B. Brett Finlay

Oral infection of mice with Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain (2007)

Wickham, Mark E, Brown, Nat F, Provias, John, Finlay, B Brett, Coombes, Brian K

Abstract Background Salmonella meningitis is a rare and serious infection of the central nervous system following acute Salmonella enterica sepsis. For this pathogen, no appropriate model has been...

Oral infection of mice with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Provias, John, Finlay, B. Brett, Coombes, Brian K.

BACKGROUND: Salmonella meningitis is a rare and serious infection of the central nervous system following acute Salmonella enterica sepsis. For this pathogen, no appropriate model has been reported...

Oral infection of mice with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Provias, John, Finlay, B. Brett, Coombes, Brian K.

BACKGROUND: Salmonella meningitis is a rare and serious infection of the central nervous system following acute Salmonella enterica sepsis. For this pathogen, no appropriate model has been reported...

Virulence is positively selected by transmission success between mammalian hosts (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Boyle, Erin C., Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett

Virulence, defined as damage to the host, is a trait of pathogens that evolutionary theory suggests benefits the pathogen in the ''struggle for existence'' [1]. Pathogens employ virulence mechanisms...

SseL is a salmonella-specific translocated effector integrated into the SsrB-controlled salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system (2007)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Bishop, Jenna L., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Duong, Nancy, ...

Bacterial pathogens use horizontal gene transfer to acquire virulence factors that influence host colonization, alter virulence traits, and ultimately shape the outcome of disease following...

SopD acts cooperatively with SopB during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion (2007)

Bakowski, Malina A., Cirulis, Judith T., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

The intracellular bacterial pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), causes disease in a variety of hosts. To invade and replicate in host cells, these bacteria subvert...

Src homology domain 2 adaptors affect adherence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to non-phagocytic cells (2007)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

The ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to penetrate the intestinal epithelium is key to its pathogenesis. Bacterial invasion can be seen as a two-step process...

Virulence is positively selected by transmission success between mammalian hosts (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Boyle, Erin C., Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett

Virulence, defined as damage to the host, is a trait of pathogens that evolutionary theory suggests benefits the pathogen in the ''struggle for existence'' [1]. Pathogens employ virulence mechanisms...

SseL is a salmonella-specific translocated effector integrated into the SsrB-controlled salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system (2007)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Bishop, Jenna L., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Duong, Nancy, ...

Bacterial pathogens use horizontal gene transfer to acquire virulence factors that influence host colonization, alter virulence traits, and ultimately shape the outcome of disease following...

SopD acts cooperatively with SopB during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion (2007)

Bakowski, Malina A., Cirulis, Judith T., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

The intracellular bacterial pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), causes disease in a variety of hosts. To invade and replicate in host cells, these bacteria subvert...

Src homology domain 2 adaptors affect adherence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to non-phagocytic cells (2007)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

The ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to penetrate the intestinal epithelium is key to its pathogenesis. Bacterial invasion can be seen as a two-step process...

Virulence is positively selected by transmission success between mammalian hosts (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Boyle, Erin C., Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett

Virulence, defined as damage to the host, is a trait of pathogens that evolutionary theory suggests benefits the pathogen in the ''struggle for existence'' [1]. Pathogens employ virulence mechanisms...

SseL is a salmonella-specific translocated effector integrated into the SsrB-controlled salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system (2007)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Bishop, Jenna L., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Duong, Nancy, ...

Bacterial pathogens use horizontal gene transfer to acquire virulence factors that influence host colonization, alter virulence traits, and ultimately shape the outcome of disease following...

SopD acts cooperatively with SopB during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion (2007)

Bakowski, Malina A., Cirulis, Judith T., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

The intracellular bacterial pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), causes disease in a variety of hosts. To invade and replicate in host cells, these bacteria subvert...

Src homology domain 2 adaptors affect adherence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to non-phagocytic cells (2007)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

The ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to penetrate the intestinal epithelium is key to its pathogenesis. Bacterial invasion can be seen as a two-step process...

Oral infection of mice with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes meningitis and infection of the brain (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Provias, John, Finlay, B. Brett, Coombes, Brian K.

BACKGROUND: Salmonella meningitis is a rare and serious infection of the central nervous system following acute Salmonella enterica sepsis. For this pathogen, no appropriate model has been reported...

Virulence is positively selected by transmission success between mammalian hosts (2007)

Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Boyle, Erin C., Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett

Virulence, defined as damage to the host, is a trait of pathogens that evolutionary theory suggests benefits the pathogen in the ''struggle for existence'' [1]. Pathogens employ virulence mechanisms...

SseL is a salmonella-specific translocated effector integrated into the SsrB-controlled salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system (2007)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Bishop, Jenna L., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Duong, Nancy, ...

Bacterial pathogens use horizontal gene transfer to acquire virulence factors that influence host colonization, alter virulence traits, and ultimately shape the outcome of disease following...

SopD acts cooperatively with SopB during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion (2007)

Bakowski, Malina A., Cirulis, Judith T., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

The intracellular bacterial pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), causes disease in a variety of hosts. To invade and replicate in host cells, these bacteria subvert...

Src homology domain 2 adaptors affect adherence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to non-phagocytic cells (2007)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

The ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to penetrate the intestinal epithelium is key to its pathogenesis. Bacterial invasion can be seen as a two-step process...

Crossing the Line: Selection and Evolution of Virulence Traits (2006)

Nat F. Brown, Mark E. Wickham, Brian K. Coombes, B. Brett Finlay

The evolution of pathogens presents a paradox. Pathogenic species are often absolutely dependent on their host species for their propagation through evolutionary time, yet the pathogenic lifestyle...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium effectors SopB, SopE, SopE2 and SipA disrupt tight junction structure and function (2006)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a major cause of human gastroenteritis. Infection of epithelial monolayers by S. Typhimurium disrupts tight junctions that normally maintain the intestinal...

Mutational analysis of Salmonella translocated effector members SifA and SopD2 reveals domains implicated in translocation, subcellular localization and function (2006)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Szeto, Jason, Jiang, Xiuju, Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen causing disease in several hosts. These bacteria use two distinct type III secretion systems that inject effector...

Bacterial genetic determinants of non-O157 STEC outbreaks and hemolytic-uremic syndrome after infection (2006)

Wickham, Mark E., Lupp, Claudia, Mascarenhas, Mariola, Vazquez, Alejandra, Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, ...

Although O157:H7 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are the predominant cause of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in the world, non-O157:H7 serotypes are a medically important cause of...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium effectors SopB, SopE, SopE2 and SipA disrupt tight junction structure and function (2006)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a major cause of human gastroenteritis. Infection of epithelial monolayers by S. Typhimurium disrupts tight junctions that normally maintain the intestinal...

Mutational analysis of Salmonella translocated effector members SifA and SopD2 reveals domains implicated in translocation, subcellular localization and function (2006)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Szeto, Jason, Jiang, Xiuju, Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen causing disease in several hosts. These bacteria use two distinct type III secretion systems that inject effector...

Bacterial genetic determinants of non-O157 STEC outbreaks and hemolytic-uremic syndrome after infection (2006)

Wickham, Mark E., Lupp, Claudia, Mascarenhas, Mariola, Vazquez, Alejandra, Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, ...

Although O157:H7 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are the predominant cause of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in the world, non-O157:H7 serotypes are a medically important cause of...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium effectors SopB, SopE, SopE2 and SipA disrupt tight junction structure and function (2006)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a major cause of human gastroenteritis. Infection of epithelial monolayers by S. Typhimurium disrupts tight junctions that normally maintain the intestinal...

