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2. The Trypanosoma Brucei KIFC1 Kinesin Ensures the Fast Antibody Clearance Required for Parasite Infectivity.
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Lecordier L, Uzureau S, Vanwalleghem G, Deleu M, Crowet JM, Barry P, Moran B, Voorheis P, Dumitru AC, Yamaryo-Botté Y, Dieu M, Tebabi P, Vanhollebeke B, Lins L, Botté CY, Alsteens D, Dufrêne Y, Pérez-Morga D, Nolan DP, and Pays E
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Human innate immunity to Trypanosoma brucei involves the trypanosome C-terminal kinesin Tb KIFC1, which transports internalized trypanolytic factor apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) within the parasite. We show that Tb KIFC1 preferentially associates with cholesterol-containing membranes and is indispensable for mammalian infectivity. Knockdown of Tb KIFC1 did not affect trypanosome growth in vitro but rendered the parasites unable to infect mice unless antibody synthesis was compromised. Surface clearance of Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG)-antibody complexes was far slower in these cells, which were more susceptible to capture by macrophages. This phenotype was not due to defects in VSG expression or trafficking but to decreased VSG mobility in a less fluid, stiffer surface membrane. This change can be attributed to increased cholesterol level in the surface membrane in Tb KIFC1 knockdown cells. Clearance of surface-bound antibodies by T. brucei is therefore essential for infectivity and depends on high membrane fluidity maintained by the cholesterol-trafficking activity of Tb KIFC1., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing financial interest., (© 2020 The Author(s).)
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- 2020
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3. APOL1 C-Terminal Variants May Trigger Kidney Disease through Interference with APOL3 Control of Actomyosin.
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Uzureau S, Lecordier L, Uzureau P, Hennig D, Graversen JH, Homblé F, Mfutu PE, Oliveira Arcolino F, Ramos AR, La Rovere RM, Luyten T, Vermeersch M, Tebabi P, Dieu M, Cuypers B, Deborggraeve S, Rabant M, Legendre C, Moestrup SK, Levtchenko E, Bultynck G, Erneux C, Pérez-Morga D, and Pays E
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- Amino Acid Sequence, Apolipoprotein L1 urine, Calcium metabolism, Cell Line, Endoplasmic Reticulum drug effects, Endoplasmic Reticulum metabolism, Endoplasmic Reticulum ultrastructure, Golgi Apparatus drug effects, Golgi Apparatus metabolism, Golgi Apparatus ultrastructure, Humans, Kidney Diseases urine, Kidney Glomerulus metabolism, Kidney Glomerulus pathology, Minor Histocompatibility Antigens metabolism, Neuronal Calcium-Sensor Proteins metabolism, Neuropeptides metabolism, Phenotype, Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates metabolism, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) metabolism, Podocytes drug effects, Podocytes metabolism, Podocytes ultrastructure, Poly I-C pharmacology, Potassium Channels metabolism, Protein Binding drug effects, Protein Structure, Secondary, Actomyosin metabolism, Apolipoprotein L1 chemistry, Apolipoprotein L1 genetics, Apolipoproteins L metabolism, Kidney Diseases metabolism, Mutation genetics
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The C-terminal variants G1 and G2 of apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) confer human resistance to the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma rhodesiense, but they also increase the risk of kidney disease. APOL1 and APOL3 are death-promoting proteins that are partially associated with the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi membranes. We report that in podocytes, either APOL1 C-terminal helix truncation (APOL1Δ) or APOL3 deletion (APOL3KO) induces similar actomyosin reorganization linked to the inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate [PI(4)P] synthesis by the Golgi PI(4)-kinase IIIB (PI4KB). Both APOL1 and APOL3 can form K
+ channels, but only APOL3 exhibits Ca2+ -dependent binding of high affinity to neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1), promoting NCS-1-PI4KB interaction and stimulating PI4KB activity. Alteration of the APOL1 C-terminal helix triggers APOL1 unfolding and increased binding to APOL3, affecting APOL3-NCS-1 interaction. Since the podocytes of G1 and G2 patients exhibit an APOL1Δ or APOL3KO-like phenotype, APOL1 C-terminal variants may induce kidney disease by preventing APOL3 from activating PI4KB, with consecutive actomyosin reorganization of podocytes., Competing Interests: Declaration of Interests The authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2020
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4. Apoliporotein L3 interferes with endothelial tube formation via regulation of ERK1/2, FAK and Akt signaling pathway.
