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ArticleInfection and immunity2013

Peptidoglycan fragment release from Neisseria meningitidis.

Katelynn L Woodhams, Jia Mun Chan, Jonathan D Lenz, Kathleen T Hackett, Joseph P Dillard

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Antibiotic Targets in Gonococcal Cell Wall Metabolism.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katelynn L WoodhamsDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Jia Mun Chan
Jonathan D Lenz
Kathleen T Hackett
Joseph P Dillard
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Peptidoglycan metabolism and fragment releaseR01AI097157 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DILLARD, JOSEPH P · 2012 to 2022
$5.6M
Gain and loss of the gonococcal genetic island in NeisseriaR21AI072605 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DILLARD, JOSEPH P · 2007 to 2008
$392k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI097157NIAID NIH HHS R01AI097157NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI072605NIAID NIH HHS R21AI072605
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a symbiont of the human nasopharynx. On occasion, meningococci disseminate from the nasopharynx to cause invasive disease. Previous work showed that purified meningococcal peptidoglycan (PG) stimulates human Nod1, which leads to activation of NF-κB and production of inflammatory cytokines. No studies have determined if meningococci release PG or activate Nod1 during infection. The closely related pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae releases PG fragments during normal growth. These fragments induce inflammatory cytokine production and ciliated cell death in human fallopian tubes. We determined that meningococci also release PG fragments during growth, including fragments known to induce inflammation. We found that N. meningitidis recycles PG fragments via the selective permease AmpG and that meningococcal PG recycling is more efficient than gonococcal PG recycling. Comparison of PG fragment release from N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae showed that meningococci release less of the proinflammatory PG monomers than gonococci and degrade PG to smaller fragments. The decreased release of PG monomers by N. meningitidis relative to N. gonorrhoeae is partly due to ampG, since replacement of gonococcal ampG with the meningococcal allele reduced PG monomer release. Released PG fragments in meningococcal supernatants induced significantly less Nod1-dependent NF-κB activity than released fragments in gonococcal supernatants and tended to induce less interleukin-8 (IL-8) secretion in primary human fallopian tube explants. These results support a model in which efficient PG recycling and extensive degradation of PG fragments lessen inflammatory responses and may be advantageous for maintaining meningococcal carriage in the nasopharynx.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsCell LineFallopian TubesFemaleHEK293 CellsHumansInflammationInterleukin-8Membrane Transport ProteinsMeningitis, MeningococcalNasopharynxNeisseria gonorrhoeaeNeisseria meningitidisNF-kappa BNod1 Signaling Adaptor ProteinPeptidoglycanAmpG protein, BacteriaBacterial ProteinsInterleukin-8Membrane Transport ProteinsNF-kappa BNOD1 protein, humanNod1 Signaling Adaptor ProteinPeptidoglycan

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PMID23836824
PMCPMC3754221
OpenAlexW2121068801

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