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Ghafouri-Fard S, Askari A, Zangooie A, Shoorei H, Pourmoshtagh H, Taheri M. Non-coding RNA profile for natural killer cell activity. Mol Cell Probes 2023; 72:101935. [PMID: 37806642 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2023.101935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Natural killer cells (NK cells) are a type of cytotoxic lymphocytes which are involved in innate immunity, alongside with assisting with adaptive immune response. Since they have cytotoxic effects, disruptions in their functionality and development leads to a variety of conditions, whether malignant or non-malignant. The profile and interaction of these non-coding RNAs and NK cells in different conditions is extensively studied, and it is now approved that if dysregulated, non-coding RNAs have detrimental effects on NK cell activity and can contribute to the pathogenesis of diverse disorders. In this review, we aim at a thorough inspection on the role of different non-coding RNAs on the activity and development of NK cells, in a broad spectrum of conditions, including blood-related disorders, viral infections, neurological diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, lung disorders, reproductive system conditions and other types of maladies, alongside with providing insight to the future non-coding RNA-NK cell studies.
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- Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard
- Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Phytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran; Clinical Research Development Unit of Tabriz Valiasr Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany; Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Listeria monocytogenes-How This Pathogen Uses Its Virulence Mechanisms to Infect the Hosts. Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11121491. [PMID: 36558825 PMCID: PMC9783847 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11121491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Listeriosis is a serious food-borne illness, especially in susceptible populations, including children, pregnant women, and elderlies. The disease can occur in two forms: non-invasive febrile gastroenteritis and severe invasive listeriosis with septicemia, meningoencephalitis, perinatal infections, and abortion. Expression of each symptom depends on various bacterial virulence factors, immunological status of the infected person, and the number of ingested bacteria. Internalins, mainly InlA and InlB, invasins (invasin A, LAP), and other surface adhesion proteins (InlP1, InlP4) are responsible for epithelial cell binding, whereas internalin C (InlC) and actin assembly-inducing protein (ActA) are involved in cell-to-cell bacterial spread. L. monocytogenes is able to disseminate through the blood and invade diverse host organs. In persons with impaired immunity, the elderly, and pregnant women, the pathogen can also cross the blood-brain and placental barriers, which results in the invasion of the central nervous system and fetus infection, respectively. The aim of this comprehensive review is to summarize the current knowledge on the epidemiology of listeriosis and L. monocytogenes virulence mechanisms that are involved in host infection, with a special focus on their molecular and cellular aspects. We believe that all this information is crucial for a better understanding of the pathogenesis of L. monocytogenes infection.
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Zhang Y, Grazda R, Yang Q. Interaction Between Innate Lymphoid Cells and the Nervous System. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2022; 1365:135-148. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8387-9_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Bagatella S, Tavares-Gomes L, Oevermann A. Listeria monocytogenes at the interface between ruminants and humans: A comparative pathology and pathogenesis review. Vet Pathol 2021; 59:186-210. [PMID: 34856818 DOI: 10.1177/03009858211052659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is widely distributed in the environment as a saprophyte, but may turn into a lethal intracellular pathogen upon ingestion. Invasive infections occur in numerous species worldwide, but most commonly in humans and farmed ruminants, and manifest as distinct forms. Of those, neuroinfection is remarkably threatening due to its high mortality. Lm is widely studied not only as a pathogen but also as an essential model for intracellular infections and host-pathogen interactions. Many aspects of its ecology and pathogenesis, however, remain unclear and are rarely addressed in its natural hosts. This review highlights the heterogeneity and adaptability of Lm by summarizing its association with the environment, farm animals, and disease. It also provides current knowledge on key features of the pathology and (molecular) pathogenesis of various listeriosis forms in naturally susceptible species with a special focus on ruminants and on the neuroinvasive form of the disease. Moreover, knowledge gaps on pathomechanisms of listerial infections and relevant unexplored topics in Lm pathogenesis research are highlighted.
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- Stefano Bagatella
- Division of Neurological Sciences, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Neurological Sciences, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Neurological Sciences, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Neurotropic Lineage III Strains of Listeria monocytogenes Disseminate to the Brain without Reaching High Titer in the Blood. mSphere 2020; 5:5/5/e00871-20. [PMID: 32938704 PMCID: PMC7494839 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00871-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Progress in understanding the two naturally occurring central nervous system (CNS) manifestations of listeriosis (meningitis/meningoencephalitis and rhombencephalitis) has been limited by the lack of small animal models that can readily distinguish between these distinct infections. We report here that certain neurotropic strains of Listeria monocytogenes can spread to the brains of young otherwise healthy mice and cause neurological deficits without causing a fatal bacteremia. The novel strains described here fall within phylogenetic lineage III, a small collection of L. monocytogenes isolates that have not been well characterized to date. The animal model reported here mimics many features of human rhombencephalitis and will be useful for studying the mechanisms that allow L. monocytogenes to disseminate to the brain stem following natural foodborne transmission. Listeria monocytogenes is thought to colonize the brain using one of three mechanisms: direct invasion of the blood-brain barrier, transportation across the barrier by infected monocytes, and axonal migration to the brain stem. The first two pathways seem to occur following unrestricted bacterial growth in the blood and thus have been linked to immunocompromise. In contrast, cell-to-cell spread within nerves is thought to be mediated by a particular subset of neurotropic L. monocytogenes strains. In this study, we used a mouse model of foodborne transmission to evaluate the neurotropism of several L. monocytogenes isolates. Two strains preferentially colonized the brain stems of BALB/cByJ mice 5 days postinfection and were not detectable in blood at that time point. In contrast, infection with other strains resulted in robust systemic infection of the viscera but no dissemination to the brain. Both neurotropic strains (L2010-2198, a human rhombencephalitis isolate, and UKVDL9, a sheep brain isolate) typed as phylogenetic lineage III, the least characterized group of L. monocytogenes. Neither of these strains encodes InlF, an internalin-like protein that was recently shown to promote invasion of the blood-brain barrier. Acute neurologic deficits were observed in mice infected with the neurotropic strains, and milder symptoms persisted for up to 16 days in some animals. These results demonstrate that neurotropic L. monocytogenes strains are not restricted to any one particular lineage and suggest that the foodborne mouse model of listeriosis can be used to investigate the pathogenic mechanisms that allow L. monocytogenes to invade the brain stem. IMPORTANCE Progress in understanding the two naturally occurring central nervous system (CNS) manifestations of listeriosis (meningitis/meningoencephalitis and rhombencephalitis) has been limited by the lack of small animal models that can readily distinguish between these distinct infections. We report here that certain neurotropic strains of Listeria monocytogenes can spread to the brains of young otherwise healthy mice and cause neurological deficits without causing a fatal bacteremia. The novel strains described here fall within phylogenetic lineage III, a small collection of L. monocytogenes isolates that have not been well characterized to date. The animal model reported here mimics many features of human rhombencephalitis and will be useful for studying the mechanisms that allow L. monocytogenes to disseminate to the brain stem following natural foodborne transmission.
