Immune lymphocytes halt replication of Francisella tularensis LVS within the cytoplasm of infected macrophages.

Scientific Reports
Mary Katherine Bradford, K L Elkins

Abstract

Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious intracellular bacterium that causes tularemia by invading and replicating in mammalian myeloid cells. Francisella primarily invades host macrophages, where it escapes phagosomes within a few hours and replicates in the cytoplasm. Less is known about how Francisella traffics within macrophages or exits into the extracellular environment for further infection. Immune T lymphocytes control the replication of Francisella within macrophages in vitro by a variety of mechanisms, but nothing is known about intracellular bacterial trafficking in the face of such immune pressure. Here we used a murine model of infection with a Francisella attenuated live vaccine strain (LVS), which is under study as a human vaccine, to evaluate the hypothesis that immune T cells control intramacrophage bacterial growth by re-directing bacteria into toxic intracellular compartments of infected macrophages. We visualized the interactions of lymphocytes and LVS-infected macrophages using confocal microscopy and characterized LVS intramacrophage trafficking when co-cultured with immune lymphocytes. We focused on the late stages of infection after bacteria escape from phagosomes, through bacterial replication and ...Continue Reading

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Dec 22, 2020·Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology·Lidia Szulc-DąbrowskaFelix N Toka

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