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Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Microbiology, October 2012
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Title
Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules
Published in
Molecular Microbiology, October 2012
DOI 10.1111/mmi.12045
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Authors

Tara J. Moriarty, Meiqing Shi, Yi‐Pin Lin, Rhodaba Ebady, Hong Zhou, Tanya Odisho, Pierre‐Olivier Hardy, Aydan Salman‐Dilgimen, Jing Wu, Eric H. Weening, Jon T. Skare, Paul Kubes, John Leong, George Chaconas

Abstract

Systemic dissemination of microbial pathogens permits microbes to spread from the initial site of infection to secondary target tissues and is responsible for most mortality due to bacterial infections. Dissemination is a critical stage of disease progression by the Lyme spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi. However, many mechanistic features of the process are not yet understood. A key step is adhesion of circulating microbes to vascular surfaces in the face of the shear forces present in flowing blood. Using real-time microscopic imaging of the Lyme spirochaete in living mice we previously identified the first bacterial protein (B. burgdorferi BBK32) shown to mediate vascular adhesion in vivo. Vascular adhesion is also dependent on host fibronectin (Fn) and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). In the present study, we investigated the mechanisms of BBK32-dependent vascular adhesion in vivo. We determined that BBK32-Fn interactions (tethering) function as a molecular braking mechanism that permits the formation of more stable BBK32-GAG interactions (dragging) between circulating bacteria and vascular surfaces. Since BBK32-like proteins are expressed in a variety of pathogens we believe that the vascular adhesion mechanisms we have deciphered here may be critical for understanding the dissemination mechanisms of other bacterial pathogens.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
Unknown 55 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 18%
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Other 5 9%
Student > Master 5 9%
Researcher 4 7%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 17 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 16%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 11%
Physics and Astronomy 2 4%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 17 30%
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