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Hu L, Li D, Ge C, Liao H, Wang Y, Xu H. Natural Killer Cells may Exert Antidepressant-like Effects in Mice by Controlling the Release of Inflammatory Factors. Neuroscience 2019; 401:59-72. [PMID: 30641114 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Depression or stress is reportedly related to the overflow of inflammatory factors in the body and T cells were reported to play important roles in balancing the release of inflammatory factors through vagus nerve circuit. However, few works have been conducted to find if natural killer (NK) cells can also exert the similar function in the reported vagus nerve circuit as T cells and if there was any relationship between depression and this function. In the present study, the behavioral tests on BALB/c mice indicated that the depressant-like symptoms could be improved and simultaneously the concentrations of inflammatory factors in peripheral blood could be reduced significantly by adoptively transferring NK cells into stressed BALB/c mice. The results revealed that NK cells could control the release of inflammatory factors secreted by macrophages and β2-AR (β2-adrenergic receptor) on the NK cells were of great importance. Behavioral tests on NCG mice indicated that the antidepressant-like effects of NK cells notably declined after adoptively transferring NK cells with β2-AR deficiency or with ChAT (choline acetyltransferase) deficiency into stressed NCG mice. Simultaneously, the anti-inflammatory effects also declined significantly both in vivo and in vitro, which indicated that the antidepressant-like property of NK cells may be related to its ability of controlling the release of inflammatory factors. Taken together, we find that NK cells may balance the release of inflammatory factors in our body by transporting the information between the terminal vagal branches and macrophages, which is the mechanism that NK cells may exert antidepressant-like effects.
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- Lirong Hu
- The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, PR China
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- The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, PR China
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- The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Screening, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, PR China
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- The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, PR China; State Key Laboratory of National Medicines, Ministry of Education, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, PR China.
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Chaudhuri D, Roy Chowdhury A, Biswas B, Chakravortty D. Salmonella Typhimurium Infection Leads to Colonization of the Mouse Brain and Is Not Completely Cured With Antibiotics. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1632. [PMID: 30072981 PMCID: PMC6058050 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Salmonella systemic infections claim thousands of lives worldwide even today. Certain cases lead to an infection in the brain culminating in meningitis and associated neurological abnormalities. Multiple reports have indicated neurological manifestations in patients suffering from typhoid fever during the course of infection and afterwards. While the meanderings of Salmonella systemic infections are fairly well studied, the flow of events in the brain is very poorly understood. We investigated the colonization of various brain parts by Salmonella in mice. It was observed that the bacterium is frequently able to invade various brain parts in mice. Selected mutants namely deletion mutants of key proteins encoded by the Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs) 1 and 2 and ompA gene were also used to decipher the roles of specific genes in establishing an infection in the brain. Our results suggest roles for the Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI) 1 and outer membrane protein A gene in enabling blood-brain barrier penetration by the pathogen. We further investigated behavioral abnormalities in infected mice and used an antibiotic treatment regime in an attempt to reverse the same. Results show some mice still display behavioral abnormalities and a high bacterial burden in brain despite clearance from spleen and liver. Overall, our study provides novel insights into S. Typhimurium's capacity to invade the mouse brain and the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment on behavioral manifestations due to infection. These observations could have important implications in understanding reported neurological manifestations in typhoid patients.
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- Debalina Chaudhuri
- Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.,Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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St John JA, Walkden H, Nazareth L, Beagley KW, Ulett GC, Batzloff MR, Beacham IR, Ekberg JAK. Burkholderia pseudomallei Rapidly Infects the Brain Stem and Spinal Cord via the Trigeminal Nerve after Intranasal Inoculation. Infect Immun 2016; 84:2681-8. [PMID: 27382023 PMCID: PMC4995904 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00361-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei causes melioidosis, a disease with a high mortality rate (20% in Australia and 40% in Southeast Asia). Neurological melioidosis is particularly prevalent in northern Australian patients and involves brain stem infection, which can progress to the spinal cord; however, the route by which the bacteria invade the central nervous system (CNS) is unknown. We have previously demonstrated that B. pseudomallei can infect the olfactory and trigeminal nerves within the nasal cavity following intranasal inoculation. As the trigeminal nerve projects into the brain stem, we investigated whether the bacteria could continue along this nerve to penetrate the CNS. After intranasal inoculation of mice, B. pseudomallei caused low-level localized infection within the nasal cavity epithelium, prior to invasion of the trigeminal nerve in small numbers. B. pseudomallei rapidly invaded the trigeminal nerve and crossed the astrocytic barrier to enter the brain stem within 24 h and then rapidly progressed over 2,000 μm into the spinal cord. To rule out that the bacteria used a hematogenous route, we used a capsule-deficient mutant of B. pseudomallei that does not survive in the blood and found that it also entered the CNS via the trigeminal nerve. This suggests that the primary route of entry is via the nerves that innervate the nasal cavity. We found that actin-mediated motility could facilitate initial infection of the olfactory epithelium. Thus, we have demonstrated that B. pseudomallei can rapidly infect the brain and spinal cord via the trigeminal nerve branches that innervate the nasal cavity.
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- James A St John
- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Medical Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Dando SJ, Mackay-Sim A, Norton R, Currie BJ, St John JA, Ekberg JAK, Batzloff M, Ulett GC, Beacham IR. Pathogens penetrating the central nervous system: infection pathways and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of invasion. Clin Microbiol Rev 2014; 27:691-726. [PMID: 25278572 PMCID: PMC4187632 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00118-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The brain is well protected against microbial invasion by cellular barriers, such as the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB). In addition, cells within the central nervous system (CNS) are capable of producing an immune response against invading pathogens. Nonetheless, a range of pathogenic microbes make their way to the CNS, and the resulting infections can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Bacteria, amoebae, fungi, and viruses are capable of CNS invasion, with the latter using axonal transport as a common route of infection. In this review, we compare the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens reach the CNS and infect the brain. In particular, we focus on recent data regarding mechanisms of bacterial translocation from the nasal mucosa to the brain, which represents a little explored pathway of bacterial invasion but has been proposed as being particularly important in explaining how infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei can result in melioidosis encephalomyelitis.
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- Samantha J Dando
- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- Menzies School of Health Research and Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Medical Science and Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of the central nervous system is thought to be initiated once the bacilli have breached the blood brain barrier and are phagocytosed, primarily by microglial cells. In this study, the interactions of M. tuberculosis with neurons in vitro and in vivo were investigated. The data obtained demonstrate that neurons can act as host cells for M. tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis bacilli were internalized by murine neuronal cultured cells in a time-dependent manner after exposure, with superior uptake by HT22 cells compared to Neuro-2a cells (17.7% versus 9.8%). Internalization of M. tuberculosis bacilli by human SK-N-SH cultured neurons suggested the clinical relevance of the findings. Moreover, primary murine hippocampus-derived neuronal cultures could similarly internalize M. tuberculosis. Internalized M. tuberculosis bacilli represented a productive infection with retention of bacterial viability and replicative potential, increasing 2- to 4-fold within 48 h. M. tuberculosis bacillus infection of neurons was confirmed in vivo in the brains of C57BL/6 mice after intracerebral challenge. This study, therefore, demonstrates neurons as potential new target cells for M. tuberculosis within the central nervous system.
