Chapter title |
Dictyostelium Host Response to Legionella Infection: Strategies and Assays.
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Chapter number | 26 |
Book title |
Legionella
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-62703-161-5_26 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-62703-160-8, 978-1-62703-161-5
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Authors |
Salvatore Bozzaro, Barbara Peracino, Ludwig Eichinger, Bozzaro, Salvatore, Peracino, Barbara, Eichinger, Ludwig |
Abstract |
The professional phagocyte Dictyostelium discoideum is a simple eukaryotic microorganism, whose natural habitat is deciduous forest soil and decaying leaves, where the amoebae feed on bacteria and grow as separate, independent, single cells. In the last decade, the organism has been successfully used as a host for several human pathogens, including Legionella pneumophila, Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium marinum,Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Salmonella typhimurium. To dissect the complex cross-talk between host and pathogen Dictyostelium offers easy cultivation, a high quality genome sequence and excellent molecular genetic and biochemical tools. Dictyostelium cells are also extremely suitable for cell biological studies, which in combination with in vivo expression of fluorescence-tagged proteins allow investigating the dynamics of bacterial uptake and infection. Inactivation of genes by homologous recombination as well as gene rescue and overexpression are well established and a large mutant collection is available at the Dictyostelium stock center, favoring identification of host resistance or susceptibility genes. Here, we briefly introduce the organism, address the value of Dictyostelium as model host, describe strategies to identify host cell factors important for infection followed by protocols for cell culture and storage, uptake and infection, and confocal microscopy of infected cells. |
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