Pathogens I Flashcards
(60 cards)
What is salmonella
Salmonella enterica present in contaminated food - usually eggs, poultry, meat
And water
How many salmonella cases
40 000 cases reported every year - but underreported - should be 30x more
Vey common
Who does salmonella affect
Mainly young child’s, elderly, immunocompromsied ppl
400 annual deaths in us
Symptoms salmonella
Enteric fever (fever, headache, abdominal pain, transient diarrhea/constipation, infection causing respiratory, hepatic, spleen and/or neurological damage)=
Many consequences
Describe invasion of salmonella - gen
Comes in armed
Protects itself in endoscopes
Invasion depends on surviving endocytic pathway
Describe invasion of salmonella - step 1
Salmonella cells attach to intestinal epithelium - infect enterocytes by means of adhesins
Describe invasion of salmonella - step 2
Invasion fo bacteria follows and engulfment mediated by virulence factors
= get themselves phagocytosed- engulfed
Describe invasion of salmonella - step 3
Once inside cytoplasm- salmonella localized within a salmonella containing vacuole - scv (a converted endosome)
= where it replicates
Describe invasion of salmonella - step 4
Scvs transcytose to basolteral membrane and releases internal cells to the sub mucosa
What do bacteria lack
Internal membrane system comparable to secretory pathway of eukaryotic cells
What do bacteria have to compensate for their lack of internal membrane system
Instead = have specialized machinery to translocate proteins through their pm (2 membranes in case of gram neg bacteria)
Are secretion systems all different
Nooo
Some are common to all bacteria
Others are more elaborate
Describe elaborate secretion systems
Like secretion system 3 and 4 =
Can deliver protein through bacterial membranes
And ALSO through endosomal or plasma membrane of a euakaryotic cell
These more elaborate systems = found in only specific groups of bacteria - bacterial can inject proteins directly into cytoplasm of cell
Describe salmonella secretion system
Secretion system 3
- permits injection of proteins into the cytoplasm of enterocytes
Describe type 3 secretion system specifically
Looks like syringe
Cryo ‘em -
2 membranes with periplasmic space in between = can inject into pm
What do scv do
Incorporates into early endoscope pathway
What does salmonella bacterium encode for
Effector proteins that prevent scv from fusing to lysosome
Describe sopb
Maintains elevated and prolonged levels of pi3p
Prevents generation of pi(3,5)p2
What does scv acquire
Rab 6, connects to dynactin-dyenin machinery via rilp—> transported to perinuclear region
Describe sopd2
Removes rilp and prevents other rab 7 effectors (binds on late endosome) - from binding for further steps for lysosome function
Describe resulting scv
Has early and late endosome characteristics - arrests in late maturation stage
= keeps them from fusing with lysosomes so cannot harm salmonella
In general describe what scv does
Sopd2 displaces rilp/fyco1 = so late endosome doesn’t bind any motors = immobilized so blocks other effectors too (no hops, no fusing with late endosome/lysosome)
Describe legionella pneumophila bacteria
Likes to grow in monocytes and macrophages
Causes legionnaires disease
Can grow in water - like water tans
When inhaled = produces atypical pneumonia slow acting, atypical
(* First identified in 1976 in an outbreak of pneumonia at a hotel hosting the American Legion for a convention in Philadelphia.
* In this outbreak 182 people were infected and 29 died
* Source of the outbreak was traced to bacteria growing in a water tank associated with the air conditioning system)
legionella pneumophila bacteria Secretion system
Type 4 secretion system
Like type 3 - syringe = system can deliver proteins through pm of eukaryotic cell