1. Meningococcal Type IV Pili Recruit the Polarity Complex to Cross the Brain Endothelium
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Xavier Nassif, Guillaume Duménil, Florence Miller, Mathieu Coureuil, Pierre-Olivier Couraud, Babette B. Weksler, Hervé Lécuyer, Christine Bernard, Ignacio A. Romero, Sandrine Bourdoulous, René-Marc Mège, Guillain Mikaty, INSERM U1002, Pathogénie des infections systémiques (UMR_S 570), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Cochin (UMR_S567 / UMR 8104), Institut du Fer à Moulin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Weill Medical College of Cornell University [New York], Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Pathogénie des infections systémiques ( UMR_S 570 ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut Cochin ( UMR_S567 / UMR 8104 ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), The Open University [Milton Keynes] ( OU ), and Coureuil, Mathieu
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MESH : Cell Line ,Delta Catenin ,Cell Cycle Proteins ,blood brain barrier ,Neisseria meningitidis ,medicine.disease_cause ,Cell junction ,MESH : cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein ,Bacterial Adhesion ,MESH: Cadherins ,MESH : Blood-Brain Barrier ,MESH: Blood-Brain Barrier ,MESH : Cell Cycle Proteins ,0302 clinical medicine ,[ SDV.MP ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology ,Cell polarity ,MESH: Endothelial Cells ,MESH : Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ,cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein ,MESH: Antigens, CD ,Protein Kinase C ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Cell adhesion molecule ,MESH : Fimbriae, Bacterial ,Brain ,Cell Polarity ,meningitis ,Catenins ,Cadherins ,endothelial cells ,3. Good health ,Cell biology ,Endothelial stem cell ,Intercellular Junctions ,[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein ,Blood-Brain Barrier ,MESH : Intercellular Junctions ,MESH: Cell Adhesion Molecules ,MESH : Cadherins ,MESH: Endothelium, Vascular ,MESH: Membrane Proteins ,MESH: Cell Polarity ,MESH : Cell Polarity ,MESH : Bacterial Adhesion ,Biology ,Blood–brain barrier ,MESH: Phosphoproteins ,Article ,MESH: Neisseria meningitidis ,MESH : Cell Adhesion Molecules ,Cell Line ,MESH: Fimbriae, Bacterial ,MESH: Brain ,03 medical and health sciences ,MESH: Cell Cycle Proteins ,Antigens, CD ,MESH : Antigens, CD ,medicine ,Humans ,MESH : Protein Kinase C ,MESH: Bacterial Adhesion ,[SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology ,MESH: Catenins ,Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ,MESH: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ,030304 developmental biology ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein ,MESH : Endothelial Cells ,MESH : Neisseria meningitidis ,Cadherin ,MESH : Humans ,Membrane Proteins ,Phosphoproteins ,MESH: Protein Kinase C ,MESH : Catenins ,MESH: Cell Line ,MESH : Brain ,MESH : Endothelium, Vascular ,MESH : Membrane Proteins ,Fimbriae, Bacterial ,Endothelium, Vascular ,MESH : Phosphoproteins ,Cell Adhesion Molecules ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,MESH: Intercellular Junctions - Abstract
Breaking the Barrier Being able to deliver drugs into the brain to treat degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's requires the ability to traverse the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Understanding the formation of the very specific adherent junctions (AJ) and tight junctions present at the BBB cell junctions is a prerequisite to the design of such therapeutics. However, diminishing the expression of any one component involved in the formation of these intercellular junctions destroys them. Coureuil et al. (p. 83 , published online 11 June) exploited the specific recruitment of AJ proteins by Neisseria meningitidis to dissect this process. Adhesion of the bacteria to human brain endothelial cells recruited the polarity complex Par3/Par6/PKCζ required for the establishment of eukaryotic cell polarity and the formation of intercellular junctions. The bacterial recruitment of the polarity complex depleted junctional proteins at the cell-cell interface opening the intercellular junctions at the brainendothelial interface.
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- 2009