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Rivera-Millot A, Harrison LB, Veyrier FJ. Copper management strategies in obligate bacterial symbionts: balancing cost and benefit. Emerg Top Life Sci 2024; 8:29-35. [PMID: 38095549 PMCID: PMC10903467 DOI: 10.1042/etls20230113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Abstract
Bacteria employ diverse mechanisms to manage toxic copper in their environments, and these evolutionary strategies can be divided into two main categories: accumulation and rationalization of metabolic pathways. The strategies employed depend on the bacteria's lifestyle and environmental context, optimizing the metabolic cost-benefit ratio. Environmental and opportunistically pathogenic bacteria often possess an extensive range of copper regulation systems in order to respond to variations in copper concentrations and environmental conditions, investing in diversity and/or redundancy as a safeguard against uncertainty. In contrast, obligate symbiotic bacteria, such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Bordetella pertussis, tend to have specialized and more parsimonious copper regulation systems designed to function in the relatively stable host environment. These evolutionary strategies maintain copper homeostasis even in challenging conditions like encounters within phagocytic cells. These examples highlight the adaptability of bacterial copper management systems, tailored to their specific lifestyles and environmental requirements, in the context of an evolutionary the trade-off between benefits and energy costs.
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- Alex Rivera-Millot
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, Quebec H7V 1B7, Canada
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Nyongesa S, Weber PM, Bernet È, Pulido F, Nieves C, Nieckarz M, Delaby M, Viehboeck T, Krause N, Rivera-Millot A, Nakamura A, Vischer NOE, vanNieuwenhze M, Brun YV, Cava F, Bulgheresi S, Veyrier FJ. Evolution of longitudinal division in multicellular bacteria of the Neisseriaceae family. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4853. [PMID: 35995772 PMCID: PMC9395523 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32260-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Rod-shaped bacteria typically elongate and divide by transverse fission. However, several bacterial species can form rod-shaped cells that divide longitudinally. Here, we study the evolution of cell shape and division mode within the family Neisseriaceae, which includes Gram-negative coccoid and rod-shaped species. In particular, bacteria of the genera Alysiella, Simonsiella and Conchiformibius, which can be found in the oral cavity of mammals, are multicellular and divide longitudinally. We use comparative genomics and ultrastructural microscopy to infer that longitudinal division within Neisseriaceae evolved from a rod-shaped ancestor. In multicellular longitudinally-dividing species, neighbouring cells within multicellular filaments are attached by their lateral peptidoglycan. In these bacteria, peptidoglycan insertion does not appear concentric, i.e. from the cell periphery to its centre, but as a medial sheet guillotining each cell. Finally, we identify genes and alleles associated with multicellularity and longitudinal division, including the acquisition of amidase-encoding gene amiC2, and amino acid changes in proteins including MreB and FtsA. Introduction of amiC2 and allelic substitution of mreB in a rod-shaped species that divides by transverse fission results in shorter cells with longer septa. Our work sheds light on the evolution of multicellularity and longitudinal division in bacteria, and suggests that members of the Neisseriaceae family may be good models to study these processes due to their morphological plasticity and genetic tractability. Rod-shaped bacteria typically elongate and divide by transverse fission, but a few species are known to divide longitudinally. Here, the authors use genomic, phylogenetic and microscopy techniques to shed light on the evolution of cell shape, multicellularity and division mode within the family Neisseriaceae.
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- Sammy Nyongesa
- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria.,University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, SE-90187, Sweden
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- Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria.,University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria.,Division of Microbial Ecology, Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, , University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria.,University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Bacterial Cell Biology & Physiology, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, SE-90187, Sweden
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Environmental Cell Biology Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
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- INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada.
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Belcher T, Dubois V, Rivera-Millot A, Locht C, Jacob-Dubuisson F. Pathogenicity and virulence of Bordetella pertussis and its adaptation to its strictly human host. Virulence 2021; 12:2608-2632. [PMID: 34590541 PMCID: PMC8489951 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2021.1980987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The highly contagious whooping cough agent Bordetella pertussis has evolved as a human-restricted pathogen from a progenitor which also gave rise to Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica. While the latter colonizes a broad range of mammals and is able to survive in the environment, B. pertussis has lost its ability to survive outside its host through massive genome decay. Instead, it has become a highly successful human pathogen by the acquisition of tightly regulated virulence factors and evolutionary adaptation of its metabolism to its particular niche. By the deployment of an arsenal of highly sophisticated virulence factors it overcomes many of the innate immune defenses. It also interferes with vaccine-induced adaptive immunity by various mechanisms. Here, we review data from invitro, human and animal models to illustrate the mechanisms of adaptation to the human respiratory tract and provide evidence of ongoing evolutionary adaptation as a highly successful human pathogen.
