发布: 2018年09月20日第8卷第18期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3017 浏览次数: 6090
评审: Emily CopeVishal NehruAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Salmonella is a Gram-negative bacterium causing a gastro-enteric disease called salmonellosis. During the first phase of infection, Salmonella uses its flagella to swim near the surface of the epithelial cells and to target specific site of infection. In order to study the selection criteria that determine which host cells are targeted by the pathogen, and to analyze the relation between infecting Salmonella (i.e., cooperation or competition), we have established a high-throughput microscopic assay of HeLa cells sequentially infected with fluorescent bacteria. Using an automated pipeline of image analysis, we quantitatively characterized a multitude of parameters of infected and non-infected cells. Based on this, we established a predictive model that allowed us to identify those parameters involved in host cell vulnerability towards infection. We revealed that host cell vulnerability has two origins: a pathogen-induced cellular vulnerability emerging from Salmonella uptake and persisting at later stages of the infection process; and a host cell-inherent vulnerability linked with cell inherent attributes, such as local cell crowding, and cholesterol content. Our method forecasts the probability of Salmonella infection within monolayers of epithelial cells based on morphological or molecular host cell parameters. Here, we provide a detailed description of the workflow including the computer-based analysis pipeline. Our method has the potential to be applied to study other combinations of host-pathogen interactions.
Keywords: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (鼠伤寒沙门氏菌)Background
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infects its host via ingestion of contaminated food or water, causing salmonellosis. Once the bacterium reaches the distal ileum of the gut, they can invade a broad range of host cells, including the intestinal epithelial cells (Watson and Holden, 2010). During the first phase of host cell invasion, Salmonella chooses its targets, using its flagellum to swim and scan the surface of the epithelium (Misselwitz et al., 2012). After several stops on the surface of the cells, the bacterium eventually chooses a site where it docks (Misselwitz et al., 2011; Vonaesch et al., 2013) and triggers its uptake via the Type 3 Secretion System (T3SS) (Haraga et al., 2008; LaRock et al., 2015). The injection of bacterial effectors directly into the cytosol of the targeted cells leads to a strong remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton and the formation of membrane ruffles that engulf the pathogen (Haraga et al., 2008; LaRock et al., 2015). Within the infected cells, Salmonella remains either within a mature endomembrane compartment, the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV); or it reaches the cytosol by SCV membrane rupture to replicate at distinct paces within the different intracellular niches (Knodler, 2015; Fredlund et al., 2018).
Eukaryotic cell monocultures display an intrinsic cellular heterogeneity. Indeed, after seeding, cells have different characteristics with regards to their morphology and the local microenvironment, which correlates with differences of the transcriptome, proteome, and lipidome (Snijder et al., 2009; Frechin et al., 2015; Liberali et al., 2015). The selection criteria that determine which host cells are targeted by Salmonella for invasion are poorly understood. Previously, Misselwitz and colleagues proposed that Salmonella preferentially targets the topological obstacles it encountered while swimming near the cell monolayer, such as ruffles or mitotic cells (Misselwitz et al., 2012; Lorkowski et al., 2014). In contrast, Santos and colleagues suggested that cholesterol accumulation during cell metaphase is responsible for mitotic cell targeting (Santos et al., 2013). In a recent study, we investigated at the single-cell level the criteria exploited by Salmonella to select the cell to infect in a naturally heterogeneous monolayer of cells (Voznica et al., 2018).
In order to link the features of each cell with its probability to be infected, we have established a protocol of double infection of HeLa cells with fluorescent bacteria. We imaged the cells with high-throughput microscopy combined with automatic image analysis to obtain the individual features of hundreds of thousands of cells. We observed the distribution of those features in infected and non-infected cells and used a mathematical model to resolve the importance of different cellular parameters in deciphering Salmonella targeting.
This protocol provides a new tool to analyze pathogen targeting of cell features in a non-invasive manner and at the single-cell level. This opens a new path to decipher the cellular and bacterial factors involved in host cell vulnerability to infection.
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Voznica, J., Enninga, J. and Stévenin, V. (2018). High-throughput Microscopic Analysis of Salmonella Invasion of Host Cells. Bio-protocol 8(18): e3017. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3017.
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微生物学 > 微生物细胞生物学 > 细胞成像
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