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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2023

Imaging Flow Cytometry of Legionella-Containing Vacuoles in Intact and Homogenized Wild-Type and Mutant Dictyostelium.

Amanda Welin, Dario Hüsler, Hubert Hilbi

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Frontiers in microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Amanda WelinDivision of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Dario HüslerInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Hubert HilbiInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. hilbi@imm.uzh.ch.
University of Zurich · CHLinköping University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The causative agent of a severe pneumonia termed "Legionnaires' disease", Legionella pneumophila, replicates within protozoan and mammalian phagocytes in a specialized intracellular compartment called the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). This compartment does not fuse with bactericidal lysosomes but communicates extensively with several cellular vesicle trafficking pathways and eventually associates tightly with the endoplasmic reticulum. In order to comprehend in detail the complex process of LCV formation, the identification and kinetic analysis of cellular trafficking pathway markers on the pathogen vacuole are crucial. This chapter describes imaging flow cytometry (IFC)-based methods for the objective, quantitative and high-throughput analysis of different fluorescently tagged proteins or probes on the LCV. To this end, we use the haploid amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum as an infection model for L. pneumophila, to analyze either fixed intact infected host cells or LCVs from homogenized amoebae. Parental strains and isogenic mutant amoebae are compared in order to determine the contribution of a specific host factor to LCV formation. The amoebae simultaneously produce two different fluorescently tagged probes enabling tandem quantification of two LCV markers in intact amoebae or the identification of LCVs using one probe and quantification of the other probe in host cell homogenates. The IFC approach allows rapid generation of statistically robust data from thousands of pathogen vacuoles and can be applied to other infection models.

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DictyosteliumLegionellaLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseAnimalsBacterial ProteinsFlow CytometryKineticsMammalsVacuolesBacterial ProteinsDictyostelium discoideumImageStreamImaging flow cytometryLegionella pneumophilaPathogen vacuolePhagocytosisPhagosomeVesicle trafficking

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PMID37074657
OpenAlexW4366351775

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