Mutational analysis of Salmonella translocated effector members SifA and SopD2 reveals domains implicated in translocation, subcellular localization and function (2006)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Szeto, Jason, Jiang, Xiuju, Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen causing disease in several hosts. These bacteria use two distinct type III secretion systems that inject effector...

Bacterial genetic determinants of non-O157 STEC outbreaks and hemolytic-uremic syndrome after infection (2006)

Wickham, Mark E., Lupp, Claudia, Mascarenhas, Mariola, Vazquez, Alejandra, Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, ...

Although O157:H7 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are the predominant cause of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in the world, non-O157:H7 serotypes are a medically important cause of...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium effectors SopB, SopE, SopE2 and SipA disrupt tight junction structure and function (2006)

Boyle, Erin C., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a major cause of human gastroenteritis. Infection of epithelial monolayers by S. Typhimurium disrupts tight junctions that normally maintain the intestinal...

Mutational analysis of Salmonella translocated effector members SifA and SopD2 reveals domains implicated in translocation, subcellular localization and function (2006)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Szeto, Jason, Jiang, Xiuju, Coombes, Brian K., Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen causing disease in several hosts. These bacteria use two distinct type III secretion systems that inject effector...

Bacterial genetic determinants of non-O157 STEC outbreaks and hemolytic-uremic syndrome after infection (2006)

Wickham, Mark E., Lupp, Claudia, Mascarenhas, Mariola, Vazquez, Alejandra, Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, ...

Although O157:H7 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are the predominant cause of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in the world, non-O157:H7 serotypes are a medically important cause of...

Evidence of a Large Novel Gene Pool Associated with Prokaryotic Genomic Islands (2005)

Korine Ung, Dana Aeschliman, Jenny Bryan, B. Brett Finlay

Microbial genes that are “novel” (no detectable homologs in other species) have become of increasing interest as environmental sampling suggests that there are many more such novel genes in...

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Expressed Prior to Penetrating the Intestine (2005)

Nat F. Brown, Bruce A. Vallance, Brian K. Coombes, Yanet Valdez, Bryan A. Coburn, B. Brett Finlay

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is expressed prior to penetrating the intestine (2005)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Coombes, Brian K., Vandez, Yanet, Coburn, Bryan A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is expressed prior to penetrating the intestine (2005)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Coombes, Brian K., Vandez, Yanet, Coburn, Bryan A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Short RNA regulatory molecules, microRNAs, and short interfering RNAs participate in a range of developmental gene networks by base-pairing with their target sequences. Consistent with these...

Genetic and molecular analysis of GogB, a phage-encoded type III-secreted substrate in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium with autonomous expression from its associated phage (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Lemire, Sebastien, Bossi, Lionello, Hsiao, William W. L., ...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lysogenized by several temperate bacteriophages that encode lysogenic conversion genes, which can act as virulence factors during infection and contribute...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Short RNA regulatory molecules, microRNAs, and short interfering RNAs participate in a range of developmental gene networks by base-pairing with their target sequences. Consistent with these...

Genetic and molecular analysis of GogB, a phage-encoded type III-secreted substrate in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium with autonomous expression from its associated phage (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Lemire, Sebastien, Bossi, Lionello, Hsiao, William W. L., ...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lysogenized by several temperate bacteriophages that encode lysogenic conversion genes, which can act as virulence factors during infection and contribute...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Short RNA regulatory molecules, microRNAs, and short interfering RNAs participate in a range of developmental gene networks by base-pairing with their target sequences. Consistent with these...

Genetic and molecular analysis of GogB, a phage-encoded type III-secreted substrate in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium with autonomous expression from its associated phage (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Lemire, Sebastien, Bossi, Lionello, Hsiao, William W. L., ...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lysogenized by several temperate bacteriophages that encode lysogenic conversion genes, which can act as virulence factors during infection and contribute...

Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is expressed prior to penetrating the intestine (2005)

Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Coombes, Brian K., Vandez, Yanet, Coburn, Bryan A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Finlay, B. Brett

Short RNA regulatory molecules, microRNAs, and short interfering RNAs participate in a range of developmental gene networks by base-pairing with their target sequences. Consistent with these...

Genetic and molecular analysis of GogB, a phage-encoded type III-secreted substrate in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium with autonomous expression from its associated phage (2005)

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Lemire, Sebastien, Bossi, Lionello, Hsiao, William W. L., ...

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lysogenized by several temperate bacteriophages that encode lysogenic conversion genes, which can act as virulence factors during infection and contribute...

Decreased shedding of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by cattle following vaccination with type III secreted proteins (2004)

Potter, Andrew A., Klashinsky, Sandra, Li, Yuling, Frey, Elizabeth, Townsend, Hugh, Rogan, Dragan, ...

Cattle are an important reservoir of Escherichia coli O157:H7 leading to contamination of food and water, and subsequent human disease. This pathogen colonizes its hosts by producing several proteins...

Expression and secretion of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes in response to acidification exhibit differential requirements of a functional type III secretion apparatus and SsaL (2004)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vandez, Yanet, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 is pivotal to the intracellular survival of Salmonella and for virulence in mammals. SPI-2 encodes virulence factors (called effectors) that are translocated...

Expression and secretion of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes in response to acidification exhibit differential requirements of a functional type III secretion apparatus and SsaL (2004)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vandez, Yanet, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 is pivotal to the intracellular survival of Salmonella and for virulence in mammals. SPI-2 encodes virulence factors(called effectors) that are translocated...

Expression and secretion of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes in response to acidification exhibit differential requirements of a functional type III secretion apparatus and SsaL (2004)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vandez, Yanet, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 is pivotal to the intracellular survival of Salmonella and for virulence in mammals. SPI-2 encodes virulence factors (called effectors) that are translocated...

The Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium divalent cation transport systems MntH and SitABCD are essential for virulence in an Nramp1G169 murine typhoid model. (2004)

Zaharik, Michelle L., Cullen, Vivian Li, Fung, Angela M., Libby, Stephen J., Kujat Choy, Sonya L., Coburn, Bryan, ...

Nramp1 is a transporter that pumps divalent cations from the vacuoles of phagocytic cells and is associated with the innate resistance of mice to diverse intracellular pathogens. We demonstrate that...

Clearance of Citrobacter rodentium requires B cells but not secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) or IgM antibodies. (2004)

Maaser, Christian, Housley, Michael P., Iimura, Mitsutoshi, Smith, Jennifer R., Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Citrobacter rodentium, a murine model pathogen for human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, predominantly colonizes the lumen and mucosal surface of the colon and cecum and causes crypt hyperplasia...

The related effector proteins SopD and SopD2 from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contribute to virulence during systemic infection of mice (2004)

Jiang, Xiuju, Rossanese, Olivia W., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Galán, Jorge E., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Salmonella resides within host cells in a vacuole that it modifies through the action of virulence proteins called effectors. Here we examined the role of two related effectors, SopD and SopD2, in...

Identification and characterization of NleA, a non-LEE-encoded type III translocated virulence factor of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (2004)

Gruenheid, Samantha, Sekirov, Inna, Thomas, Nikhil A., Deng, Wanyin, O'Donnell, Paul, Goode, David, ...

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 uses a specialized protein translocation apparatus, the type III secretion system (TTSS), to deliver bacterial effector proteins into host cells....

