Consequences of microbial attachment: directing host cell functions with adhesins.

AUTOR(ES)

Hoepelman, A I

RESUMO

We take the view that adherence is not just a static process of holding hands but rather elicits a response in the targeted cell. From this point of view, adherence is an active process with an outcome. This outcome or fate is predictable only when several parameters of the host cell-adhesin interaction are known: is the adhesin acting alone or in series with other products, is the receptor up- or down-regulated at the time of ligation, which domain of the receptor is bound, and finally, which intracellular response circuits are connected to the receptor in the cell type targeted? Variations in these parameters are the basis for the ability of the adhesins of pathogens to orchestrate outcomes as disparate as simple address recognition versus actin nucleation, cytokine induction, activation of plasmin, derangement of leukocyte migration, or deposition of antibody on host cell membranes. The recognition of the relatedness of some eukaryotic and prokaryotic adhesive domains and the shared use of existing eukaryotic cell-cell interaction systems between host and pathogen suggest that the cellular interactions of interest in eukaryotic cell biology can be revealed by taking clues from the pathogens, which have studied and adapted to them the longest.

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