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Cross-talk between miR-471-5p and autophagy component proteins regulates LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) of apoptotic germ cells. Nat Commun 2017; 8:598. [PMID: 28928467 PMCID: PMC5605700 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00590-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Phagocytic clearance of apoptotic germ cells by Sertoli cells is vital for germ cell development and differentiation. Here, using a tissue-specific miRNA transgenic mouse model, we show that interaction between miR-471-5p and autophagy member proteins regulates clearance of apoptotic germ cells via LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP). Transgenic mice expressing miR-471-5p in Sertoli cells show increased germ cell apoptosis and compromised male fertility. Those effects are due to defective engulfment and impaired LAP-mediated clearance of apoptotic germ cells as miR-471-5p transgenic mice show lower levels of Dock180, LC3, Atg12, Becn1, Rab5 and Rubicon in Sertoli cells. Our results reveal that Dock180 interacts with autophagy member proteins to constitute a functional LC3-dependent phagocytic complex. We find that androgen regulates Sertoli cell phagocytosis by controlling expression of miR-471-5p and its target proteins. These findings suggest that recruitment of autophagy machinery is essential for efficient clearance of apoptotic germ cells by Sertoli cells using LAP. Although phagocytic clearance of apoptotic germ cells by Sertoli cells is essential for spermatogenesis, little of the mechanism is known. Here the authors show that Sertoli cells employ LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) by recruiting autophagy member proteins to clear apoptotic germ cells.
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Yang J, Sheng S, Yang Q, Li L, Qin S, Yu S, Zhang X. Endocan silencing induces programmed cell death in hepatocarcinoma. Oncol Lett 2017; 14:5333-5339. [PMID: 29113167 PMCID: PMC5661370 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2017.6857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Hepatocarcinoma is a type of high-grade malignant carcinoma identified worldwide. Its rapid development and late diagnosis prevents effective tumor resection in the majority of patients, and therefore recent studies have targeted metabolic signaling pathways and the tumor microenvironment for potential treatments. To investigate whether endocan may be a gene target for hepatocarcinoma treatment, the present study employed the following measures: MTT and Transwell assays, flow cytometry, western blotting and an mRFP-GFP-LC3 double fluorescence system. Following endocan gene silencing, cell proliferation was significantly inhibited and the number of invasive cells in the endocan siRNA-treated group was reduced compared with the control-siRNA treated-group. Furthermore, the apoptosis rate was 15% and autophagy was detected in the endocan short interfering (si)RNA-treated group compared with the control-siRNA treated-group. Using western blotting to detect NF-κB expression in the nucleus, the NF-κB expression was identified to be significantly reduced in the siRNA-treated group compared with the control groups. Endocan gene silencing inhibited hepatocarcinoma cell viability and invasion, whilst inducing apoptosis and autophagy. The results of the present study suggest that the effect of endocan gene silencing on cell survival was mediated via the NF-κB signaling pathway.
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- Jinghui Yang
- Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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- Department of Colorectal & Anal Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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- Central Laboratory, Second Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130041, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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- Department of Digestive Internal Medicine, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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- Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130033, P.R. China
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Cong Y, Verlhac P, Reggiori F. The Interaction between Nidovirales and Autophagy Components. Viruses 2017; 9:E182. [PMID: 28696396 PMCID: PMC5537674 DOI: 10.3390/v9070182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Autophagy is a conserved intracellular catabolic pathway that allows cells to maintain homeostasis through the degradation of deleterious components via specialized double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes. During the past decades, it has been revealed that numerous pathogens, including viruses, usurp autophagy in order to promote their propagation. Nidovirales are an order of enveloped viruses with large single-stranded positive RNA genomes. Four virus families (Arterividae, Coronaviridae, Mesoniviridae, and Roniviridae) are part of this order, which comprises several human and animal pathogens of medical and veterinary importance. In host cells, Nidovirales induce membrane rearrangements including autophagosome formation. The relevance and putative mechanism of autophagy usurpation, however, remain largely elusive. Here, we review the current knowledge about the possible interplay between Nidovirales and autophagy.
