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MICROBES AND INFECTION
Volume 12, Issue 14-15, Pages 1208-1218Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.09.006
Keywords
Photorhabdus; Apoptosis; Cycle inhibiting factor; Type III secretion system
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- ANR [ANR-05-MIIR-009]
- INRA
- Languedoc-Rousillon region
- CNRS
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Cycle inhibiting factors (Cif) constitute a broad family of cyclomodulins present in bacterial pathogens of invertebrates and mammals. Cif proteins are thought to be type III effectors capable of arresting the cell cycle at G(2)/M phase transition in human cell lines. We report here the first direct functional analysis of Cif(pl), from the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens, in its insect host. The cif(pl) gene was expressed in P. luminescens cultures in vitro. The resulting protein was released into the culture medium, unlike the well characterized type III effector LopT. During locust infection, cif(pl) was expressed in both the hemolymph and the hematopoietic organ, but was not essential for P. luminescens virulence. Ci(pl) inhibited proliferation of the insect cell line Sf9, by blocking the cell cycle at the G(2)/M phase transition. It also triggered host cell death by apoptosis. The integrity of the Cif(pl) catalytic triad is essential for the cell cycle arrest and pro-apoptotic activities of this protein. These results highlight, for the first time, the dual role of Cif in the control of host cell proliferation and apoptotic death in a non-mammalian cell line. (C) 2010 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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