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Science 1 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5522, pp. 1722 - 1725
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059852

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A Transgenic Model for Listeriosis: Role of Internalin in Crossing the Intestinal Barrier

Marc Lecuit,1 Sandrine Vandormael-Pournin,2 Jean Lefort,3 Michel Huerre,4 Pierre Gounon,5 Catherine Dupuy,1 Charles Babinet,2 Pascale Cossart1*

Listeria monocytogenes is responsible for severe food-borne infections, but the mechanisms by which bacteria cross the intestinal barrier are unknown. Listeria monocytogenes expresses a surface protein, internalin, that interacts with a host receptor, E-cadherin, to promote entry into human epithelial cells. Murine E-cadherin, in contrast to guinea pig E-cadherin, does not interact with internalin, excluding the mouse as a model for addressing internalin function in vivo. In guinea pigs and transgenic mice expressing human E-cadherin, internalin was found to mediate invasion of enterocytes and crossing of the intestinal barrier. These results illustrate how relevant animal models for human infections can be generated.

1 Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules,
2 Unité de Biologie du Développement, Unité de Recherche Associée CNRS 1960,
3 Unité de Pharmacologie Cellulaire,
4 Unité d'Histopathologie,
5 Station Centrale de Microscopie Electronique, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pcossart{at}pasteur.fr


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