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Kang MJ, Ioannou S, Lougheide Q, Dittmar M, Hsu Y, Pastor-Soler NM. The study of intercalated cells using ex vivo techniques: primary cell culture, cell lines, kidney slices, and organoids. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2024; 326:C229-C251. [PMID: 37899748 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00479.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
Abstract
This review summarizes methods to study kidney intercalated cell (IC) function ex vivo. While important for acid-base homeostasis, IC dysfunction is often not recognized clinically until it becomes severe. The advantage of using ex vivo techniques is that they allow for the differential evaluation of IC function in controlled environments. Although in vitro kidney tubular perfusion is a classical ex vivo technique to study IC, here we concentrate on primary cell cultures, immortalized cell lines, and ex vivo kidney slices. Ex vivo techniques are useful in evaluating IC signaling pathways that allow rapid responses to extracellular changes in pH, CO2, and bicarbonate (HCO3-). However, these methods for IC work can also be challenging, as cell lines that recapitulate IC do not proliferate easily in culture. Moreover, a "pure" IC population in culture does not necessarily replicate its collecting duct (CD) environment, where ICs are surrounded by the more abundant principal cells (PCs). It is reassuring that many findings obtained in ex vivo IC systems signaling have been largely confirmed in vivo. Some of these newly identified signaling pathways reveal that ICs are important for regulating NaCl reabsorption, thus suggesting new frontiers to target antihypertensive treatments. Moreover, recent single-cell characterization studies of kidney epithelial cells revealed a dual developmental origin of IC, as well as the presence of novel CD cell types with certain IC characteristics. These exciting findings present new opportunities for the study of IC ex vivo and will likely rediscover the importance of available tools in this field.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The study of kidney intercalated cells has been limited by current cell culture and kidney tissue isolation techniques. This review is to be used as a reference to select ex vivo techniques to study intercalated cells. We focused on the use of cell lines and kidney slices as potential useful models to study membrane transport proteins. We also review how novel collecting duct organoids may help better elucidate the role of these intriguing cells.
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- Min Ju Kang
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, United States
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A Planar Culture Model of Human Absorptive Enterocytes Reveals Metformin Increases Fatty Acid Oxidation and Export. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022; 14:409-434. [PMID: 35489715 PMCID: PMC9305019 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2022.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Fatty acid oxidation by absorptive enterocytes has been linked to the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia. Caco-2 and organoids have been used to study dietary lipid-handling processes including fatty acid oxidation, but are limited in physiological relevance or preclude simultaneous apical and basal access. Here, we developed a high-throughput planar human absorptive enterocyte monolayer system for investigating lipid handling, and then evaluated the role of fatty acid oxidation in fatty acid export, using etomoxir, C75, and the antidiabetic drug metformin. METHODS Single-cell RNA-sequencing, transcriptomics, and lineage trajectory was performed on primary human jejunum. In vivo absorptive enterocyte maturational states informed conditions used to differentiate human intestinal stem cells (ISCs) that mimic in vivo absorptive enterocyte maturation. The system was scaled for high-throughput drug screening. Fatty acid oxidation was modulated pharmacologically and BODIPY (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) (B)-labeled fatty acids were used to evaluate fatty acid handling via fluorescence and thin-layer chromatography. RESULTS Single-cell RNA-sequencing shows increasing expression of lipid-handling genes as absorptive enterocytes mature. Culture conditions promote ISC differentiation into confluent absorptive enterocyte monolayers. Fatty acid-handling gene expression mimics in vivo maturational states. The fatty acid oxidation inhibitor etomoxir decreased apical-to-basolateral export of medium-chain B-C12 and long-chain B-C16 fatty acids, whereas the CPT1 agonist C75 and the antidiabetic drug metformin increased apical-to-basolateral export. Short-chain B-C5 was unaffected by fatty acid oxidation inhibition and diffused through absorptive enterocytes. CONCLUSIONS Primary human ISCs in culture undergo programmed maturation. Absorptive enterocyte monolayers show in vivo maturational states and lipid-handling gene expression profiles. Absorptive enterocytes create strong epithelial barriers in 96-Transwell format. Fatty acid export is proportional to fatty acid oxidation. Metformin enhances fatty acid oxidation and increases basolateral fatty acid export, supporting an intestine-specific role.
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Ek V, Fattinger SA, Florbrant A, Hardt WD, Di Martino ML, Eriksson J, Sellin ME. A Motile Doublet Form of Salmonella Typhimurium Diversifies Target Search Behaviour at the Epithelial Surface. Mol Microbiol 2022; 117:1156-1172. [PMID: 35332598 PMCID: PMC9325389 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The behaviors of infectious bacteria are commonly studied in bulk. This is effective to define the general properties of a given isolate, but insufficient to resolve subpopulations and unique single‐microbe behaviors within the bacterial pool. We here employ microscopy to study single‐bacterium characteristics among Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S.Tm), as they prepare for and launch invasion of epithelial host cells. We find that during the bacterial growth cycle, S.Tm populations switch gradually from fast planktonic growth to a host cell‐invasive phenotype, characterized by flagellar motility and expression of the Type‐three‐secretion‐system‐1. The indistinct nature of this shift leads to the establishment of a transient subpopulation of S.Tm “doublets”—waist‐bearing bacteria anticipating cell division—which simultaneously express host cell invasion machinery. In epithelial cell culture infections, these S.Tm doublets outperform their “singlet” brethren and represent a hyperinvasive subpopulation. Atop both glass and enteroid‐derived monolayers, doublets swim along markedly straighter trajectories than singlets, thereby diversifying search patterns and improving the surface exploration capacity of the total bacterial population. The straighter swimming, combined with an enhanced cell‐adhesion propensity, suffices to account for the hyperinvasive doublet phenotype. This work highlights bacterial cell length heterogeneity as a key determinant of target search patterns atop epithelia.
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- Viktor Ek
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden.,Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Fulde M, van Vorst K, Zhang K, Westermann AJ, Busche T, Huei YC, Welitschanski K, Froh I, Pägelow D, Plendl J, Pfarrer C, Kalinowski J, Vogel J, Valentin-Weigand P, Hensel M, Tedin K, Repnik U, Hornef MW. SPI2 T3SS effectors facilitate enterocyte apical to basolateral transmigration of Salmonella-containing vacuoles in vivo. Gut Microbes 2022; 13:1973836. [PMID: 34542008 PMCID: PMC8475570 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2021.1973836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI) 2 type three secretion system (T3SS)-mediated effector molecules facilitate bacterial survival in phagocytes but their role in the intestinal epithelium in vivo remains ill-defined. Using our neonatal murine infection model in combination with SPI2 reporter technology and RNA-Seq of sorted primary enterocytes, we demonstrate expression of SPI2 effector molecules by intraepithelial Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium). Contrary to expectation, immunostaining revealed that infection with SPI2 T3SS-mutants resulted in significantly enlarged intraepithelial Salmonella-containing vacuoles (SCV) with altered cellular positioning, suggesting impaired apical to basolateral transmigration. Also, infection with isogenic tagged S. Typhimurium strains revealed a reduced spread of intraepithelial SPI2 T3SS mutant S. Typhimurium to systemic body sites. These results suggest that SPI2 T3SS effector molecules contribute to enterocyte apical to basolateral transmigration of the SCV during the early stage of the infection.
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- Marcus Fulde
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Berlin, Germany,CONTACT Mathias Hornef Institute for Medical Microbiology; RWTH University Hospital; Pauwelsstr. 30, Aachen, D-52074, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Rwth University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany,Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Würzburg, Germany
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- Technology Platform Genomics, Center for Biotechnology (Cebitec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Rwth University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany
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- Hannover Medical School, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Anatomy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
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- Technology Platform Genomics, Center for Biotechnology (Cebitec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany,Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Rwth University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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Hausmann A, Felmy B, Kunz L, Kroon S, Berthold DL, Ganz G, Sandu I, Nakamura T, Zangger NS, Zhang Y, Dolowschiak T, Fattinger SA, Furter M, Müller-Hauser AA, Barthel M, Vlantis K, Wachsmuth L, Kisielow J, Tortola L, Heide D, Heikenwälder M, Oxenius A, Kopf M, Schroeder T, Pasparakis M, Sellin ME, Hardt WD. Intercrypt sentinel macrophages tune antibacterial NF-κB responses in gut epithelial cells via TNF. J Exp Med 2021; 218:e20210862. [PMID: 34529751 PMCID: PMC8480669 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20210862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) NF-κB signaling regulates the balance between mucosal homeostasis and inflammation. It is not fully understood which signals tune this balance and how bacterial exposure elicits the process. Pure LPS induces epithelial NF-κB activation in vivo. However, we found that in mice, IECs do not respond directly to LPS. Instead, tissue-resident lamina propria intercrypt macrophages sense LPS via TLR4 and rapidly secrete TNF to elicit epithelial NF-κB signaling in their immediate neighborhood. This response pattern is relevant also during oral enteropathogen infection. The macrophage-TNF-IEC axis avoids responses to luminal microbiota LPS but enables crypt- or tissue-scale epithelial NF-κB responses in proportion to the microbial threat. Thereby, intercrypt macrophages fulfill important sentinel functions as first responders to Gram-negative microbes breaching the epithelial barrier. The tunability of this crypt response allows the induction of defense mechanisms at an appropriate scale according to the localization and intensity of microbial triggers.
