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  • Title: Macrophage apoptosis in microbial infections.
    Author: Hilbi H, Zychlinsky A, Sansonetti PJ.
    Journal: Parasitology; 1997; 115 Suppl():S79-87. PubMed ID: 9571693.
    Abstract:
    Upon infection with a pathogen, eukaryotic cells can undergo programmed cell death as an ultimate response. Therefore, modulation of apoptosis is often a prerequisite to establish a host-pathogen relationship. Some pathogens kill macrophages by inducing apoptosis and thus overcome the microbicidal arsenal of the phagocyte. Apoptotic macrophages, on the other hand, can elicit an inflammation by secretion of proinflammatory cytokines. Shigella flexneri, the aetiological agent of bacillary dysentery, induces apoptosis in macrophages which, in agony, specifically release mature interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta). This cytokine attracts neutrophils (PMN) to the site of infection resulting in the massive colonic inflammation characteristic of bacillary dysentery. Shigellosis represents a paradigm of a proinflammatory apoptosis in a bacterial infection. The molecular link between apoptosis and inflammation is interleukin-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE) which is activated during macrophage apoptosis and binds to IpaB, a secreted Shigella protein.
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