The unforeseen intracellular lifestyle of Enterococcus faecalis in hepatocytes.

ABSTRACT: Enterococcus faecalis is a bacterial species present at a subdominant level in the human gut microbiota. This commensal turns into an opportunistic pathogen under specific conditions involving dysbiosis and host immune deficiency. E. faecalis is one of the rare pathobionts identified to date as contributing to liver damage in alcoholic liver disease. We have previously observed that E. faecalis is internalized in hepatocytes. Here, the survival and fate of E. faecalis was examined in hepatocytes, the main epithelial cell type in the liver. Although referred to as an extracellular pathogen, we demonstrate that E. faecalis is able to survive and divide in hepatocytes, and form intracellular clusters in two distinct hepatocyte cell lines, in primary mouse he

SUBMITTER: Nunez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature