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An atlas of human vector-borne microbe interactions reveals pathogenicity mechanisms – PubMed

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An atlas of human vector-borne microbe interactions reveals pathogenicity mechanisms – PubMed


. 2024 Jun 11:S0092-8674(24)00532-4.


doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.023.


Online ahead of print.

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Thomas M Hart et al.


Cell.


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Abstract

Vector-borne diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide and pose a substantial unmet medical need. Pathogens binding to host extracellular proteins (the “exoproteome”) represents a crucial interface in the etiology of vector-borne disease. Here, we used bacterial selection to elucidate host-microbe interactions in high throughput (BASEHIT)-a technique enabling interrogation of microbial interactions with 3,324 human exoproteins-to profile the interactomes of 82 human-pathogen samples, including 30 strains of arthropod-borne pathogens and 8 strains of related non-vector-borne pathogens. The resulting atlas revealed 1,303 putative interactions, including hundreds of pairings with potential roles in pathogenesis, including cell invasion, tissue colonization, immune evasion, and host sensing. Subsequent functional investigations uncovered that Lyme disease spirochetes recognize epidermal growth factor as an environmental cue of transcriptional regulation and that conserved interactions between intracellular pathogens and thioredoxins facilitate cell invasion. In summary, this interactome atlas provides molecular-level insights into microbial pathogenesis and reveals potential host-directed targets for next-generation therapeutics.


Keywords:

Lyme disease; arthropod-borne disease; host sensing; host-pathogen interactions; infectious disease; mechanisms of pathogenicity; protein disulfide isomerase; systems biology; thioredoxin; vector-borne disease.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests N.W.P. and A.M.R. are inventors of a patent describing the BASEHIT technique.

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