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- Thomas Belcher
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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Rivera-Millot A, Slupek S, Chatagnon J, Roy G, Saliou JM, Billon G, Alaimo V, Hot D, Salomé-Desnoulez S, Locht C, Antoine R, Jacob-Dubuisson F. Streamlined copper defenses make Bordetella pertussis reliant on custom-made operon. Commun Biol 2021; 4:46. [PMID: 33420409 PMCID: PMC7794356 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01580-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Copper is both essential and toxic to living beings, which tightly controls its intracellular concentration. At the host-pathogen interface, copper is used by phagocytic cells to kill invading microorganisms. We investigated copper homeostasis in Bordetella pertussis, which lives in the human respiratory mucosa and has no environmental reservoir. B. pertussis has considerably streamlined copper homeostasis mechanisms relative to other Gram-negative bacteria. Its single remaining defense line consists of a metallochaperone diverted for copper passivation, CopZ, and two peroxide detoxification enzymes, PrxGrx and GorB, which together fight stresses encountered in phagocytic cells. Those proteins are encoded by an original, composite operon assembled in an environmental ancestor, which is under sensitive control by copper. This system appears to contribute to persistent infection in the nasal cavity of B. pertussis-infected mice. Combining responses to co-occurring stresses in a tailored operon reveals a strategy adopted by a host-restricted pathogen to optimize survival at minimal energy expenditure.
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- Alex Rivera-Millot
- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.410463.40000 0004 0471 8845Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, US 41 - UMS 2014 - PLBS, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8516 – LASIRE – Laboratoire de Spectroscopie pour les Interactions, la Réactivité et l’Environnement, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8516 – LASIRE – Laboratoire de Spectroscopie pour les Interactions, la Réactivité et l’Environnement, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.410463.40000 0004 0471 8845Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, US 41 - UMS 2014 - PLBS, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France ,grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Bio Imaging Center Lille platform (BICeL), Univ. Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- grid.463727.30000 0004 0386 3856Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 9017-CIIL-Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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Antoine R, Rivera-Millot A, Roy G, Jacob-Dubuisson F. Relationships Between Copper-Related Proteomes and Lifestyles in β Proteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2217. [PMID: 31608037 PMCID: PMC6769254 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Copper is an essential transition metal whose redox properties are used for a variety of enzymatic oxido-reductions and in electron transfer chains. It is also toxic to living beings, and therefore its cellular concentration must be strictly controlled. We have performed in silico analyses of the predicted proteomes of more than one hundred species of β proteobacteria to characterize their copper-related proteomes, including cuproproteins, i.e., proteins with active-site copper ions, copper chaperones, and copper-homeostasis systems. Copper-related proteomes represent between 0 and 1.48% of the total proteomes of β proteobacteria. The numbers of cuproproteins are globally proportional to the proteome sizes in all phylogenetic groups and strongly linked to aerobic respiration. In contrast, environmental bacteria have considerably larger proportions of copper-homeostasis systems than the other groups of bacteria, irrespective of their proteome sizes. Evolution toward commensalism, obligate, host-restricted pathogenesis or symbiosis is globally reflected in the loss of copper-homeostasis systems. In endosymbionts, defense systems and copper chaperones have disappeared, whereas residual cuproenzymes are electron transfer proteins for aerobic respiration. Lifestyle is thus a major determinant of the size and composition of the copper-related proteome, and it is particularly reflected in systems involved in copper homeostasis. Analyses of the copper-related proteomes of a number of species belonging to the Burkholderia, Bordetella, and Neisseria genera indicates that commensals are in the process of shedding their copper-homeostasis systems and chaperones to greater extents yet than pathogens.
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- Rudy Antoine
- Université de Lille, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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Rivera-Millot A, Lesne E, Solans L, Coutte L, Bertrand-Michel J, Froguel P, Dhennin V, Hot D, Locht C, Antoine R, Jacob-Dubuisson F. Characterization of a Bvg-regulated fatty acid methyl-transferase in Bordetella pertussis. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176396. [PMID: 28493897 PMCID: PMC5426589 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The whooping cough agent Bordetella pertussis controls the expression of its large virulence regulon in a coordinated manner through the two-component signal transduction system BvgAS. In addition to the genes coding for bona fide virulence factors, the Bvg regulon comprises genes of unknown function. In this work, we characterized a new Bvg-activated gene called BP2936. Homologs of BP2936 are found in other pathogenic Bordetellae and in several other species, including plant pathogens and environmental bacteria. We showed that the gene product of BP2936 is a membrane-associated methyl-transferase of free fatty acids. We thus propose to name it FmtB, for fatty acid methyl-transferase of Bordetella. The role of this protein was tested in cellular and animal models of infection, but the loss of BP2936 did not appear to affect host-pathogen interactions in those assays. The high level of conservation of BP2936 among B. pertussis isolates nevertheless argues that it probably plays a role in the life cycle of this pathogen.
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- Alex Rivera-Millot
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019- UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France
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