The related effector proteins SopD and SopD2 from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contribute to virulence during systemic infection of mice (2004)

Jiang, Xiuju, Rossanese, Olivia W., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Galán, Jorge E., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Salmonella resides within host cells in a vacuole that it modifies through the action of virulence proteins called effectors. Here we examined the role of two related effectors, SopD and SopD2, in...

Identification and characterization of NleA, a non-LEE-encoded type III translocated virulence factor of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (2004)

Gruenheid, Samantha, Sekirov, Inna, Thomas, Nikhil A., Deng, Wanyin, O'Donnell, Paul, Goode, David, ...

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 uses a specialized protein translocation apparatus, the type III secretion system (TTSS), to deliver bacterial effector proteins into host cells....

The related effector proteins SopD and SopD2 from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contribute to virulence during systemic infection of mice (2004)

Jiang, Xiuju, Rossanese, Olivia W., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Galán, Jorge E., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Salmonella resides within host cells in a vacuole that it modifies through the action of virulence proteins called effectors. Here we examined the role of two related effectors, SopD and SopD2, in...

Identification and characterization of NleA, a non-LEE-encoded type III translocated virulence factor of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (2004)

Gruenheid, Samantha, Sekirov, Inna, Thomas, Nikhil A., Deng, Wanyin, O'Donnell, Paul, Goode, David, ...

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 uses a specialized protein translocation apparatus, the type III secretion system (TTSS), to deliver bacterial effector proteins into host cells....

Summary (2004)

Xiuju Jiang, Olivia W. Rossanese, Nat F. Brown, Sonya Kujat-choy, Jorge E. Galán, B. Brett Finlay, ...

et al. The related effector proteins SopD and SopD2 from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contribute to virulence during systemic infection of mice

Expression and secretion of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes in response to acidification exhibit differential requirements of a functional type III secretion apparatus and SsaL (2004)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vandez, Yanet, Brumell, John H., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 is pivotal to the intracellular survival of Salmonella and for virulence in mammals. SPI-2 encodes virulence factors (called effectors) that are translocated...

The related effector proteins SopD and SopD2 from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contribute to virulence during systemic infection of mice (2004)

Jiang, Xiuju, Rossanese, Olivia W., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Galán, Jorge E., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Salmonella resides within host cells in a vacuole that it modifies through the action of virulence proteins called effectors. Here we examined the role of two related effectors, SopD and SopD2, in...

Identification and characterization of NleA, a non-LEE-encoded type III translocated virulence factor of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (2004)

Gruenheid, Samantha, Sekirov, Inna, Thomas, Nikhil A., Deng, Wanyin, O'Donnell, Paul, Goode, David, ...

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 uses a specialized protein translocation apparatus, the type III secretion system (TTSS), to deliver bacterial effector proteins into host cells....

SseA is required for translocation of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 effectors into host cells (2003)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI2) is a virulence locus on the bacterial chromosome required for intracellular proliferation and systemic infection in mice. Cell culture models and a murine...

SopD2 is a novel type III secreted effector of Salmonella typhimurium that targets late endocytic compartments upon delivery into host cells (2003)

Brumell, John H., Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that utilizes two type III secretion systems to deliver virulence proteins into host cells. These proteins, termed effectors, alter host...

SseA is required for translocation of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 effectors into host cells (2003)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI2) is a virulence locus on the bacterial chromosome required for intracellular proliferation and systemic infection in mice. Cell culture models and a murine...

SopD2 is a novel type III secreted effector of Salmonella typhimurium that targets late endocytic compartments upon delivery into host cells (2003)

Brumell, John H., Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that utilizes two type III secretion systems to deliver virulence proteins into host cells. These proteins, termed effectors, alter host...

SseA is required for translocation of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 effectors into host cells (2003)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI2) is a virulence locus on the bacterial chromosome required for intracellular proliferation and systemic infection in mice. Cell culture models and a murine...

SopD2 is a novel type III secreted effector of Salmonella typhimurium that targets late endocytic compartments upon delivery into host cells (2003)

Brumell, John H., Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that utilizes two type III secretion systems to deliver virulence proteins into host cells. These proteins, termed effectors, alter host...

SseA is required for translocation of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 effectors into host cells (2003)

Coombes, Brian K., Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI2) is a virulence locus on the bacterial chromosome required for intracellular proliferation and systemic infection in mice. Cell culture models and a murine...

SopD2 is a novel type III secreted effector of Salmonella typhimurium that targets late endocytic compartments upon delivery into host cells (2003)

Brumell, John H., Kujat-Choy, Sonya, Brown, Nathaniel Francis, Vallance, Bruce A., Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that utilizes two type III secretion systems to deliver virulence proteins into host cells. These proteins, termed effectors, alter host...

Introduction: microbiology and immunology: lessons learned from Salmonella (2001)

Kaufmann,Stefan H. E., Raupach,Barbel, Finlay,B. Brett

Salmonella enterica, a Gram-negative bacterium, causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, and is an excellent model to study bacterial pathogenesis and cellular immune responses. With the...

Studies of transfer (tra) genes from IncF plasmids / (1986)

Finlay, B. Brett (Barton Brett)

Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Biochemistry.

Yersinia enterocolitica induces apoptosis in macrophages by a process requiring functional type III secretion and translocation mechanisms and involving YopP, presumably acting as an effector protein

Mills, Scott D., Boland, Anne, Sory, Marie-Paule, Van Der Smissen, Patrick, Kerbourch, Corinne, Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Yersiniae, causative agents of plague and gastrointestinal diseases, secrete and translocate Yop effector proteins into the cytosol of macrophages, leading to disruption of host defense mechanisms....

Antibacterial Efficacy of Gentamicin Encapsulated in pH-Sensitive Liposomes against an In Vivo Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Intracellular Infection Model

Cordeiro, Carol, Wiseman, David J., Lutwyche, Peter, Uh, Mitchell, Evans, Jennifer C., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Encapsulation of gentamicin in liposomes can be used to achieve intracellular delivery and broaden the clinical utility of this drug. We have previously described a novel, rationally designed,...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Inhibits Phagocytosis

Goosney, Danika L., Celli, Jean, Kenny, Brendan, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) interacts with intestinal epithelial cells, activating host signaling pathways leading to cytoskeletal rearrangements and ultimately diarrhea. In this study,...

Type III Secretion-Dependent Hemolytic Activity of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Warawa, Jonathan, Finlay, B. Brett, Kenny, Brendan

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) was found to exhibit a type III secretion-dependent, contact-mediated, hemolytic activity requiring the EspA, EspB, and EspD secreted proteins. EspB and EspD...

Salmonella typhimurium Virulence Genes Are Induced upon Bacterial Invasion into Phagocytic and Nonphagocytic Cells

Pfeifer, Cheryl G., Marcus, Sandra L., Steele-Mortimer, Olivia, Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Survival and growth of salmonellae within host cells are important aspects of bacterial virulence. We have developed an assay to identify Salmonella typhimurium genes that are induced inside...

Role of EspB in Experimental Human Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection

Tacket, Carol O., Sztein, Marcelo B., Losonsky, Genevieve, Abe, Akio, Finlay, B. Brett, McNamara, Barry P., ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), a leading cause of diarrhea among infants in developing countries, induces dramatic alterations in host cell architecture that depend on a type III secretion...