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Thomas RJ. Particle size and pathogenicity in the respiratory tract. Virulence 2013; 4:847-58. [PMID: 24225380 PMCID: PMC3925716 DOI: 10.4161/viru.27172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Revised: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Particle size dictates where aerosolized pathogens deposit in the respiratory tract, thereafter the pathogens potential to cause disease is influenced by tissue tropism, clearance kinetics and the host immunological response. This interplay brings pathogens into contact with a range of tissues spanning the respiratory tract and associated anatomical structures. In animal models, differential deposition within the respiratory tract influences infection kinetics for numerous select agents. Greater numbers of pathogens are required to infect the upper (URT) compared with the lower respiratory tract (LRT), and in comparison the URT infections are protracted with reduced mortality. Pathogenesis in the URT is characterized by infection of the URT lymphoid tissues, cervical lymphadenopathy and septicemia, closely resembling reported human infections of the URT. The olfactory, gastrointestinal, and ophthalmic systems are also infected in a pathogen-dependent manner. The relevant literature is reviewed with respect to particle size and infection of the URT in animal models and humans.
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Dons LE, Mosa A, Rottenberg ME, Rosenkrantz JT, Kristensson K, Olsen JE. Role of the Listeria monocytogenes 2-Cys peroxiredoxin homologue in protection against oxidative and nitrosative stress and in virulence. Pathog Dis 2013; 70:70-4. [PMID: 23929591 DOI: 10.1111/2049-632x.12081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Revised: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Peroxiredoxins contribute to protection of some bacteria against reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs) and reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNIs). Listeria monocytogenes, a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen, interacts with ROIs and RNIs during infection. In this study, we investigated the involvement of the 2-Cys peroxiredoxin (Prx) homologue in L. monocytogenes in the protection against ROIs and RNIs and in virulence through the construction of an in-frame prx deletion mutant. The Δprx mutant had increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide and cumene hydroperoxide compared to the wild-type strain. The mutant also exhibited an increased susceptibility to the nitric oxide-generating compound S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) and 3-morpholinosydnonimine hydrochloride (SIN-1), a peroxynitrite donor. Furthermore, a diminished virulence of the Δprx mutant relative to the wild-type was observed in C57BL/6 mice, but not in inducible nitric oxide synthase-deficient mice. The results suggest that Prx protects L. monocytogenes against oxidative and nitrosative stress in vitro and in vivo and that the prx-encoded polypeptide thereby is involved in L. monocytogenes virulence.
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- Lone E Dons
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Poli A, Kmiecik J, Domingues O, Hentges F, Bléry M, Chekenya M, Boucraut J, Zimmer J. NK cells in central nervous system disorders. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2013; 190:5355-62. [PMID: 23687193 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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NK cells are important players in immunity against pathogens and neoplasms. As a component of the innate immune system, they are one of the first effectors on sites of inflammation. Through their cytokine production capacities, NK cells participate in the development of a potent adaptive immune response. Furthermore, NK cells were found to have regulatory functions to limit and prevent autoimmunity via killing of autologous immune cells. These paradoxical functions of NK cells are reflected in CNS disorders. In this review, we discuss the phenotypes and functional features of peripheral and brain NK cells in brain tumors and infections, neurodegenerative diseases, acute vascular and traumatic damage, as well as mental disorders. We also discuss the implication of NK cells in neurotoxicity and neuroprotection following CNS pathology, as well as the crosstalk between NK cells and brain-resident immune cells.
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- Aurélie Poli
- Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Allergology, Public Research Center for Health, L-1526 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Lochhead JJ, Thorne RG. Intranasal delivery of biologics to the central nervous system. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2012; 64:614-28. [PMID: 22119441 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2011.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 715] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2011] [Revised: 11/03/2011] [Accepted: 11/07/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases is very difficult due to the blood-brain barrier's (BBB) ability to severely restrict entry of all but small, non-polar compounds. Intranasal administration is a non-invasive method of drug delivery which may bypass the BBB to allow therapeutic substances direct access to the CNS. Intranasal delivery of large molecular weight biologics such as proteins, gene vectors, and stem cells is a potentially useful strategy to treat a variety of diseases/disorders of the CNS including stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders. Here we give an overview of relevant nasal anatomy and physiology and discuss the pathways and mechanisms likely involved in drug transport from the nasal epithelium to the CNS. Finally we review both pre-clinical and clinical studies involving intranasal delivery of biologics to the CNS.
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- Jeffrey J Lochhead
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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Kuzmanovic J, Asanin R, Baltic M, Misic D, Dimitrijevic M, Stojanovic M, Asanin N, Kovacevic I. Presence of Listeria spp. in fish samples, fish products and sea products. ACTA VET-BEOGRAD 2011. [DOI: 10.2298/avb1103193k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Dresing P, Borkens S, Kocur M, Kropp S, Scheu S. A fluorescence reporter model defines "Tip-DCs" as the cellular source of interferon β in murine listeriosis. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15567. [PMID: 21179567 PMCID: PMC3002951 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2010] [Accepted: 11/12/2010] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Production of type I interferons, consisting mainly of multiple IFNα subtypes and IFNβ, represents an essential part of the innate immune defense against invading pathogens. While in most situations, namely viral infections, this class of cytokines is indispensable for host survival they mediate a detrimental effect during infection with L. monocytogenes by rendering macrophages insensitive towards IFNγ signalling which leads to a lethal bacterial pathology in mice. Due to a lack of suitable analytic tools the precise identity of the cell population responsible for type I IFN production remains ill-defined and so far these cells have been described to be macrophages. As in general IFNβ is the first type I interferon to be produced, we took advantage of an IFNβ fluorescence reporter-knockin mouse model in which YFP is expressed from a bicistronic mRNA linked by an IRES to the endogenous ifnb mRNA to assess the IFNβ production on a single cell level in situ. Our results showed highest frequencies and absolute numbers of IFNβ+ cells in the spleen 24 h after infection with L. monocytogenes where they were located predominately in the white pulp within the foci of infection. Detailed FACS surface marker analyses, intracellular cytokine stainings and T cell proliferation assays revealed that the IFNβ+ cells were a phenotypically and functionally further specialized subpopulation of TNF and iNOS producing DCs (Tip-DCs) which are known to be essential for the early containment of L. monocytogenes infection. We proved that the IFNβ+ cells exhibited the hallmark characteristics of Tip-DCs as they produced iNOS and TNF and possessed T cell priming abilities. These results point to a yet unappreciated ambiguous role for a multi-effector, IFNβ producing subpopulation of Tip-DCs in controlling the balance between containment of L. monocytogenes infection and effects detrimental to the host driven by IFNβ.
