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Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a Gram-negative obligate human pathogenic bacterium, infects human epithelial cells and causes sexually transmitted diseases. Emerging multi-antibiotic resistant gonococci and increasing numbers of infections complicate the treatment of infected patients. Here, we used an shRN...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7499807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00422 |
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author | Yang, Tao Heydarian, Motaharehsadat Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera Urban, Manuela Harbottle, Richard P. Rudel, Thomas |
author_facet | Yang, Tao Heydarian, Motaharehsadat Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera Urban, Manuela Harbottle, Richard P. Rudel, Thomas |
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description | Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a Gram-negative obligate human pathogenic bacterium, infects human epithelial cells and causes sexually transmitted diseases. Emerging multi-antibiotic resistant gonococci and increasing numbers of infections complicate the treatment of infected patients. Here, we used an shRNA library screen and next-generation sequencing to identify factors involved in epithelial cell infection. Folliculin (FLCN), a 64 kDa protein with a tumor repressor function was identified as a novel host factor important for N. gonorrhoeae survival after uptake. We further determined that FLCN did not affect N. gonorrhoeae adherence and invasion but was essential for its survival in the cells by modulating autophagy. In addition, FLCN was also required to maintain cell to cell contacts in the epithelial layer. In an infection model with polarized cells, FLCN inhibited the polarized localization of E-cadherin and the transcytosis of gonococci across polarized epithelial cells. In conclusion, we demonstrate here the connection between FLCN and bacterial infection and in particular the role of FLCN in the intracellular survival and transcytosis of gonococci across polarized epithelial cell layers. |
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spelling | pubmed-74998072020-10-02 Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Yang, Tao Heydarian, Motaharehsadat Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera Urban, Manuela Harbottle, Richard P. Rudel, Thomas Front Cell Infect Microbiol Cellular and Infection Microbiology Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a Gram-negative obligate human pathogenic bacterium, infects human epithelial cells and causes sexually transmitted diseases. Emerging multi-antibiotic resistant gonococci and increasing numbers of infections complicate the treatment of infected patients. Here, we used an shRNA library screen and next-generation sequencing to identify factors involved in epithelial cell infection. Folliculin (FLCN), a 64 kDa protein with a tumor repressor function was identified as a novel host factor important for N. gonorrhoeae survival after uptake. We further determined that FLCN did not affect N. gonorrhoeae adherence and invasion but was essential for its survival in the cells by modulating autophagy. In addition, FLCN was also required to maintain cell to cell contacts in the epithelial layer. In an infection model with polarized cells, FLCN inhibited the polarized localization of E-cadherin and the transcytosis of gonococci across polarized epithelial cells. In conclusion, we demonstrate here the connection between FLCN and bacterial infection and in particular the role of FLCN in the intracellular survival and transcytosis of gonococci across polarized epithelial cell layers. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7499807/ /pubmed/33014885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00422 Text en Copyright © 2020 Yang, Heydarian, Kozjak-Pavlovic, Urban, Harbottle and Rudel. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Cellular and Infection Microbiology Yang, Tao Heydarian, Motaharehsadat Kozjak-Pavlovic, Vera Urban, Manuela Harbottle, Richard P. Rudel, Thomas Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title | Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title_full | Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title_fullStr | Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title_full_unstemmed | Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title_short | Folliculin Controls the Intracellular Survival and Trans-Epithelial Passage of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
title_sort | folliculin controls the intracellular survival and trans-epithelial passage of neisseria gonorrhoeae |
topic | Cellular and Infection Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7499807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00422 |
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