Tir Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Pedestal Formation Are Delayed in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli sepZ::TnphoA Mutant 30-5-1(3)

Devinney, Rebekah, Nisan, Israel, Ruschkowski, Sharon, Rosenshine, Ilan, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain 30-5-1(3) has been reported to form attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions without Tir tyrosine phosphorylation. In this study, we show that 30-5-1(3),...

Recruitment of Cytoskeletal and Signaling Proteins to Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Pedestals

Goosney, Danika L., DeVinney, Rebekah, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that attaches to intestinal epithelial cells and causes chronic watery diarrhea. A close relative, enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC),...

Decreased Apoptosis in the Ileum and Ileal Peyer's Patches: a Feature after Infection with Rabbit Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O103

Heczko, Ursula, Carthy, Chris M., O'Brien, Bronwyn A., Finlay, B. Brett

Significant changes occur in intestinal epithelial cells after infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC). However, it is unclear whether this pathogen alters rates of apoptosis. By...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Induces Expression of the Early Growth Response Factor by Activating Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Epithelial Cells

De Grado, Myriam, Rosenberger, Carrie M., Gauthier, Annick, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an extracellular bacterial pathogen that infects the human intestinal epithelium and is a major cause of infantile diarrhea in developing countries. EPEC...

Locus of Enterocyte Effacement from Citrobacter rodentium: Sequence Analysis and Evidence for Horizontal Transfer among Attaching and Effacing Pathogens

Deng, Wanyin, Li, Yuling, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The family of attaching and effacing (A/E) bacterial pathogens, which includes diarrheagenic enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), remains a significant...

Human Response to Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection: Antibodies to Secreted Virulence Factors

Li, Yuling, Frey, Elizabeth, Mackenzie, Andrew M. R., Finlay, B. Brett

Vaccination has been proposed for the prevention of disease due to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), but the immune response following human infection, including the choice of potential...

Mechanical Fractionation Reveals Structural Requirements for Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Tir Insertion into Host Membranes

Gauthier, Annick, De Grado, Myriam, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) inserts its receptor for intimate adherence (Tir) into host cell membranes by using a type III secretion system. Detergents are frequently used to fractionate...

Vacuole Acidification Is Not Required for Survival of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium within Cultured Macrophages and Epithelial Cells

Steele-Mortimer, Olivia, St-Louis, Maryse, Olivier, Martin, Finlay, B. Brett

Phagosome acidification is an important component of the microbicidal response by infected eukaryotic cells. Thus, intracellular pathogens that reside within phagosomes must either block phagosome...

Intracellular Delivery and Antibacterial Activity of Gentamicin Encapsulated in pH-Sensitive Liposomes

Lutwyche, Peter, Cordeiro, Carol, Wiseman, David J., St-Louis, Maryse, Uh, Mitchell, Hope, Michael J., ...

Cell membranes are relatively impermeable to the antibiotic gentamicin, a factor that, along with the toxicity of gentamicin, precludes its use against many important intracellular bacterial...

Listeria monocytogenes Invasion of Epithelial Cells Requires the MEK-1/ERK-2 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway

Tang, Patrick, Sutherland, Claire L., Gold, Michael R., Finlay, B. Brett

PD98059, a specific inhibitor of MEK-1 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase, blocked Listeria monocytogenes invasion into HeLa epithelial cells. The effects of PD98059 were reversible, as...

Trafficking of Porin-Deficient Salmonella typhimurium Mutants inside HeLa Cells: ompR and envZ Mutants Are Defective for the Formation of Salmonella-Induced Filaments

Mills, Scott D., Ruschkowski, Sharon R., Stein, Murry A., Finlay, B. Brett

Outer membrane porin genes of Salmonella typhimurium, including ompC, ompF, and tppB, are regulated by the products of ompB, a two-component regulatory locus encoding OmpR and EnvZ. S. typhimurium...

Antigenic Analysis of Bordetella pertussis Filamentous Hemagglutinin with Phage Display Libraries and Rabbit Anti-Filamentous Hemagglutinin Polyclonal Antibodies

Wilson, Dan R., Siebers, Annette, Finlay, B. Brett

Although substantial advancements have been made in the development of efficacious acellular vaccines against Bordetella pertussis, continued progress requires better understanding of the antigenic...

Functional Expression of Nramp1 In Vitro in the Murine Macrophage Line RAW264.7

Govoni, Gregory, Canonne-Hergaux, François, Pfeifer, Cheryl G., Marcus, Sandra L., Mills, Scott D., Hackam, David J., ...

Mutations at the Nramp1 locus in vivo cause susceptibility to infection by unrelated intracellular microbes. Nramp1 encodes an integral membrane protein abundantly expressed in the...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Produces Tir, Which Is Translocated to the Host Cell Membrane but Is Not Tyrosine Phosphorylated

DeVinney, Rebekah, Stein, Markus, Reinscheid, Dieter, Abe, Akio, Ruschkowski, Sharon, Finlay, B. Brett

Intimate attachment to the host cell leading to the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions is an essential feature of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 pathogenesis. In a...

Mice Lacking T and B Lymphocytes Develop Transient Colitis and Crypt Hyperplasia yet Suffer Impaired Bacterial Clearance during Citrobacter rodentium Infection

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

The bacterial pathogen Citrobacter rodentium belongs to a family of gastrointestinal pathogens that includes enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and is the causative agent of...

Disruption of the Salmonella-Containing Vacuole Leads to Increased Replication of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium in the Cytosol of Epithelial Cells

Brumell, John H., Tang, Patrick, Zaharik, Michelle L., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that inhabits a vacuolar compartment, called the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV), in infected host cells....

Modulation of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression by the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium in Infected Mice

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, De Grado, Myriam, Chan, Crystal, Jacobson, Kevan, Finlay, B. Brett

Citrobacter rodentium belongs to the attaching and effacing family of enteric bacterial pathogens that includes both enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. These bacteria infect...

Host–pathogen interactions: Host resistance factor Nramp1 up-regulates the expression of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes

Zaharik, Michelle L., Vallance, Bruce A., Puente, José L., Gros, Philippe, Finlay, B. Brett

Nramp1 (Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein-1; also known as Slc11a1) is a host resistance gene that provides protection against several intracellular pathogens, including Salmonella...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli mediates antiphagocytosis through the inhibition of PI 3-kinase-dependent pathways

Celli, Jean, Olivier, Martin, Finlay, B.Brett

The extracellular pathogen enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) uses a type III secretion system to inhibit its uptake by macrophages. We show that EPEC antiphagocytosis is independent of the...

Virulence factors of the human opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens identified by in vivo screening

Kurz, C.Léopold, Chauvet, Sophie, Andrès, Emmanuel, Aurouze, Marianne, Vallet, Isabelle, Michel, Gérard P.F., ...

The human opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens is a bacterium with a broad host range, and represents a growing problem for public health. Serratia marcescens kills Caenorhabditis elegans after...

Host Susceptibility to the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, Jacobson, Kevan, Finlay, B. Brett

Many studies have shown that genetic susceptibility plays a key role in determining whether bacterial pathogens successfully infect and cause disease in potential hosts. Surprisingly, whether host...

Secretin of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III Secretion System Requires Components of the Type III Apparatus for Assembly and Localization

Gauthier, Annick, Puente, Jose Luis, Finlay, B. Brett

At least 16 proteins are thought to be involved in forming the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) type III translocation apparatus which delivers virulence factors into host cells, yet their...

Evidence That Plant-Like Genes in Chlamydia Species Reflect an Ancestral Relationship between Chlamydiaceae, Cyanobacteria, and the Chloroplast

Brinkman, Fiona S.L., Blanchard, Jeffrey L., Cherkasov, Artem, Av-Gay, Yossef, Brunham, Robert C., Fernandez, Rachel C., ...

