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Infect. Immun., Dec 1997, 5137-5141, Vol 65, No. 12
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Internalin B promotes the replication of Listeria monocytogenes in mouse hepatocytes

SH Gregory, AJ Sagnimeni and EJ Wing
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA.

The uptake of Listeria monocytogenes by a variety of cell types in vitro is facilitated by the protein products of the inlAB (internalin) operon expressed by the organism. In the case of mouse hepatocytes, the extent to which inlAB expression influenced the uptake of Listeria in vitro was markedly dependent upon the ratio of bacteria to cells. At a ratio of 100:1, greater than 40-fold fewer transposon-induced inl4B mutant listeriae entered hepatocytes compared to the isogenic wild-type control; the difference was only fourfold, however, in cultures inoculated at a 1:1 ratio. Similarly, the uptake of in-frame inlB or inlAB deletion mutants differed only fourfold from the uptake of wild- type or inlA mutant Listeria at a 1:1 multiplicity of infection. Mutations affecting inlB or inlAB, on the other hand, resulted in a marked decrease in the capacity of Listeria to proliferate within mouse hepatocytes in vivo and in vitro. Electron micrographs of Listeria- infected hepatocytes demonstrated the impaired capacity of inlB mutants to escape from endocytic vacuoles and to enter the cytoplasm where proliferation occurs. These findings indicate that the protein product of inlB exerts a significant effect on the intracellular replication of Listeria.

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