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Article Dans Une Revue Virulence Année : 2017

Peripheral blood vessels are a niche for blood-borne meningococci

Elena Capel
Daniel Euphrasie
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Thomas Rattei
Sandrine Bourdoulous
Mathieu Coureuil

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Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis and that of a rapidly progressing fatal septic shock known as purpura fulminans. Meningococcemia is characterized by bacterial adhesion to human endothelial cells of the microvessels. Host specificity has hampered studies on the role of blood vessels colonization in N. meningitidis associated pathogenesis. In this work, using a humanized model of SCID mice allowing the study of bacterial adhesion to human cells in an in vivo context we demonstrate that meningococcal colonization of human blood vessels is a prerequisite to the establishment of sepsis and lethality. To identify the molecular pathways involved in bacterial virulence, we performed transposon insertion site sequencing (Tn-seq) in vivo. Our results demonstrate that 36% of the genes that are important for growth in the blood of mice are dispensable when bacteria colonize human blood vessels, suggesting that human endothelial cells lining the blood vessels are feeding niches for N. meningitidis in vivo. Altogether, our work proposes a new paradigm for meningococcal virulence in which colonization of blood vessels is associated with metabolic adaptation and sustained bacteremia responsible for sepsis and subsequent lethality.
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hal-03552880 , version 1 (02-02-2022)

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Elena Capel, Jean-Philippe Barnier, Aldert L Zomer, Christine Bole-Feysot, Thomas Nussbaumer, et al.. Peripheral blood vessels are a niche for blood-borne meningococci. Virulence, 2017, 8 (8), pp.1808 - 1819. ⟨10.1080/21505594.2017.1391446⟩. ⟨hal-03552880⟩
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