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- Philipp Dresing
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Oevermann A, Zurbriggen A, Vandevelde M. Rhombencephalitis Caused by Listeria monocytogenes in Humans and Ruminants: A Zoonosis on the Rise? Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis 2010; 2010:632513. [PMID: 20204066 PMCID: PMC2829626 DOI: 10.1155/2010/632513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2009] [Accepted: 11/25/2009] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Listeriosis is an emerging zoonotic infection of humans and ruminants worldwide caused by Listeria monocytogenes (LM). In both host species, CNS disease accounts for the high mortality associated with listeriosis and includes rhombencephalitis, whose neuropathology is strikingly similar in humans and ruminants. This review discusses the current knowledge about listeric encephalitis, and involved host and bacterial factors. There is an urgent need to study the molecular mechanisms of neuropathogenesis, which are poorly understood. Such studies will provide a basis for the development of new therapeutic strategies that aim to prevent LM from invading the brain and spread within the CNS.
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- Anna Oevermann
- Neurocenter, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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- Neurocenter, Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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- Division of Clinical Neurology, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland
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Oevermann A, Di Palma S, Doherr MG, Abril C, Zurbriggen A, Vandevelde M. Neuropathogenesis of naturally occurring encephalitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes in ruminants. Brain Pathol 2009; 20:378-90. [PMID: 19476464 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Listeriosis is a serious food-borne disease with increasing frequency in humans and ruminants. Despite the facts that in both hosts, listeriosis can occur as rhombencephalitis and ruminants are a reservoir of Listeria monocytogenes (LM) strains pathogenic for humans, little work has been done on the pathogenesis in ruminants. This study investigates the neuropathogenesis of listeric encephalitis in over 200 natural cases in cattle, sheep and goats by analyzing anatomical distribution, severity, bacterial load and temporal evolution of the lesions. Our results suggest that LM gains access to the brainstem of all three species via axonal migration not only along the trigeminal nerve, but also along other nerves. The ensuing encephalitis does not remain restricted to the brainstem. Rather, LM spreads further from the brainstem into rostral brain regions likely by intracerebral axonal migration. Significant differences in severity of the lesions and bacterial load were found between cattle and small ruminants, which may be caused by species-specific properties of antibacterial immune responses. As histopathological lesions of human rhombencephalitis caused by LM strongly resemble those of ruminants, the disease likely has a similar pathogenesis in both hosts.
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- Anna Oevermann
- Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Nonhematopoietic cells control the outcome of infection with Listeria monocytogenes in a nucleotide oligomerization domain 1-dependent manner. Infect Immun 2009; 77:2908-18. [PMID: 19398545 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01068-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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We analyzed the defensive role of the cytosolic innate recognition receptor nucleotide oligomerization domain 1 (NOD1) during infection with Listeria monocytogenes. Mice lacking NOD1 showed increased susceptibility to systemic intraperitoneal and intravenous infection with high or low doses of L. monocytogenes, as measured by the bacterial load and survival. NOD1 also controlled dissemination of L. monocytogenes into the brain. The increased susceptibility to reinfection of NOD1(-/-) mice was not associated with impaired triggering of listeria-specific T cells, and similar levels of costimulatory molecules or activation of dendritic cells was observed. Higher numbers of F480(+) Gr1(+) inflammatory monocytes and lower numbers of F480(-) Gr1(+) neutrophils were recruited into the peritoneum of infected WT mice than into the peritoneum of infected NOD1(-/-) mice. We determined that nonhematopoietic cells accounted for NOD1-mediated resistance to L. monocytogenes in bone marrow radiation chimeras. The levels of NOD1 mRNA in fibroblasts and bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) were upregulated after infection with L. monocytogenes or stimulation with different Toll-like receptor ligands. NOD1(-/-) BMM, astrocytes, and fibroblasts all showed enhanced intracellular growth of L monocytogenes compared to WT controls. Gamma interferon-mediated nitric oxide production and inhibition of L. monocytogenes growth were hampered in NOD1(-/-) BMM. Thus, NOD1 confers nonhematopoietic cell-mediated resistance to infection with L. monocytogenes and controls intracellular bacterial growth in different cell populations in vitro.
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inlA premature stop codons are common among Listeria monocytogenes isolates from foods and yield virulence-attenuated strains that confer protection against fully virulent strains. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:6570-83. [PMID: 18791029 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00997-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies showed that a considerable proportion of Listeria monocytogenes isolates obtained from foods carry a premature stop codon (PMSC) mutation in inlA that leads to production of a truncated and secreted InlA. To further elucidate the role these mutations play in virulence of L. monocytogenes, we created isogenic mutants, including (i) natural isolates where an inlA PMSC was reverted to a wild-type inlA allele (without a PMSC) and (ii) natural isolates where a PMSC mutation was introduced into a wild-type inlA allele; isogenic mutant sets were constructed to represent two distinct inlA PMSC mutations. Phenotypical and transcriptional analysis data showed that inlA PMSC mutations do not have a polar effect on the downstream inlB. Isogenic and natural strains carrying an inlA PMSC showed significantly reduced invasion efficiencies in Caco-2 and HepG2 cell lines as well as reduced virulence in oral guinea pig infections. Guinea pigs were also orally infected with a natural strain carrying the most common inlA PMSC mutation (vaccinated group), followed by challenge with a fully virulent L. monocytogenes strain 15 days postvaccination to probe potentially immunizing effects of exposure to L. monocytogenes with inlA PMSC mutations. Vaccinated guinea pigs showed reduced bacterial loads in internal organs and improved weight gain postchallenge, indicating reduced severity of infections in guinea pigs exposed to natural strains with inlA PMSC mutations. Our data support that (i) inlA PMSC mutations are causally associated with attenuated virulence in mammalian hosts and (ii) naturally occurring virulence-attenuated L. monocytogenes strains commonly found in food confer protective immunity.
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Drevets DA, Bronze MS. Listeria monocytogenes: epidemiology, human disease, and mechanisms of brain invasion. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 53:151-65. [PMID: 18462388 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2008.00404.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular bacterium that has predilection for causing central nervous systemic infections in humans and domesticated animals. This pathogen can be found worldwide in the food supply and most L. monocytogenes infections are acquired through ingestion of contaminated food. The main clinical syndromes caused by L. monocytogenes include febrile gastroenteritis, perinatal infection, and systemic infections marked by central nervous system infections with or without bacteremia. Experimental infection of mice has been used for over 50 years as a model system to study the pathogenesis of this organism including the mechanisms by which it invades the brain. Data from this model indicate that a specific subset of monocytes, distinguished in part by high expression of the Ly-6C antigen, become parasitized in the bone marrow and have a key role in transporting intracellular bacteria across the blood-brain barriers and into the central nervous system. This Minireview will summarize recent epidemiologic and clinical information regarding L. monocytogenes as a human pathogen and will discuss current in vitro and in vivo data relevant to the role of parasitized monocytes and the pathogenetic mechanisms that underlie its formidable ability to invade the central nervous system.
