{"id":41376,"date":"2025-08-23T10:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/mast-cell-phenotypic-heterogeneity-impacts-the-interplay-with-pathogenic-salmonella-typhimurium-bacteria-valuechristopher-von-beek-grisna-i-prensa-julia-h-m-andersson-gunnar-pejler\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:49:54","slug":"mast-cell-phenotypic-heterogeneity-impacts-the-interplay-with-pathogenic-salmonella-typhimurium-bacteria-valuechristopher-von-beek-grisna-i-prensa-julia-h-m-andersson-gunnar-pejler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/mast-cell-phenotypic-heterogeneity-impacts-the-interplay-with-pathogenic-salmonella-typhimurium-bacteria-valuechristopher-von-beek-grisna-i-prensa-julia-h-m-andersson-gunnar-pejler\/","title":{"rendered":"Mast Cell Phenotypic Heterogeneity Impacts the Interplay with Pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium Bacteria. [[{&#8220;value&#8221;:&#8221;Christopher von Beek, \nGrisna I. Prensa, \nJulia H. M. Andersson, \nGunnar Pejler, \nMikael E. Sellin&#8221;}]]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/cms\/asset\/fbd2ac48-b29c-45d4-956f-16ecbebea057\/eji70040-gra-0001-m.png\" alt=\"Mast Cell Phenotypic Heterogeneity Impacts the Interplay with Pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium Bacteria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mast cell phenotypic features influence anti-bacterial response. Connective tissue-like mast cells sense <i>Salmonella<\/i> through combined Toll-like-receptor (TLR) signaling and recognition of Type-III-secretion-system mediated invasion. By contrast, due to low TLR expression, mucosal-like mast cells fail to respond to extracellular <i>Salmonella<\/i>, but their abundant granules limit intracellular colonization by invasive bacteria. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>ABSTRACT<\/h2>\n<p>Mast cells (MCs) lodge within barrier tissues and respond to infectious microbes. Recent work demonstrated that MCs differentiate their cytokine response to extracellular versus invasive Gram-negative enterobacteria by a two-step activation mechanism that integrates Toll-like-receptor (TLR) sensing with signals elicited by type-III-secretion-system (TTSS) effectors during bacterial invasion. However, multiple MC subtypes exist, and it remains unclear how their phenotypic heterogeneity impacts microbial interactions. We find that murine MCs maintained in IL-3, or differentiated toward a connective-tissue phenotype (CT-MCs), respond potently to the enteropathogen <i>Salmonella enterica<\/i> Typhimurium (<i>S<\/i>.Tm) through two-step activation, with the TLR component explained by functional TLR4 and TLR2. By contrast, murine mucosal mast cells (M-MCs) express insignificant levels of these TLRs, therefore being unresponsive to extracellular <i>S<\/i>.Tm, but still mounting a response to invasive bacteria. Following invasion, MC granule maintenance by serglycin restricts <i>S<\/i>.Tm vacuolar and cytosolic colonization. Notably, this has no impact on the cytokine release from infected MCs, thus uncoupling <i>S<\/i>.Tm\u00b4s intracellular life-cycle from the MC cytokine response. Finally, human LUVA MCs employ a variant of two-step activation where TLR2\/6 signaling combines with the TTSS-elicited signals. Together, this study explains how MC subtypes can respond differently to <i>S<\/i>.Tm-infection depending on their TLR expression and granule features.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mast cell phenotypic features influence anti-bacterial response. Connective tissue-like mast cells sense Salmonella through combined Toll-like-receptor (TLR) signaling and recognition of Type-III-secretion-system mediated invasion. By contrast, due to low TLR expression, mucosal-like mast cells fail to respond to extracellular Salmonella, but their abundant granules limit intracellular colonization by invasive bacteria. ABSTRACT Mast cells (MCs) lodge &#8230; <a title=\"Mast Cell Phenotypic Heterogeneity Impacts the Interplay with Pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium Bacteria. [[{&#8220;value&#8221;:&#8221;Christopher von Beek, \nGrisna I. Prensa, \nJulia H. M. Andersson, \nGunnar Pejler, \nMikael E. Sellin&#8221;}]]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/mast-cell-phenotypic-heterogeneity-impacts-the-interplay-with-pathogenic-salmonella-typhimurium-bacteria-valuechristopher-von-beek-grisna-i-prensa-julia-h-m-andersson-gunnar-pejler\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mast Cell Phenotypic Heterogeneity Impacts the Interplay with Pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium Bacteria. [[{&#8220;value&#8221;:&#8221;Christopher von Beek, \nGrisna I. Prensa, \nJulia H. M. 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