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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 194, Issue 8, Pages 1081-1095Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.194.8.1081
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Legionella pneumophila; macropinocytosis; Lgn1; vacuole; dot/icm
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-01402] Funding Source: Medline
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The products of the Legionella pneumophila dot/icm genes enable the bacterium to replicate within a macrophage vacuole. This study demonstrates that the Dot/Icm machinery promotes macropinocytotic uptake of L. pneumophila into mouse macrophages. In mouse strains harboring a permissive Lgn1 allele, L. pneumophila promoted formation of vacuoles that were morphologically similar to macropinosomes and dependent on the presence of an intact Dot/ Icm system. Macropinosome formation appeared to occur during, rather than after, the closure of the plasma membrane about the bacterium, since a fluid-phase marker preloaded into the macrophage endocytic path failed to label the bacterium-laden macropinosome. The resulting macropinosomes were rich in GM1 gangliosides and glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked proteins. The Lgn1 allele restrictive for L. pneumophila intracellular replication prevented dot/icm-dependent macropinocytosis, with the result that phagosomes bearing the microorganism were targeted into the endocytic network. Analysis of macrophages from recombinant inbred mouse strains support the model that macropinocytotic uptake is controlled by the Lgn1 locus. These results indicate that the products of the dot/icm genes and Lgn1 are involved in controlling an internalization route initiated at the time of bacterial contact with the plasma membrane.
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