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- Douglas A Drevets
- Department of Medicine, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
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Tonelli LH, Holmes A, Postolache TT. Intranasal immune challenge induces sex-dependent depressive-like behavior and cytokine expression in the brain. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008; 33:1038-48. [PMID: 17593929 PMCID: PMC2268621 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The association between activation of the immune system and mood disorders has been reported by several studies. However, the mechanisms by which the immune system affects mood are only partially understood. In the present study, we detected depressive-like behavior in a rat animal model which involves the induction of inflammation in the nasal cavities by intranasal (i.n.) instillation of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Female rats showed depressive-like behavior as evidenced by the forced swim test after repeated i.n. administration of LPS. These responses were not paralleled by alterations in motor activity as measured by the open field test. In the same animals, corticosterone responses after the swimming sessions were the highest of all the groups evaluated. Real-time RT PCR was used to analyze the transcriptional regulation of the cytokines interleukin-1beta, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and interleukin-6 in several brain regions. Increased tumor necrosis factor-alpha was detected in the hippocampus and brainstem of female rats challenged with i.n. LPS. These results suggest that peripheral inflammation in the upper respiratory tract is an immune challenge capable of inducing depressive-like behavior, promoting exaggerated glucocorticoid responses to stress, and increasing cytokine transcription in the brain. These results further our understanding of the role that the immune system may play in the pathophysiology of depression.
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- Leonardo H Tonelli
- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroimmunology, Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201-1549, MD, USA.
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Dons L, Jin Y, Kristensson K, Rottenberg ME. Axonal transport of Listeria monocytogenes and nerve-cell-induced bacterial killing. J Neurosci Res 2008; 85:2529-37. [PMID: 17387705 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) can cause fatal brainstem encephalitis in both sheep and humans. Here we review evidence that the bacteria can be incorporated into axons following a primary cycle of replication in macrophages/dendritic cells after subcutaneous injection in projection areas of peripheral neurons. The molecular mechanisms for the rocketing of L. monocytogenes in the cytosol by asymmetric cometic tails and the utility of this phenomenon for bacterial migration intraaxonally both in retro- and in anterograde directions to reach the central nervous system are described. The role of the immune response in the control of L. monocytogenes spread through peripheral neurons is highlighted, and a mechanism by which bacteria may be killed inside infected neurons through a nitric oxide-dependent pathway is pointed out.
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- Lone Dons
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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MacDonald AB. Alzheimer's disease Braak Stage progressions: reexamined and redefined as Borrelia infection transmission through neural circuits. Med Hypotheses 2006; 68:1059-64. [PMID: 17113237 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2006] [Accepted: 09/20/2006] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Brain structure in health is a dynamic energized equation incorporating chemistry, neuronal structure, and circuitry components. The chemistry "piece" is represented by multiple neurotransmitters such as Acetylcholine, Serotonin, and Dopamine. The neuronal structure "piece" incorporates synapses and their connections. And finally circuits of neurons establish "architectural blueprints" of anatomic wiring diagrams of the higher order of brain neuron organizations. In Alzheimer's disease, there are progressive losses in all of these components. Brain structure crumbles. The deterioration in Alzheimer's is ordered, reproducible, and stepwise. Drs. Braak and Braak have described stages in the Alzheimer disease continuum. "Progressions" through Braak Stages benchmark "Regressions" in Cognitive function. Under the microscope, the Stages of Braak commence in brain regions near to the hippocampus, and over time, like a tsunami wave of destruction, overturn healthy brain regions, with neurofibrillary tangle damaged neurons "marching" through the temporal lobe, neocortex and occipital cortex. In effect the destruction ascends from the limbic regions to progressively destroy the higher brain centers. Rabies infection also "begins low and finishes high" in its wave of destruction of brain tissue. Herpes Zoster infections offer the paradigm of clinical latency of infection inside of nerves before the "marching commences". Varicella Zoster virus enters neurons in the pediatric years. Dormant virus remains inside the neurons for 50-80 years, tissue damage late in life (shingles) demonstrates the "march of the infection" down neural pathways (dermatomes) as linear areas of painful blisters loaded with virus from a childhood infection. Amalgamation of Zoster with Rabies models produces a hybrid model to explain all of the Braak Stages of Alzheimer's disease under a new paradigm, namely "Alzheimer's neuroborreliosis" in which latent Borrelia infections ascend neural circuits through the hippocampus to the higher brain centers, creating a trail of neurofibrillary tangle injured neurons in neural circuits of cholinergic neurons by transsynaptic transmission of infection from nerve to nerve.
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- Alan B MacDonald
- St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, Department of Pathology, 50 Rte 25 A, Smithtown, NY 11787, USA.
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Bubonja M, Wraber B, Brumini G, Gobin I, Veljkovic D, Abram M. Systemic and local CC chemokines production in a murine model of Listeria monocytogenes infection. Mediators Inflamm 2006; 2006:54202. [PMID: 16951491 PMCID: PMC1592594 DOI: 10.1155/mi/2006/54202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Repeated intragastric inoculation of Listeria
monocytogenes into BALB/c mice resulted in prolonged bacteraemia
and severe hepatic infection. Bacteria could also be isolated from
the brain tissue of all experimental mice. During the inflammatory
process, chemokine concentrations typically increased at the local
site in comparison to the systemic level. The liver-to-serum ratio
was more pronounced in the case of macrophage inflammatory protein
1α (MIP-1α), suggesting its role in the inflammatory response in
the liver. The ratio of brain-to-serum concentration of monocyte
chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) remained the same as in the
control animals, while it was lower in the infected mice, both in
the case MIP-1α and in the case of regulated on activation, normal
T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES). This is in correlation
with slight inflammatory infiltrates found in the brain tissue
early in infection.