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- Annika Hausmann
- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Genetics, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute for Genetics, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Division of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Genetics, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Cryptosporidium parvum Subverts Antimicrobial Activity of CRAMP by Reducing Its Expression in Neonatal Mice. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8111635. [PMID: 33113928 PMCID: PMC7690728 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8111635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Revised: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Cryptosporidium parvum causes diarrhea in infants under 5 years, in immunosuppressed individuals or in young ruminants. This parasite infects the apical side of ileal epithelial cells where it develops itself and induces inflammation. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are part of the innate immune response, playing a major role in the control of the acute phase of C. parvum infection in neonates. Intestinal AMP production in neonates is characterized by high expressions of Cathelicidin Related Antimicrobial Peptide (CRAMP), the unique cathelicidin in mice known to fight bacterial infections. In this study, we investigated the role of CRAMP during cryptosporidiosis in neonates. We demonstrated that sporozoites are sensitive to CRAMP antimicrobial activity. However, during C. parvum infection the intestinal expression of CRAMP was significantly and selectively reduced, while other AMPs were upregulated. Moreover, despite high CRAMP expression in the intestine of neonates at homeostasis, the depletion of CRAMP did not worsen C. parvum infection. This result might be explained by the rapid downregulation of CRAMP induced by infection. However, the exogenous administration of CRAMP dampened the parasite burden in neonates. Taken together these results suggest that C. parvum impairs the production of CRAMP to subvert the host response, and highlight exogenous cathelicidin supplements as a potential treatment strategy.
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Shukla PK, Meena AS, Gangwar R, Szabo E, Balogh A, Chin Lee S, Vandewalle A, Tigyi G, Rao R. LPAR2 receptor activation attenuates radiation-induced disruption of apical junctional complexes and mucosal barrier dysfunction in mouse colon. FASEB J 2020; 34:11641-11657. [PMID: 32654268 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202000544r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The tight junction (TJ) and barrier function of colonic epithelium is highly sensitive to ionizing radiation. We evaluated the effect of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and its analog, Radioprotein-1, on γ-radiation-induced colonic epithelial barrier dysfunction using Caco-2 and m-ICC12 cell monolayers in vitro and mice in vivo. Mice were subjected to either total body irradiation (TBI) or partial body irradiation (PBI-BM5). Intestinal barrier function was assessed by analyzing immunofluorescence localization of TJ proteins, mucosal inulin permeability, and plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS) levels. Oxidative stress was analyzed by measuring protein thiol oxidation and antioxidant mRNA. In Caco-2 and m-ICC12 cell monolayers, LPA attenuated radiation-induced redistribution of TJ proteins, which was blocked by a Rho-kinase inhibitor. In mice, TBI and PBI-BM5 disrupted colonic epithelial tight junction and adherens junction, increased mucosal permeability, and elevated plasma LPS; TJ disruption by TBI was more severe in Lpar2-/- mice compared to wild-type mice. RP1, administered before or after irradiation, alleviated TBI and PBI-BM5-induced TJ disruption, barrier dysfunction, and endotoxemia accompanied by protein thiol oxidation and downregulation of antioxidant gene expression, cofilin activation, and remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton. These data demonstrate that LPAR2 receptor activation prevents and mitigates γ-irradiation-induced colonic mucosal barrier dysfunction and endotoxemia.
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- Pradeep K Shukla
- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- INSERM U773, Centre de Recherche Biomédicale, Bichat-Beaujon, CRB3, UFR de Médecine, Paris Cedex 18, France
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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Hausmann A, Russo G, Grossmann J, Zünd M, Schwank G, Aebersold R, Liu Y, Sellin ME, Hardt W. Germ-free and microbiota-associated mice yield small intestinal epithelial organoids with equivalent and robust transcriptome/proteome expression phenotypes. Cell Microbiol 2020; 22:e13191. [PMID: 32068945 PMCID: PMC7317401 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Intestinal epithelial organoids established from gut tissue have become a widely used research tool. However, it remains unclear how environmental cues, divergent microbiota composition and other sources of variation before, during and after establishment confound organoid properties, and how these properties relate to the original tissue. While environmental influences cannot be easily addressed in human organoids, mice offer a controlled assay-system. Here, we probed the effect of donor microbiota differences, previously identified as a confounding factor in murine in vivo studies, on organoids. We analysed the proteomes and transcriptomes of primary organoid cultures established from two colonised and one germ-free mouse colony of C57BL/6J genetic background, and compared them to their tissue of origin and commonly used cell lines. While an imprint of microbiota-exposure was observed on the proteome of epithelial samples, the long-term global impact of donor microbiota on organoid expression patterns was negligible. Instead, stochastic culture-to-culture differences accounted for a moderate variability between independently established organoids. Integration of transcriptome and proteome datasets revealed an organoid-typic expression signature comprising 14 transcripts and 10 proteins that distinguished organoids across all donors from murine epithelial cell lines and fibroblasts and closely mimicked expression patterns in the gut epithelium. This included the inflammasome components ASC, Naip1-6, Nlrc4 and Caspase-1, which were highly expressed in all organoids compared to the reference cell line m-ICc12 or mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Taken together, these results reveal that the donor microbiota has little effect on the organoid phenotype and suggest that organoids represent a more suitable culture model than immortalised cell lines, in particular for studies of intestinal epithelial inflammasomes.
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- Annika Hausmann
- Institute of Microbiology, Department of BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Functional Genomics Center ZurichUniversity of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Functional Genomics Center ZurichUniversity of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and ToxicologyUniversity of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute of Systems Biology, Department of BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute of Systems Biology, Department of BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
- Department of Pharmacology, Cancer Biology InstituteYale University School of MedicineWest HavenConnecticutUSA
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of BiologyETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and MicrobiologyUppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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Fattinger SA, Böck D, Di Martino ML, Deuring S, Samperio Ventayol P, Ek V, Furter M, Kreibich S, Bosia F, Müller-Hauser AA, Nguyen BD, Rohde M, Pilhofer M, Hardt WD, Sellin ME. Salmonella Typhimurium discreet-invasion of the murine gut absorptive epithelium. PLoS Pathog 2020; 16:e1008503. [PMID: 32365138 PMCID: PMC7224572 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S.Tm) infections of cultured cell lines have given rise to the ruffle model for epithelial cell invasion. According to this model, the Type-Three-Secretion-System-1 (TTSS-1) effectors SopB, SopE and SopE2 drive an explosive actin nucleation cascade, resulting in large lamellipodia- and filopodia-containing ruffles and cooperative S.Tm uptake. However, cell line experiments poorly recapitulate many of the cell and tissue features encountered in the host’s gut mucosa. Here, we employed bacterial genetics and multiple imaging modalities to compare S.Tm invasion of cultured epithelial cell lines and the gut absorptive epithelium in vivo in mice. In contrast to the prevailing ruffle-model, we find that absorptive epithelial cell entry in the mouse gut occurs through “discreet-invasion”. This distinct entry mode requires the conserved TTSS-1 effector SipA, involves modest elongation of local microvilli in the absence of expansive ruffles, and does not favor cooperative invasion. Discreet-invasion preferentially targets apicolateral hot spots at cell–cell junctions and shows strong dependence on local cell neighborhood. This proof-of-principle evidence challenges the current model for how S.Tm can enter gut absorptive epithelial cells in their intact in vivo context. Bacterial pathogens can use secreted effector molecules to drive entry into host cells. Studies of the intestinal pathogen S.Tm have been central to uncover the mechanistic basis for the entry process. More than two decades of research have resulted in a detailed model for how S.Tm invades gut epithelial cells through effector triggering of large Rho-GTPase-dependent actin ruffles. However, the evidence for this model comes predominantly from studies in cultured cell lines. These experimental systems lack many of the architectural and signaling features of the intact gut epithelium. Our study surprisingly reveals that in the intact mouse gut, S.Tm invades absorptive epithelial cells through a process that does not require the Rho-GTPase-activating effectors and can proceed in the absence of the prototypical ruffling response. Instead, S.Tm exploits another effector, SipA, to sneak in through discreet entry structures close to cell–cell junctions. Our results challenge the current model for S.Tm epithelial cell entry and emphasizes the need of taking a physiological host cell context into account when studying bacterium–host cell interactions.
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- Stefan A. Fattinger
- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Central Facility for Microscopy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (MP); (WDH); (MES)
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (MP); (WDH); (MES)
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- Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- * E-mail: (MP); (WDH); (MES)
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Araújo JR, Tazi A, Burlen-Defranoux O, Vichier-Guerre S, Nigro G, Licandro H, Demignot S, Sansonetti PJ. Fermentation Products of Commensal Bacteria Alter Enterocyte Lipid Metabolism. Cell Host Microbe 2020; 27:358-375.e7. [PMID: 32101704 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 10/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Despite the recognized capacity of the gut microbiota to regulate intestinal lipid metabolism, the role of specific commensal species remains undefined. Here, we aimed to understand the bacterial effectors and molecular mechanisms by which Lactobacillus paracasei and Escherichia coli regulate lipid metabolism in enterocytes. We show that L-lactate produced by L. paracasei inhibits chylomicron secretion from enterocytes and promotes lipid storage by a mechanism involving L-lactate absorption by enterocytes, its conversion to malonyl-CoA, and the subsequent inhibition of lipid beta-oxidation. In contrast, acetate produced by E. coli also inhibits chylomicron secretion by enterocytes but promotes lipid oxidation by a mechanism involving acetate absorption by enterocytes, its metabolism to acetyl-CoA and AMP, and the subsequent upregulation of the AMPK/PGC-1α/PPARα pathway. Our study opens perspectives for developing specific bacteria- and metabolite-based therapeutic interventions against obesity, atherosclerosis, and malnutrition by targeting lipid metabolism in enterocytes.
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- João R Araújo
- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1202, 75015 Paris, France
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1202, 75015 Paris, France
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1202, 75015 Paris, France
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- PAM UMR A 02.102, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, AgroSup Dijon, Dijon, France
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM U1138, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS, EPHE, PSL University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1202, 75015 Paris, France; Collège de France, 75005, Paris, France.