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Khalil A, Poelvoorde P, Fayyad-Kazan M, Rousseau A, Nuyens V, Uzureau S, Biston P, El-Makhour Y, Badran B, Van Antwerpen P, Boudjeltia KZ, and Vanhamme L
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- Angiogenesis Inducing Agents pharmacology, Apolipoproteins L genetics, Atherosclerosis enzymology, Atherosclerosis pathology, Capillary Permeability, Cell Movement, Cell Proliferation, Cells, Cultured, Endothelial Cells drug effects, Endothelial Cells pathology, Humans, Inflammation enzymology, Inflammation pathology, Inflammation Mediators pharmacology, Signal Transduction, Apolipoproteins L metabolism, Endothelial Cells enzymology, Focal Adhesion Kinase 1 metabolism, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1 metabolism, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3 metabolism, Neovascularization, Physiologic drug effects, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt metabolism
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Background and Aims: Endothelial cells are main actors in vascular homeostasis as they regulate vascular pressure and permeability as well as hemostasis and inflammation. Disturbed stimuli delivered to and by endothelial cells correlate with the so-called endothelial dysfunction and disrupt this homeostasis. As constituents of the inner layer of blood vessels, endothelial cells are also involved in angiogenesis. Apolipoprotein Ls (APOL) comprise a family of newly discovered apolipoproteins with yet poorly understood function, and are suggested to be involved in inflammatory processes and cell death mechanisms. Here we investigate the role of APOLs in endothelial cells stimulated with factors known to be involved in atherogenesis and their possible contribution to endothelial dysfunction with an emphasis on inflammation driven-angiogenesis in vitro., Methods: Using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique, we analyzed the effect of APOL3 gene knock out in HMEC-1 endothelial cells on cell migration, tubulogenesis, endothelial permeability, intracellular signal transduction as assessed by kinase phosphorylation, and angiogenesis gene expression (measured by qRT-PCR)., Results: Our results indicate that among the family, APOL3 was the only member induced by myeloperoxidase, oxidized LDL, VEGF and FGF treatments. APOL3 invalidation increased endothelial permeability, reduced wound repair and tubule formation in vitro, the latter only in MPO and VEGF-induced conditions. Accordingly, some pro-angiogenic signaling pathways (ERK1/2 and FAK but not Akt) and some pro-angiogenic genes were partially inhibited in APOL3 knock out cells., Conclusions: These findings suggest the involvement of APOL3 in angiogenesis in vitro and as a modulator of MAPK and FAK signaling in endothelial cells., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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5. Apolipoproteins L control cell death triggered by TLR3/TRIF signaling in dendritic cells.
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Uzureau S, Coquerelle C, Vermeiren C, Uzureau P, Van Acker A, Pilotte L, Monteyne D, Acolty V, Vanhollebeke B, Van den Eynde B, Pérez-Morga D, Moser M, and Pays E
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- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport genetics, Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport metabolism, Animals, CD8 Antigens metabolism, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Dendritic Cells metabolism, Humans, Interferon-beta pharmacology, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Poly I-C pharmacology, Protein Isoforms immunology, bcl-X Protein metabolism, Apolipoproteins immunology, Apoptosis, Dendritic Cells cytology, Signal Transduction, Toll-Like Receptor 3 metabolism
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Apolipoproteins L (ApoLs) are Bcl-2-like proteins expressed under inflammatory conditions in myeloid and endothelial cells. We found that Toll-like receptor (TLR) stimuli, particularly the viral mimetic polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C)), specifically induce ApoLs7/11 subfamilies in murine CD8α(+) dendritic cells (DCs). This induction requires the TLR3/TRIF (where TRIF is TIR domain containing adapter-inducing interferon β) signaling pathway and is dependent on IFN-β in all ApoLs subfamilies except for ApoL7c. Poly(I:C) treatment of DCs is also associated with induction of both cell death and autophagy. ApoLs expression is related to promotion of DC death by poly(I:C), as ApoLs7/11 knockdown increases DC survival and ApoLs7 are associated with the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL (where Bcl-xL is B-cell lymphoma extra large). Similarly, in human monocyte-derived DCs poly(I:C) induces both cell death and the expression of ApoLs, principally ApoL3. Finally, the BH3-like peptide of ApoLs appears to be involved in the DC death-promoting activity. We would like to propose that ApoLs are involved in cell death linked to activation of DCs by viral stimuli., (© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)
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- 2016
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6. Thymus-derived regulatory T cells restrain pro-inflammatory Th1 responses by downregulating CD70 on dendritic cells.
