Lecture 15: Bacteria and Invasion Flashcards
What is the invasion for bacterial pathogens?
Ability of bacteria to reach a sterile site in the host
What is invasion of intracellular bacteria?
Active process managed by bacteria to enter into non-phagocytic eukaryotic cell
Meningitis
Neisseria meningitidis
Pneumonia and tuberculosis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae Legionella pneumophila Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dysentery and diarrhoea
Shigella spp. Salmonella spp. Yersinia enterocolitica Listeria monocytogenes.
Urinary tract infection
Uropathogene Escherichia coli (UPEC)
Systemic infection
Staphylococcus aureus
What are the advantages to bacteria invading?
Avoid competitors Avoid immune response Cross mucosal barrier Multiplication and dispersal in the host Gain access to nutrients
What are the challenges to bacteria invasion?
How to enter into non-phagocytic cells Must survive defenses at new site, within the cell I.e. avoid or survive within the lysosomal and phagosomal environment
Cell invasion system: triggering an
Bacteria inject virulence factors directly into host cell cytoplasm to activate their own uptake by cell Bacteria only weakly adhere to cell Bacteria force the cell to extend local protrusion that engulf the bacterium (Rho GTPases) Type 3 secretion system-dependent
Cell invasion system: Zippering
Entry mediated by high affinity binding of a pathogen surface protein with a transmembrane receptor on host cell. Tight envelopment of pathogen by host cell membrane and uptake of bacteria
What is an example of trigger mechanism?
Salmonella spp.
What is an example of zipper mechanism?
Listeria monocytogenes
What is a systemic life-threatening infection?
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (and Paratyphi)
How many cases and death for typhoid fever?
20 million cases per year. 200.000 deaths (low and middle income countries)
What is non-typhoidal salmonella (NTS)?
Serovar Typhimurium and Enteritidis
How many cases and deaths of Gastroenteritis and Bacteremia?
90 million cases annually 150.000 death annually (high-income countries)
Who does Gastroenteritis and bacteremia affect?
Immunocompromised and poor economic countries
What is the life cycle of salmonella?
- Entry through M cells 2. Entry into macrophage survival/ multiplication Apoptosis. Initiation of inflammation. 3. Invasion of epithelial cell multiplication. B1. Entry through epithelial cells survival/multiplication. C.1. Entry through dendritic cells systemic dissemination
What are trigger mechanisms characterised by?
Massive ruffles Clustering of F actin beneath the entering bacteria
What is the function of SPI-1: cell invasion?
Expression in lumen Stimulation of pro-inflammatory response
What is the function of SPI-2: survival and replication inside cells?
Expressed inside host cells Formation of salmonella containing vacuoles (SCV) Prevention of endocytic traffic and phagosome maturation
SPI-1
Cytoskeletal rearrangement Triggering of Cell entry Apoptosis Loss of electrolytes Inflammation
SPI-2
Systemic spread Proliferation in host organs Intracellular Proliferation
What are the molecular switch that regulates several cellular processes?
Growth Differentiation Cytoskeletal organisation Trafficking
What is RAS involved in?
Growth survival
What is RAN involved in?
Nuclear transport
What is SAR1/ARF involved in?
Vesicle transport
What is Rho involved in?
Cytoskeleton dynamic
What are the three main small Rho GTPases?
RhoA, Rac, Cdc42