| High-throughput Microscopic Analysis of Salmonella Invasion of Host Cells
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2018-09-20
[Abstract] Salmonella is a Gram-negative bacterium causing a gastro-enteric disease called salmonellosis. During the first phase of infection, Salmonella uses its flagella to swim near the surface of the epithelial cells and to target specific site of infection. In order to study the selection criteria that determine which host cells are targeted by the pathogen, and to analyze the relation between infecting Salmonella (i.e., cooperation or competition), we have established a high-throughput microscopic assay of HeLa cells sequentially infected with fluorescent bacteria. Using an automated pipeline of image analysis, we quantitatively characterized a multitude of parameters of infected and non-infected cells. Based on this, we established a predictive model that ...
[摘要] 沙门氏菌是革兰氏阴性细菌，引起称为沙门氏菌病的胃肠疾病。在感染的第一阶段，沙门氏菌使用其鞭毛在上皮细胞表面附近游泳并靶向特定的感染部位。为了研究确定哪种宿主细胞被病原体靶向的选择标准，并分析感染沙门氏菌（ ie ，合作或竞争）之间的关系，我们有建立了对荧光细菌依次感染的HeLa细胞的高通量显微镜检测。使用自动化图像分析管道，我们定量表征了感染和未感染细胞的众多参数。基于此，我们建立了一个预测模型，使我们能够识别宿主细胞易受感染的参数。我们发现宿主细胞易损性有两个来源：病原体诱导的细胞易感性从沙门氏菌摄取中出现并持续存在于感染过程的后期阶段;以及与细胞固有属性相关的宿主细胞固有的脆弱性，例如局部细胞拥挤和胆固醇含量。我们的方法基于形态学或分子宿主细胞参数预测单层上皮细胞中沙门氏菌感染的概率。在这里，我们提供了工作流程的详细描述，包括基于计算机的分析管道。我们的方法有可能应用于研究宿主 - 病原体相互作用的其他组合。
【背景】鼠伤寒沙门氏菌血清型鼠伤寒沙门氏菌通过摄入受污染的食物或水感染宿主，引起沙门氏菌病。一旦细菌到达肠道的远端回肠，它们就会侵入广泛的宿主细胞，包括肠上皮细胞（Watson和Holden，2010）。在宿主细胞入侵的第一阶段，沙门氏菌选择其目标，使用其鞭毛游泳并扫描上皮表面（Misselwitz et ...
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| Dictyostelium Cultivation, Transfection, Microscopy and Fractionation
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2015-06-05
[Abstract] The real time visualisation of fluorescently tagged proteins in live cells using ever more sophisticated microscopes has greatly increased our understanding of the dynamics of key proteins during fundamental physiological processes such as cell locomotion, chemotaxis, cell division and membrane trafficking. In addition the fractionation of cells and isolation of organelles or known compartments can often verify any subcellular localisation and the use of tagged proteins as bait for the immunoprecipitation of material from cell fractions can identify specific binding partners and multiprotein complexes thereby helping assign a function to the tagged protein. We have successfully applied these techniques to the Dictyostelium discoideum protein TSPOON that is part of an ancient ...
[摘要] 使用更复杂的显微镜，活细胞中荧光标记的蛋白质的实时可视化大大增加了我们对基本生理过程如细胞运动，趋化性，细胞分裂和膜运输过程中关键蛋白质动力学的了解。此外，细胞的分级和分离细胞器或已知的隔室通常可以验证任何亚细胞定位，并且使用标记的蛋白质作为诱饵用于来自细胞部分的物质的免疫沉淀可以鉴定特异性结合配偶体和多蛋白复合物，从而有助于赋予功能标记蛋白。我们已经成功地将这些技术应用于作为古代异构六聚体膜转运复合物的一部分的盘基网柄菌discoideum蛋白TSPOON（Hirst等，2013）。 ...
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