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Correlation between HPV PCNA, p16, and p21 Expression in Lung Cancer Patients 肺癌患者HPV PCNA、p16和p21表达的相关性
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1155/2022/9144334
B. Marcos, T. H. A. de Oliveira, C. M. D. do Amaral, M. T. Muniz, A. C. Freitas
{"title":"Correlation between HPV PCNA, p16, and p21 Expression in Lung Cancer Patients","authors":"B. Marcos, T. H. A. de Oliveira, C. M. D. do Amaral, M. T. Muniz, A. C. Freitas","doi":"10.1155/2022/9144334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9144334","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. Evaluate if human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in lung cancer patients might be helping cancer development by altering p16, p21, and PCNA, key human genes involved in cell proliferation and tumor development. Methods. 63 fresh-frozen (FF) and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples from lung tumor patients were used to detect HPV by PCR, followed by genotype through sequencing. The host gene expressions of p21, p16, and PCNA were quantified by qPCR in both FF and FFPE samples, and the expression of viral oncogenes E5, E6, and E7 was also measured by qPCR in 19 FF samples. Results. 74.6% of samples were positive for HPV, 33/44 FFPE samples and 14/19 FF samples. HPV-16 and HPV-18 were detected in 31/33 and 7/33 FFPE, respectively, and HPV-16 was the only type in FF samples. E5, E6, and E7 were expressed in 10/19, 2/19, and 4/19 FF samples, respectively. The p16 RNAm expression was higher in FF HPV+ samples and FFPE+FF HPV+ samples, while p21 showed higher expression in all HPV- samples. In turn, the PCNA expression was higher in HPV+ FF samples; however, in FFPE and FFPE+FF samples, PCNA was higher in HPV- samples. In FF samples, PCNA, p16, and p21 showed a significant positive correlation as well as E5 and E7, and E5 was inversely correlated to p21. In FFPE, also, a positive correlation was observed between PCNA HPV+ and p21 HPV+ and PCNA HPV+ and p16 HPV. In FF+FFPE analysis, a direct correlation was found between PCNA HPV+ and p21 HPV+, p21 HPV+ and p16 HPV+, and PCNA HPV- and p16 HPV-, and an inverse correlation between PCNA HPV+ and p16 HPV+. Also, the p16 protein was positive in 10 HPV+ samples and 1 HPV-. Conclusions. Our data show that lung cancer patients from Northeast Brazil have a high prevalence of HPV, and the virus also expresses its oncogenes and correlates with key human genes involved in tumor development. This data could instigate the development of studies focused on preventive strategies, such as vaccination, used as a prognostic indicator and/or individualized therapy.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45554052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
lncRNA MANCR Inhibits NK Cell Killing Effect on Lung Adenocarcinoma by Targeting miRNA-30d-5p lncRNA MANCR通过靶向miRNA-30d-5p抑制NK细胞对肺腺癌的杀伤作用
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1155/2022/4928635
Yunping Lu, Xiao Rao, W. Zheng, Yinggan Du, Jianbo Xue, Kan Huang
{"title":"lncRNA MANCR Inhibits NK Cell Killing Effect on Lung Adenocarcinoma by Targeting miRNA-30d-5p","authors":"Yunping Lu, Xiao Rao, W. Zheng, Yinggan Du, Jianbo Xue, Kan Huang","doi":"10.1155/2022/4928635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4928635","url":null,"abstract":"Background. NK cells are imperative in spontaneous antitumor response of various cancers. Currently, lncRNAs are considered important modulators of the tumor microenvironment. This study investigated the molecular mechanism by which mitotically associated long noncoding RNA (MANCR) controls killing effect of NK cells on lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) in the tumor microenvironment. Methods. The interplay between MANCR and miRNA-30d-5p was analyzed by bioinformatics. Expression of MANCR mRNA and miRNA-30d-5p was examined using qRT-PCR. Dual-luciferase reporter and RIP assays were utilized to verify the targeted relationship between MANCR and miRNA-30d-5p. To investigate regulation of MANCR/miRNA-30d-5p axis in NK cell killing effect on LUAD cells, western blot tested the protein level of perforin and granzyme B. ELISA determined the level of IFN-γ. CytoTox 96 Non-Radioactive Cytotoxicity Assay kit was applied for cytotoxicity detection of NK cells. Perforin and granzyme B fluorescence intensity was measured via immunofluorescence, and cell apoptosis levels were also revealed via flow cytometry. Results. MANCR was found to be upregulated, while miRNA-30d-5p expression was downregulated in LUAD tissues. Overexpression of MANCR in LUAD cells significantly reduced NK cell IFN-γ secretion, expression of granzyme B and perforin, and NK cell killing effect. In addition, MANCR could target and downregulate miRNA-30d-5p expression, and miRNA-30d-5p overexpression reversed the inhibition of NK cell killing effect caused by MANCR overexpression. Conclusion. MANCR inhibited the killing effect of NK cells on LUAD via targeting and downregulating miRNA-30d-5p and provided new ideas for antitumor therapy based on tumor microenvironment.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46310364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
