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From: Extracellular vesicles and soluble factors secreted by Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and ECOR63 protect against enteropathogenic E. coli-induced intestinal epithelial barrier dysfunction

Fig. 2

Analysis of host and bacterial factors involved in the strengthening activity of EcN and ECOR63 secreted fractions. The strengthening activity of COF-SN and OMVs depends on the ERK1/2 signalling pathway both in EPEC-infected cells (a) and intact cell monolayers (b). a-b Before infection/stimulation with OMVs or COF-SN, T-84 cell monolayers were pre-treated for 15 min with the ERK1/2 inhibitor U0126 (25 μM). TER values were measured before and after 3-h treatment. c-d Effect of heat treatment on the strengthening activity of EcN and ECOR63 COF-SN. EPEC-infected (c) or intact (d) T-84 cell monolayers were incubated with heated COF-SN (h-COF-SN), and TER values were measured before and after 3-h treatment. In all panels, data are presented as percentage of changes in TER from the initial value from three independent biological experiments performed in triplicate. TER initial values were between 1100 and 1300 Ω.cm2. a, Significance against untreated control cells (p ≤ 0.02); b, significance against control EPEC-infected cells (a, c) or cells treated with EcN or ECOR63 control extracellular fractions (b, d) (p ≤ 0.05)

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