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ArticleNature communications2026

Listeria promotes systemic infection by targeting the host deubiquitinase CYLD.

Dustin A Ammendolia, Cara J Ellison, Yuelin Zheng, Etienne Coyaud, Estelle M N Laurent, Bing-Ru Yan, Bri Manning, Anna K Waldmann, Joel M J Tan, Scott Frendo-Cumbo and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

Dustin A AmmendoliaCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7995-5269
Cara J EllisonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Yuelin ZhengCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Etienne CoyaudPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5893-4557
Estelle M N LaurentPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Bing-Ru YanCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2138-7374
Bri ManningDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7352-9771
Anna K WaldmannCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Joel M J TanCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6051-3786
Scott Frendo-CumboCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9047-4650
Carina LyonsCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ji-Young YounCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6799-5709
Brian RaughtPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Keith IretonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-9188-1995
Darren E HigginsDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0562-1300
Paul R ElliottDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7641-2103
John H BrumellCell & Systems Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada. john.brumell@sickkids.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-5802-7789

Funding

Mechanisms regulating vimentin-dependent invasion of the brain by Listeria monocytogenesR01AI146102 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI BRUMELL, JOHN HUNTER, HIGGINS, DARREN E · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Spatiotemporal Regulation of Protrusion Dynamics During Intracellular Bacterial DisseminationR21AI173602 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HIGGINS, DARREN E · 2023 to 2024
$462k
Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) FDN 154329Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) PJT 156093Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) PJT 191786Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) RGPIN 04330U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01AI146102U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21AI173602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is an intracellular pathogen that can cause life-threatening systemic infections. Internalin C (InlC) is a secreted factor required for full Lm virulence in systemic models of infection by mechanisms that remain unclear. Here, we show that InlC binds to CYLD, a host deubiquitinase and regulator of innate immunity. Structurally, we reveal the LRR domain of InlC binds the CAP-Gly2 domain of CYLD, independently of InlC's binding site for other host target proteins. Lm strains harboring amino acid substitutions in InlC that selectively disrupt binding to CYLD were examined. We demonstrate that after Lm accesses the host cytosol, InlC recruits CYLD to ubiquitin-positive bacteria. Recruitment of CYLD was dependent on the host E3 ligase RNF213, a major initiator of ubiquitin-mediated defenses. Furthermore, InlC-CYLD binding contributed to Lm virulence in mice. Together, these findings reveal how a secreted bacterial factor promotes the recruitment of a host deubiquitinase to cytosolic bacteria in response to ubiquitin-mediated defenses.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsDeubiquitinating Enzyme CYLDListeria monocytogenesListeriosisAnimalsCytosolHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansMiceProtein BindingUbiquitin-Protein LigasesVirulenceBacterial ProteinsCYLD protein, mouseDeubiquitinating Enzyme CYLDUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID42811002
PMCPMC13623971

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