A Live Cell Imaging Microfluidic Model for Studying Extravasation of Bloodborne Bacterial Pathogens 研究血源性细菌病原体外渗的活细胞成像微流控模型
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI: 10.1155/2022/3130361
Michele d. Bergevin, Anna E. Boczula, L. Caruso, H. Persson, C. Simmons, T. Moriarty
{"title":"A Live Cell Imaging Microfluidic Model for Studying Extravasation of Bloodborne Bacterial Pathogens","authors":"Michele d. Bergevin, Anna E. Boczula, L. Caruso, H. Persson, C. Simmons, T. Moriarty","doi":"10.1155/2022/3130361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3130361","url":null,"abstract":"Bacteria that migrate (extravasate) out of the bloodstream during vascular dissemination can cause secondary infections in many tissues and organs, including the brain, heart, liver, joints, and bone with clinically serious and sometimes fatal outcomes. The mechanisms by which bacteria extravasate through endothelial barriers in the face of blood flow-induced shear stress are poorly understood, in part because individual bacteria are rarely observed traversing endothelia in vivo, and in vitro model systems inadequately mimic the vascular environment. To enable the study of bacterial extravasation mechanisms, we developed a transmembrane microfluidics device mimicking human blood vessels. Fast, quantitative, three-dimensional live cell imaging in this system permitted single-cell resolution measurement of the Lyme disease bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi transmigrating through monolayers of primary human endothelial cells under physiological shear stress. This cost-effective, flexible method was 10,000 times more sensitive than conventional plate reader-based methods for measuring transendothelial migration. Validation studies confirmed that B. burgdorferi transmigrate actively and strikingly do so at similar rates under static and physiological flow conditions. This method has significant potential for future studies of B. burgdorferi extravasation mechanisms, as well as the transendothelial migration mechanisms of other disseminating bloodborne pathogens.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48364263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Dynamics of DNA Replication during Male Gametogenesis in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum 恶性疟原虫雄性配子体发生过程中DNA复制的动态
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-08-29 DOI: 10.1155/2022/2701868
Holly Matthews, Jennifer McDonald, Francis Isidore G. Totañes, Catherine J. Merrick
{"title":"Dynamics of DNA Replication during Male Gametogenesis in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum","authors":"Holly Matthews, Jennifer McDonald, Francis Isidore G. Totañes, Catherine J. Merrick","doi":"10.1155/2022/2701868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2701868","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria parasites undergo a single phase of sexual reproduction in their complex lifecycle. It involves specialised, sexually committed cells called gametocytes, which develop rapidly into mature gametes and mate upon entering the mosquito midgut. Gamete development is unique, involving unprecedentedly fast replication to produce male gametes. Within ~15 minutes a male gametocyte replicates its ~23 Mb genome three times to produce 8 genomes, segregates these into newly-assembled flagellated gametes and releases them to seek female gametes. Here, for the first time, we use fluorescent labelling of <i>de novo</i> DNA synthesis to follow this process at the whole-cell and single-molecule levels. We make several novel observations, including characterising the origin recognition complex protein Orc1 for the first time in gametocytes, finding that cytokinesis is uncoupled from DNA replication (implying a lack of cell cycle checkpoints), and that the single-molecule dynamics of DNA replication are entirely different from the dynamics in asexual schizogony.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Molecular Modeling Guided Drug Designing for the Therapeutic Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis 分子模型指导类风湿性关节炎治疗药物设计
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-08-27 DOI: 10.1155/2022/7360782
