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Article Dans Une Revue Cellular Microbiology Année : 2005

Intracellular trafficking of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.

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Parachlamydia acanthamoebae is an obligate intracellular bacterium that naturally infects free-living amoebae. It is a potential agent of pneumonia that resists destruction by human macrophages. However, the strategy used by this Chlamydia-like organism in order to resist to macrophage destruction is unknown. We analysed the intracellular trafficking of P. acanthamoebae within monocyte-derived macrophages. Infected cells were immunolabelled for the bacteria and for various intracellular compartments by using specific antibodies. We analysed the bacteria colocalization with the different subcellular compartments by using epifluorescence and confocal microscopy. Bacterial replication took place 4-6 h post infection within acidic vacuoles. At that time, P. acanthamoebae colocalized with Lamp-1, a membrane marker of late endosomal and lysosomal compartments. A transient accumulation of EEA1 15 min post infection, and of rab7 and the mannose 6-phosphate receptor 30 min post infection confirmed that P. acanthamoebae traffic through the endocytic pathway. The acquisition of Lamp-1 was not different after infection with living and heat-inactivated bacteria. However, 24.5% and 79.5% of living and heat-inactivated P. acanthamoebae, respectively, colocalized with the vacuolar proton ATPase. Moreover, P. acanthamoebae did not colocalized with cathepsin D, a lysosomal hydrolase, suggesting that P. acanthamoebae interferes with maturation of its vacuole. Thus, P. acanthamoebae survives to destruction by human macrophages probably by controlling the vacuole biogenesis.

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Immunologie

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hal-00165705 , version 1 (27-07-2007)

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Gilbert Greub, Jean-Louis Mege, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Didier Raoult, Stéphane Méresse. Intracellular trafficking of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae.. Cellular Microbiology, 2005, 7 (4), pp.581-9. ⟨10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00488.x⟩. ⟨hal-00165705⟩

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