An unusually high proportion of proteins encoded in Chlamydia genomes are most similar to plant proteins, leading to proposals that a Chlamydia ancestor obtained genes from a plant or plant-like host...

Translocated Intimin Receptor and Its Chaperone Interact with ATPase of the Type III Secretion Apparatus of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Gauthier, Annick, Finlay, B. Brett

Few interactions have been reported between effectors and components of the type III secretion apparatus, although many interactions have been demonstrated between type III effectors and their...

Interplay between antibacterial effectors: A macrophage antimicrobial peptide impairs intracellular Salmonella replication

Rosenberger, Carrie M., Gallo, Richard L., Finlay, B. Brett

Antimicrobial peptides have established an important role in the defense against extracellular infections, but the expression of cationic peptides within macrophages as an antibacterial effector...

Dissecting virulence: Systematic and functional analyses of a pathogenicity island

Deng, Wanyin, Puente, José L., Gruenheid, Samantha, Li, Yuling, Vallance, Bruce A., Vázquez, Alejandra, ...

Bacterial pathogenicity islands (PAI) often encode both effector molecules responsible for disease and secretion systems that deliver these effectors to host cells. Human enterohemorrhagic...

Clearance of Citrobacter rodentium Requires B Cells but Not Secretory Immunoglobulin A (IgA) or IgM Antibodies

Maaser, Christian, Housley, Michael P., Iimura, Mitsutoshi, Smith, Jennifer R., Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Citrobacter rodentium, a murine model pathogen for human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, predominantly colonizes the lumen and mucosal surface of the colon and cecum and causes crypt hyperplasia...

Salmonella Impairs RILP Recruitment to Rab7 during Maturation of Invasion Vacuoles

Harrison, Rene E., Brumell, John H., Khandani, Arian, Bucci, Cecilia, Scott, Cameron C., Jiang, Xiuju, ...

After invasion of epithelial cells, Salmonella enterica Typhimurium resides within membrane-bound vacuoles where it survives and replicates. Like endocytic vesicles, the Salmonella-containing...

SseK1 and SseK2 Are Novel Translocated Proteins of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

Kujat Choy, Sonya L., Boyle, Erin C., Gal-Mor, Ohad, Goode, David L., Valdez, Yanet, Vallance, Bruce A., ...

Salmonella enterica is a gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease symptoms ranging from gastroenteritis to typhoid fever. A key virulence strategy is the translocation of...

The Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Divalent Cation Transport Systems MntH and SitABCD Are Essential for Virulence in an Nramp1G169 Murine Typhoid Model

Zaharik, Michelle L., Cullen, Vivian Li, Fung, Angela M., Libby, Stephen J., Kujat Choy, Sonya L., Coburn, Bryan, ...

Nramp1 is a transporter that pumps divalent cations from the vacuoles of phagocytic cells and is associated with the innate resistance of mice to diverse intracellular pathogens. We demonstrate that...

Helicobacter pylori Infection Targets Adherens Junction Regulatory Proteins and Results in Increased Rates of Migration in Human Gastric Epithelial Cells

Conlin, Victoria S., Curtis, Susan B., Zhao, Ying, Moore, Edwin D. W., Smith, Valerie C., Meloche, R. Mark, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori attaches to antral epithelial cells in vivo. Cultured human antral epithelial cells, AGS and NCI-N87 cell lines, were grown in the absence or presence...

Modulation of Host Cytoskeleton Function by the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and Citrobacter rodentium Effector Protein EspG

Hardwidge, Philip R., Deng, Wanyin, Vallance, Bruce A., Rodriguez-Escudero, Isabel, Cid, Victor J., Molina, Maria, ...

EspG is a conserved protein encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, including enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and...

Regulation of Type III Secretion Hierarchy of Translocators and Effectors in Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogens

Deng, Wanyin, Li, Yuling, Hardwidge, Philip R., Frey, Elizabeth A., Pfuetzner, Richard A., Lee, Sansan, ...

Human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), and the mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodentium (CR) belong to the family of attaching and effacing (A/E) bacterial...

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Necessary for Complete Virulence in a Mouse Model of Infectious Enterocolitis

Coburn, Bryan, Li, Yuling, Owen, David, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella species cause a wide range of disease in multiple hosts. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limited intestinal disease in humans and systemic typhoid-like illness in...

Transcriptional Inhibitor of Virulence Factors in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Gauthier, Annick, Robertson, Marilyn L., Lowden, Michael, Ibarra, J. Antonio, Puente, José Luis, Finlay, B. Brett

The type III secretion system (TTSS) is a key virulence mechanism of many important gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The TTSS is conserved among different bacterial pathogens, and mutations and...

Analysis of the Contribution of Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands 1 and 2 to Enteric Disease Progression Using a Novel Bovine Ileal Loop Model and a Murine Model of Infectious Enterocolitis

Coombes, Brian K., Coburn, Bryan A., Potter, Andrew A., Gomis, Susantha, Mirakhur, Kuldip, Li, Yuling, ...

We have developed a novel ileal loop model for use in calves to analyze the contribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium type III secretion systems to disease processes in vivo. Our model...

Evidence of a Large Novel Gene Pool Associated with Prokaryotic Genomic Islands

Hsiao, William W. L, Ung, Korine, Aeschliman, Dana, Bryan, Jenny, Finlay, B. Brett, Brinkman, Fiona S. L

Microbial genes that are “novel” (no detectable homologs in other species) have become of increasing interest as environmental sampling suggests that there are many more such novel genes in...

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Expressed Prior to Penetrating the Intestine

Brown, Nat F, Vallance, Bruce A, Coombes, Brian K, Valdez, Yanet, Coburn, Bryan A, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

A Positive Regulatory Loop Controls Expression of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement-Encoded Regulators Ler and GrlA

Barba, Jeannette, Bustamante, Víctor H., Flores-Valdez, Mario A., Deng, Wanyin, Finlay, B. Brett, Puente, José L.

The formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on intestinal epithelial cells is an essential step in the pathogenesis of human enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and of...

Visualization of Vacuolar Acidification-induced Transcription of Genes of Pathogens inside MacrophagesD⃞

Martin-Orozco, Natalia, Touret, Nicolas, Zaharik, Michael L., Park, Edwin, Kopelman, Raoul, Miller, Samuel, ...

The objective of these studies was to analyze the role of the ionic environment of phagosomal vacuoles in the control of pathogens by macrophages. Digital imaging and flow cytometry were used to...

Crossing the Line: Selection and Evolution of Virulence Traits

Brown, Nat F, Wickham, Mark E, Coombes, Brian K, Finlay, B. Brett

The evolution of pathogens presents a paradox. Pathogenic species are often absolutely dependent on their host species for their propagation through evolutionary time, yet the pathogenic lifestyle...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Lowden, Michael J., Brown, Nat F., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica relies on a type III secretion system encoded in Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI-2) to survive and replicate within macrophages at systemic sites during typhoid. SPI-2...

Toll-Like Receptor 4 Contributes to Colitis Development but Not to Host Defense during Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice

Khan, Mohammed A., Ma, Caixia, Knodler, Leigh A., Valdez, Yanet, Rosenberger, Carrie M., Deng, Wanyin, ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) are noninvasive bacterial pathogens that infect their hosts' intestinal epithelium, causing severe diarrheal disease....

