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Pathogenic  Leptospira  spp. shed in the urine of reservoir hosts into freshwater can be transmitted to a susceptible host through skin abrasions or mucous membranes causing leptospirosis. The infection process involves the ability of leptospires to adhere to cell surface and extracellular matrix components, a crucial step for dissemination and colonization of host tissues. Therefore, the elucidation of novel mediators of host-pathogen interaction is important in the discovery of virulence factors involved in the pathogenesis of leptospirosis. In this study, we assess the functional roles of transmembrane outer membrane proteins OmpL36 (LIC13166), OmpL37 (LIC12263), and OmpL47 (LIC13050), which we recently identified on the leptospiral surface. We determine the capacity of these proteins to bind to host tissue components by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. OmpL37 binds elastin preferentially, exhibiting dose-dependent, saturating binding to human skin (K d , 104±19 nM) and aortic elastin (K d , 152±27 nM). It also binds fibrinogen (K d , 244±15 nM), fibrinogen fragment D (K d , 132±30 nM), plasma fibronectin (K d , 359±68 nM), and murine laminin (K d , 410±81 nM). The binding to human skin elastin by both recombinant OmpL37 and live  Leptospira interrogans  is specifically enhanced by rabbit antiserum for OmpL37, suggesting the involvement of OmpL37 in leptospiral binding to elastin and also the possibility that host-generated antibodies may promote rather than inhibit the adherence of leptospires to elastin-rich tissues. Further, we demonstrate that OmpL37 is recognized by acute and convalescent leptospirosis patient sera and also by  Leptospira -infected hamster sera. Finally, OmpL37 protein is detected in pathogenic  Leptospira  serovars and not in saprophytic  Leptospira . Thus, OmpL37 is a novel elastin-binding protein of pathogenic  Leptospira  that may be promoting attachment of  Leptospira  to host tissues.

The OmpL37 Surface-Exposed Protein Is Expressed by Pathogenic Leptospira during Infection and Binds Skin and Vascular Elastin