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- Yingying Cong
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Ouimet M, Ediriweera H, Afonso MS, Ramkhelawon B, Singaravelu R, Liao X, Bandler RC, Rahman K, Fisher EA, Rayner KJ, Pezacki JP, Tabas I, Moore KJ. microRNA-33 Regulates Macrophage Autophagy in Atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2017; 37:1058-1067. [PMID: 28428217 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.116.308916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Defective autophagy in macrophages leads to pathological processes that contribute to atherosclerosis, including impaired cholesterol metabolism and defective efferocytosis. Autophagy promotes the degradation of cytoplasmic components in lysosomes and plays a key role in the catabolism of stored lipids to maintain cellular homeostasis. microRNA-33 (miR-33) is a post-transcriptional regulator of genes involved in cholesterol homeostasis, yet the complete mechanisms by which miR-33 controls lipid metabolism are unknown. We investigated whether miR-33 targeting of autophagy contributes to its regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and atherogenesis. APPROACH AND RESULTS Using coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, we show that miR-33 drives lipid droplet accumulation in macrophages, suggesting decreased lipolysis. Inhibition of neutral and lysosomal hydrolysis pathways revealed that miR-33 reduced cholesterol mobilization by a lysosomal-dependent mechanism, implicating repression of autophagy. Indeed, we show that miR-33 targets key autophagy regulators and effectors in macrophages to reduce lipid droplet catabolism, an essential process to generate free cholesterol for efflux. Notably, miR-33 regulation of autophagy lies upstream of its known effects on ABCA1 (ATP-binding cassette transporter A1)-dependent cholesterol efflux, as miR-33 inhibitors fail to increase efflux upon genetic or chemical inhibition of autophagy. Furthermore, we find that miR-33 inhibits apoptotic cell clearance via an autophagy-dependent mechanism. Macrophages treated with anti-miR-33 show increased efferocytosis, lysosomal biogenesis, and degradation of apoptotic material. Finally, we show that treating atherosclerotic Ldlr-/- mice with anti-miR-33 restores defective autophagy in macrophage foam cells and plaques and promotes apoptotic cell clearance to reduce plaque necrosis. CONCLUSIONS Collectively, these data provide insight into the mechanisms by which miR-33 regulates cellular cholesterol homeostasis and atherosclerosis.
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- Mireille Ouimet
- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.)
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- From the Marc and Ruti Bell Vascular Biology and Disease Program, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (M.O., H.E., M.S.A., R.C.B., K.R., E.A.F., K.J.M.) and Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery (B.R.), New York University Medical Center; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada (R.S., K.J.R., J.P.P.); National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (R.S., J.P.P.); Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York (X.L., I.T.); and University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ontario, Canada (K.J.R.).
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Latré de Laté P, Pineda M, Harnett M, Harnett W, Besteiro S, Langsley G. Apicomplexan autophagy and modulation of autophagy in parasite-infected host cells. Biomed J 2017; 40:23-30. [PMID: 28411879 PMCID: PMC6138587 DOI: 10.1016/j.bj.2017.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Apicomplexan parasites are responsible for a number of important human pathologies. Obviously, as Eukaryotes they share a number of cellular features and pathways with their respective host cells. One of them is autophagy, a process involved in the degradation of the cell's own components. These intracellular parasites nonetheless seem to present a number of original features compared to their very evolutionarily distant host cells. In mammals and other metazoans, autophagy has been identified as an important contributor to the defence against microbial pathogens. Thus, host autophagy also likely plays a key role in the control of apicomplexan parasites, although its potential manipulation and subversion by intracellular parasites creates a complex interplay in the regulation of host and parasite autophagy. In this mini-review, we summarise current knowledge on autophagy in both parasites and their host cells, in the context of infection by three Apicomplexa: Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and Theileria.
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- Perle Latré de Laté
- Inserm U1016, Cnrs UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France; Comparative Cellbiology of Apicomplexan Parasites, Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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- Inserm U1016, Cnrs UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France; Comparative Cellbiology of Apicomplexan Parasites, Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) confers up to a 50-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and African Americans with SLE experience accelerated damage accrual and doubled cardiovascular risk when compared to their European American counterparts. RECENT FINDINGS Genome-wide association studies have identified a substantial signal at 22q13, now assigned to variation at apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1), which has associated with progressive nondiabetic nephropathy, cardiovascular disease, and many immune-associated renal diseases, including lupus nephritis. We contend that alterations in crucial APOL1 intracellular pathways may underpin associated disease states based on structure-functional differences between variant and ancestral forms. While ancestral APOL1 may be a key driver of autophagy, nonconserved primary structure changes result in a toxic gain of function with attenuation of autophagy and an unsupervised pore-forming feature. Thus, the divergent intracellular biological pathways of ancestral and variant APOL1 may explain a worsened prognosis as demonstrated in SLE.
