SwePub
Sök i LIBRIS databas

  Utökad sökning

id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:umu-70304"
 

Sökning: id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:umu-70304" > Chemical genetics d...

LIBRIS Formathandbok  (Information om MARC21)
FältnamnIndikatorerMetadata
00004623nam a2200397 4500
001oai:DiVA.org:umu-70304
003SwePub
008130513s2013 | |||||||||||000 ||eng|
020 a 9789174596731q print
020 a 9789174596748q print
024a https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-703042 URI
040 a (SwePub)umu
041 a engb eng
042 9 SwePub
072 7a vet2 swepub-contenttype
072 7a dok2 swepub-publicationtype
100a Engström, Patrik,d 1982-u Umeå universitet,Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Teknisk-naturvetenskaplig fakultet),Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS),Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)4 aut0 (Swepub:umu)pakenm02
2451 0a Chemical genetics discloses the importance of heme and glucose metabolism in Chlamydia trachomatis pathogenesis
264 1a Umeå :b Umeå Universitet,c 2013
300 a 50 s.
338 a electronic2 rdacarrier
520 a Chlamydiae are important human bacterial pathogens with an intracellular life cycle that consists of two distinct bacterial forms, an infectious form (EB) that infects the eukaryotic host cell, and a non-infectious form (RB) that allows intracellular proliferation. To be successful, chlamydiae need to alternate between EB and RB to generate infectious EB’s which are competent to infect new host cells.Chemical genetics is an attractive approach to study bacterial pathogenesis; in principal this approach relies on an inhibitory compound that specifically inhibits a protein of interest. An obstacle in using this approach is target identification, however whole genome sequencing (WGS) of spontaneous mutants resistant to novel inhibitory compounds has significantly extended the utility of chemical genetic approaches by allowing the identification of their target proteins and/or biological pathways.In this thesis, a chemical genetics approach is used, I have found that heme and glucose metabolism of C. trachomatis is specifically important for the transition from the RB form to the infectious EB form. Heme and glucose metabolism are both coupled to energy metabolism, which suggests a common link between the RB-to-EB transitions. In connection with the above findings I have developed strategies that enable the isolation of isogenic C. trachomatis mutant strains. These strategies are based on WGS of spontaneous mutant populations and subsequent genotyping of clonal strains isolated from these mutant populations. Experiments with the mutant strains suggest that the uptake of glucose-6-phosphate (G-6-P) regulates the RB-to-EB transition, representing one of the first examples where genetics has been used to study C. trachomatis pathogenesis. Additional experiments with the mutant strains indicate that G-6-P promotes bacterial growth during metabolic stress.In concert with other findings presented in this thesis, I have fine-tuned methods that could be employed to reveal how novel inhibitory chemical compounds affect chlamydiae. In a broader context, I suggest that C. trachomatis could be used as a model organism to understand how new inhibitory drugs affect other bacterial pathogens.In addition, I observed that C. pneumoniae infections resulted in generalized bone loss in mice and that these mice display a cytokine profile similar to infected bone cells in vitro. Thus, this study indicates that C. pneumoniae potentially can infect bone cells in vivo, resulting in bone loss, alternatively, the inflammatory responses seen in vivo could be the causative factor of the bone loss observed.
653 a Chlamydiae
653 a heme metabolism
653 a glucose metabolism
653 a glucose-6-phosphate
653 a RB-to-EB transition
653 a molekylärbiologi
653 a Molecular Biology
700a Bergström, Sven,c Professoru Umeå universitet,Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Teknisk-naturvetenskaplig fakultet)4 ths0 (Swepub:umu)svbe0001
700a Hackstadt, Ted,c Professoru Host-Parasite Interactions Section, Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH, Hamilton, USA4 opn
710a Umeå universitetb Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Teknisk-naturvetenskaplig fakultet)4 org
856u https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:621083/FULLTEXT01.pdfx primaryx Raw objecty fulltext
856u https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:621083/FULLTEXT02.pdfy spikblad
856u https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:621083/FULLTEXT03.pdfy cover
8564 8u https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-70304

Hitta via bibliotek

Till lärosätets databas

Sök utanför SwePub

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.

 
pil uppåt Stäng

Kopiera och spara länken för att återkomma till aktuell vy