Publication Date:
2005-07-30
Description:
It is generally reasoned that lethal infections caused by opportunistic pathogens develop permissively by invading a host that is both physiologically stressed and immunologically compromised. However, an alternative hypothesis might be that opportunistic pathogens actively sense alterations in host immune function and respond by enhancing their virulence phenotype. We demonstrate that interferon-gamma binds to an outer membrane protein in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, OprF, resulting in the expression of a quorum-sensing dependent virulence determinant, the PA-I lectin. These observations provide details of the mechanisms by which prokaryotic organisms are directly signaled by immune activation in their eukaryotic host.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wu, Licheng -- Estrada, Oscar -- Zaborina, Olga -- Bains, Manjeet -- Shen, Le -- Kohler, Jonathan E -- Patel, Nachiket -- Musch, Mark W -- Chang, Eugene B -- Fu, Yang-Xin -- Jacobs, Michael A -- Nishimura, Michael I -- Hancock, Robert E W -- Turner, Jerrold R -- Alverdy, John C -- 2-RO1 GM062344-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- DK-38510/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK-47722/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01DK61931/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01DK68271/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jul 29;309(5735):774-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16051797" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adhesins, Bacterial/*biosynthesis
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Animals
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Cells, Cultured
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Cytokines/immunology/metabolism/pharmacology
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Humans
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Interferon-gamma/immunology/*metabolism/pharmacology
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Lectins/*biosynthesis
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Lymphocyte Activation
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Porins/isolation & purification/*metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa/growth & development/*immunology/metabolism/*pathogenicity
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Pyocyanine/biosynthesis
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Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
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Signal Transduction
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T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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Up-Regulation
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Virulence
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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