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Imaging Ca2+ Responses During Shigella Infection of Epithelial Cells
Published on: May 24, 2018
Shigella effector IpaB-induced cholesterol relocation disrupts the Golgi complex and recycling network to inhibit
Joëlle Mounier1, Gaëlle Boncompain, Lidija Senerovic
1Institut Pasteur, Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Abstract:
Shigella infection causes destruction of the human colonic epithelial barrier. The Golgi network and recycling endosomes are essential for maintaining epithelial barrier function. Here we show that Shigella epithelial invasion induces fragmentation of the Golgi complex with consequent inhibition of both secretion and retrograde transport in the infected host cell. Shigella induces tubulation of the Rab11-positive compartment, thereby affecting cell surface receptor recycling. The molecular process underlying the observed damage to the Golgi complex and receptor recycling is a massive redistribution of plasma membrane cholesterol to the sites of Shigella entry. IpaB, a virulence factor of Shigella that is known to bind cholesterol, is necessary and sufficient to induce Golgi fragmentation and reorganization of the recycling compartment. Shigella infection-induced Golgi disorganization was also observed in vivo, suggesting that this mechanism affecting the sorting of cell surface molecules likely contributes to host epithelial barrier disruption associated with Shigella pathogenesis.
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