Yersinia enterocolitica induces apoptosis in macrophages by a process requiring functional type III secretion and translocation mechanisms and involving YopP, presumably acting as an effector protein

Mills, Scott D., Boland, Anne, Sory, Marie-Paule, Van Der Smissen, Patrick, Kerbourch, Corinne, Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Yersiniae, causative agents of plague and gastrointestinal diseases, secrete and translocate Yop effector proteins into the cytosol of macrophages, leading to disruption of host defense mechanisms....

Antibacterial Efficacy of Gentamicin Encapsulated in pH-Sensitive Liposomes against an In Vivo Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Intracellular Infection Model

Cordeiro, Carol, Wiseman, David J., Lutwyche, Peter, Uh, Mitchell, Evans, Jennifer C., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Encapsulation of gentamicin in liposomes can be used to achieve intracellular delivery and broaden the clinical utility of this drug. We have previously described a novel, rationally designed,...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Inhibits Phagocytosis

Goosney, Danika L., Celli, Jean, Kenny, Brendan, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) interacts with intestinal epithelial cells, activating host signaling pathways leading to cytoskeletal rearrangements and ultimately diarrhea. In this study,...

Type III Secretion-Dependent Hemolytic Activity of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Warawa, Jonathan, Finlay, B. Brett, Kenny, Brendan

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) was found to exhibit a type III secretion-dependent, contact-mediated, hemolytic activity requiring the EspA, EspB, and EspD secreted proteins. EspB and EspD...

Salmonella typhimurium Virulence Genes Are Induced upon Bacterial Invasion into Phagocytic and Nonphagocytic Cells

Pfeifer, Cheryl G., Marcus, Sandra L., Steele-Mortimer, Olivia, Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

Survival and growth of salmonellae within host cells are important aspects of bacterial virulence. We have developed an assay to identify Salmonella typhimurium genes that are induced inside...

Role of EspB in Experimental Human Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection

Tacket, Carol O., Sztein, Marcelo B., Losonsky, Genevieve, Abe, Akio, Finlay, B. Brett, McNamara, Barry P., ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), a leading cause of diarrhea among infants in developing countries, induces dramatic alterations in host cell architecture that depend on a type III secretion...

Tir Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Pedestal Formation Are Delayed in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli sepZ::TnphoA Mutant 30-5-1(3)

Devinney, Rebekah, Nisan, Israel, Ruschkowski, Sharon, Rosenshine, Ilan, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain 30-5-1(3) has been reported to form attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions without Tir tyrosine phosphorylation. In this study, we show that 30-5-1(3),...

Recruitment of Cytoskeletal and Signaling Proteins to Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Pedestals

Goosney, Danika L., DeVinney, Rebekah, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that attaches to intestinal epithelial cells and causes chronic watery diarrhea. A close relative, enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC),...

Decreased Apoptosis in the Ileum and Ileal Peyer's Patches: a Feature after Infection with Rabbit Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O103

Heczko, Ursula, Carthy, Chris M., O'Brien, Bronwyn A., Finlay, B. Brett

Significant changes occur in intestinal epithelial cells after infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC). However, it is unclear whether this pathogen alters rates of apoptosis. By...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Induces Expression of the Early Growth Response Factor by Activating Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades in Epithelial Cells

De Grado, Myriam, Rosenberger, Carrie M., Gauthier, Annick, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an extracellular bacterial pathogen that infects the human intestinal epithelium and is a major cause of infantile diarrhea in developing countries. EPEC...

Locus of Enterocyte Effacement from Citrobacter rodentium: Sequence Analysis and Evidence for Horizontal Transfer among Attaching and Effacing Pathogens

Deng, Wanyin, Li, Yuling, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

The family of attaching and effacing (A/E) bacterial pathogens, which includes diarrheagenic enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), remains a significant...

Human Response to Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection: Antibodies to Secreted Virulence Factors

Li, Yuling, Frey, Elizabeth, Mackenzie, Andrew M. R., Finlay, B. Brett

Vaccination has been proposed for the prevention of disease due to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), but the immune response following human infection, including the choice of potential...

Mechanical Fractionation Reveals Structural Requirements for Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Tir Insertion into Host Membranes

Gauthier, Annick, De Grado, Myriam, Finlay, B. Brett

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) inserts its receptor for intimate adherence (Tir) into host cell membranes by using a type III secretion system. Detergents are frequently used to fractionate...

Vacuole Acidification Is Not Required for Survival of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium within Cultured Macrophages and Epithelial Cells

Steele-Mortimer, Olivia, St-Louis, Maryse, Olivier, Martin, Finlay, B. Brett

Phagosome acidification is an important component of the microbicidal response by infected eukaryotic cells. Thus, intracellular pathogens that reside within phagosomes must either block phagosome...

Intracellular Delivery and Antibacterial Activity of Gentamicin Encapsulated in pH-Sensitive Liposomes

Lutwyche, Peter, Cordeiro, Carol, Wiseman, David J., St-Louis, Maryse, Uh, Mitchell, Hope, Michael J., ...

Cell membranes are relatively impermeable to the antibiotic gentamicin, a factor that, along with the toxicity of gentamicin, precludes its use against many important intracellular bacterial...

Listeria monocytogenes Invasion of Epithelial Cells Requires the MEK-1/ERK-2 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway

Tang, Patrick, Sutherland, Claire L., Gold, Michael R., Finlay, B. Brett

PD98059, a specific inhibitor of MEK-1 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase, blocked Listeria monocytogenes invasion into HeLa epithelial cells. The effects of PD98059 were reversible, as...

Trafficking of Porin-Deficient Salmonella typhimurium Mutants inside HeLa Cells: ompR and envZ Mutants Are Defective for the Formation of Salmonella-Induced Filaments

Mills, Scott D., Ruschkowski, Sharon R., Stein, Murry A., Finlay, B. Brett

Outer membrane porin genes of Salmonella typhimurium, including ompC, ompF, and tppB, are regulated by the products of ompB, a two-component regulatory locus encoding OmpR and EnvZ. S. typhimurium...

Antigenic Analysis of Bordetella pertussis Filamentous Hemagglutinin with Phage Display Libraries and Rabbit Anti-Filamentous Hemagglutinin Polyclonal Antibodies

Wilson, Dan R., Siebers, Annette, Finlay, B. Brett

Although substantial advancements have been made in the development of efficacious acellular vaccines against Bordetella pertussis, continued progress requires better understanding of the antigenic...

Functional Expression of Nramp1 In Vitro in the Murine Macrophage Line RAW264.7

Govoni, Gregory, Canonne-Hergaux, François, Pfeifer, Cheryl G., Marcus, Sandra L., Mills, Scott D., Hackam, David J., ...

Mutations at the Nramp1 locus in vivo cause susceptibility to infection by unrelated intracellular microbes. Nramp1 encodes an integral membrane protein abundantly expressed in the...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Produces Tir, Which Is Translocated to the Host Cell Membrane but Is Not Tyrosine Phosphorylated

DeVinney, Rebekah, Stein, Markus, Reinscheid, Dieter, Abe, Akio, Ruschkowski, Sharon, Finlay, B. Brett

Intimate attachment to the host cell leading to the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions is an essential feature of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 pathogenesis. In a...

Mice Lacking T and B Lymphocytes Develop Transient Colitis and Crypt Hyperplasia yet Suffer Impaired Bacterial Clearance during Citrobacter rodentium Infection

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, Knodler, Leigh A., Finlay, B. Brett

The bacterial pathogen Citrobacter rodentium belongs to a family of gastrointestinal pathogens that includes enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and is the causative agent of...