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Mauthe M, Reggiori F. Using microbes as a key tool to unravel the mechanism of autophagy and the functions of the ATG proteins. MICROBIAL CELL 2016; 4:1-5. [PMID: 28357383 PMCID: PMC5354549 DOI: 10.15698/mic2017.01.550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The study of microbe infections has always been a very effective approach to unveil and dissect cellular pathways. Autophagy is not an exception. Although some of the breakthrough discoveries in the field were obtained using yeast, pathogens have been and still are a great tool to discover and characterize new molecular and functional aspects of autophagy. Research on pathogens has helped to acquire knowledge about selective types of autophagy and the assembly of the autophagy machinery, i.e the autophagy-related (ATG) proteins, but also about alternative cellular roles of this pathway, such as secretion. Finally, microbes have also served to discover and characterize unconventional functions of the ATG proteins, which are uncoupled from their role in autophagy. In our recent study, we have taken advantage of viruses as a screening tool to determine the extent of the unconventional functions of the ATG proteome and characterize one of them.
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- Mario Mauthe
- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. ; Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Center for Molecular Medicine, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. ; Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Center for Molecular Medicine, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Park EY, Woo Y, Kim SJ, Kim DH, Lee EK, De U, Kim KS, Lee J, Jung JH, Ha KT, Choi WS, Kim IS, Lee BM, Yoon S, Moon HR, Kim HS. Anticancer Effects of a New SIRT Inhibitor, MHY2256, against Human Breast Cancer MCF-7 Cells via Regulation of MDM2-p53 Binding. Int J Biol Sci 2016; 12:1555-1567. [PMID: 27994519 PMCID: PMC5166496 DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.13833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The sirtuins (SIRTs), a family of NAD+-dependent class III histone deacetylase, are involved in various biological processes including cell survival, division, senescence, and metabolism via activation of the stress-response pathway. Recently, inhibition of SIRTs has been considered a promising anticancer strategy, but their precise mechanisms of action are not well understood. In particular, the relevance of p53 to SIRT-induced effects has not been fully elucidated. We investigated the anticancer effects of a novel SIRT inhibitor, MHY2256, and its efficacy was compared to that of salermide in MCF-7 (wild-type p53) and SKOV-3 (null-type p53) cells. Cell viability, SIRT1 enzyme activity, cell cycle regulation, apoptosis, and autophagic cell death were measured. We compared sensitivity to cytotoxicity in MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells. MHY2256 significantly decreased the viability of MCF-7 (IC50, 4.8 μM) and SKOV-3 (IC50, 5.6 μM) cells after a 48 h treatment period. MHY2256 showed potent inhibition (IC50, 0.27 mM) against SIRT1 enzyme activity compared with nicotinamide (IC50, >1 mM). Moreover, expression of SIRT (1, 2, or 3) protein levels was significantly reduced by MHY2256 treatment in both MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells. Flow cytometry analysis revealed that MHY2256 significantly induced cell cycle arrest in the G1 phase, leading to an effective increase in apoptotic cell death in MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells. A significant increase in acetylated p53, a target protein of SIRT, was observed in MCF-7 cells after MHY2256 treatment. MHY2256 up-regulated LC3-II and induced autophagic cell death in MCF-7 cells. Furthermore, MHY2256 markedly inhibited tumor growth in a tumor xenograft model of MCF-7 cells. These results suggest that a new SIRT inhibitor, MHY2256, has anticancer activity through p53 acetylation in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.