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- Marina Bubonja
- Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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- Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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- Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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- Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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Garner MR, Njaa BL, Wiedmann M, Boor KJ. Sigma B contributes to Listeria monocytogenes gastrointestinal infection but not to systemic spread in the guinea pig infection model. Infect Immun 2006; 74:876-86. [PMID: 16428730 PMCID: PMC1360341 DOI: 10.1128/iai.74.2.876-886.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2005] [Revised: 09/29/2005] [Accepted: 11/08/2005] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Contributions of the alternative sigma factor sigmaB to Listeria monocytogenes infection were investigated using strains bearing null mutations in sigB, prfA, or inlA or in selected inlA or prfA promoter regions. The DeltaP4inlA strain, which has a deletion in the sigmaB-dependent P4inlA promoter, and the DeltasigB strain had significantly reduced invasion efficiencies relative to that of the wild-type strain in the Caco-2 human colorectal epithelial cell line, while the invasion efficiency of a strain bearing a deletion in the partially sigmaB dependent P2prfA promoter region did not differ from that of the wild type. The virulence of the DeltasigB and DeltaP4inlA strains was attenuated in intragastrically inoculated guinea pigs, with the DeltasigB strain showing greater attenuation, while the virulence capacity of the DeltaP2prfA strain was similar to that of the wild-type strain, suggesting that attenuation of virulence due to the DeltasigB mutation does not result from loss of sigmaB-dependent prfA transcription. Our results show that sigmaB-dependent activation of inlA is important for cell invasion and gastrointestinal infection and suggest that sigmaB-regulated genes in addition to inlA appear to contribute to gastrointestinal infection. Interestingly, the virulence of the DeltasigB strain was not attenuated in intravenously infected guinea pigs. We conclude that (i) L. monocytogenes sigmaB plays a critical role in invasion of human host cells, (ii) sigmaB-mediated contributions to invasion are, in part, due to direct effects on inlA transcription but not on prfA transcription, and (iii) sigmaB plays a critical role during the gastrointestinal stage of listeriosis in the guinea pig but is not important for systemic spread of the organism.
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- M R Garner
- Department of Food Science, 413 Stocking Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Bergman P, Termén S, Johansson L, Nyström L, Arenas E, Jonsson AB, Hökfelt T, Gudmundsson GH, Agerberth B. The antimicrobial peptide rCRAMP is present in the central nervous system of the rat. J Neurochem 2005; 93:1132-40. [PMID: 15934934 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2005.03081.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The brain is protected against invading pathogens by the blood-brain barrier, and also by its own innate defence system consisting of microglia and neurons in a coordinated network. Antimicrobial peptides are a part of the innate immune system at epithelial surfaces, and may also have important functions in the brain. Recently, we characterized the rat homologue of the human cathelicidin LL-37, designated rCRAMP. Here we present several lines of evidence for this peptide being expressed in rat CNS. (1) A peptide/protein extract of rat brain is active against bacteria in a salt-dependent manner. (2) Western blot analysis demonstrates the presence of rCRAMP in rat brain extract. (3) rCRAMP peptide and mRNA are present mainly in specific CNS regions (olfactory bulb, cerebellum, medulla oblongata and spinal cord). (4) rCRAMP-like immunoreactivity is detected in olfactory bulb, cerebellum and spinal cord by immunohistochemistry. (5) Moreover, the transcript of rCRAMP is detected in primary cultures from hippocampus, striatum, cerebellum and spinal cord, as shown with RT-PCR and Southern blot analyses. In addition, the rCRAMP peptide exhibits in vitro activity against the neuropathogenic bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. Taken together, these data suggest that the cathelicidin rCRAMP may play a role in the innate immunity of the CNS.
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- Peter Bergman
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mori I, Goshima F, Ito H, Koide N, Yoshida T, Yokochi T, Kimura Y, Nishiyama Y. The vomeronasal chemosensory system as a route of neuroinvasion by herpes simplex virus. Virology 2005; 334:51-8. [PMID: 15749122 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2004] [Revised: 01/04/2005] [Accepted: 01/06/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We have investigated the potential of neurotropic microbes to invade the central nervous system (CNS) via the peripheral nervous system. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) strain KH6 and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) strain 186 were found to infect chemosensory neurons in the vomeronasal organ (the pheromone detector) following intranasal inoculation of mice. HSV-1 strain KH6 infection was further transmitted to the accessory olfactory bulb (first relay), the medial amygdala (second relay), and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and the ventromedial hypothalamus (third relay). HSV-1 strain KH6 also targeted the olfactory and trigeminal systems. HSV-2 strain 186 predominantly attacked the brainstem including the trigeminal system. While both viruses did not induce apoptosis in infected chemosensory neurons, they did in infected brain tissue. These results suggest that neurotropic viruses can invade the brain by infecting vomeronasal chemosensory neurons and that the restrained induction of apoptosis in the infected neurons may facilitate viral transmission to the CNS.
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- Isamu Mori
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi 480-1195, Japan.
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Jin Y, Lundkvist G, Dons L, Kristensson K, Rottenberg ME. Interferon-gamma Mediates Neuronal Killing of Intracellular Bacteria. Scand J Immunol 2004; 60:437-48. [PMID: 15541035 DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-9475.2004.01500.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Neurons can be targets for microbes, which could kill the neurons. Just in reverse, we, in this study, report that bacteria can be killed when entering a neuron. Primary cultures of foetal mouse hippocampal neurons and a neuronal cell line derived from mouse hypothalamus were infected by Listeria monocytogenes. Treatment with interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) did not affect bacterial uptake, but resulted in increased killing of intracellular bacteria, whereas the neuronal cell remained intact. The IFN-gamma-mediated bacterial killing was mapped to the neuronal cytosol, before listerial actin tail formation. Treatment with IFN-gamma induced phosphorylation of the transcription factor STAT-1 in neurons and IFN-gamma-mediated listerial killing was not observed in STAT-1(-/-) neurons or neurons treated with IFN regulatory factor-1 antisense oligonucleotides. IFN-gamma-treated neuronal cells showed increased levels of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA, and antisense iNOS oligonucleotides hampered the bacterial killing by neurons upon IFN-gamma treatment. This novel neuronal function - i.e., that of a microbe killer - could play a crucial role in the control of infections in the immuno-privileged nervous system.
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- Y Jin
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Wang X, Kang H, Kikuchi T, Suzuki Y. Gamma interferon production, but not perforin-mediated cytolytic activity, of T cells is required for prevention of toxoplasmic encephalitis in BALB/c mice genetically resistant to the disease. Infect Immun 2004; 72:4432-8. [PMID: 15271900 PMCID: PMC470633 DOI: 10.1128/iai.72.8.4432-4438.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We previously showed the requirement of both T cells and gamma interferon (IFN-gamma)-producing non-T cells for the genetic resistance of BALB/c mice to the development of toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE). In order to define the role of IFN-gamma production and the perforin-mediated cytotoxicity of T cells in this resistance, we obtained immune T cells from spleens of infected IFN-gamma knockout (IFN-gamma(-/-)), perforin knockout (PO), and wild-type BALB/c mice and transferred them into infected and sulfadiazine-treated athymic nude mice, which lack T cells but have IFN-gamma-producing non-T cells. Control nude mice that had not received any T cells developed severe TE and died after discontinuation of sulfadiazine treatment due to the reactivation of infection. Animals that had received immune T cells from either wild-type or PO mice did not develop TE and survived. In contrast, nude mice that had received immune T cells from IFN-gamma(-/-) mice developed severe TE and died as early as control nude mice. T cells obtained from the spleens of animals that had received either PO or wild-type T cells produced large amounts of IFN-gamma after stimulation with Toxoplasma gondii antigens in vitro. In addition, the amounts of IFN-gamma mRNA expressed in the brains of PO T-cell recipients did not differ from those in wild-type T-cell recipients. Furthermore, PO mice did not develop TE after infection, and their IFN-gamma production was equivalent to or higher than that of wild-type animals. These results indicate that IFN-gamma production, but not perforin-mediated cytotoxic activity, by T cells is required for the prevention of TE in genetically resistant BALB/c mice.
