Levels of chemokines elicited by challenge of oral epithelial cells with multispecies biofilms (Biofilm). Mono-Biofilm denotes a composite of responses for the 3 monospecies biofilms represented in the multispecies biofilms. Each bar denotes mean level of triplicate determinations for each condition, and the vertical brackets signify 1 SD. The asterisk (*) denotes a significant difference from basal controls (RGPL-overlaid epithelial cells) at least at p < 0.05. The green horizontal line denotes mean of cells incubated in media and overlaid with RGPL absent bacteria for comparison of responses, and the light green box denotes 1 SD. The pound sign (#) denotes significant difference between multispecies biofilms and composite sum of monospecies biofilms for the 3 bacteria at least at p < 0.05. Basal epithelial cell levels of IL-8 = 81 ± 11; Gro-1α (CXCL1) = 321 ± 43; Fractalkine (CX3CL1) = 56 ± 17; IP-10 (CXCL10) = 1.8 ± 0.5.

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