Genetics in the Host‐ Mycobacterium ulcerans interaction

Abstract Buruli ulcer is an emerging infectious disease associated with high morbidity and unpredictable outbreaks. It is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, a slow‐growing pathogen evolutionarily shaped by the acquisition of a plasmid involved in the production of a potent macrolide‐like cytotoxin and by genome rearrangements and downsizing. These events culminated in an uncommon infection pattern, whereby M. ulcerans is both able to induce the initiation of the inflammatory cascade and the cell death of its proponents, as well as to survive within the phagosome and in the extracellular milieu. In such extreme conditions, the host is sentenced to rely on a highly orchestrated genetic landscape to be able to control the infection. We here revisit the dynamics of M. ulcerans infection, drawing parallels from other mycobacterioses and integrating the most recent knowledge on its evolution and pathogenicity in its interaction with the host immune response..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:301

Enthalten in:

Immunological Reviews - 301(2021), 1, Seite 222-241

Beteiligte Personen:

Fevereiro, João [VerfasserIn]
Fraga, Alexandra G. [VerfasserIn]
Pedrosa, Jorge [VerfasserIn]

BKL:

44.45

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© 2021 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Umfang:

20

doi:

10.1111/imr.12958

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

WLY007478887