title: Cellular microbiology and molecular ecology of Legionella-amoeba interaction.
abstract: Legionella pneumophila is an aquatic organism that interacts with amoebae and ciliated protozoa as the natural hosts, and this interaction plays a central role in bacterial ecology and infectivity. Upon transmission to humans, L. pneumophila infect and replicate within alveolar macrophages causing pneumonia. Intracellular proliferation of L. pneumophila within the two evolutionarily distant hosts is facilitated by bacterial exploitation of evolutionarily conserved host processes that are targeted by bacterial protein effectors injected into the host cell by the Dot/Icm type VIB translocation system. Although cysteine is semi-essential for humans and essential for amoeba, it is a metabolically favorable source of carbon and energy generation by L. pneumophila. To counteract host limitation of cysteine, L. pneumophila utilizes the AnkB Dot/Icm-translocated F-box effector to promote host proteasomal degradation of polyubiquitinated proteins within amoebae and human cells. Evidence indicates ankB and other Dot/Icm-translocated effector genes have been acquired through inter-kingdom horizontal gene transfer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
authors.forename: Ashley M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Juanita E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Von Dwingelo
authors.forename: Christopher T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Yousef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abu Kwaik
mesh_terms: D000656:Amoeba / Q000382:microbiology*; D004463:Ecology; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D016952:Legionella pneumophila / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological
keywords: Ankyrin; Ankyrin B; Dot/Icm; Legionnaire; RelA; SpoT; cysteine; effectors AnkB; farnesylation; pneumophila; polyubiquitin; ppGpp; prenylation; proteasomes
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