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What is the invasion for bacterial pathogens?

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Ability of bacteria to reach a sterile site in the host

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What is invasion of intracellular bacteria?

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Active process managed by bacteria to enter into non-phagocytic eukaryotic cell

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Meningitis

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Neisseria meningitidis

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Pneumonia and tuberculosis

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae Legionella pneumophila Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Dysentery and diarrhoea

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Shigella spp. Salmonella spp. Yersinia enterocolitica Listeria monocytogenes.

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Urinary tract infection

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Uropathogene Escherichia coli (UPEC)

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Systemic infection

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Staphylococcus aureus

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What are the advantages to bacteria invading?

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Avoid competitors Avoid immune response Cross mucosal barrier Multiplication and dispersal in the host Gain access to nutrients

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What are the challenges to bacteria invasion?

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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

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Cell invasion system: triggering an

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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

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Cell invasion system: Zippering

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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

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What is an example of trigger mechanism?

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Salmonella spp.

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What is an example of zipper mechanism?

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Listeria monocytogenes

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What is a systemic life-threatening infection?

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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (and Paratyphi)

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How many cases and death for typhoid fever?

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20 million cases per year. 200.000 deaths (low and middle income countries)

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What is non-typhoidal salmonella (NTS)?

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Serovar Typhimurium and Enteritidis

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How many cases and deaths of Gastroenteritis and Bacteremia?

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90 million cases annually 150.000 death annually (high-income countries)

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Who does Gastroenteritis and bacteremia affect?

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Immunocompromised and poor economic countries

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What is the life cycle of salmonella?

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  1. 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
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What are trigger mechanisms characterised by?

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Massive ruffles Clustering of F actin beneath the entering bacteria

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What is the function of SPI-1: cell invasion?

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Expression in lumen Stimulation of pro-inflammatory response

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What is the function of SPI-2: survival and replication inside cells?

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Expressed inside host cells Formation of salmonella containing vacuoles (SCV) Prevention of endocytic traffic and phagosome maturation

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SPI-1

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Cytoskeletal rearrangement Triggering of Cell entry Apoptosis Loss of electrolytes Inflammation

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SPI-2

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Systemic spread Proliferation in host organs Intracellular Proliferation

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What are the molecular switch that regulates several cellular processes?
Growth Differentiation Cytoskeletal organisation Trafficking
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What is RAS involved in?
Growth survival
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What is RAN involved in?
Nuclear transport
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What is SAR1/ARF involved in?
Vesicle transport
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What is Rho involved in?
Cytoskeleton dynamic
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What are the three main small Rho GTPases?
RhoA, Rac, Cdc42
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What regulates actin cytoskeleton organisation?
Rho GTPases
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What are some examples of actin cytoskeleton organisation?
Cell shape, motility, gene expression, cell-cell adhesion.
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What is an example of RhoA?
Stress fibers
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What is an example of RAC1?
Lamellipodia, membrane ruffles
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What is an example of Cdc42?
Filopodia
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What are SopE and SopE2?
GEF like molecules. Bind and activate small GTPases Cdc42 and Rac acting as a GEF. Induce membrane ruffling: promote cell entry. Rac activation essential for invasion
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What does GEF stand for?
Guanine nucleotide exchange factor
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What is SopB?
Phosphatidylinositol phosphatase
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What does sopB do?
Act on host phospholipid at membrane cell. Stimulate SH-3 containing GEF for RhoG. RhoG Activation: actin rearrangement and membrane ruffling
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What is SipA?
Stabilises actin filament by inhibiting their depolymerisation by cellular Actin binding proteins
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What is Fimbrin?
Actin cross linking protein important in formation of Filipodia
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What forms the translocon/pore for secretion of other effector into host cell?
SipB and SipC
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What does SipC initiate?
Actin nucleation via C- and N- terminal cytoplasmic domain
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What does C term nucleate?
Assembly of actin filaments
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What does N term induce?
Bundling of actin filament
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What does salmonella inject?
SptP
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What is SptP?
GAP - inhibitor of small GTPases
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What does SptP inhibit?
Rac and Cdc42 activated by sopE
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Where does salmonella replicate?
Salmonella containing vacuole (SCV)
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What bacterial genes (SPU-2) are required for the survival and replication?
SifA SseJ
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In epithelial cells, where are salmonella found?
Birth free in the cytoplasm and enclosed in SCV
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What is Listeria monocytogenes?
Food borne disease but can be transmitted to fetus by mother
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Where is Listeria monocytogenes most common ?
Immunocompromised. Newborns (meningitis). Pregnant women. (Miscarriages - still birth).
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What can Listeria monocytogenes cross?
Mucosal barriers and infect a wide range of cell types including macrophages
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What is the Listeria monocytogenes invasion gene?
inlAB
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How was internaline A and B genes identified?
Screening a library of transposon mutants of L.monocytogenes for loss of invasion of Caco-2 cells
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Where does Internalin A (InIA) bind?
Cell surface receptor E-Cadherin
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Where does Internalin B (InIB) bind?
Cell surface receptor Met
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What is E-Cadherin?
Transmembrane protein belongs to a large family of cell-cell adhesion molecules
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What is E-Cadherin required for?
Correct formation of adherens junctions between epithelial cells
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What does E-Catherine form with alpha and beta catenins?
Large complex
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Zipper mechanism InIA-dependent
Listeria invade enterocyte via basolateral domain or via cell extrusion area Internalisation via a interaction between InIA and E-Cadherin - subvert signalisation produced by this protein
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What is zipper mechanism InIA dependent required for?
Crossing of intestinal and placenta-foetus barriers
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What is Met?
Receptor for hepatocyte growth factor
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Met receptor for Internalin B
Protein tyrosine kinase
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What does binding of HGF to Met activate?
Cellular survival and proliferation signal Induces cytoskeletal rearrangement
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How is the receptor of Met degraded
HGF induce ubiquitination and internalisation by clathrin-mediated endocytosis mechanism
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What is the mechanism of InIB dependent?
InIB binds Met receptor and mimics HGF InIB induces autophosphorylation and ubiquitination of Met (endocytic machinery). Met several adaptors lead to activation of class IA PI3K and Rac1GTPases
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What is internalisation if InIB dependent mechanism depend on?
Actin and Arp2/3 complex. Involve Cdc42-Rac1 [effectors: N-WASP and WAVE]
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What is InIA?
Intestinal barrier
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What is InIA + InIB?
Placental barrier
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What is Actin based motility: ActA?
Listeria expresses it which acts like WASP proteins and recruit actin and Ena/VASp host cell proteins
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What does Actin based motility allow?
Intracellular motility Intercellular spreading via Actin polymerisation
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What is Autophagy?
Process used by eukaryotic cell to recycle old or damaged components in response to cellular damage or stress
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What is Xenophagy/autophagy?
Use of autophagy against invading pathogen: detect and destroy intracellular free bacteria
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What is the process of Autophagy?
Intracellular organelle or pathogen. Isolation-membrane. Autophagosome. Autolysosome degradation
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How does ActA protect/mask bacteria against Autophagy recognition?
Recruit actin and Ena/VASP host cells

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