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Valencia Lopez MJ, Schimmeck H, Gropengießer J, Middendorf L, Quitmann M, Schneider C, Holstermann B, Wacker R, Heussler V, Reimer R, Aepfelbacher M, Ruckdeschel K. Activation of the macroautophagy pathway by Yersinia enterocolitica promotes intracellular multiplication and egress of yersiniae from epithelial cells. Cell Microbiol 2019; 21:e13046. [PMID: 31099152 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The virulence strategy of pathogenic Yersinia spp. involves cell-invasive as well as phagocytosis-preventing tactics to enable efficient colonisation of the host organism. Enteropathogenic yersiniae display an invasive phenotype in early infection stages, which facilitates penetration of the intestinal mucosa. Here we show that invasion of epithelial cells by Yersinia enterocolitica is followed by intracellular survival and multiplication of a subset of ingested bacteria. The replicating bacteria were enclosed in vacuoles with autophagy-related characteristics, showing phagophore formation, xenophagy, and recruitment of cytoplasmic autophagosomes to the bacteria-containing compartments. The subsequent fusion of these vacuoles with lysosomes and concomitant vesicle acidification were actively blocked by Yersinia. This resulted in increased intracellular proliferation and detectable egress of yersiniae from infected cells. Notably, deficiency of the core autophagy machinery component FIP200 impaired the development of autophagic features at Yersinia-containing vacuoles as well as intracellular replication and release of bacteria to the extracellular environment. These results suggest that Y. enterocolitica may take advantage of the macroautophagy pathway in epithelial cells to create an autophagosomal niche that supports intracellular bacterial survival, replication, and, eventually, spread of the bacteria from infected cells.
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- Maria Jose Valencia Lopez
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University, Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Edwards VL, Smith SB, McComb EJ, Tamarelle J, Ma B, Humphrys MS, Gajer P, Gwilliam K, Schaefer AM, Lai SK, Terplan M, Mark KS, Brotman RM, Forney LJ, Bavoil PM, Ravel J. The Cervicovaginal Microbiota-Host Interaction Modulates Chlamydia trachomatis Infection. mBio 2019; 10:e01548-19. [PMID: 31409678 PMCID: PMC6692509 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01548-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The mechanism(s) by which Lactobacillus-dominated cervicovaginal microbiota provide a barrier to Chlamydia trachomatis infection remain(s) unknown. Here we evaluate the impact of different Lactobacillus spp. identified via culture-independent metataxonomic analysis of C. trachomatis-infected women on C. trachomatis infection in a three-dimensional (3D) cervical epithelium model. Lactobacillus spp. that specifically produce d(-) lactic acid were associated with long-term protection against C. trachomatis infection, consistent with reduced protection associated with Lactobacillus iners, which does not produce this isoform, and with decreased epithelial cell proliferation, consistent with the observed prolonged protective effect. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that epigenetic modifications involving histone deacetylase-controlled pathways are integral to the cross talk between host and microbiota. These results highlight a fundamental mechanism whereby the cervicovaginal microbiota modulates host functions to protect against C. trachomatis infection.IMPORTANCE The vaginal microbiota is believed to protect women against Chlamydia trachomatis, the etiologic agent of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection (STI) in developed countries. The mechanism underlying this protection has remained elusive. Here, we reveal the comprehensive strategy by which the cervicovaginal microbiota modulates host functions to protect against chlamydial infection, thereby providing a novel conceptual mechanistic understanding. Major implications of this work are that (i) the impact of the vaginal microbiota on the epithelium should be considered in future studies of chlamydial infection and other STIs and (ii) a fundamental understanding of the cervicovaginal microbiota's role in protection against STIs may enable the development of novel microbiome-based therapeutic strategies to protect women from infection and improve vaginal and cervical health.
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- Vonetta L Edwards
- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Biostatistics, Biomathematics, Pharmacoepidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Disentangling Host-Microbiota Regulation of Lipid Secretion by Enterocytes: Insights from Commensals Lactobacillus paracasei and Escherichia coli. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.01493-18. [PMID: 30181250 PMCID: PMC6123438 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01493-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The gut microbiota contributes to nutrients absorption and metabolism by enterocytes, but the molecular mechanisms involved remain poorly understood, and most conclusions are inferred from studies comparing germfree and conventional animals colonized with diverse bacterial species. We selected two model commensal microorganisms, Escherichia coli and Lactobacillus paracasei, to assess the role of the small-intestinal microbiota in modulating lipid absorption and metabolism by the epithelium. Using an integrated approach encompassing cellular and murine models and combining metabolic parameters measurement, lipid droplet imaging, and gene expression analysis, we demonstrated that under homeostatic conditions, L. paracasei promotes fat storage in enterocytes, whereas E. coli enhances lipid catabolism and reduces chylomicron circulating levels. The Akt/mammalian target of sirolimus (mTOR) pathway is inhibited by both bacterial species in vitro, indicating that several regulatory pathways are involved in the distinct intracellular lipid outcomes associated with each bacterial species. Moreover, soluble bacterial factors partially reproduce the effects observed with live microorganisms. However, reduction of chylomicron circulating levels in E. coli-colonized animals is lost under high-fat-diet conditions, whereas it is potentiated by L. paracasei colonization accompanied by resistance to hypercholesterolemia and excess body weight gain.IMPORTANCE The specific contribution of each bacterial species within a complex microbiota to the regulation of host lipid metabolism remains largely unknown. Using two model commensal microorganisms, L. paracasei and E. coli, we demonstrated that both bacterial species impacted host lipid metabolism in a diet-dependent manner and, notably, that L. paracasei-colonized mice but not E. coli-colonized mice resisted high-fat-diet-induced body weight gain. In addition, we set up cellular models of fatty acid absorption and secretion by enterocytes cocultured with bacteria and showed that, in vitro, both L. paracasei and E. coli inhibited lipid secretion, through increased intracellular fat storage and enhanced lipid catabolism, respectively.
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Huang J, Jia R, Brunner T. Local synthesis of immunosuppressive glucocorticoids in the intestinal epithelium regulates anti-viral immune responses. Cell Immunol 2018; 334:1-10. [PMID: 30144940 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The nuclear receptor Small Heterodimer Partner (SHP) is a transcriptional target and inhibitor of Liver Receptor Homolog 1 (LRH-1), the transcriptional regulator of intestinal glucocorticoid (GC) synthesis. The role of SHP in the regulation of intestinal GC synthesis and its impact on T cell-mediated anti-viral immune responses in the intestinal mucosa are currently not understood. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection promoted intestinal GC synthesis, which was enhanced in SHP-deficient mice. Intestinal GC suppressed the expansion and altered the activation of virus-specific T cells. In contrast, deletion of LRH-1 reduced intestinal GC synthesis and accelerated the expansion of cytotoxic T cells post LCMV infection. These findings show that virus-induced intestinal GC synthesis is controlled by LRH-1 and SHP, and that local steroidogenesis contributes to the maintenance of intestinal immune homeostasis. Thus, LRH-1-regulated intestinal GC synthesis could represent an interesting therapeutic target in the treatment of inflammatory disorders.
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- Juan Huang
- Biochemical Pharmacology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany; Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, China
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- Biochemical Pharmacology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany.
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Thompson A, Fulde M, Tedin K. The metabolic pathways utilized by Salmonella Typhimurium during infection of host cells. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2018; 10:140-154. [PMID: 29411544 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Only relatively recently has research on the metabolism of intracellular bacterial pathogens within their host cells begun to appear in the published literature. This reflects in part the experimental difficulties encountered in separating host metabolic processes from those of the resident pathogen. One of the most genetically tractable and thoroughly studied intracellular bacterial pathogens, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), has been at the forefront of metabolic studies within eukaryotic host cells. In this review, we offer a synthesis of what has been discovered to date regarding the metabolic adaptation of S. Typhimurium to survival and growth within the infected host. We discuss many studies in the context of techniques used, types of host cells, how host metabolites contribute to intracellular survival and proliferation of the pathogen and how bacterial metabolism affects the virulence and persistence of the pathogen.
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- Arthur Thompson
- Institute for Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK
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- Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14163 Berlin, Germany
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Zhang K, Riba A, Nietschke M, Torow N, Repnik U, Pütz A, Fulde M, Dupont A, Hensel M, Hornef M. Minimal SPI1-T3SS effector requirement for Salmonella enterocyte invasion and intracellular proliferation in vivo. PLoS Pathog 2018. [PMID: 29522566 PMCID: PMC5862521 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Effector molecules translocated by the Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)1-encoded type 3 secretion system (T3SS) critically contribute to the pathogenesis of human Salmonella infection. They facilitate internalization by non-phagocytic enterocytes rendering the intestinal epithelium an entry site for infection. Their function in vivo has remained ill-defined due to the lack of a suitable animal model that allows visualization of intraepithelial Salmonella. Here, we took advantage of our novel neonatal mouse model and analyzed various bacterial mutants and reporter strains as well as gene deficient mice. Our results demonstrate the critical but redundant role of SopE2 and SipA for enterocyte invasion, prerequisite for transcriptional stimulation and mucosal translocation in vivo. In contrast, the generation of a replicative intraepithelial endosomal compartment required the cooperative action of SipA and SopE2 or SipA and SopB but was independent of SopA or host MyD88 signaling. Intraepithelial growth had no critical influence on systemic spread. Our results define the role of SPI1-T3SS effector molecules during enterocyte invasion and intraepithelial proliferation in vivo providing novel insight in the early course of Salmonella infection. Non-typhoidal Salmonella represent a major causative agent of gastroenteritis worldwide. Hallmark of the pathogenesis is their ability to actively invade the intestinal epithelium by virtue of their type 3 secretion system that delivers bacterial virulence factors directly into the host cell cytosol. The role of these virulence factors during enterocyte entry and intraepithelial growth has only been investigated in vitro since the previously established in vivo models in small animals did not allow visualization of intraepithelial Salmonella. However, immortalized cell lines lack the overlaying mucus layer, final cell lineage differentiation, apical-basolateral polarization as well as continuous migration along the crypt villus axis and thus the role of virulence factors during the Salmonella infection in vivo has remained largely undefined. Here, we took advantage of our novel neonatal mouse infection model and for the first time systematically analyzed the importance of Salmonella virulence factors for enterocyte invasion and intraepithelial growth.
