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    Adherence of a virulent strain of Listeria monocytogenes to the surface of a hepatocarcinoma cell line via lectin-substrate interaction (1990)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 153 (1990), S. 282-286 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Adherence ; Attachment ; Bacterial penetration ; Cell-cell interactions ; d-galactose ; Invasion ; Lectin ; Listeria monocytogenes ; Surface carbohydrate ; Virulence factor
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Listeria monocytogenes was examined for the presence of surface carbohydrates to ascertain whether surface sugars, if present, would interact with eucaryotic surface carbohydrate receptors. We found that a virulent, but not two avirulent strains had a surface α-d-galactose residue as determined by agglutination with Griffonia simplicifolia (GS-I) and other lectins. The virulent strain bound to a human hepatocarcinoma cell line (HepG2), which has a well characterized receptor for α-d-galactose. This interaction could be blocked by pretreatment of the HepG2 cells with either α-d-galactose or neuraminidase, the latter of which will render the galactose receptor functionally inactive. We propose that the attachment of the virulent Listeria to eucaryotic cells occurs as a result of the interaction of the microbial α-d-galactose with that of the eucaryotic galactose receptor. This surface carbohydrate may provide an explanation for the mechanism of attachment and penetration of virulent Listeria into host cells during infection. As such, this may allow for amplication of pathogenesis through intracellular multiplication in nonprofessional phagocytes prior to macrophage involvement.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00249083
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    Extracellular iron reductase activity produced by Listeria monocytogenes (1996)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 166 (1996), S. 51-57 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Key words Iron ; Listeria monocytogenes ; Extracellular iron reduction ; NADH:iron reductase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Little is known about how pathogenic microorganisms that do not produce low-molecular-weight iron-chelating agents, termed siderophores, acquire iron from their environment. We have identified an extracellular enzyme produced by Listeria monocytogenes that can mobilize iron from a variety of iron-chelate complexes via reduction of the metal. The iron reductase requires Mg2+, flavin mononucleotide (FMN), and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) for activity. Saturation kinetics were found when initial velocity studies of iron reduction were carried out as a function of variable FMN concentrations in the presence of 100 μM NADH and 10 mM Mg2+. Hyperbolic kinetics were also found when these studies were repeated as a function of variable NADH concentrations along with 20 μM FMN and 10 mM Mg2+. This process of extracellular reduction, in all likelihood, could be involved in the mobilization of iron from soils and aqueous environments and from host tissues in pathogenic processes. This is the first report of the extracellular enzymic reduction of iron by microorganisms.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002030050354
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