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Dhainaut M, Coquerelle C, Uzureau S, Denoeud J, Acolty V, Oldenhove G, Galuppo A, Sparwasser T, Thielemans K, Pays E, Yagita H, Borst J, and Moser M
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- Animals, CD27 Ligand genetics, Dendritic Cells metabolism, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Member 7 genetics, Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Superfamily, Member 7 metabolism, CD27 Ligand metabolism, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory immunology, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory metabolism, Th1 Cells immunology, Th1 Cells metabolism, Thymus Gland immunology, Thymus Gland metabolism
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The severity and intensity of autoimmune disease in immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) patients and in scurfy mice emphasize the critical role played by thymus-derived regulatory T cells (tTregs) in maintaining peripheral immune tolerance. However, although tTregs are critical to prevent lethal autoimmunity and excessive inflammatory responses, their suppressive mechanism remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that tTregs selectively inhibit CD27/CD70-dependent Th1 priming, while leaving the IL-12-dependent pathway unaffected. Immunized mice depleted of tTregs showed an increased response of IFN-γ-secreting CD4(+) T cells that was strictly reliant on a functional CD27/CD70 pathway. In vitro studies revealed that tTregs downregulate CD70 from the plasma membrane of dendritic cells (DCs) in a CD27-dependent manner. CD70 downregulation required contact between Tregs and DCs and resulted in endocytosis of CD27 and CD70 into the DC. These findings reveal a novel mechanism by which tTregs can maintain tolerance or prevent excessive, proinflammatory Th1 responses., (© 2015 The Authors.)
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- 2015
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7. Mechanism of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense resistance to human serum.
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Uzureau P, Uzureau S, Lecordier L, Fontaine F, Tebabi P, Homblé F, Grélard A, Zhendre V, Nolan DP, Lins L, Crowet JM, Pays A, Felu C, Poelvoorde P, Vanhollebeke B, Moestrup SK, Lyngsø J, Pedersen JS, Mottram JC, Dufourc EJ, Pérez-Morga D, and Pays E
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- Africa, Animals, Animals, Genetically Modified, Apolipoprotein L1, Apolipoproteins antagonists & inhibitors, Apolipoproteins toxicity, Cell Membrane chemistry, Cell Membrane metabolism, Cysteine Proteases metabolism, Haptoglobins metabolism, Hemoglobins metabolism, Hemolysis, Humans, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, Lipid Metabolism, Lipoproteins, HDL antagonists & inhibitors, Lipoproteins, HDL chemistry, Lipoproteins, HDL toxicity, Parasites pathogenicity, Parasites physiology, Protein Structure, Secondary, Serum chemistry, Serum parasitology, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense drug effects, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense pathogenicity, Trypanosomiasis, African parasitology, Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma chemistry, Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma metabolism, Apolipoproteins blood, Apolipoproteins metabolism, Lipoproteins, HDL blood, Lipoproteins, HDL metabolism, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense physiology
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The African parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense accounts for 97% of human sleeping sickness cases. T. b. gambiense resists the specific human innate immunity acting against several other tsetse-fly-transmitted trypanosome species such as T. b. brucei, the causative agent of nagana disease in cattle. Human immunity to some African trypanosomes is due to two serum complexes designated trypanolytic factors (TLF-1 and -2), which both contain haptoglobin-related protein (HPR) and apolipoprotein LI (APOL1). Whereas HPR association with haemoglobin (Hb) allows TLF-1 binding and uptake via the trypanosome receptor TbHpHbR (ref. 5), TLF-2 enters trypanosomes independently of TbHpHbR (refs 4, 5). APOL1 kills trypanosomes after insertion into endosomal/lysosomal membranes. Here we report that T. b. gambiense resists TLFs via a hydrophobic β-sheet of the T. b. gambiense-specific glycoprotein (TgsGP), which prevents APOL1 toxicity and induces stiffening of membranes upon interaction with lipids. Two additional features contribute to resistance to TLFs: reduction of sensitivity to APOL1 requiring cysteine protease activity, and TbHpHbR inactivation due to a L210S substitution. According to such a multifactorial defence mechanism, transgenic expression of T. b. brucei TbHpHbR in T. b. gambiense did not cause parasite lysis in normal human serum. However, these transgenic parasites were killed in hypohaptoglobinaemic serum, after high TLF-1 uptake in the absence of haptoglobin (Hp) that competes for Hb and receptor binding. TbHpHbR inactivation preventing high APOL1 loading in hypohaptoglobinaemic serum may have evolved because of the overlapping endemic area of T. b. gambiense infection and malaria, the main cause of haemolysis-induced hypohaptoglobinaemia in western and central Africa.
