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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-10-14
pubmed:abstractText
The intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila activates the transcription factor NF-kappaB in macrophages and human epithelial cells, contributing to cytokine production and anti-apoptosis. The former is important for the innate immune response to infection, the latter for intracellular replication by securing host cell survival. Here, we demonstrate biphasic activation of NF-kappaB by L. pneumophila in human epithelial cells, using a p65-GFP expressing variant of A549 cells. Early in infection, a strong but transient nuclear translocation of p65 was observed. Only flagellin-deficient (DeltafliA and DeltaflaA) mutants could not induce this first, TLR5 and MyD88-dependent activation. The second p65 translocation event, however, is a long-term activation, independent of flagellin, TLR5 and MyD88, and marked by permanent nuclear localization of p65-GFP without oscillation for 30 h. Persistent p65 translocation also involved degradation of IkappaBalpha and upregulation of anti-apoptotic genes. L. pneumophila mutants lacking a functional Dot/Icm secretion system (DeltadotA; DeltaicmB/dotO), Dot/Icm effectors (DeltasdbA; DeltalubX) and two bacterial effector mutants (DeltaenhC; DeltaptsP) could not induce persistent p65 translocation. Strikingly, all these mutants were deficient in intracellular replication in A549 cells. Our data underline the strong connection between NF-kappaB activation and intracellular replication and hints at an active interference of NF-kappaB signalling by L. pneumophila.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Flagellin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/I-kappa B Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Glycoproteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/NF-kappa B, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/NF-kappaB inhibitor alpha, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Interleukin-1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TIRAP protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TLR5 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Toll-Like Receptor 5, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factor RelA, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Virulence Factors
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1462-5822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1638-51
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Temporal resolution of two-tracked NF-kappaB activation by Legionella pneumophila.
pubmed:affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't