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Bacteria and Intracellularity

Edited by

Pascale Cossart

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Craig R. Roy

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Philippe Sansonetti

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France






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Contributors

Carmen Aguilar
Host RNA Metabolism Group, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Laurence Arbibe
INSERM U1151, CNRS UMR 8253, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, INEM Institute Department of Immunology, Infectiology and Hematology, Paris, France

Stephen Baker
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Josefin Bartholdson Scott
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Petr Broz
Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Dirk Bumann
Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Rosalyn Casey
Department of Microbial Sciences, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Guilford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Jean Celli
Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

Simon Clare
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Connor
Institut Pasteur, G5 Chromatine et Infection, Paris, France

Pascale Cossart
Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules (UIBC); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U604; and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), USC2020, Paris, France

James P. di Santo
Innate Immunity Unit, Immunology Department, Institut Pasteur, and INSERM U1223, Paris, France

Gordon Dougan
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Guillaume Duménil
Pathogenesis of Vascular Infections, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, France

Jost Enninga
Institut Pasteur, Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit, Cell Biology and Infection Department, Paris, France

Ana Eulalio
Host RNA Metabolism Group, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, and RNA & Infection Group, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Alyssa C. Fasciano
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology and Program in Immunology, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Celia W. Goulding
Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California

Christine Hale
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Melanie Hamon
Institut Pasteur, G5 Chromatine et Infection, Paris, France

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Annika Hausmann
Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Samuel Hess
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Suzie Hingley-Wilson
Department of Microbial Sciences, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Guilford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Lu Huang
Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Scott J. Hultgren
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research (CWIDR), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Ralph R. Isberg
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

William R. Jacobs, Jr.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Jonathan C. Kagan
Harvard Medical School and Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Frédéric Landmann
CRBM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Yan Li
Innate Immunity Unit, Immunology Department, Institut Pasteur, and INSERM U1223, Paris, France

Miguel Mano
Functional Genomics and RNA-based Therapeutics Group, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Joan Mecsas
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Keira Melican
Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Thomas F. Meyer
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Evgeniya V. Nazarova
Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Dorian Obino
Pathogenesis of Vascular Infections, Institut Pasteur, INSERM, Paris, France

Charlotte Odendall
Kings College, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Natalie S. Omattage
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Titilayo O. Omotade
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Kim Orth
Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Sophie Palmer
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anura Rambukkana
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Centre for Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Agneta Richter-Dahlfors
Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Marion Rother
Steinbeis Innovation, Berlin-Falkensee; Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg; and Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Craig R. Roy
Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Thomas Rudel
Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

David G. Russell
Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Philippe J. Sansonetti
Institut Pasteur, Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, INSERM U1202, and College de France, Paris, France

Marcela de Souza Santos
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Pamela Schnupf
Institut Imagine, Laboratory of Intestinal Immunity, INSERM UMR1163; Institut Necker Enfants Malade, Laboratory of Host-Microbiota Interaction, INSERM U1151; and Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Caitlin N. Spaulding
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Anna Spier
Institut Pasteur, UIBC; INSERM, U604; INRA, USC2020; and Bio Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Fabrizia Stavru
Institut Pasteur, UIBC; INSERM, U604; INRA, USC2020; and CNRS, SNC 5101, Paris, France

Virginie Stévenin
Institut Pasteur, Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit, Cell Biology and Infection Department, Paris, France

Agathe Subtil
Institut Pasteur, Cell Biology of Microbial Infection, Paris, France

Kevin O. Tamadonfar
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Ana Rita Teixeira da Costa
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Sangeeta Tiwari
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Sébastien Triboulet
Institut Pasteur, Cell Biology of Microbial Infection, Paris, France

Amy Yeung
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rike Zietlow
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Preface

We wish to dedicate this book to Stanley Falkow, who has impressed and influenced so many of us. Dr. Falkow launched the molecular study of host-bacterial pathogen interactions in the late 1970s, capitalizing on his knowledge of plasmids, antibiotic resistance, and molecular biology, before including cell biology, anticipating what came to be called cellular microbiology. Since then, nearly four decades of intense work on a variety of pathogens has highlighted common concepts in intracellularity but also very diverse mechanisms underlying the various infections produced by bacteria.

