Legionella pneumophila is the intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes severe Legionnaires’ disease and flu-like Pontiac fever. To accomplish successful aggression against hosts, L. pneumophila secrets more than 150 kinds of substrate effector proteins into host cells via its Type IVB secretion system. With the multiple fuctions of effectors, L. pneumophila evades effectively the defense systems of hosts, converts or adjusts intracellular vesicular transport of hosts, modifies or disguises its Legionella containing vacuole (LCV), modulates the cell cycle program and inhibits the apoptosis of host cells, and finally gains the confortable intracellular replicative niche. Effectors can also help L. pneumophila escape from hosts cells after completing the proliferation.. L. pneumophila has became the distinct model for pathogen-host interaction research, and its secretion systems as well as the substrate effectors are attracting more and more attentions. Researching on T4BSS and effectors could not only help investigate the pathogenesis of intracellular bacterial pathogens, but also promote the comprehension about innate immune responses of hosts. This article reviews the progresses of L. pneumophila T4BSS and effectors, trying to demonstrate to the readers the cunning survival strategy and the delicate virulent machine of L. pneumophila.
LIU Yong-Jun, LI Xiang-Hui, CENG Yong-Lun
. The lethiferous journey of a bacterium——The research progress of secretion systems and effectors in Legionella pneumophila[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2011
, 33(10)
: 1093
-1101
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2011.01093
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