Disruption of the Salmonella-Containing Vacuole Leads to Increased Replication of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium in the Cytosol of Epithelial Cells

Brumell, John H., Tang, Patrick, Zaharik, Michelle L., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that inhabits a vacuolar compartment, called the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV), in infected host cells....

Modulation of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression by the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium in Infected Mice

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, De Grado, Myriam, Chan, Crystal, Jacobson, Kevan, Finlay, B. Brett

Citrobacter rodentium belongs to the attaching and effacing family of enteric bacterial pathogens that includes both enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. These bacteria infect...

Host–pathogen interactions: Host resistance factor Nramp1 up-regulates the expression of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes

Zaharik, Michelle L., Vallance, Bruce A., Puente, José L., Gros, Philippe, Finlay, B. Brett

Nramp1 (Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein-1; also known as Slc11a1) is a host resistance gene that provides protection against several intracellular pathogens, including Salmonella...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli mediates antiphagocytosis through the inhibition of PI 3-kinase-dependent pathways

Celli, Jean, Olivier, Martin, Finlay, B.Brett

The extracellular pathogen enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) uses a type III secretion system to inhibit its uptake by macrophages. We show that EPEC antiphagocytosis is independent of the...

Virulence factors of the human opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens identified by in vivo screening

Kurz, C.Léopold, Chauvet, Sophie, Andrès, Emmanuel, Aurouze, Marianne, Vallet, Isabelle, Michel, Gérard P.F., ...

The human opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens is a bacterium with a broad host range, and represents a growing problem for public health. Serratia marcescens kills Caenorhabditis elegans after...

Host Susceptibility to the Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium

Vallance, Bruce A., Deng, Wanyin, Jacobson, Kevan, Finlay, B. Brett

Many studies have shown that genetic susceptibility plays a key role in determining whether bacterial pathogens successfully infect and cause disease in potential hosts. Surprisingly, whether host...

Secretin of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III Secretion System Requires Components of the Type III Apparatus for Assembly and Localization

Gauthier, Annick, Puente, Jose Luis, Finlay, B. Brett

At least 16 proteins are thought to be involved in forming the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) type III translocation apparatus which delivers virulence factors into host cells, yet their...

Evidence That Plant-Like Genes in Chlamydia Species Reflect an Ancestral Relationship between Chlamydiaceae, Cyanobacteria, and the Chloroplast

Brinkman, Fiona S.L., Blanchard, Jeffrey L., Cherkasov, Artem, Av-Gay, Yossef, Brunham, Robert C., Fernandez, Rachel C., ...

An unusually high proportion of proteins encoded in Chlamydia genomes are most similar to plant proteins, leading to proposals that a Chlamydia ancestor obtained genes from a plant or plant-like host...

Translocated Intimin Receptor and Its Chaperone Interact with ATPase of the Type III Secretion Apparatus of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Gauthier, Annick, Finlay, B. Brett

Few interactions have been reported between effectors and components of the type III secretion apparatus, although many interactions have been demonstrated between type III effectors and their...

Interplay between antibacterial effectors: A macrophage antimicrobial peptide impairs intracellular Salmonella replication

Rosenberger, Carrie M., Gallo, Richard L., Finlay, B. Brett

Antimicrobial peptides have established an important role in the defense against extracellular infections, but the expression of cationic peptides within macrophages as an antibacterial effector...

Dissecting virulence: Systematic and functional analyses of a pathogenicity island

Deng, Wanyin, Puente, José L., Gruenheid, Samantha, Li, Yuling, Vallance, Bruce A., Vázquez, Alejandra, ...

Bacterial pathogenicity islands (PAI) often encode both effector molecules responsible for disease and secretion systems that deliver these effectors to host cells. Human enterohemorrhagic...

Clearance of Citrobacter rodentium Requires B Cells but Not Secretory Immunoglobulin A (IgA) or IgM Antibodies

Maaser, Christian, Housley, Michael P., Iimura, Mitsutoshi, Smith, Jennifer R., Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Citrobacter rodentium, a murine model pathogen for human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, predominantly colonizes the lumen and mucosal surface of the colon and cecum and causes crypt hyperplasia...

Salmonella Impairs RILP Recruitment to Rab7 during Maturation of Invasion Vacuoles

Harrison, Rene E., Brumell, John H., Khandani, Arian, Bucci, Cecilia, Scott, Cameron C., Jiang, Xiuju, ...

After invasion of epithelial cells, Salmonella enterica Typhimurium resides within membrane-bound vacuoles where it survives and replicates. Like endocytic vesicles, the Salmonella-containing...

SseK1 and SseK2 Are Novel Translocated Proteins of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

Kujat Choy, Sonya L., Boyle, Erin C., Gal-Mor, Ohad, Goode, David L., Valdez, Yanet, Vallance, Bruce A., ...

Salmonella enterica is a gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease symptoms ranging from gastroenteritis to typhoid fever. A key virulence strategy is the translocation of...

The Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Divalent Cation Transport Systems MntH and SitABCD Are Essential for Virulence in an Nramp1G169 Murine Typhoid Model

Zaharik, Michelle L., Cullen, Vivian Li, Fung, Angela M., Libby, Stephen J., Kujat Choy, Sonya L., Coburn, Bryan, ...

Nramp1 is a transporter that pumps divalent cations from the vacuoles of phagocytic cells and is associated with the innate resistance of mice to diverse intracellular pathogens. We demonstrate that...

Helicobacter pylori Infection Targets Adherens Junction Regulatory Proteins and Results in Increased Rates of Migration in Human Gastric Epithelial Cells

Conlin, Victoria S., Curtis, Susan B., Zhao, Ying, Moore, Edwin D. W., Smith, Valerie C., Meloche, R. Mark, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori attaches to antral epithelial cells in vivo. Cultured human antral epithelial cells, AGS and NCI-N87 cell lines, were grown in the absence or presence...

Modulation of Host Cytoskeleton Function by the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and Citrobacter rodentium Effector Protein EspG

Hardwidge, Philip R., Deng, Wanyin, Vallance, Bruce A., Rodriguez-Escudero, Isabel, Cid, Victor J., Molina, Maria, ...

EspG is a conserved protein encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, including enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and...

Regulation of Type III Secretion Hierarchy of Translocators and Effectors in Attaching and Effacing Bacterial Pathogens

Deng, Wanyin, Li, Yuling, Hardwidge, Philip R., Frey, Elizabeth A., Pfuetzner, Richard A., Lee, Sansan, ...

Human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), and the mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodentium (CR) belong to the family of attaching and effacing (A/E) bacterial...

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Necessary for Complete Virulence in a Mouse Model of Infectious Enterocolitis

Coburn, Bryan, Li, Yuling, Owen, David, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella species cause a wide range of disease in multiple hosts. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium causes self-limited intestinal disease in humans and systemic typhoid-like illness in...

Transcriptional Inhibitor of Virulence Factors in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Gauthier, Annick, Robertson, Marilyn L., Lowden, Michael, Ibarra, J. Antonio, Puente, José Luis, Finlay, B. Brett

The type III secretion system (TTSS) is a key virulence mechanism of many important gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The TTSS is conserved among different bacterial pathogens, and mutations and...