In launching this book, we wanted to cover many aspects and mechanisms of cellular microbiology, but more importantly, we intended to show that cellular microbiology as a field has reached maturity, extending beyond the strictly cellular level to infections of various organs and tissues. Many model organisms (Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella, and Listeria, among others) are foodborne pathogens, and tremendous progress has been achieved in deciphering how, when, and where bacteria interact with the gut. However, intestinal cells and the intestine are not the only cells and organs discussed in this book. There are also chapters on infections of the urogenital tract, the endothelial barriers, the nervous system, and the lungs. Progress in the latter two concern important public health infections produced by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These two bacteria, which were at first much more difficult to manipulate than Escherichia coli, are now genetically tractable, and their study can now benefit from all the techniques and approaches established with less fastidious bacteria.

To be complete, a book on intracellularity had to include subcellular microbiology, and several chapters cover a variety of topics including metabolism of infected cells, nuclear biology, and microRNAs in host-pathogen interactions. All facets of cellular physiology are targeted by pathogens, and their role in infection is now actively assessed.

A book dedicated to “bacterial intracellularity” had to also include endosymbionts and, in particular, Wolbachia and its intriguing biology, which influences the capacity of the insects (in particular, mosquitoes) that carry this organism to transmit important viral pathogens such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. This chapter is particularly timely, as a large official release of mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia has just been completed in New Caledonia to limit virus transmission by decreasing the global competence of this vector system.

The cellular microbiology field started in the late 1980s with a particular focus on cytoskeletal structures and organelles targeted by intracellular pathogens, but studies rapidly spread to analyze the cell autonomous defense pathways. We are happy to have two important chapters reviewing a field of research that has led to many new concepts in immunology and, more specifically, in innate immunity.

Finally, techniques and technologies are constantly improving: four chapters dealing with imaging, “omics” systems biology, and mouse humanization highlight the rapid progress in developing techniques that are now or will soon be used in the next steps of the study of intracellularity.

We thank the many colleagues who agreed to write for us. We are particularly happy to have gathered so many great chapters written by internationally recognized experts. We are well aware that studying pathogens without taking into account the microorganisms and microbial assemblies that are present in their vicinity may appear somewhat reductionist. This was a considered decision, and we believe a discussion of bacterial pathogenesis in the framework of microbiotas and microbiomes should be the topic of another book.

We thank Ellie Tupper and Richard Sever for their enthusiasm and patience during what at some stages seemed an endless project!

Pascale Cossart
Craig R. Roy
Philippe Sansonetti

About the Editors

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Pascale Cossart earned her masters degree at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She then received her Ph.D. in Paris at the Institut Pasteur, where she now leads the Bacteria-Cell Interactions unit. After early studies in DNA-protein interactions, in 1986 she began investigating the molecular and cellular basis of infections by intracellular bacteria, taking as a model the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Her research has led to new concepts in infection biology as well as in cell biology and fundamental microbiology, including RNA-mediated regulation. Dr. Cossart is considered a pioneer in cellular microbiology. Her contributions have been recognized by several international awards and election to several academies including the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the National Academy of Medicine (2014). In January 2016, she was named Secrétaire Perpétuel de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris.

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Craig R. Roy trained in the laboratory of Stanley Falkow at Stanford University, where his Ph.D. dissertation focused on the molecular mechanisms governing virulence in Bordetella pertussis. As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ralph Isberg at Tufts University, he used cell biology to investigate Legionella pneumophila infection of macrophages. After a stint as assistant professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Stony Brook University, Dr. Roy helped found the new Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale University in 1998. He is currently Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunobiology. Using multidisciplinary approaches, his laboratory has elucidated the mechanisms employed by intracellular pathogens to modulate vesicular transport and the host immune response against pathogens that reside in specialized organelles.

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Philippe Sansonetti is professor and head of the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire at the Pasteur Institute of Paris and chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Collège de France. Professor Sansonetti qualified in medicine at the University of Paris in 1979. Following clinical work in France, he established his research career at Institut Pasteur in cellular microbiology and the pathogenesis of enteric infections, particularly Shigella, including vaccine development, and more recently the molecular cross-talks between microbiota and the gut epithelium. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Louis Jeantet Prize and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship. He was awarded two successive ERC grants. He is currently Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine and a member of the French Academy of Science, the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), and the Royal Society (UK).

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