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- 2013
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8. The two-component system PrlS/PrlR of Brucella melitensis is required for persistence in mice and appears to respond to ionic strength.
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Mirabella A, Yañez Villanueva RM, Delrue RM, Uzureau S, Zygmunt MS, Cloeckaert A, De Bolle X, and Letesson JJ
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- Animals, Bacterial Proteins genetics, Brucella melitensis genetics, Brucella melitensis metabolism, Brucellosis microbiology, Cells, Cultured, Histidine Kinase, Macrophages microbiology, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Osmolar Concentration, Trophoblasts microbiology, Virulence, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Brucella melitensis pathogenicity, Brucella melitensis physiology, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Protein Kinases genetics, Protein Kinases metabolism, Signal Transduction
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Bacterial adaptation to environmental conditions is essential to ensure maximal fitness in the face of several stresses. In this context, two-component systems (TCSs) represent a predominant signal transduction mechanism, allowing an appropriate response to be mounted when a stimulus is sensed. As facultative intracellular pathogens, Brucella spp. face various environmental conditions, and an adequate response is required for a successful infection process. Recently, bioinformatic analysis of Brucella genomes predicted a set of 15 bona fide TCS pairs, among which some have been previously investigated. In this report, we characterized a new TCS locus called prlS/R, for probable proline sensor-regulator. It encodes a hybrid histidine kinase (PrlS) with an unusual Na(+)/solute symporter N-terminal domain and a transcriptional regulator (belonging to the LuxR family) (PrlR). In vitro, Brucella spp. with a functional PrlR/S system form bacterial aggregates, which seems to be an adaptive response to a hypersaline environment, while a prlS/R mutant does not. We identified ionic strength as a possible signal sensed by this TCS. Finally, this work correlates the absence of a functional PrlR/S system with the lack of hypersaline-induced aggregation in particular marine Brucella spp.
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- 2012
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9. Brucella melitensis 16M produces a mannan and other extracellular matrix components typical of a biofilm.
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Godefroid M, Svensson MV, Cambier P, Uzureau S, Mirabella A, De Bolle X, Van Cutsem P, Widmalm G, and Letesson JJ
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- Brucella melitensis metabolism, Cell Line, Environmental Microbiology, Gene Deletion, Gene Expression, HeLa Cells microbiology, Humans, Mannans chemistry, Mannans isolation & purification, Molecular Weight, Polystyrenes, Quorum Sensing, Secretory Vesicles metabolism, Bacterial Adhesion, Biofilms growth & development, Biopolymers metabolism, Brucella melitensis physiology, Mannans metabolism
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Mutations in the Brucella melitensis quorum-sensing (QS) system are involved in the formation of clumps containing an exopolysaccharide. Here, we show that the overexpression of a gene called aiiD in B. melitensis gives rise to a similar clumping phenotype. The AiiD enzyme degrades AHL molecules and leads therefore to a QS-deficient strain. We demonstrated the presence of exopolysaccharide and DNA, two classical components of extracellular matrices, in clumps produced by this strain. We also observed that the production of outer membrane vesicles is strongly increased in the aiiD-overexpressing strain. Moreover, this strain allowed us to purify the exopolysaccharide and to obtain its composition and the first structural information on the complex exopolysaccharide produced by B. melitensis 16M, which was found to have a molecular weight of about 16 kDa and to be composed of glucosamine, glucose and mostly mannose. In addition, we found the presence of 2- and/or 6-substituted mannosyl residues, which provide the first insights into the linkages involved in this polymer. We used a classical biofilm attachment assay and an HeLa cell infection model to demonstrate that the clumping strain is more adherent to polystyrene plates and to HeLa cell surfaces than the wild-type one. Taken together, these data reinforce the evidence that B. melitensis could form biofilms in its lifecycle.
