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Non-Typeable Invade Choroid Plexus Epithelial Cells in a Polar Fashion.
Wegele, Christian Stump-Guthier, Carolin Moroniak, Selina Weiss, Christel Rohde, Manfred Ishikawa, Hiroshi Schroten, Horst Schwerk, Christian Karremann, Michael Borkowski, Julia
Wegele, Christian
Stump-Guthier, Carolin
Moroniak, Selina
Weiss, Christel
Rohde, Manfred
Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Schroten, Horst
Schwerk, Christian
Karremann, Michael
Borkowski, Julia
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2020-08-10
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2020-06-26
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Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) is a pathogen of the human respiratory tract causing the majority of invasive H. influenzae infections. Severe invasive infections such as septicemia and meningitis occur rarely, but the lack of a protecting vaccine and the increasing antibiotic resistance of NTHI impede treatment and emphasize its relevance as a potential meningitis causing pathogen. Meningitis results from pathogens crossing blood-brain barriers and invading the immune privileged central nervous system (CNS). In this study, we addressed the potential of NTHI to enter the brain by invading cells of the choroid plexus (CP) prior to meningeal inflammation to enlighten NTHI pathophysiological mechanisms. A cell culture model of human CP epithelial cells, which form the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB) in vivo, was used to analyze adhesion and invasion by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. NTHI invade CP cells in vitro in a polar fashion from the blood-facing side. Furthermore, NTHI invasion rates are increased compared to encapsulated HiB and HiF strains. Fimbriae occurrence attenuated adhesion and invasion. Thus, our findings underline the role of the BCSFB as a potential entry port for NTHI into the brain and provide strong evidence for a function of the CP during NTHI invasion into the CNS during the course of meningitis.
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