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Infection and Immunity, December 1998, p. 5711-5724, Vol. 66, No. 12
Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de
Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France1;
Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia2;
Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland3; and
Departmento de
Microbiologia, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona,
Spain4
Received 5 June 1998/Returned for modification 17 August
1998/Accepted 1 September 1998
Brucella abortus is an intracellular pathogen that
replicates within a membrane-bounded compartment. In this study, we
have examined the intracellular pathway of the virulent B. abortus strain 2308 (S2308) and the attenuated strain 19 (S19) in
HeLa cells. At 10 min after inoculation, both bacterial strains are transiently detected in phagosomes characterized by the presence of
early endosomal markers such as the early endosomal antigen 1. At ~1
h postinoculation, bacteria are located within a compartment positive
for the lysosome-associated membrane proteins (LAMPs) and the
endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker sec61
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Brucella abortus Transits through the
Autophagic Pathway and Replicates in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of
Nonprofessional Phagocytes
and
but negative for the mannose
6-phosphate receptors and cathepsin D. Interestingly, this compartment
is also positive for the autophagosomal marker monodansylcadaverin,
suggesting that S2308 and S19 are located in autophagic vacuoles. At
24 h after inoculation, attenuated S19 is degraded in lysosomes,
while virulent S2308 multiplies within a LAMP- and cathepsin D-negative
but sec61
- and protein disulfide isomerase-positive compartment.
Furthermore, treatment of infected cells with the pore-forming toxin
aerolysin from Aeromonas hydrophila causes vacuolation of
the bacterial replication compartment. These results are compatible
with the hypothesis that pathogenic B. abortus exploits the
autophagic machinery of HeLa cells to establish an intracellular niche
favorable for its replication within the ER.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centre
d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, Case 906-13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France. Phone: (33) 4 91 26 94 66. Fax: (33) 4 91 26 94 30. E-mail: gorvel{at}ciml.univ-mrs.fr.
Present address: Programa de Investigación en
Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria,
Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.
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