Imaging InlC Secretion to Investigate Cellular Infection by the Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenesAndreas Kühbacher 1,2,3, Edith Gouin 1,2,3, Jason Mercer 4, Mario Emmenlauer 5, Christoph Dehio 5, Pascale Cossart 1,2,3, Javier Pizarro-Cerdá 1,2,3
1Unité des Interactions Bactéries Cellules, Pasteur Institute, 2INSERM U604, 3Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), USC2020, 4Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 5Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram positive bacterial pathogen frequently used as a major model for the study of intracellular parasitism. Imaging late L. monocytogenes infection stages within the context of small-interfering RNA screens allows for the global study of cellular pathways required for bacterial infection of target host cells.