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The virulence potential of human pathogens: how Acinetobacter baumannii survives Acanthamoeba castellanii predation

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cellular amoebal precise original stages symbiotic infection host resistance superbug screening pathogen validated tested viability mechanistic grazing biphasic poorly seq decipher amoebae broadly castellanii induction interactions qualitative global throughput cell virulence deadly shed single strains experimental correlated model bacterial outcome generating individual baumannii electron imaging acanthamoeba live trophozoite relevance health light microscopy attenuated reporter localization cyst followed complemented acinetobacter context complementary successful screen clinical pathogens amoeba fluorescence pathogenicity unknown threat understand levels bacteria quantitative despite predation manners assays human mutant interaction techniques isolates time tn monitoring nosocomial population mechanisms lacking

Project "ACtIVAtE" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR ASBL Organization address address: RUE DE BRUXELLES 61 city: NAMUR postcode: 5000 website: www.unamur.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Belgium [BE]
Total cost	172˙800 €
EC max contribution	172˙800 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-01-01 to 2019-12-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR ASBL UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR ASBL Organization address address: RUE DE BRUXELLES 61 city: NAMUR postcode: 5000 website: www.unamur.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (NAMUR)	coordinator	172˙800.00

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Project objective

The human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii represents a deadly threat to human health. Despite its established clinical relevance, the pathogenicity of this nosocomial superbug is poorly understood. The biphasic amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii is a cellular infection model broadly used to decipher the virulence mechanisms of human pathogens, as bacterial resistance upon amoebal predation (grazing) are often correlated with their pathogenicity potential in human. However, high-throughput screening approaches to investigate the virulence mechanisms of A. baumannii using this amoeba in an infection context are still lacking. This project aims at applying original large-scale screening approaches to identify A. baumannii virulence factors using the amoeba A. castellanii as host-pathogen system. The proposed experimental set up allows monitoring the outcome of the bacteria-amoebae interactions in qualitative and quantitative manners, at both population and single cell levels. Virulence induction of A. baumannii, as well as the use of successful clinical isolates will be tested using several complementary grazing assays. Precise localization of A. baumannii reporter strains will be done on both trophozoite and cyst stages of A. castellanii, complemented with (i) real-time and live-cell fluorescence imaging as well as (ii) electron microscopy techniques. Viability assays for both bacteria and amoebae will be done to understand the symbiotic outcome of this interaction. The global resistance potential of A. baumannii will be assessed by (i) Tn-seq analysis and (ii) high-throughput screen of individual mutant strains, followed by in depth mechanistic studies on validated attenuated strains. This project will shed light on the yet unknown global virulence mechanisms of A. baumannii by generating original screening methods using A. castellanii as an infection cellular model.

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