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ReviewFuture microbiology2016

Right on Q: genetics begin to unravel Coxiella burnetii host cell interactions.

Charles L Larson, Eric Martinez, Paul A Beare, Brendan Jeffrey, Robert A Heinzen, Matteo Bonazzi

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Review in Future microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Charles L LarsonCoxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
Eric MartinezCNRS, FRE3698, CPBS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France.
Paul A BeareCoxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
Brendan JeffreyBioinformatics & Computational Biosciences Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
Robert A HeinzenCoxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 903 South 4th Street, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
Matteo BonazziCNRS, FRE3698, CPBS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France.

Funding

Genetics of Coxiella burnetiiZIAAI000946 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI HEINZEN, ROBERT A · 2009 to 2023
$8.9M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Invasion of macrophages and replication within an acidic and degradative phagolysosome-like vacuole are essential for disease pathogenesis by Coxiella burnetii, the bacterial agent of human Q fever. Previous experimental constraints imposed by the obligate intracellular nature of Coxiella limited knowledge of pathogen strategies that promote infection. Fortunately, new genetic tools facilitated by axenic culture now allow allelic exchange and transposon mutagenesis approaches for virulence gene discovery. Phenotypic screens have illuminated the critical importance of Coxiella's type 4B secretion system in host cell subversion and discovered genes encoding translocated effector proteins that manipulate critical infection events. Here, we highlight the cellular microbiology and genetics of Coxiella and how recent technical advances now make Coxiella a model organism to study macrophage parasitism.

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Host-Pathogen InteractionsApoptosisAutophagyBacterial Secretion SystemsCoxiella burnetiiHeLa CellsHumansMacrophagesMutagenesisPhagosomesProtein TransportType IV Secretion SystemsVirulenceBacterial Secretion SystemsType IV Secretion SystemsapoptosisautophagyCoxiella burnetiieffector proteinhost cell invasionmacrophagesmutagenesisphagolysosometype 4B secretionvacuole remodeling

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PMID27418426
PMCPMC5619019

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