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- Kaiyi Zhang
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Division of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Division of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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Bussière FI, Niepceron A, Sausset A, Esnault E, Silvestre A, Walker RA, Smith NC, Quéré P, Laurent F. Establishment of an in vitro chicken epithelial cell line model to investigate Eimeria tenella gamete development. Parasit Vectors 2018; 11:44. [PMID: 29347990 PMCID: PMC5774133 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-2622-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Eimeria tenella infection leads to acute intestinal disorders responsible for important economic losses in poultry farming worldwide. The life-cycle of E. tenella is monoxenous with the chicken as the exclusive host; infection occurs in caecal epithelial cells. However, in vitro, the complete life-cycle of the parasite has only been propagated successfully in primary chicken kidney cells, which comprise undefined mixed cell populations; no cell line model has been able to consistently support the development of the sexual stages of the parasite. We therefore sought to develop a new model to study E. tenella gametogony in vitro using a recently characterised chicken cell line (CLEC-213) exhibiting an epithelial cell phenotype. Methods CLEC-213 were infected with sporozoites from a precocious strain or with second generation merozoites (merozoites II) from wild type strains. Sexual stages of the parasite were determined both at the gene and protein levels. Results To our knowledge, we show for the first time in CLEC-213, that sporozoites from a precocious strain of E. tenella were able to develop to gametes, as verified by measuring gene expression and by using antibodies to a microgamete-specific protein (EtFOA1: flagellar outer arm protein 1) and a macrogamete-specific protein (EtGAM-56), but oocysts were not observed. However, both gametes and oocysts were observed when cells were infected with merozoites II from wild type strains, demonstrating that completion of the final steps of the parasite cycle is possible in CLEC-213 cells. Conclusion The epithelial cell line CLEC-213 constitutes a useful avian tool for studying Eimeria epithelial cell interactions and the effect of drugs on E. tenella invasion, merogony and gametogony.
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- Françoise I Bussière
- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France.
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 266a, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, INRA, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, 37380, Nouzilly, France
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Kanaya T, Sakakibara S, Jinnohara T, Hachisuka M, Tachibana N, Hidano S, Kobayashi T, Kimura S, Iwanaga T, Nakagawa T, Katsuno T, Kato N, Akiyama T, Sato T, Williams IR, Ohno H. Development of intestinal M cells and follicle-associated epithelium is regulated by TRAF6-mediated NF-κB signaling. J Exp Med 2018; 215:501-519. [PMID: 29339448 PMCID: PMC5789402 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20160659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Revised: 11/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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TRAF6 is essential for RANK-mediated NF-κB activation and is involved in the development of several types of cells. Kanaya et al. demonstrate that RANK–TRAF6-mediated NF-κB is essential for the development of M cells and FAE. M cells are located in the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) that covers Peyer’s patches (PPs) and are responsible for the uptake of intestinal antigens. The differentiation of M cells is initiated by receptor activator of NF-κB. However, the intracellular pathways involved in M cell differentiation are still elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that the NF-κB pathway activated by RANK is essential for M cell differentiation using in vitro organoid culture. Overexpression of NF-κB transcription factors enhances the expression of M cell–associated molecules but is not sufficient to complete M cell differentiation. Furthermore, we evaluated the requirement for tumor necrosis factor receptor–associated factor 6 (TRAF6). Conditional deletion of TRAF6 in the intestinal epithelium causes a complete loss of M cells in PPs, resulting in impaired antigen uptake into PPs. In addition, the expression of FAE-associated genes is almost silenced in TRAF6-deficient mice. This study thus demonstrates the crucial role of TRAF6-mediated NF-κB signaling in the development of M cells and FAE.
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- Takashi Kanaya
- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan.,Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medical Life Science, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan.,Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medical Life Science, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan.,Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medical Life Science, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- Laboratory of Histology and Cytology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Histology and Cytology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan .,Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medical Life Science, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sadio M, Tourneur E, Bens M, Goujon JM, Vandewalle A, Chassin C. Cyclosporine A Induces MicroRNAs Controlling Innate Immunity during Renal Bacterial Infection. J Innate Immun 2017; 10:14-29. [PMID: 29069656 DOI: 10.1159/000480248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) mainly due to uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are one of the most frequent complications in kidney-transplanted patients, causing significant morbidity. However, the mechanisms underlying UTI in renal grafts remain poorly understood. Here, we analysed the effects of the potent immunosuppressive agent cyclosporine A (CsA) on the activation of collecting duct cells that represent a preferential site of adhesion and translocation for UPEC. CsA induced the inhibition of lipopolysaccharide- induced activation of collecting duct cells due to the downregulation of the expression of TLR4 via the microRNA Let-7i. Using an experimental model of ascending UTI, we showed that the pretreatment of mice with CsA prior to infection induced a marked fall in cytokine production by collecting duct cells, neutrophil recruitment, and a dramatic rise of bacterial load, but not in infected TLR4-defective mice kidneys. This effect was also observed in CsA-treated infected kidneys, where the expression of Let-7i was increased. Treatment with a synthetic Let-7i mimic reproduced the effects of CsA. Conversely, pretreatment with an anti-Let-7i antagonised the effects of CsA and rescued the innate immune response of collecting duct cells against UPEC. Thus, the utilisation of an anti-Let-7i during kidney transplantation may protect CsA-treated patients from ascending bacterial infection.
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- Malick Sadio
- ATIP-Avenir Team Chassin, University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CRI, UMR 1149, Inserm, Paris, France
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Lee S, Wilen CB, Orvedahl A, McCune BT, Kim KW, Orchard RC, Peterson ST, Nice TJ, Baldridge MT, Virgin HW. Norovirus Cell Tropism Is Determined by Combinatorial Action of a Viral Non-structural Protein and Host Cytokine. Cell Host Microbe 2017; 22:449-459.e4. [PMID: 28966054 PMCID: PMC5679710 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cellular tropism during persistent viral infection is commonly conferred by the interaction of a viral surface protein with a host receptor complex. Norovirus, the leading global cause of gastroenteritis, can be persistently shed during infection, but its in vivo cellular tropism and tropism determinants remain unidentified. Using murine norovirus (MNoV), we determine that a small number of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) serve as the reservoir for fecal shedding and persistence. The viral non-structural protein NS1, rather than a viral surface protein, determines IEC tropism. Expression of NS1 from a persistent MNoV strain is sufficient for an acute MNoV strain to target IECs and persist. In addition, interferon-lambda (IFN-λ) is a key host determinant blocking MNoV infection in IECs. The inability of acute MNoV to shed and persist is rescued in Ifnlr1-/- mice, suggesting that NS1 evades IFN-λ-mediated antiviral immunity. Thus, NS1 and IFN-λ interactions govern IEC tropism and persistence of MNoV.
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- Sanghyun Lee
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Zhang K, Griffiths G, Repnik U, Hornef M. Seeing is understanding: Salmonella's way to penetrate the intestinal epithelium. Int J Med Microbiol 2017; 308:97-106. [PMID: 28939439 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Revised: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The molecular processes that govern host-microbial interaction illustrate not only the sophisticated and multifaceted mechanisms that protect the host from infection, but also the elaborated features of microbial pathogens that have evolved to overcome or evade the host's immune system. Here we focus on Salmonella that like other enteric pathogens must overcome the intestinal mucosal immune system, a surface constantly on alert and evolved to restrict the enteric microbiota. We discuss the initial step of Salmonella infection, the penetration of the intestinal epithelial barrier and the models used to study this fascinating aspect of microbial pathogenesis.
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- Kaiyi Zhang
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
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Compound A influences gene regulation of the Dexamethasone-activated glucocorticoid receptor by alternative cofactor recruitment. Sci Rep 2017; 7:8063. [PMID: 28808239 PMCID: PMC5556032 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-07941-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a transcription factor of which the underlying gene regulatory mechanisms are complex and incompletely understood. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory Compound A (CpdA), a selective GR modulating compound in various cell models, has been shown to favour GR-mediated gene repression but not GR-mediated gene activation. Shifting balances towards only a particular subset of GR gene regulatory events may be of benefit in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. We present evidence to support that the combination of CpdA with Dexamethasone (DEX), a classic steroidal GR ligand, can shape GR function towards a unique gene regulatory profile in a cell type-dependent manner. The molecular basis hereof is a changed GR phosphorylation status concomitant with a change in the GR cofactor recruitment profile. We subsequently identified and confirmed the orphan nuclear receptor SHP as a coregulator that is specifically enriched at GR when CpdA and DEX are combined. Combining CpdA with DEX not only leads to stronger suppression of pro-inflammatory gene expression, but also enhanced anti-inflammatory GR target gene expression in epithelial cells, making ligand combination strategies in future a potentially attractive alternative manner of skewing and fine-tuning GR effects towards an improved therapeutic benefit.