Maheen Imran, Muhammad Hassan Nasir, S. A. Attique, A. Baig, Q. Ain, Muhammad Usman, Muzna Munir, H. Rathore
{"title":"Molecular Modeling Guided Drug Designing for the Therapeutic Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis","authors":"Maheen Imran, Muhammad Hassan Nasir, S. A. Attique, A. Baig, Q. Ain, Muhammad Usman, Muzna Munir, H. Rathore","doi":"10.1155/2022/7360782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7360782","url":null,"abstract":"Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disorder that can cause destructive joint disease, significant disability, and increased mortality. RA is the most frequent of all chronic inflammatory joint diseases, and its prevalence frequency in Pakistan is 1.6 per thousand people. Different cytokines and receptors were involved in the triggering of RA, including interleukin-6 (ILR-6), major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen human leukocyte (HLA-DR) receptor, and CD20. Several studies illustrated RA as an inherent immune response and triggered due to the “shared epitope.” Therefore, the involvement of all these receptors (IL-6, HLA-DR, and CD20) leads to the neurological, ocular, respiratory, cardiac, skin, and hematological manifestations that have been considered a potential therapeutic target for drug design. Various herbal, natural, and synthetic source inhibitors of interleukin-6 (IL-6), human leukocyte (HLA-DR), and CD20 were studied and reported previously. Reported inhibitors are compared to elucidate the best inhibitor for clinical trials, leading to the orally active drug. In this study, a computer-aided drug designing approach disclosed the potential inhibitors for all receptors based on their distinct binding affinity. Moreover, drug suitability was carried out using Lipinski’s rule by considering the adsorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of ligands. Results elucidated “calycosin 7-O-glucoside” and “angeliferulate” as putative ligands for IL-6 and HLA-DR, respectively. However, the pharmacokinetic properties (ADMET) revealed angeliferulate as an effete ligand for the biological system compared to calycosin 7-O-glucoside. Based on docking, drug toxicity profiling or pharmacokinetics, and MD simulation stability, this study highlights orally active therapeutic inhibitors to inhibit the activity of pivotal receptors (IL6, HLA-DR, and CD20) of RA in humans. After clinical trials, the resultant inhibitors could be potential therapeutic agents in the drug development against RA.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45537841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
A Model of Intracellular Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Airway Epithelial Cells 铜绿假单胞菌在气道上皮细胞中持续存在的模型
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5431666
Julien K. Malet, L. Hennemann, Elizabeth M.-L. Hua, E. Faure, V. Waters, S. Rousseau, Dao Nguyen
{"title":"A Model of Intracellular Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Airway Epithelial Cells","authors":"Julien K. Malet, L. Hennemann, Elizabeth M.-L. Hua, E. Faure, V. Waters, S. Rousseau, Dao Nguyen","doi":"10.1155/2022/5431666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5431666","url":null,"abstract":"Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.a.) is a major human pathogen capable of causing chronic infections in hosts with weakened barrier functions and host defenses, most notably airway infections commonly observed in individuals with the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis (CF). While mainly described as an extracellular pathogen, previous in vitro studies have described the molecular events leading to P.a. internalization in diverse epithelial cell types. However, the long-term fate of intracellular P.a. remains largely unknown. Here, we developed a model allowing for a better understanding of long-term (up to 120 h) intracellular bacterial survival in the airway epithelial cell line BEAS-2B. Using a tobramycin protection assay, we characterized the internalization, long-term intracellular survival, and cytotoxicity of the lab strain PAO1, as well as clinical CF isolates, and conducted analyses at the single-cell level using confocal microscopy and flow cytometry techniques. We observed that infection at low multiplicity of infection allows for intracellular survival up to 120 h post-infection without causing significant host cytotoxicity. Finally, infection with clinical isolates revealed significant strain-to-strain heterogeneity in intracellular survival, including a high persistence phenotype associated with bacterial replication within host cells. Future studies using this model will further elucidate the host and bacterial mechanisms that promote P. aeruginosa intracellular persistence in airway epithelial cells, a potentially unrecognized bacterial reservoir during chronic infections.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46567110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Interplay of Innate Immunity and Inflammation “好,坏,丑”:先天免疫和炎症的相互作用