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- 2010
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10. Global analysis of quorum sensing targets in the intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis 16 M.
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Uzureau S, Lemaire J, Delaive E, Dieu M, Gaigneaux A, Raes M, De Bolle X, and Letesson JJ
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- 4-Butyrolactone analogs & derivatives, 4-Butyrolactone metabolism, Bacterial Proteins chemistry, Bacterial Proteins classification, Brucella melitensis chemistry, Brucella melitensis metabolism, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional, Gene Expression Profiling, Homoserine analogs & derivatives, Homoserine metabolism, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Oxidative Stress physiology, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Proteome chemistry, Repressor Proteins chemistry, Repressor Proteins metabolism, Reproducibility of Results, Trans-Activators chemistry, Trans-Activators metabolism, Transcription Factors chemistry, Transcription Factors metabolism, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Brucella melitensis physiology, Proteomics methods, Quorum Sensing physiology
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Many pathogenic bacteria use a regulatory process termed quorum sensing (QS) to produce and detect small diffusible molecules to synchronize gene expression within a population. In Gram-negative bacteria, the detection of, and response to, these molecules depends on transcriptional regulators belonging to the LuxR family. Such a system has been discovered in the intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis, a Gram-negative bacterium responsible for brucellosis, a worldwide zoonosis that remains a serious public health concern in countries were the disease is endemic. Genes encoding two LuxR-type regulators, VjbR and BabR, have been identified in the genome of B. melitensis 16 M. A DeltavjbR mutant is highly attenuated in all experimental models of infection tested, suggesting a crucial role for QS in the virulence of Brucella. At present, no function has been attributed to BabR. The experiments described in this report indicate that 5% of the genes in the B. melitensis 16 M genome are regulated by VjbR and/or BabR, suggesting that QS is a global regulatory system in this bacterium. The overlap between BabR and VjbR targets suggest a cross-talk between these two regulators. Our results also demonstrate that VjbR and BabR regulate many genes and/or proteins involved in stress response, metabolism, and virulence, including those potentially involved in the adaptation of Brucella to the oxidative, pH, and nutritional stresses encountered within the host. These findings highlight the involvement of QS as a major regulatory system in Brucella and lead us to suggest that this regulatory system could participate in the spatial and sequential adaptation of Brucella strains to the host environment.
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- 2010
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11. Mutations of the quorum sensing-dependent regulator VjbR lead to drastic surface modifications in Brucella melitensis.
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Uzureau S, Godefroid M, Deschamps C, Lemaire J, De Bolle X, and Letesson JJ
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- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins metabolism, Brucella melitensis metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Trans-Activators metabolism, Brucella melitensis cytology, Genes, Regulator, Mutation, Quorum Sensing, Virulence Factors physiology
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Successful establishment of infection by bacterial pathogens requires fine-tuning of virulence-related genes. Quorum sensing (QS) is a global regulation process based on the synthesis of, detection of, and response to small diffusible molecules, called N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHL), in gram-negative bacteria. In numerous species, QS has been shown to regulate genes involved in the establishment of pathogenic interactions with the host. Brucella melitensis produces N-dodecanoyl homoserine lactones (C(12)-HSL), which down regulate the expression of flagellar genes and of the virB operon (encoding a type IV secretion system), both of which encode surface virulence factors. A QS-related regulator, called VjbR, was identified as a transcriptional activator of these genes. We hypothesized that VjbR mediates the C(12)-HSL effects described above. vjbR alleles mutated in the region coding for the AHL binding domain were constructed to test this hypothesis. These alleles expressed in trans in a DeltavjbR background behave as constitutive regulators both in vitro and in a cellular model of infection. Interestingly, the resulting B. melitensis strains, unable to respond to AHLs, aggregate spontaneously in liquid culture. Preliminary characterization of these strains showed altered expression of some outer membrane proteins and overproduction of a matrix-forming exopolysaccharide, suggesting for the first time that B. melitensis could form biofilms. Together, these results indicate that QS through VjbR is a major regulatory system of important cell surface structures of Brucella and as such plays a key role in host-pathogen interactions.
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- 2007
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