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Di Claudio F, Muglia CI, Smaldini PL, Orsini Delgado ML, Trejo FM, Grigera JR, Docena GH. Use of a Collagen Membrane to Enhance the Survival of Primary Intestinal Epithelial Cells. J Cell Physiol 2017; 232:2489-2496. [PMID: 27626762 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Intestinal epithelial cell culture is important for biological, functional, and immunological studies. Since enterocytes have a short in vivo life span due to anoikis, we aimed to establish a novel and reproducible method to prolong the survival of mouse and human cells. Cells were isolated following a standard procedure, and cultured on ordered-cow's collagen membranes. A prolonged cell life span was achieved; cells covered the complete surface of bio-membranes and showed a classical enterocyte morphology with high expression of enzymes supporting the possibility of cryopreservation. Apoptosis was dramatically reduced and cultured enterocytes expressed cytokeratin and LGR5 (low frequency). Cells exposed to LPS or flagellin showed the induction of TLR4 and TLR5 expression and a functional phenotype upon exposure to the probiotic Bifidobacterium bifidum or the pathogenic Clostridium difficile. The secretion of the homeostatic (IL-25 and TSLP), inhibitory (IL-10 and TGF-β), or pro-inflammatory mediators (IL-1β and TNF) were induced. In conclusion, this novel protocol using cow's collagen-ordered membrane provides a simple and reproducible method to maintain intestinal epithelial cells functional for cell-microorganism interaction studies and stem cell expansion. J. Cell. Physiol. 232: 2489-2496, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Fiorella Di Claudio
- Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Tecnología de Alimentos (CIDCA), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Centro de Química Inorgánica (CEQUINOR), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP), CONICET y Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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Connan C, Voillequin M, Chavez CV, Mazuet C, Leveque C, Vitry S, Vandewalle A, Popoff MR. Botulinum neurotoxin type B uses a distinct entry pathway mediated by CDC42 into intestinal cells versus neuronal cells. Cell Microbiol 2017; 19. [PMID: 28296078 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2017] [Accepted: 03/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are responsible for severe flaccid paralysis by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions. BoNT type B (BoNT/B) most often induces mild forms of botulism with predominant dysautonomic symptoms. In food borne botulism and botulism by intestinal colonisation such as infant botulism, which are the most frequent naturally acquired forms of botulism, the digestive tract is the main entry route of BoNTs into the organism. We previously showed that BoNT/B translocates through mouse intestinal barrier by an endocytosis-dependent mechanism and subsequently targets neuronal cells, mainly cholinergic neurons, in the intestinal mucosa and musculosa. Here, we investigated the entry pathway of BoNT/B using fluorescent C-terminal domain of the heavy chain (HcB), which is involved in the binding to specific receptor(s) and entry process into target cells. While the combination of gangliosides GD1a /GD1b /GT1b and synaptotagmin I and to a greater extent synaptotagmin II constitutes the functional HcB receptor on NG108-15 neuronal cells, HcB only uses the gangliosides GD1a /GD1b /GT1b to efficiently bind to m-ICcl2 intestinal cells. HcB enters both cell types by a dynamin-dependent endocytosis, which is efficiently prevented by Dynasore, a dynamin inhibitor, and reaches a common early endosomal compartment labeled by early endosome antigen (EEA1). In contrast to neuronal cells, HcB uses a Cdc42-dependent pathway to enter intestinal cells. Then, HcB is transported to late endosomes in neuronal cells, whereas it exploits a nonacidified pathway from apical to basal lateral side of m-ICcl2 cells supporting a transcytotic route in epithelial intestinal cells.
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- Chloé Connan
- Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR_S 1072 (UNIS), Faculté de Médecine -Secteur Nord, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Neuro-Immunologie Virale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Goverse G, Molenaar R, Macia L, Tan J, Erkelens MN, Konijn T, Knippenberg M, Cook ECL, Hanekamp D, Veldhoen M, Hartog A, Roeselers G, Mackay CR, Mebius RE. Diet-Derived Short Chain Fatty Acids Stimulate Intestinal Epithelial Cells To Induce Mucosal Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2017; 198:2172-2181. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1600165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Connan C, Popoff MR. Uptake of Clostridial Neurotoxins into Cells and Dissemination. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2017; 406:39-78. [PMID: 28879524 DOI: 10.1007/82_2017_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Clostridial neurotoxins, botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT), are potent toxins, which are responsible for severe neurological diseases in man and animals. BoNTs induce a flaccid paralysis (botulism) by inhibiting acetylcholine release at the neuromuscular junctions, whereas TeNT causes a spastic paralysis (tetanus) by blocking the neurotransmitter release (glycine, GABA) in inhibitory interneurons within the central nervous system. Clostridial neurotoxins recognize specific receptor(s) on the target neuronal cells and enter via a receptor-mediated endocytosis. They transit through an acidic compartment which allows the translocation of the catalytic chain into the cytosol, a prerequisite step for the intracellular activity of the neurotoxins. TeNT migrates to the central nervous system by using a motor neuron as transport cell. TeNT enters a neutral pH compartment and undergoes a retrograde axonal transport to the spinal cord or brain, where the whole undissociated toxin is delivered and interacts with target neurons. Botulism most often results from ingestion of food contaminated with BoNT. Thus, BoNT passes through the intestinal epithelial barrier mainly via a transcytotic mechanism and then diffuses or is transported to the neuromuscular junctions by the lymph or blood circulation. Indeed, clostridial neurotoxins are specific neurotoxins which transit through a transport cell to gain access to the target neuron, and use distinct trafficking pathways in both cell types.
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- Chloé Connan
- Unité Des Bactéries Anaérobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, 25 Rue Du Dr Roux, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France
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- Unité Des Bactéries Anaérobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, 25 Rue Du Dr Roux, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Jones EJ, Korcsmaros T, Carding SR. Mechanisms and pathways of Toxoplasma gondii transepithelial migration. Tissue Barriers 2016; 5:e1273865. [PMID: 28452683 PMCID: PMC5362999 DOI: 10.1080/21688370.2016.1273865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous parasite and a prevalent food-borne parasitic pathogen. Infection of the host occurs principally through oral consumption of contaminated food and water with the gastrointestinal tract being the primary route for entry into the host. To promote infection, T. gondii has evolved highly specialized strategies for rapid traversal of the single cell thick intestinal epithelial barrier. Parasite transmigration via the paracellular pathway between adjacent cells enables parasite dissemination to secondary sites of infection where chronic infection of muscle and brain tissue is established. It has recently been proposed that parasite interactions with the integral tight junction (TJ) protein occludin influences parasite transmigration of the intestinal epithelium. We review here the emerging mechanisms of T. gondii transmigration of the small intestinal epithelium alongside the developing role played in modulating the wider TJ-associated proteome to rewire host cell regulatory systems for the benefit of the parasite.
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- Emily J Jones
- a Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme , Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK.,b Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK
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- a Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme , Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK.,b Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK
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- a Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme , Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK.,c Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park , Norwich , UK
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Dupont A, Sommer F, Zhang K, Repnik U, Basic M, Bleich A, Kühnel M, Bäckhed F, Litvak Y, Fulde M, Rosenshine I, Hornef MW. Age-Dependent Susceptibility to Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) Infection in Mice. PLoS Pathog 2016; 12:e1005616. [PMID: 27159323 PMCID: PMC4861285 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) represents a major causative agent of infant diarrhea associated with significant morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Although studied extensively in vitro, the investigation of the host-pathogen interaction in vivo has been hampered by the lack of a suitable small animal model. Using RT-PCR and global transcriptome analysis, high throughput 16S rDNA sequencing as well as immunofluorescence and electron microscopy, we characterize the EPEC-host interaction following oral challenge of newborn mice. Spontaneous colonization of the small intestine and colon of neonate mice that lasted until weaning was observed. Intimate attachment to the epithelial plasma membrane and microcolony formation were visualized only in the presence of a functional bundle forming pili (BFP) and type III secretion system (T3SS). Similarly, a T3SS-dependent EPEC-induced innate immune response, mediated via MyD88, TLR5 and TLR9 led to the induction of a distinct set of genes in infected intestinal epithelial cells. Infection-induced alterations of the microbiota composition remained restricted to the postnatal period. Although EPEC colonized the adult intestine in the absence of a competing microbiota, no microcolonies were observed at the small intestinal epithelium. Here, we introduce the first suitable mouse infection model and describe an age-dependent, virulence factor-dependent attachment of EPEC to enterocytes in vivo.
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- Aline Dupont
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- * E-mail: (AD); (MWH)
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- The Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- The Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department for Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department for Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- * E-mail: (AD); (MWH)
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A Comparison of the ATP Generating Pathways Used by S. Typhimurium to Fuel Replication within Human and Murine Macrophage and Epithelial Cell Lines. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0150687. [PMID: 26930214 PMCID: PMC4773185 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The metabolism of S. Typhimurium within infected host cells plays a fundamental role in virulence since it enables intracellular proliferation and dissemination and affects the innate immune response. An essential requirement for the intracellular replication of S. Typhimurium is the need to regenerate ATP. The metabolic route used to fulfil this requirement is the subject of the present study. For infection models we used human and murine epithelial and macrophage cell lines. The epithelial cell lines were mICc12, a transimmortalised murine colon enterocyte cell line that shows many of the characteristics of a primary epithelial cell line, and HeLa cells. The model macrophage cell lines were THP-1A human monocyte/macrophages and RAW 264.7 murine macrophages. Using a mutational approach combined with an exometabolomic analysis, we showed that neither fermentative metabolism nor anaerobic respiration play major roles in energy generation in any of the cell lines studied. Rather, we identified overflow metabolism to acetate and lactate as the foremost route by which S. Typhimurium fulfils its energy requirements.
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Sun S, Shi G, Sha H, Ji Y, Han X, Shu X, Ma H, Inoue T, Gao B, Kim H, Bu P, Guber RD, Shen X, Lee AH, Iwawaki T, Paton AW, Paton JC, Fang D, Tsai B, Yates JR, Wu H, Kersten S, Long Q, Duhamel GE, Simpson KW, Qi L. IRE1α is an endogenous substrate of endoplasmic-reticulum-associated degradation. Nat Cell Biol 2015; 17:1546-55. [PMID: 26551274 PMCID: PMC4670240 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation (ERAD) represents a principle quality control mechanism to clear misfolded proteins in the ER; however its physiological significance and the nature of endogenous ERAD substrates remain largely unexplored. Here we discover that IRE1α, the sensor of unfolded protein response (UPR), is a bona fide substrate of the Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD complex. ERAD-mediated IRE1α degradation occurs under basal conditions in a BiP-dependent manner, requires both intramembrane hydrophilic residues of IRE1α and lectin protein OS9, and is attenuated by ER stress. ERAD deficiency causes IRE1α protein stabilization, accumulation and mild activation both in vitro and in vivo. Although enterocyte-specific Sel1L-knockout mice (Sel1LΔIEC) are viable and appear normal, they are highly susceptible to experimental colitis and inflammation-associated dysbiosis, in an IRE1α-dependent but CHOP-independent manner. Hence, Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD serves a distinct, essential function in restraint of IRE1α signaling in vivo by managing its protein turnover.
