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XB-ART-46549
Cell Death Dis 2012 Sep 06;3:e384. doi: 10.1038/cddis.2012.124.
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Spontaneous formation of IpaB ion channels in host cell membranes reveals how Shigella induces pyroptosis in macrophages.

Senerovic L , Tsunoda SP , Goosmann C , Brinkmann V , Zychlinsky A , Meissner F , Kolbe M .


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The Gram-negative bacterium Shigella flexneri invades the colonic epithelium and causes bacillary dysentery. S. flexneri requires the virulence factor invasion plasmid antigen B (IpaB) to invade host cells, escape from the phagosome and induce macrophage cell death. The mechanism by which IpaB functions remains unclear. Here, we show that purified IpaB spontaneously oligomerizes and inserts into the plasma membrane of target cells forming cation selective ion channels. After internalization, IpaB channels permit potassium influx within endolysosomal compartments inducing vacuolar destabilization. Endolysosomal leakage is followed by an ICE protease-activating factor-dependent activation of Caspase-1 in macrophages and cell death. Our results provide a mechanism for how the effector protein IpaB with its ion channel activity causes phagosomal destabilization and induces macrophage death. These data may explain how S. flexneri uses secreted IpaB to escape phagosome and kill the host cells during infection and, may be extended to homologs from other medically important enteropathogenic bacteria.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: casp1 nlrp3 sts


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