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バクテリアはインテグリン結合キナーゼをハイジャックし,焦点結合を安定させ,細胞の脱離を阻害する
Minsoo Kim1, Michinaga Ogawa, Yukihiro Fujita
1Department of Infectious Disease Control, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
Nature
|June 3, 2009
まとめ
シゲッラ菌は OspE タンパク質を使用して宿主細胞の粘着性を高め,感染中に上皮細胞の脱離を防止します. インテグリン結合キナーゼ (ILK) とのこの相互作用は,細菌が感染性の足場を維持するのを助けます.
科学分野:
- 微生物学 微生物学とは
- 細胞生物学 細胞生物学
- 感染症 感染症は感染症です.
背景:
- 粘膜の上皮細胞は,細菌感染を防ぐために自然に脱落します.
- Shigellaのような病原性細菌は,この防御を克服して上皮を植民地化することができます.
- 宿主細胞粘着のための細菌の戦略を理解することは,感染症と戦うために非常に重要です.
研究 の 目的:
- Shigella flexneri エフェクター OspE が細菌のコロニー化を促進するメカニズムを調査する.
- 細菌の粘着と生存における OspE と宿主細胞タンパク質インテグリン結合キナーゼ (ILK) の相互作用の役割を明らかにする.
主な方法:
- Shigella flexneri OspEと宿主インテグリン結合キナーゼ (ILK) の相互作用を調査しました.
- 焦点粘着の変化,インテグリンレベル,焦点粘着キナーゼとパキシリンのリン酸化を分析した.
- 焦点粘着分解を評価するためにノコダゾール-洗浄測定法を使用しました.
- 野生型のシゲッラ菌と ospE変異体に感染したポラライズされた上皮細胞の細胞脱落を比較した.
- 感染した豚の腸にシゲラ菌を投与し,OspE-ILKの相互作用のインビヴォの役割を評価する.
主要な成果:
- Shigella OspEは宿主ILKと結合し,焦点結合と膜結合ILKを増加させます.
- OspE-ILKの相互作用は,細胞表面1インテグリンを上昇させ,焦点粘着回転を減少させます.
- OspEは,ノコダゾール洗浄誘発の焦点粘着分解をブロックする.
- Shigella ospE変異体は,野生型と比較して,上皮細胞の脱離が増加している.
- In vivoでは,OspE-ILKの相互作用により,上皮の脱離が抑制され,細菌の拡散が促進され,コロニー化が促進されます.
結論:
- Shigellaは,OspEエフェクターを使用してILKを結合し,宿主細胞の結合を強化し,上皮細胞の脱離を防止します.
- このメカニズムは,シゲラ菌が安定した感染的足場を維持し,コロニー化を促進することを可能にします.
- OspE-ILKの相互作用は,宿主の防御を抑制するShigellaの重要な毒性の要因です.
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