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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 152, 1167-1170, Copyright © 1998 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Chlamydial elementary bodies are translocated on the surface of epithelial cells

S Campbell, J Larsen, ST Knight, NR Glicksman and PB Wyrick
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. steven.campbell@udcf.gla.ac.uk

Infection of eukaryotic cells by intracellular pathogens such as chlamydia requires attachment to the host cell surface. Chlamydia are thought to attach to the tips of microvilli in confluent monolayers of polarized cells. In vitro evidence obtained from migrating epithelial cells suggested that during healing the route of pathogen uptake might be different from that in intact epithelia. The small size of infectious chlamydial elementary bodies (approximately 0.3 microm in diameter) has made it difficult, however, to analyze the early stages of pathogen-host cell interaction in living cells by conventional microscopy. Contrast-enhanced video microscopy was therefore used to examine the earliest events of host-pathogen interaction and test the hypothesis that chlamydial uptake into the healing epithelia can involve translocation over the host cell surface. Observations made in this way were validated by scanning and immunofluorescence microscopy. These studies revealed two fates for chlamydiae taken onto the lamellipodial surface: 1) some chlamydiae were moved in a random fashion on the cell surface or were detached into the culture medium, whereas 2) other chlamydiae were translocated across the lamellipodium in a highly directed manner toward the microvillous perinuclear region. After internalization, these latter chlamydiae were found within intracellular inclusions, which demonstrated that this route of attachment and location of uptake resulted in productive growth.




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