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.1155/2022/2759513
M. Alemán
{"title":"“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Interplay of Innate Immunity and Inflammation","authors":"M. Alemán","doi":"10.1155/2022/2759513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2759513","url":null,"abstract":"Innate immunity recognizes microorganisms through certain invariant receptors named pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) by sensing conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Their recognition activates several signaling pathways that lead the transcription of inflammatory mediators, contributing to trigger a very rapid inflammatory cascade aiming to contain the local infection as well as activating and instructing the adaptive immunity in a specific and synchronized immune response according to the microorganism. Inflammation is a coordinated process involving the secretion of cytokines and chemokines by macrophages and neutrophils leading to the migration of other leukocytes along the endothelium into the injured tissue. Sustained inflammatory responses can cause deleterious effects by promoting the development of autoimmune disorders, allergies, cancer, and other immune pathologies, while weak signals could exacerbate the severity of the disease. Therefore, PRR-mediated signal transduction must be tightly regulated to maintain host immune homeostasis. Innate immunity deficiencies and strategies deployed by microbes to avoid inflammatory responses lead to an altered immune response that allows the pathogen to proliferate causing death or uncontrolled inflammation. This review analyzes the complexity of the immune response at the beginning of the disease focusing on COVID-19 disease and the importance of unraveling its mechanisms to be considered when treating diseases and designing vaccines.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46334297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
ApiAP2 Gene-Network Regulates Gametocytogenesis in Plasmodium Parasites ApiAP2基因网络调控疟原虫配子体细胞发生
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5796578
Elvis Quansah, F. Pappoe, Jilong Shen, Miao Liu, Shijie Yang, Li Yu, Chao Zhang
{"title":"ApiAP2 Gene-Network Regulates Gametocytogenesis in Plasmodium Parasites","authors":"Elvis Quansah, F. Pappoe, Jilong Shen, Miao Liu, Shijie Yang, Li Yu, Chao Zhang","doi":"10.1155/2022/5796578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5796578","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease, caused by unicellular Apicomplexan protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. The sexual stage of Plasmodium is one of the most fascinating aspects of the Plasmodium life cycle, yet relatively less explored until now. The production of sexually fit gametocytes through gametocytogenesis is essential to the transmission of the Plasmodium parasite into an anopheline mosquito vector. Understanding how gametocytogenesis is regulated promotes the identification of novel drug targets and also the development of transmission-blocking vaccines that would help reduce the disease burden in endemic areas. Transcriptional regulation in Plasmodium parasites is primarily controlled by a family of twenty-seven Apicomplexan Apetela 2 (ApiAP2) genes which act in a cascade to enable the parasite to progress through its asexual replication as well as gametocytogenesis. Here, we review the latest progress made on members of the ApiAP2 family characterized as key players of the transcriptional machinery of gametocytes. Further, we will highlight the transcriptional regulation network of ApiAP2 genes at each stage of gametocytogenesis.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44685711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Study on Analysis of Several Molecular Identification Methods for Ciliates of Colpodea (Protista, Ciliophora) 鞘翅目纤毛虫几种分子鉴定方法的分析研究
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI: 10.1155/2022/4017442
Yumeng Song, Tingting Hao, Bailin Li, Weibin Zheng, Lihui Liu, Li Wang, Ying Chen, Xuming Pan