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- Shengyi Sun
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas 79905, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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- Education and Research Support Center, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas 79905, USA
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- Nutrition Metabolism and Genomics group, Wageningen University, Bomenweg 2, 6703HD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory Animal Research Center, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Clinical Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Le MT, van Veldhuizen M, Porcelli I, Bongaerts RJ, Gaskin DJH, Pearson BM, van Vliet AHM. Conservation of σ28-Dependent Non-Coding RNA Paralogs and Predicted σ54-Dependent Targets in Thermophilic Campylobacter Species. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0141627. [PMID: 26512728 PMCID: PMC4626219 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Assembly of flagella requires strict hierarchical and temporal control via flagellar sigma and anti-sigma factors, regulatory proteins and the assembly complex itself, but to date non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have not been described to regulate genes directly involved in flagellar assembly. In this study we have investigated the possible role of two ncRNA paralogs (CjNC1, CjNC4) in flagellar assembly and gene regulation of the diarrhoeal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. CjNC1 and CjNC4 are 37/44 nt identical and predicted to target the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) of genes transcribed from the flagellar sigma factor σ54. Orthologs of the σ54-dependent 5' UTRs and ncRNAs are present in the genomes of other thermophilic Campylobacter species, and transcription of CjNC1 and CNC4 is dependent on the flagellar sigma factor σ28. Surprisingly, inactivation and overexpression of CjNC1 and CjNC4 did not affect growth, motility or flagella-associated phenotypes such as autoagglutination. However, CjNC1 and CjNC4 were able to mediate sequence-dependent, but Hfq-independent, partial repression of fluorescence of predicted target 5' UTRs in an Escherichia coli-based GFP reporter gene system. This hints towards a subtle role for the CjNC1 and CjNC4 ncRNAs in post-transcriptional gene regulation in thermophilic Campylobacter species, and suggests that the currently used phenotypic methodologies are insufficiently sensitive to detect such subtle phenotypes. The lack of a role of Hfq in the E. coli GFP-based system indicates that the CjNC1 and CjNC4 ncRNAs may mediate post-transcriptional gene regulation in ways that do not conform to the paradigms obtained from the Enterobacteriaceae.
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- My Thanh Le
- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Programme, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Weight CM, Jones EJ, Horn N, Wellner N, Carding SR. Elucidating pathways of Toxoplasma gondii invasion in the gastrointestinal tract: involvement of the tight junction protein occludin. Microbes Infect 2015; 17:698-709. [PMID: 26183539 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Revised: 06/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite infecting one third of the world's population. The small intestine is the parasite's primary route of infection, although the pathway of epithelium transmigration remains unclear. Using an in vitro invasion assay and live imaging we showed that T. gondii (RH) tachyzoites infect and transmigrate between adjacent intestinal epithelial cells in polarized monolayers without altering barrier integrity, despite eliciting the production of specific inflammatory mediators and chemokines. During invasion, T. gondii co-localized with occludin. Reducing the levels of endogenous cellular occludin with specific small interfering RNAs significantly reduced the ability of T. gondii to penetrate between and infect epithelial cells. Furthermore, an in vitro invasion and binding assays using recombinant occludin fragments established the capacity of the parasite to bind occludin and in particular to the extracellular loops of the protein. These findings provide evidence for occludin playing a role in the invasion of T. gondii in small intestinal epithelial cells.
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- Caroline M Weight
- Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK; Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK; Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Analytical Sciences Unit, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Gut Health and Food Safety Institute Strategic Programme, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK; Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK.
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Guesdon W, Auray G, Pezier T, Bussière FI, Drouet F, Le Vern Y, Marquis M, Potiron L, Rabot S, Bruneau A, Werts C, Laurent F, Lacroix-Lamandé S. CCL20 Displays Antimicrobial Activity Against Cryptosporidium parvum, but Its Expression Is Reduced During Infection in the Intestine of Neonatal Mice. J Infect Dis 2015; 212:1332-40. [PMID: 25838265 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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CCL20 is a chemokine with antimicrobial activity. We investigated its expression and role during neonatal cryptosporidiosis, a worldwide protozoan enteric disease leading to severe diarrhea. Surprisingly, during infection by Cryptosporidium parvum, CCL20 production by the intestine of neonatal mice is reduced by a mechanism independent both of the enteric flora and of interferon γ, a key cytokine for the resolution of this infection. However, oral administration of recombinant CCL20 to neonatal mice significantly reduced the parasite load by a mechanism that was independent of immune cell recruitment and occurred instead by direct cytolytic activity on free stages of the parasite. MiR21 functionally targets CCL20 and is upregulated during the infection, thus contributing to the downregulation of the chemokine. Our findings demonstrate for the first time the direct antiparasitic activity of CCL20 against an enteric protozoan and its downregulation during C. parvum infection, which is detrimental to parasite clearance.
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- William Guesdon
- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours INRA Val de Loire, Cytometry Platform
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA, UMR1319 Micalis AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas
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- INRA, UMR1319 Micalis AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas
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- Unité Biologie et Génétique de la Paroi Bactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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- INRA Val de Loire, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Nouzilly Université François Rabelais, UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Tours
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Bussière FI, Brossier F, Le Vern Y, Niepceron A, Silvestre A, de Sablet T, Lacroix-Lamandé S, Laurent F. Reduced parasite motility and micronemal protein secretion by a p38 MAPK inhibitor leads to a severe impairment of cell invasion by the apicomplexan parasite Eimeria tenella. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0116509. [PMID: 25689363 PMCID: PMC4331428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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E. tenella infection is associated with a severe intestinal disease leading to high economic losses in poultry industry. Mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are implicated in early response to infection and are divided in three pathways: p38, extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK). Our objective was to determine the importance of these kinases on cell invasion by E. tenella. We evaluated the effect of specific inhibitors (ERK: PD98059, JNKII: SP600125, p38 MAPK: SB203580) on the invasion of epithelial cells. Incubation of SP600125 and SB203580 with epithelial cells and parasites significantly inhibited cell invasion with the highest degree of inhibition (90%) for SB203580. Silencing of the host p38α MAPK expression by siRNA led to only 20% decrease in cell invasion. In addition, when mammalian epithelial cells were pre-treated with SB203580, and washed prior infection, a 30% decrease in cell invasion was observed. This decrease was overcome when a p38 MAPK activator, anisomycin was added during infection. This suggests an active but limited role of the host p38 MAPK in this process. We next determined whether SB203580 has a direct effect on the parasite. Indeed, parasite motility and secretion of micronemal proteins (EtMIC1, 2, 3 and 5) that are involved in cell invasion were both decreased in the presence of the inhibitor. After chasing the inhibitor, parasite motility and secretion of micronemal proteins were restored and subsequently cell invasion. SB203580 inhibits cell invasion by acting partly on the host cell and mainly on the parasite.
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- Françoise I. Bussière
- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
- Plate-forme d’Analyse Intégrative des Biomolécules, Laboratoire de Cytométrie et Fluorimétrie, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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- Apicomplexes et Immunité Mucosale, INRA, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37380 Nouzilly, France
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR1282, Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000 Tours, France
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Dupont A, Kaconis Y, Yang I, Albers T, Woltemate S, Heinbockel L, Andersson M, Suerbaum S, Brandenburg K, Hornef MW. Intestinal mucus affinity and biological activity of an orally administered antibacterial and anti-inflammatory peptide. Gut 2015; 64:222-32. [PMID: 24811998 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) provide protection from infection by pathogenic microorganisms and restrict bacterial growth at epithelial surfaces to maintain mucosal homeostasis. In addition, they exert a significant anti-inflammatory activity. Here we analysed the anatomical distribution and biological activity of an orally administered AMP in the context of bacterial infection and host-microbial homeostasis. DESIGN The anatomical distribution as well as antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activity of the endogenous AMP cryptdin 2 and the synthetic peptide Pep19-2.5 at the enteric mucosal surface were analysed by immunostaining, functional viability and stimulation assays, an oral Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica sv. Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) model and comparative microbiota analysis. RESULTS Endogenous cryptdin 2 was found attached to bacteria of the enteric microbiota within the intestinal mucus layer. Similarly, the synthetic peptide Pep19-2.5 attached rapidly to bacterial cells, exhibited a marked affinity for the intestinal mucus layer in vivo, altered the structural organisation of endotoxin in a mucus matrix and demonstrated potent anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activity. Oral Pep19-2.5 administration induced significant changes in the composition of the enteric microbiota as determined by high-throughput 16S rDNA sequencing. This may have contributed to the only transient improvement of the clinical symptoms after oral infection with S. Typhimurium. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate the anti-inflammatory activity and mucus affinity of the synthetic AMP Pep19-2.5 and characterise the influence on microbiota composition and enteropathogen infection after oral administration.
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- Aline Dupont
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Biophysics, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Biophysics, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
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- Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Hornef MW, Fulde M. Ontogeny of intestinal epithelial innate immune responses. Front Immunol 2014; 5:474. [PMID: 25346729 PMCID: PMC4191320 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Emerging evidence indicates that processes during postnatal development might significantly influence the establishment of mucosal host-microbial homeostasis. Developmental and adaptive immunological processes but also environmental and microbial exposure early after birth might thus affect disease susceptibility and health during adult life. The present review aims at summarizing the current understanding of the intestinal epithelial innate immune system and its developmental and adaptive changes after birth.
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- Mathias W Hornef
- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School , Hannover , Germany ; Institute of Medical Microbiology, RWTH University , Aachen , Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School , Hannover , Germany
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Establishment of a Primary Culture Method for Mouse Intestinal Epithelial Cells by Organ Culture of Fetal Small Intestine. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 73:1849-55. [DOI: 10.1271/bbb.90246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Pathogenesis of human enterovirulent bacteria: lessons from cultured, fully differentiated human colon cancer cell lines. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2014; 77:380-439. [PMID: 24006470 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00064-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Hosts are protected from attack by potentially harmful enteric microorganisms, viruses, and parasites by the polarized fully differentiated epithelial cells that make up the epithelium, providing a physical and functional barrier. Enterovirulent bacteria interact with the epithelial polarized cells lining the intestinal barrier, and some invade the cells. A better understanding of the cross talk between enterovirulent bacteria and the polarized intestinal cells has resulted in the identification of essential enterovirulent bacterial structures and virulence gene products playing pivotal roles in pathogenesis. Cultured animal cell lines and cultured human nonintestinal, undifferentiated epithelial cells have been extensively used for understanding the mechanisms by which some human enterovirulent bacteria induce intestinal disorders. Human colon carcinoma cell lines which are able to express in culture the functional and structural characteristics of mature enterocytes and goblet cells have been established, mimicking structurally and functionally an intestinal epithelial barrier. Moreover, Caco-2-derived M-like cells have been established, mimicking the bacterial capture property of M cells of Peyer's patches. This review intends to analyze the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of human enterovirulent bacteria observed in infected cultured human colon carcinoma enterocyte-like HT-29 subpopulations, enterocyte-like Caco-2 and clone cells, the colonic T84 cell line, HT-29 mucus-secreting cell subpopulations, and Caco-2-derived M-like cells, including cell association, cell entry, intracellular lifestyle, structural lesions at the brush border, functional lesions in enterocytes and goblet cells, functional and structural lesions at the junctional domain, and host cellular defense responses.