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MESH Headings
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Brain/parasitology
- Encephalitis/genetics
- Encephalitis/immunology
- Encephalitis/parasitology
- Female
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Nude
- Perforin
- Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Toxoplasma/pathogenicity
- Toxoplasmosis, Animal/genetics
- Toxoplasmosis, Animal/immunology
- Toxoplasmosis, Animal/mortality
- Toxoplasmosis, Animal/parasitology
- Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral/genetics
- Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral/immunology
- Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral/mortality
- Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral/parasitology
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- Xisheng Wang
- Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Rothfuchs AG, Kreuger MR, Wigzell H, Rottenberg ME. Macrophages, CD4+ or CD8+ cells are each sufficient for protection against Chlamydia pneumoniae infection through their ability to secrete IFN-gamma. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2004; 172:2407-15. [PMID: 14764711 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.4.2407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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By using a T, B, or NK cell-deficient mouse strain (recombinase-activating gene (RAG)-1(-/-)/common cytokine receptor gamma-chain (gamma(C)R)), and T and B cell and IFN-gamma-deficient (RAG-1(-/-)/IFN-gamma(-/-)) mice, we have studied the generation of immunity against infection by Chlamydia pneumoniae. We found that IFN-gamma secreted by innate-cell populations protect against C. pneumoniae infection. However, NK cells were not needed for such IFN-gamma-dependent innate immune protection. Inoculation of wild type, but not IFN-gamma(-/-) bone marrow-derived macrophages protected RAG-1(-/-)/IFN-gamma(-/-) mice against C. pneumoniae infection. In line, pulmonary macrophages from RAG-1(-/-) C. pneumoniae-infected mice expressed IFN-gamma mRNA. Reconstitution of RAG-1(-/-)/gamma(c)R(-/-) or RAG-1(-/-)/IFN-gamma(-/-) mice with CD4(+) or CD8(+) cells by i.v. transfer of FACS sorted wild type spleen cells (SC) increased resistance to C. pneumoniae infection. On the contrary, no protection was observed upon transfer of IFN-gamma(-/-) CD4(+) or IFN-gamma(-/-) CD8(+) SC. T cell-dependent protection against C. pneumoniae was weaker when IFN-gammaR(-/-) CD4(+) or IFN-gammaR(-/-) CD8(+) SC were inoculated into RAG-1(-/-)/IFN-gamma(-/-) mice. Thus both nonlymphoid and T cell-derived IFN-gamma can play a central and complementary role in protection against C. pneumoniae. IFN-gamma secreted by nonlymphoid cells was not required for T cell-mediated protection against C. pneumoniae; however, IFN-gamma regulated T cell protective functions.
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Drevets DA, Leenen PJM, Greenfield RA. Invasion of the central nervous system by intracellular bacteria. Clin Microbiol Rev 2004; 17:323-47. [PMID: 15084504 PMCID: PMC387409 DOI: 10.1128/cmr.17.2.323-347.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is a severe and frequently fatal event during the course of many diseases caused by microbes with predominantly intracellular life cycles. Examples of these include the facultative intracellular bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Brucella and Salmonella spp. and obligate intracellular microbes of the Rickettsiaceae family and Tropheryma whipplei. Unfortunately, the mechanisms used by intracellular bacterial pathogens to enter the CNS are less well known than those used by bacterial pathogens with an extracellular life cycle. The goal of this review is to elaborate on the means by which intracellular bacterial pathogens establish infection within the CNS. This review encompasses the clinical and pathological findings that pertain to the CNS infection in humans and includes experimental data from animal models that illuminate how these microbes enter the CNS. Recent experimental data showing that L. monocytogenes can invade the CNS by more than one mechanism make it a useful model for discussing the various routes for neuroinvasion used by intracellular bacterial pathogens.
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- Douglas A Drevets
- Department of Medicine, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA.
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Mansfield BE, Dionne MS, Schneider DS, Freitag NE. Exploration of host-pathogen interactions using Listeria monocytogenes and Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Microbiol 2004; 5:901-11. [PMID: 14641175 DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00329.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is capable of replicating within a broad range of host cell types and host species. We report here the establishment of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a new model host for the exploration of L. monocytogenes pathogenesis and host response to infection. Listeria monocytogenes was capable of establishing lethal infections in adult fruit flies and larvae with extensive bacterial replication occurring before host death. Bacteria were found in the cytosol of insect phagocytic cells, and were capable of directing host cell actin polymerization. Bacterial gene products necessary for intracellular replication and cell-to-cell spread within mammalian cells were similarly found to be required within insect cells, and although previous work has suggested that L. monocytogenes virulence gene expression requires temperatures above 30 degrees C, bacteria within insect cells were found to express virulence determinants at 25 degrees C. Mutant strains of Drosophila that were compromised for innate immune responses demonstrated increased susceptibility to L. monocytogenes infection. These data indicate L. monocytogenes infection of fruit flies shares numerous features of mammalian infection, and thus that Drosophila has the potential to serve as a genetically tractable host system that will facilitate the analysis of host cellular responses to L. monocytogenes infection.
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Thorne RG, Pronk GJ, Padmanabhan V, Frey WH. Delivery of insulin-like growth factor-I to the rat brain and spinal cord along olfactory and trigeminal pathways following intranasal administration. Neuroscience 2004; 127:481-96. [PMID: 15262337 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 636] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/20/2004] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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We investigated the CNS delivery of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), a 7.65 kDa protein neurotrophic factor, following intranasal administration and the possible pathways and mechanisms underlying transport from the nasal passages to the CNS. Anesthetized adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were given [125I]-IGF-I intranasally or intravenously and then killed by perfusion-fixation within 30 min. Other animals were killed following cisternal puncture and withdrawal of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or intranasal administration of unlabeled IGF-I or vehicle. Both gamma counting of microdissected tissue and high resolution phosphor imaging of tissue sections showed that the tissue concentrations and distribution following intranasal administration were consistent with two routes of rapid entry into the CNS: one associated with the peripheral olfactory system connecting the nasal passages with the olfactory bulbs and rostral brain regions (e.g. anterior olfactory nucleus and frontal cortex) and the other associated with the peripheral trigeminal system connecting the nasal passages with brainstem and spinal cord regions. Intranasal administration of [125I]-IGF-I also targeted the deep cervical lymph nodes, consistent with their possible role in lymphatic drainage of both the nasal passages and the CNS. Cisternal CSF did not contain [125I]-IGF-I following intranasal administration. Intravenous [125I]-IGF-I resulted in blood and peripheral tissue exposure similar to that seen following intranasal administration but CNS concentrations were significantly lower. Finally, delivery of IGF-I into the CNS activated IGF-I signaling pathways, confirming some portion of the IGF-I that reached CNS target sites was functionally intact. The results suggest intranasally delivered IGF-I can bypass the blood-brain barrier via olfactory- and trigeminal-associated extracellular pathways to rapidly elicit biological effects at multiple sites within the brain and spinal cord.
