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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 16
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-8-17
pubmed:abstractText
Type-IV-pilus-mediated adhesion of Neisseria meningitidis (also known as meningococcus) to human endothelial cells induces the formation of membrane protrusions leading to bacterial uptake. We have previously shown that these protrusions result from a Rho- and Cdc42-dependent cortical actin polymerization, and from the activation of the ErbB2 tyrosine-kinase receptor and the Src kinase, leading to tyrosine phosphorylation of cortactin. We report here that N. meningitidis mutants expressing a deglycosylated lipo-oligosaccharide are poorly invasive. These mutants show structurally altered actin polymerization. Moreover, although they efficiently recruit and activate ErbB2 and Src, these mutants are defective in the recruitment and phosphorylation of cortactin. We demonstrate that phosphorylated cortactin controls the cortical actin polymerization, which leads to membrane protrusion formation. In addition, we show that cortactin recruitment is dependent on the activation of a phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Rac1-GTPase signalling pathway, which is required for actin polymerization and internalization of N. meningitidis, and is not activated by the mutant strains. Altogether, these results define a new role for the lipo-oligosaccharide in triggering a phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Rac1 signalling required to elicit an efficient uptake of N. meningitidis in non-phagocytic cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0021-9533
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
118
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3805-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Actin Cytoskeleton, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Actins, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Cell Communication, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Cell Surface Extensions, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Lipopolysaccharides, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Neisseria meningitidis, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Phagocytosis, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Receptor, erbB-2, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-rac1 GTP-Binding Protein, pubmed-meshheading:16076899-src-Family Kinases
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Invasion of endothelial cells by Neisseria meningitidis requires cortactin recruitment by a phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Rac1 signalling pathway triggered by the lipo-oligosaccharide.
pubmed:affiliation
Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut Cochin, INSERM U567, CNRS UMR8104, Université Paris 5 - René Descartes, 22 rue Méchain, 75014 Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't