Analysis of the Contribution of Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands 1 and 2 to Enteric Disease Progression Using a Novel Bovine Ileal Loop Model and a Murine Model of Infectious Enterocolitis

Coombes, Brian K., Coburn, Bryan A., Potter, Andrew A., Gomis, Susantha, Mirakhur, Kuldip, Li, Yuling, ...

We have developed a novel ileal loop model for use in calves to analyze the contribution of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium type III secretion systems to disease processes in vivo. Our model...

Evidence of a Large Novel Gene Pool Associated with Prokaryotic Genomic Islands

Hsiao, William W. L, Ung, Korine, Aeschliman, Dana, Bryan, Jenny, Finlay, B. Brett, Brinkman, Fiona S. L

Microbial genes that are “novel” (no detectable homologs in other species) have become of increasing interest as environmental sampling suggests that there are many more such novel genes in...

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Is Expressed Prior to Penetrating the Intestine

Brown, Nat F, Vallance, Bruce A, Coombes, Brian K, Valdez, Yanet, Coburn, Bryan A, Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes disease in mice that resembles human typhoid. Typhoid pathogenesis consists of distinct phases in the...

A Positive Regulatory Loop Controls Expression of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement-Encoded Regulators Ler and GrlA

Barba, Jeannette, Bustamante, Víctor H., Flores-Valdez, Mario A., Deng, Wanyin, Finlay, B. Brett, Puente, José L.

The formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on intestinal epithelial cells is an essential step in the pathogenesis of human enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and of...

Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Lowden, Michael J., Brown, Nat F., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella enterica relies on a type III secretion system encoded in Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI-2) to survive and replicate within macrophages at systemic sites during typhoid. SPI-2...

Visualization of Vacuolar Acidification-induced Transcription of Genes of Pathogens inside MacrophagesD⃞

Martin-Orozco, Natalia, Touret, Nicolas, Zaharik, Michael L., Park, Edwin, Kopelman, Raoul, Miller, Samuel, ...

The objective of these studies was to analyze the role of the ionic environment of phagosomal vacuoles in the control of pathogens by macrophages. Digital imaging and flow cytometry were used to...

Toll-Like Receptor 4 Contributes to Colitis Development but Not to Host Defense during Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice

Khan, Mohammed A., Ma, Caixia, Knodler, Leigh A., Valdez, Yanet, Rosenberger, Carrie M., Deng, Wanyin, ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) are noninvasive bacterial pathogens that infect their hosts' intestinal epithelium, causing severe diarrheal disease....

Crossing the Line: Selection and Evolution of Virulence Traits

Brown, Nat F, Wickham, Mark E, Coombes, Brian K, Finlay, B. Brett

The evolution of pathogens presents a paradox. Pathogenic species are often absolutely dependent on their host species for their propagation through evolutionary time, yet the pathogenic lifestyle...

Evidence that Tight Junctions Are Disrupted Due to Intimate Bacterial Contact and Not Inflammation during Attaching and Effacing Pathogen Infection In Vivo▿

Guttman, Julian A., Samji, Fereshte N., Li, Yuling, Vogl, A. Wayne, Finlay, B. Brett

It is widely accepted that tight junctions are altered during infections by attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens. These disruptions have been demonstrated both in vitro and more recently in vivo....

SseL Is a Salmonella-Specific Translocated Effector Integrated into the SsrB-Controlled Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Type III Secretion System▿

Coombes, Brian K., Lowden, Michael J., Bishop, Jennifer L., Wickham, Mark E., Brown, Nat F., Duong, Nancy, ...

Bacterial pathogens use horizontal gene transfer to acquire virulence factors that influence host colonization, alter virulence traits, and ultimately shape the outcome of disease following...

Alteration of Epithelial Structure and Function Associated with PtdIns(4,5)P2 Degradation by a Bacterial Phosphatase

Mason, David, Mallo, Gustavo V., Terebiznik, Mauricio R., Payrastre, Bernard, Finlay, B. Brett, Brumell, John H., ...

Elucidation of the role of PtdIns(4,5)P2 in epithelial function has been hampered by the inability to selectively manipulate the cellular content of this phosphoinositide. Here we report that SigD, a...

A Novel Secretion Pathway of Salmonella enterica Acts as an Antivirulence Modulator during Salmonellosis

Gal-Mor, Ohad, Gibson, Deanna L., Baluta, Dan, Vallance, Bruce A., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella spp. are Gram-negative enteropathogenic bacteria that infect a variety of vertebrate hosts. Like any other living organism, protein secretion is a fundamental process essential for various...

Murine Salmonellosis Studied by Confocal Microscopy: Salmonella typhimurium Resides Intracellularly Inside Macrophages and Exerts a Cytotoxic Effect on Phagocytes In Vivo

Richter-Dahlfors, Agneta, Buchan, Alison M.J., Finlay, B. Brett

Salmonella typhimurium is considered a facultative intracellular pathogen, but its intracellular location in vivo has not been demonstrated conclusively. Here we describe the development of a new...

Molecular Analysis as an Aid To Assess the Public Health Risk of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains▿ ‡

Coombes, Brian K., Wickham, Mark E., Mascarenhas, Mariola, Gruenheid, Samantha, Finlay, B. Brett, Karmali, Mohamed A.

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are commensal bacteria in cattle with high potential for environmental and zoonotic transmission to humans. Although O157:H7 is the most common...

Salmonella enterica Serovar Senftenberg Human Clinical Isolates Lacking SPI-1▿

Hu, Qinghua, Coburn, Bryan, Deng, Wanyin, Li, Yuling, Shi, Xiaolu, Lan, Quanxue, ...

Nontyphoidal Salmonella species cause gastrointestinal disease worldwide. The prevailing theory of Salmonella enteropathogenesis is that bacterial invasion of the intestinal epithelium is essential...

Regulation of Expression and Secretion of NleH, a New Non-Locus of Enterocyte Effacement-Encoded Effector in Citrobacter rodentium▿

García-Angulo, Víctor A., Deng, Wanyin, Thomas, Nikhil A., Finlay, B. Brett, Puente, Jose L.

Together with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Citrobacter rodentium is a member of the attaching-and-effacing (A/E) family of bacterial pathogens. A/E...

Type III Secretion Systems and Disease

Coburn , Bryan, Sekirov, Inna, Finlay, B. Brett

Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are complex bacterial structures that provide gram-negative pathogens with a unique virulence mechanism enabling them to inject bacterial effector proteins directly...

The Inositol Phosphatase SHIP Controls Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infection In Vivo▿

Bishop, Jennifer L., Sly, Laura M., Krystal, Gerald, Finlay, B. Brett

The SH2 domain-containing inositol 5′-phosphatase, SHIP, negatively regulates various hematopoietic cell functions and is critical for maintaining immune homeostasis. However, whether SHIP plays a...

SopB promotes phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate formation on Salmonella vacuoles by recruiting Rab5 and Vps34

Mallo, Gustavo V., Espina, Marianela, Smith, Adam C., Terebiznik, Mauricio R., Alemán, Ainel, Finlay, B. Brett, ...

Salmonella colonizes a vacuolar niche in host cells during infection. Maturation of the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV) involves the formation of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI(3)P) on its...

Antibiotic-Induced Perturbations of the Intestinal Microbiota Alter Host Susceptibility to Enteric Infection▿

Sekirov, Inna, Tam, Nicola M., Jogova, Maria, Robertson, Marilyn L., Li, Yuling, Lupp, Claudia, ...

Intestinal microbiota comprises microbial communities that reside in the gastrointestinal tract and are critical to normal host physiology. Understanding the microbiota's role in host response to...