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BACKGROUND Infection may trigger clinically overt mucosal inflammation in patients with predisposition for inflammatory bowel disease. However, the impact of particular enteropathogenic microorganisms is ill-defined. In this study, the influence of murine norovirus (MNV) infection on clinical, histopathological, and immunological features of mucosal inflammation in the IL10-deficient (Il10) mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease was examined. METHODS C57BL/6J and C3H/HeJBir wild-type and Il10 mice kept under special pathogen-free conditions and devoid of clinical and histopathological signs of mucosal inflammation were monitored after MNV infection for structural and functional intestinal barrier changes by in situ MNV reverse transcription PCR, transgene reporter gene technology, histology, flux measurements, quantitative real-time PCR, immunohistology, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling assay. In addition, the influence of the enteric microbiota was analyzed in MNV-infected germfree Il10 mice. RESULTS Although MNV-infected wild-type mice remained asymptomatic, mucosal inflammation was noted in previously healthy Il10 mice 2 to 4 weeks after infection. MNV-induced changes in Il10 mice included increased paracellular permeability indicated by increased mucosal mannitol flux, reduced gene expression of tight junction molecules, and an enhanced rate of epithelial apoptosis. MNV-induced reduction of tight junction protein expression and inflammatory lesions were absent in germfree Il10 mice, whereas epithelial apoptosis was still observed. CONCLUSIONS Despite its subclinical course in wild-type animals, MNV causes epithelial barrier disruption in Il10 animals representing a potent colitogenic stimulus that largely depends on the presence of the enteric microbiota. MNV might thus trigger overt clinical disease in individuals with a nonsymptomatic predisposition for inflammatory bowel disease by impairment of the intestinal mucosa.
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Huang SC, Lee CT, Chung BC. Tumor necrosis factor suppresses NR5A2 activity and intestinal glucocorticoid synthesis to sustain chronic colitis. Sci Signal 2014; 7:ra20. [PMID: 24570488 DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2004786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Intestinal crypt epithelial cells synthesize glucocorticoids, steroid hormones that protect against inflammatory bowel disease. To investigate how intestinal glucocorticoids are regulated during chronic inflammation, we induced chronic colitis in mice by exposing them to the chemical dextran sulfate sodium (DSS). We found that intestinal glucocorticoid secretion and expression of the genes Cyp11a1 and Cyp11b1 (which encode enzymes that synthesize glucocorticoids) were initially stimulated, but declined during the chronic phase, whereas tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and inflammatory cytokines secreted by T helper type 1 (TH1) and TH17 cells continuously increased in abundance in the inflamed colon. This suggested that inadequate intestinal glucocorticoid synthesis is a feature of chronic intestinal inflammation. We screened for cytokines that regulated intestinal glucocorticoid synthesis and found that TNF suppressed corticosterone secretion and Cyp11a1 and Cyp11b1 expression in an intestinal crypt epithelial cell line. TNF suppressed steroidogenesis by activating the transcription factors c-Jun and nuclear factor κB (NF-κB), which both interacted with the transcription factor NR5A2 and repressed Cyp11a1 reporter activity. This repression was relieved by expression of a dominant-negative form of c-Jun amino-terminal kinase 1 (JNK1), inhibitor of NF-κB, or by a JNK inhibitor. Furthermore, the dominant-negative TNF inhibitor XPro1595 inhibited c-Jun and NF-κB activation in mice, restored intestinal Cyp11a1 and Cyp11b1 expression, reduced colonic cell death, and rescued chronic colitis caused by DSS. Thus, during chronic colitis, TNF suppresses intestinal steroidogenic gene expression by inhibiting the activity of NR5A2, thus decreasing glucocorticoid synthesis and sustaining chronic inflammation.
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- Sheng-Chieh Huang
- 1Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Walker CR, Hautefort I, Dalton JE, Overweg K, Egan CE, Bongaerts RJ, Newton DJ, Cruickshank SM, Andrew EM, Carding SR. Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocyte-enterocyte crosstalk regulates production of bactericidal angiogenin 4 by Paneth cells upon microbial challenge. PLoS One 2013; 8:e84553. [PMID: 24358364 PMCID: PMC3866140 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 11/15/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial proteins influence intestinal microbial ecology and limit proliferation of pathogens, yet the regulation of their expression has only been partially elucidated. Here, we have identified a putative pathway involving epithelial cells and intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (iIELs) that leads to antimicrobial protein (AMP) production by Paneth cells. Mice lacking γδ iIELs (TCRδ(-/-)) express significantly reduced levels of the AMP angiogenin 4 (Ang4). These mice were also unable to up-regulate Ang4 production following oral challenge by Salmonella, leading to higher levels of mucosal invasion compared to their wild type counterparts during the first 2 hours post-challenge. The transfer of γδ iIELs from wild type (WT) mice to TCRδ(-/-) mice restored Ang4 production and Salmonella invasion levels were reduced to those obtained in WT mice. The ability to restore Ang4 production in TCRδ(-/-) mice was shown to be restricted to γδ iIELs expressing Vγ7-encoded TCRs. Using a novel intestinal crypt co-culture system we identified a putative pathway of Ang4 production initiated by exposure to Salmonella, intestinal commensals or microbial antigens that induced intestinal epithelial cells to produce cytokines including IL‑23 in a TLR-mediated manner. Exposure of TCR-Vγ7(+) γδ iIELs to IL-23 promoted IL‑22 production, which triggered Paneth cells to secrete Ang4. These findings identify a novel role for γδ iIELs in mucosal defence through sensing immediate epithelial cell cytokine responses and influencing AMP production. This in turn can contribute to the maintenance of intestinal microbial homeostasis and epithelial barrier function, and limit pathogen invasion.
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- Catherine R. Walker
- Gut Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Centre for Immunology and Infection, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Gut Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Leeds Institute of Cancer & Pathology, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Gut Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Murine norovirus transcytosis across an in vitro polarized murine intestinal epithelial monolayer is mediated by M-like cells. J Virol 2013; 87:12685-93. [PMID: 24049163 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02378-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Noroviruses (NoVs) are the causative agent of the vast majority of nonbacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. Due to the inability to culture human NoVs and the inability to orally infect a small animal model, little is known about the initial steps of viral entry. One particular step that is not understood is how NoVs breach the intestinal epithelial barrier. Murine NoV (MNV) is the only NoV that can be propagated in vitro by infecting murine macrophages and dendritic cells, making this virus an attractive model for studies of different aspects of NoV biology. Polarized murine intestinal epithelial mICcl2 cells were used to investigate how MNV interacts with and crosses the intestinal epithelium. In this in vitro model of the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE), MNV is transported across the polarized cell monolayer in the absence of viral replication or disruption of tight junctions by a distinct epithelial cell with microfold (M) cell properties. In addition to transporting MNV, these M-like cells also transcytose microbeads and express an IgA receptor. Interestingly, B myeloma cells cultured in the basolateral compartment underlying the epithelial monolayer did not alter the number of M-like cells but increased their transcytotic activity. Our data demonstrate that MNV can cross an intact intestinal epithelial monolayer in vitro by hijacking the M-like cells' intrinsic transcytotic pathway and suggest a potential mechanism for MNV entry into the host.
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Meštrović T, Ljubin-Sternak S, Sviben M. Potential role of enterohepatic Helicobacter species as a facilitating factor in the development of Chlamydia trachomatis proctitis. Med Hypotheses 2013; 81:481-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Schwerk J, Köster M, Hauser H, Rohde M, Fulde M, Hornef MW, May T. Generation of mouse small intestinal epithelial cell lines that allow the analysis of specific innate immune functions. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72700. [PMID: 23940817 PMCID: PMC3734307 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cell lines derived from the small intestine that reflect authentic properties of the originating intestinal epithelium are of high value for studies on mucosal immunology and host microbial homeostasis. A novel immortalization procedure was applied to generate continuously proliferating cell lines from murine E19 embryonic small intestinal tissue. The obtained cell lines form a tight and polarized epithelial cell layer, display characteristic tight junction, microvilli and surface protein expression and generate increasing transepithelial electrical resistance during in vitro culture. Significant up-regulation of Cxcl2 and Cxcl5 chemokine expression upon exposure to defined microbial innate immune stimuli and endogenous cytokines is observed. Cell lines were also generated from a transgenic interferon reporter (Mx2-Luciferase) mouse, allowing reporter technology-based quantification of the cellular response to type I and III interferon. Thus, the newly created cell lines mimic properties of the natural epithelium and can be used for diverse studies including testing of the absorption of drug candidates. The reproducibility of the method to create such cell lines from wild type and transgenic mice provides a new tool to study molecular and cellular processes of the epithelial barrier.