{"title":"Study on Analysis of Several Molecular Identification Methods for Ciliates of Colpodea (Protista, Ciliophora)","authors":"Yumeng Song, Tingting Hao, Bailin Li, Weibin Zheng, Lihui Liu, Li Wang, Ying Chen, Xuming Pan","doi":"10.1155/2022/4017442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4017442","url":null,"abstract":"The application of molecular techniques to accurately identify protozoan species can correct previous misidentifications based on traditional morphological identification. Colpodea ciliates have many toxicological and cytological applications, but their subtle morphological differences and small body size hinder species delineation. Herein, we used Cox I and β-tubulin genes, alongside fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), to evaluate each method in delineating Colpodea species. For this analysis, Colpoda harbinensis n. sp., C. reniformis, two populations of C. inflata, Colpoda compare grandis, and five populations of Paracolpoda steinii, from the soil in northeastern China, were used. We determined that (1) the Cox I gene was more suitable than the β-tubulin gene as a molecular marker for defining intra- and interspecific level relationships of Colpoda. (2) FISH probes designed for Colpoda sp., C. inflata, Colpoda compare grandis, and Paracolpoda steinii, provided rapid interspecific differentiation of Colpodea species. (3) Colpoda harbinensis n. sp. was established and mainly characterized by its size in vivo (approximately \u0000 \u0000 80\u0000 ×\u0000 60\u0000  \u0000 μ\u0000 m\u0000 \u0000 ), a reniform body in outline, one macronucleus, its spherical shape, a sometimes nonexistent micronucleus, 11–15 somatic kineties, and five or six postoral kineties. In conclusion, combining oligonucleotide probes, DNA barcoding, and morphology for the first time, we have greatly improved the delineation of Colpodea and confirmed that Cox I gene was a promising DNA barcoding marker for species of Colpodea, and FISH could provide useful morphological information as complementing traditional techniques such as silver carbonate.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44784346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Phagosomal Acidification Is Required to Kill Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Zebrafish Model 斑马鱼模型中需要噬菌体酸化才能杀死肺炎链球菌
IF 3.4 2区 生物学
Cellular Microbiology Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.1155/2022/9429516
Tomasz K. Prajsnar, B. Michno, N. Pooranachandran, A. Fenton, T. J. Mitchell, D. Dockrell, S. Renshaw
{"title":"Phagosomal Acidification Is Required to Kill Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Zebrafish Model","authors":"Tomasz K. Prajsnar, B. Michno, N. Pooranachandran, A. Fenton, T. J. Mitchell, D. Dockrell, S. Renshaw","doi":"10.1155/2022/9429516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9429516","url":null,"abstract":"Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a major human pathogen causing invasive disease, including community-acquired bacteraemia, and remains a leading cause of global mortality. Understanding the role of phagocytes in killing bacteria is still limited, especially in vivo. In this study, we established a zebrafish model to study the interaction between intravenously administered pneumococci and professional phagocytes such as macrophages and neutrophils, to unravel bacterial killing mechanisms employed by these immune cells. Our model confirmed the key role of polysaccharide capsule in promoting pneumococcal virulence through inhibition of phagocytosis. Conversely, we show pneumococci lacking a capsule are rapidly internalised by macrophages. Low doses of encapsulated S. pneumoniae cause near 100% mortality within 48 hours postinfection (hpi), while 50 times higher doses of unencapsulated pneumococci are easily cleared. Time course analysis of in vivo bacterial numbers reveals that while encapsulated pneumococcus proliferates to levels exceeding 105 CFU at the time of host death, unencapsulated bacteria are unable to grow and are cleared within 20 hpi. Using genetically induced macrophage depletion, we confirmed an essential role for macrophages in bacterial clearance. Additionally, we show that upon phagocytosis by macrophages, phagosomes undergo rapid acidification. Genetic and chemical inhibition of vacuolar ATPase (v-ATPase) prevents intracellular bacterial killing and induces host death indicating a key role of phagosomal acidification in immunity to invading pneumococci. We also show that our model can be used to study the efficacy of antimicrobials against pneumococci in vivo. Collectively, our data confirm that larval zebrafish can be used to dissect killing mechanisms during pneumococcal infection in vivo and highlight key roles for phagosomal acidification in macrophages for pathogen clearance.","PeriodicalId":9844,"journal":{"name":"Cellular Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42182478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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