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Open Access 01-12-2022 | Listeria Monocytogenes | Research

Bovine neutrophil chemotaxis to Listeria monocytogenes in neurolisteriosis depends on microglia-released rather than bacterial factors

Authors: Stefano Bagatella, Neda Haghayegh Jahromi, Camille Monney, Margherita Polidori, Flavio Max Gall, Emma Marchionatti, Fabienne Serra, Rainer Riedl, Britta Engelhardt, Anna Oevermann

Published in: Journal of Neuroinflammation | Issue 1/2022

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Abstract

Background

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a bacterial pathogen of major concern for humans and ruminants due to its neuroinvasive potential and its ability to cause deadly encephalitis (neurolisteriosis). On one hand, polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are key players in the defense against Lm, but on the other hand intracerebral infiltration with PMN is associated with significant neural tissue damage. Lm-PMN interactions in neurolisteriosis are poorly investigated, and factors inducing PMN chemotaxis to infectious foci containing Lm in the central nervous system (CNS) remain unidentified.

Methods

In this study, we assessed bovine PMN chemotaxis towards Lm and supernatants of infected endogenous brain cell populations in ex vivo chemotaxis assays, to identify chemotactic stimuli for PMN chemotaxis towards Lm in the brain. In addition, microglial secretion of IL-8 was assessed both ex vivo and in situ.

Results

Our data show that neither Lm cell wall components nor intact bacteria elicit chemotaxis of bovine PMN ex vivo. Moreover, astrocytes and neural cells fail to induce bovine PMN chemotaxis upon infection. In contrast, supernatant from Lm infected microglia readily induced chemotaxis of bovine PMN. Microglial expression and secretion of IL-8 was identified during early Lm infection in vitro and in situ, although IL-8 blocking with a specific antibody could not abrogate PMN chemotaxis towards Lm infected microglial supernatant.

Conclusions

These data provide evidence that host-derived rather than bacterial factors trigger PMN chemotaxis to bacterial foci in the CNS, that microglia have a primary role as initiators of bovine PMN chemotaxis into the brain during neurolisteriosis and that blockade of these factors could be a therapeutic target to limit intrathecal PMN chemotaxis and PMN associated damage in neurolisteriosis.
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Metadata
Title
Bovine neutrophil chemotaxis to Listeria monocytogenes in neurolisteriosis depends on microglia-released rather than bacterial factors
Authors
Stefano Bagatella
Neda Haghayegh Jahromi
Camille Monney
Margherita Polidori
Flavio Max Gall
Emma Marchionatti
Fabienne Serra
Rainer Riedl
Britta Engelhardt
Anna Oevermann
Publication date
01-12-2022
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Journal of Neuroinflammation / Issue 1/2022
Electronic ISSN: 1742-2094
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-022-02653-1

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