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- Johannes Schwerk
- Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Matsuki T, Pédron T, Regnault B, Mulet C, Hara T, Sansonetti PJ. Epithelial cell proliferation arrest induced by lactate and acetate from Lactobacillus casei and Bifidobacterium breve. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63053. [PMID: 23646174 PMCID: PMC3639975 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2012] [Accepted: 03/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In an attempt to identify and characterize how symbiotic bacteria of the gut microbiota affect the molecular and cellular mechanisms of epithelial homeostasis, intestinal epithelial cells were co-cultured with either Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium as bona fide symbionts to examine potential gene modulations. In addition to genes involved in the innate immune response, genes encoding check-point molecules controlling the cell cycle were among the most modulated in the course of these interactions. In the m-ICcl2 murine cell line, genes encoding cyclin E1 and cyclin D1 were strongly down regulated by L. casei and B. breve respectively. Cell proliferation arrest was accordingly confirmed. Short chain fatty acids (SCFA) were the effectors of this modulation, alone or in conjunction with the acidic pH they generated. These results demonstrate that the production of SCFAs, a characteristic of these symbiotic microorganisms, is potentially an essential regulatory effector of epithelial proliferation in the gut.
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- Takahiro Matsuki
- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- INSERM U 786, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- INSERM U 786, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan
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- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- INSERM U 786, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Chaire de Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses, Collège de France, Paris, France
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Bartonickova L, Sterzenbach T, Nell S, Kops F, Schulze J, Venzke A, Brenneke B, Bader S, Gruber AD, Suerbaum S, Josenhans C. Hcp and VgrG1 are secreted components of the Helicobacter hepaticus type VI secretion system and VgrG1 increases the bacterial colitogenic potential. Cell Microbiol 2013; 15:992-1011. [PMID: 23278999 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Revised: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The enterohepatic Epsilonproteobacterium Helicobacter hepaticus persistently colonizes the intestine of mice and causes chronic inflammatory symptoms in susceptible mouse strains. The bacterial factors causing intestinal inflammation are poorly characterized. A large genomic pathogenicity island, HHGI1, which encodes components of a type VI secretion system (T6SS), was previously shown to contribute to the colitogenic potential of H. hepaticus. We have now characterized the T6SS components Hcp, VgrG1, VgrG2 and VgrG3, encoded on HHGI1, including the potential impact of the T6SS on intestinal inflammation in a mouse T-cell transfer model. The H. hepaticus T6SS components were expressed during the infection and secreted in a T6SS-dependent manner, when the bacteria were cultured either in the presence or in the absence of mouse intestinal epithelial cells. Mutants deficient in VgrG1 displayed a significantly lower colitogenic potential in T-cell-transferred C57BL/6 Rag2(-/-) mice, despite an unaltered ability to colonize mice persistently. Intestinal microbiota analyses demonstrated only minor changes in mice infected with wild-typeH. hepaticus as compared with mice infected with VgrG1-deficient isogenic bacteria. In addition, competitive assays between both wild-type and T6SS-deficient H. hepaticus, and between wild-type H. hepaticus and Campylobacter jejuni or Enterobacteriaceae species did not show an effect of the T6SS on interbacterial competitiveness. Therefore, we suggest that microbiota alterations did not play a major role in the changes of pro-inflammatory potential mediated by the T6SS. Cellular innate pro-inflammatory responses were increased by the secreted T6SS proteins VgrG1 and VgrG2. We therefore concluded that the type VI secretion component VgrG1 can modulate and specifically exacerbate the innate pro-inflammatory effect of the chronic H. hepaticus infection.
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- Lucie Bartonickova
- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
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Chassin C, Hempel C, Stockinger S, Dupont A, Kübler JF, Wedemeyer J, Vandewalle A, Hornef MW. MicroRNA-146a-mediated downregulation of IRAK1 protects mouse and human small intestine against ischemia/reperfusion injury. EMBO Mol Med 2012; 4:1308-19. [PMID: 23143987 PMCID: PMC3531605 DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201201298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Revised: 09/21/2012] [Accepted: 09/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury causes inflammation and tissue damage and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Uncontrolled activation of the innate immune system through toll-like receptors (Tlr) plays a key role in I/R-mediated tissue damage but the underlying mechanisms have not been fully resolved. Here, we identify post-transcriptional upregulation of the essential Tlr signalling molecule interleukin 1 receptor-associated kinase (Irak) 1 as the causative mechanism for post-ischemic immune hyper-responsiveness of intestinal epithelial cells. Increased Irak1 protein levels enhanced epithelial ligand responsiveness, chemokine secretion, apoptosis and mucosal barrier disruption in an experimental intestinal I/R model using wild-type, Irak1−/− and Tlr4−/− mice and ischemic human intestinal tissue. Irak1 accumulation under hypoxic conditions was associated with reduced K48 ubiquitination and enhanced Senp1-mediated deSUMOylation of Irak1. Importantly, administration of microRNA (miR)-146a or induction of miR-146a by the phytochemical diindolylmethane controlled Irak1 upregulation and prevented immune hyper-responsiveness in mouse and human tissue. These findings indicate that Irak1 accumulation triggers I/R-induced epithelial immune hyper-responsiveness and suggest that the induction of miR-146a offers a promising strategy to prevent I/R tissue injury.
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- Cécilia Chassin
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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Abnormal Wnt and PI3Kinase signaling in the malformed intestine of lama5 deficient mice. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37710. [PMID: 22666383 PMCID: PMC3364287 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Laminins are major constituents of basement membranes and are essential for tissue homeostasis. Laminin-511 is highly expressed in the intestine and its absence causes severe malformation of the intestine and embryonic lethality. To understand the mechanistic role of laminin-511 in tissue homeostasis, we used RNA profiling of embryonic intestinal tissue of lama5 knockout mice and identified a lama5 specific gene expression signature. By combining cell culture experiments with mediated knockdown approaches, we provide a mechanistic link between laminin α5 gene deficiency and the physiological phenotype. We show that laminin α5 plays a crucial role in both epithelial and mesenchymal cell behavior by inhibiting Wnt and activating PI3K signaling. We conclude that conflicting signals are elicited in the absence of lama5, which alter cell adhesion, migration as well as epithelial and muscle differentiation. Conversely, adhesion to laminin-511 may serve as a potent regulator of known interconnected PI3K/Akt and Wnt signaling pathways. Thus deregulated adhesion to laminin-511 may be instrumental in diseases such as human pathologies of the gut where laminin-511 is abnormally expressed as it is shown here.
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Le MT, Porcelli I, Weight CM, Gaskin DJH, Carding SR, van Vliet AHM. Acid-shock of Campylobacter jejuni induces flagellar gene expression and host cell invasion. Eur J Microbiol Immunol (Bp) 2012; 2:12-9. [PMID: 24611116 DOI: 10.1556/eujmi.2.2012.1.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of foodborne gastroenteritis in the developed world, with the organism being transmitted by ingestion of contaminated and undercooked poultry. Exposure to acid is an inevitable stressor for C. jejuni during gastric passage, yet the effect of low pH on C. jejuni virulence is still poorly understood. Here, we investigate the effect of acid-shock on C. jejuni viability, gene expression and host-cell invasion. C. jejuni strain NCTC 11168 survived acid exposure at pH 3.5 and above for up to 30 min without a drop in viability, and this exposure induced the expression of flagellar genes transcribed from σ(54)-dependent promoters. Furthermore, acid-shock resulted in increased C. jejuni invasion of m-ICcl2 mouse small intestine crypt cells grown on transwells, but not when the cells were grown on flat-bottomed wells. This suggests that C. jejuni might be invading intestinal epithelial cells at the basolateral side, possibly after paracellular passage. We hypothesize that acid-shock prior to intestinal entry may serve as a signal that primes C. jejuni to express its virulence gene repertoire including flagellar motility genes, but this requires further study in the context of an appropriate colonization or disease model.
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Couesnon A, Molgó J, Connan C, Popoff MR. Preferential entry of botulinum neurotoxin A Hc domain through intestinal crypt cells and targeting to cholinergic neurons of the mouse intestine. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1002583. [PMID: 22438808 PMCID: PMC3305446 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Accepted: 01/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Botulism, characterized by flaccid paralysis, commonly results from botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) absorption across the epithelial barrier from the digestive tract and then dissemination through the blood circulation to target autonomic and motor nerve terminals. The trafficking pathway of BoNT/A passage through the intestinal barrier is not yet fully understood. We report that intralumenal administration of purified BoNT/A into mouse ileum segment impaired spontaneous muscle contractions and abolished the smooth muscle contractions evoked by electric field stimulation. Entry of BoNT/A into the mouse upper small intestine was monitored with fluorescent HcA (half C-terminal domain of heavy chain) which interacts with cell surface receptor(s). We show that HcA preferentially recognizes a subset of neuroendocrine intestinal crypt cells, which probably represent the entry site of the toxin through the intestinal barrier, then targets specific neurons in the submucosa and later (90–120 min) in the musculosa. HcA mainly binds to certain cholinergic neurons of both submucosal and myenteric plexuses, but also recognizes, although to a lower extent, other neuronal cells including glutamatergic and serotoninergic neurons in the submucosa. Intestinal cholinergic neuron targeting by HcA could account for the inhibition of intestinal peristaltism and secretion observed in botulism, but the consequences of the targeting to non-cholinergic neurons remains to be determined. Botulism is a severe and often fatal disease in man and animals characterized by flaccid paralysis. Clostridium botulinum produces a potent neurotoxin (botulinum neurotoxin) responsible for all the symptoms of botulism. Botulism is most often acquired by ingesting preformed botulinum neurotoxin in contaminated food or after intestinal colonization by C. botulinum under certain circumstances, such as in infant botulism, and toxin production in the intestine. The first step of the disease consists in the passage of the botulinum neurotoxin through the intestinal barrier, which is still poorly understood. We investigated the trafficking of the botulinum neurotoxin in a mouse intestinal loop model, using fluorescent HcA (half C-terminal domain of the heavy chain). We observed that HcA preferentially recognizes neuroendocrine intestinal crypt cells, which likely represent the entry site of the toxin through the intestinal barrier, then targets specific neurons, mainly cholinergic neurons, in the submucosa, and later (90–120 min) in the musculosa leading to local paralytic effects such as inhibition of intestinal peristaltism. These results represent an important advance in the understanding of the initial steps of botulism intoxication and can be the basis for the development of new specific countermeasures against botulism.
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- Aurélie Couesnon
- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Paris, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard – FRC2118, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie– et Développement UPR3294, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, Paris, France
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