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- R G Thorne
- Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Neuronal targeting and functional effects of infectious agents transmitted from animals to man. RENDICONTI LINCEI 2003. [PMCID: PMC7146993 DOI: 10.1007/bf02904487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The nervous system is an «immune-privileged» site and can provide a reservoir to harbor as persistent or latent infections certain microbes that find their way to the brain. From an evolutionary standpoint, such infections are characterized at most times by low levels of the infectious agent in the systemic domain, except when multiplication has just taken place. Hence the ability for transmission of the pathogens from animals to Man will be determined by the availability of microbes to be transferred by a vector (e.g. in trypanosomiasis), or the amount of infective forms of the microbes shed into an environment (e.g. in toxoplasmosis). Using African trypanosomes, toxoplasma,Listeria and influenza A virus as examples, mechanisms by which microbes can spread and be targeted to and within the brain to cause various types of nervous system dysfunctions is reviewed. Newly revealed potentials of certain cytokines to stimulate neurons to control the growth, and even kill, microbes in their cell bodies is also described.
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IFN-gamma is released in the brain, not only during acute infectious diseases or immunological reactions, but also for extended periods of time after clearance of infectious virus and during viral latency. In this review, we focus on the role of IFN-gamma in the interaction between a neuron and a pathogen, that is, the role in implementation of microbial destruction, stasis or persistence, its potential neuroprotective or toxic effects, and how this cytokine may affect neuronal function and the behavior of an individual.
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- Martin Rottenberg
- Microbiology and Tumor Biology Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Aronsson F, Robertson B, Ljunggren HG, Kristensson K. Invasion and persistence of the neuroadapted influenza virus A/WSN/33 in the mouse olfactory system. Viral Immunol 2003; 16:415-23. [PMID: 14583155 DOI: 10.1089/088282403322396208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Invasion and persistence of the neuroadapted influenza virus A/WSN/33 in the mouse olfactory system was studied. WSN/33 instilled intranasally infected neurons in the olfactory epithelium and was transported in axons to the olfactory bulbs in wild type mice that survived the infection. In adult mice lacking the recombination activating gene 1 (RAG-1-/-), infected neurons occurred in the olfactory bulbs for 22-65 days after which the mice developed a rapidly progressive lethal infection affecting neurons in olfactory projection pathways, i.e. primary olfactory cortex, raphe in upper brainstem and hypothalamus. Adult mice without genes for interferon (IFN)-alpha/beta receptor, IFN-gamma receptor, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), IgH, the transporter associated with antigen processing 1 (TAP1), and natural killer cell-depleted mice, all survived the infection. Viral RNA was found in the olfactory bulbs in more than 80 per cent of the surviving iNOS-/-, IFN-gamma receptor-/-, and TAP1-/- mice. Taken together, this study shows that influenza A virus can invade the brain through the olfactory pathways and that the cellular immune responses prevent establishment of persistent infections in the olfactory bulbs. Furthermore, innate responses in olfactory bulbs may for a period of time keep the infection under control.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/immunology
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genes, RAG-1
- Immunity, Cellular
- Influenza A virus/genetics
- Influenza A virus/pathogenicity
- Influenza A virus/physiology
- Membrane Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Nitric Oxide Synthase/deficiency
- Nitric Oxide Synthase/genetics
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II
- Olfactory Bulb/immunology
- Olfactory Bulb/virology
- Orthomyxoviridae Infections/genetics
- Orthomyxoviridae Infections/immunology
- Orthomyxoviridae Infections/virology
- Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta
- Receptors, Interferon/deficiency
- Receptors, Interferon/genetics
- Interferon gamma Receptor
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- Fredrik Aronsson
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jin Y, Dons L, Kristensson K, Rottenberg ME. Colony-stimulating factor 1-dependent cells protect against systemic infection with Listeria monocytogenes but facilitate neuroinvasion. Infect Immun 2002; 70:4682-6. [PMID: 12117983 PMCID: PMC128173 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.8.4682-4686.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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By using mice genomically lacking the mononuclear phagocytic growth factor colony-stimulating factor 1 and thereby deficient in macrophage and dendritic cell populations, we show that these cells play a dual role: they constitute a major defense against systemic infection but also facilitate cerebral bacterial invasion by Listeria monocytogenes.
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- Yuxuan Jin
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Domann E, Deckert M, Schlüter D, Chakraborty T. Listeria monocytogenes: a model system to study invasion and spread of bacteria in the central nervous system. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2002; 265:213-26. [PMID: 12014191 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-09525-6_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- E Domann
- Abteilung für Neuropathologie, Universität zu Köln, Joseph-Stetzmann-Strasse 9, 50331 Köln
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Nassif X, Bourdoulous S, Eugène E, Couraud PO. How do extracellular pathogens cross the blood-brain barrier? Trends Microbiol 2002; 10:227-32. [PMID: 11973156 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-842x(02)02349-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Bacterial invasion of the meninges can occur as a consequence of bloodstream invasion by some bacterial pathogens. Bacteria enter the central nervous system following a direct interaction with the luminal side of the cerebral endothelium, which constitutes the blood-brain barrier. To breach the barriers protecting the brain, extracellular pathogens must cross a monolayer of tight junction-expressing endothelial or epithelial cells. The limited number of pathogens capable of crossing these tight barriers and invading the meninges suggests that they display very specific attributes. For Neisseria meningitidis, type IV pili have been identified as being essential for meningeal invasion and it is believed other, as-yet-unidentified factors are also involved.
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- Xavier Nassif
- INSERM U570, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris V, 156 Rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France.
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During the past two decades, nitric oxide (NO) has been recognized as one of the most versatile players in the immune system. It is involved in the pathogenesis and control of infectious diseases, tumors, autoimmune processes and chronic degenerative diseases. Because of its variety of reaction partners (DNA, proteins, low-molecular weight thiols, prosthetic groups, reactive oxygen intermediates), its widespread production (by three different NO synthases (NOS) and the fact that its activity is strongly influenced by its concentration, NO continues to surprise and perplex immunologists. Today, there is no simple, uniform picture of the function of NO in the immune system. Protective and toxic effects of NO are frequently seen in parallel. Its striking inter- and intracellular signaling capacity makes it extremely difficult to predict the effect of NOS inhibitors and NO donors, which still hampers therapeutic applications.
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- C Bogdan
- Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Wasserturmstrasse 3-5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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