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- Eun Young Park
- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Korean Medical Science, School of Korean Medicine and Korean Medicine Research Center for Healthy Aging, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Chungju 380-701, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeung-gu, Busan, 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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Guerrier S, Plattner H, Richardson E, Dacks JB, Turkewitz AP. An evolutionary balance: conservation vs innovation in ciliate membrane trafficking. Traffic 2016; 18:18-28. [PMID: 27696651 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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As most of eukaryotic diversity lies in single-celled protists, they represent unique opportunities to ask questions about the balance of conservation and innovation in cell biological features. Among free-living protists the ciliates offer ease of culturing, a rich array of experimental approaches, and versatile molecular tools, particularly in Tetrahymena thermophila and Paramecium tetraurelia. These attributes have been exploited by researchers to analyze a wealth of cellular structures in these large and complex cells. This mini-review focuses on 3 aspects of ciliate membrane dynamics, all linked with endolysosomal trafficking. First is nutrition based on phagocytosis and maturation of food vacuoles. Secondly, we discuss regulated exocytosis from vesicles that have features of both dense core secretory granules but also lysosome-related organelles. The third topic is the targeting, breakdown and resorption of parental nuclei in mating partners. For all 3 phenomena, it is clear that elements of the canonical membrane-trafficking system have been retained and in some cases repurposed. In addition, there is evidence that recently evolved, lineage-specific proteins provide determinants in these pathways.
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Lim JS, Kim HS, Nguyen KCT, Cho KA. The role of TLR9 in stress-dependent autophagy formation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 481:219-226. [PMID: 27793667 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.10.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Autophagy is a self-degradation process that is important for balancing energy sources at critical times in development and in response to nutrient stress. Recently, it was report that autophagy is controlled by recognizing conserved pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), including toll-like receptors (TLRs). However, the molecular mechanism of TLRs in autophagy is not well understood. In this study, we found that serum starvation-dependent autophagy was associated with TLR9 activation in the absence of CpG-ODN, which is a specific TLR9 ligand. TLR9 was not only elevated but also colocalized with LC3 during autophagy by serum starvation or CPG-ODN treatment; however, these events did not occur simultaneously during autophagosome accumulation. Autophagy was even induced upon TLR9 activation after inhibiting recruitment of initial autophagy components by 3-MA, a specific inhibitor of class III PI3-kinase. Our data suggested that TLR9 may be promptly induced and recruit autophagy components from the endosome to autophagosome in response to stress.
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- Jae Sung Lim
- Department of Biochemistry, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea; Center for Creative Biomedical Scientists, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, 160 Ilsim-Ri, Hwasun-gun, Jeonnam 519-809, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea; Center for Creative Biomedical Scientists, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea; Center for Creative Biomedical Scientists, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea; Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju 501-746, South Korea.
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Golgi-associated LC3 lipidation requires V-ATPase in noncanonical autophagy. Cell Death Dis 2016; 7:e2330. [PMID: 27512951 PMCID: PMC5108321 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2016.236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2016] [Revised: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process by which cells degrade intracellular proteins and organelles in the lysosomes. Canonical autophagy requires all autophagy proteins (ATGs), whereas noncanonical autophagy is activated by diverse agents in which some of the essential autophagy proteins are dispensable. How noncanonical autophagy is induced and/or inhibited is still largely unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that AMDE-1, a recently identified chemical that can induce canonical autophagy, was able to elicit noncanonical autophagy that is independent of the ULK1 (unc-51-like kinase 1) complex and the Beclin1 complex. AMDE-1-induced noncanonical autophagy could be specifically suppressed by various V-ATPase (vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase) inhibitors, but not by disturbance of the lysosome function or the intracellular ion redistribution. Similar findings were applicable to a diverse group of stimuli that can induce noncanonical autophagy in a FIP200-independent manner. AMDE-1-induced LC3 lipidation was colocalized with the Golgi complex, and was inhibited by the disturbance of Golgi complex. The integrity of the Golgi complex was also required for multiple other agents to stimulate noncanonical LC3 lipidation. These results suggest that the Golgi complex may serve as a membrane platform for noncanonical autophagy where V-ATPase is a key player. V-ATPase inhibitors could be useful tools for studying noncanonical autophagy.
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Xia Q, Zheng Y, Jiang W, Huang Z, Wang M, Rodriguez R, Jin X. Valproic acid induces autophagy by suppressing the Akt/mTOR pathway in human prostate cancer cells. Oncol Lett 2016; 12:1826-1832. [PMID: 27588130 PMCID: PMC4998110 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2016.4880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Previous studies have demonstrated that the chronic administration of valproic acid (VPA) suppresses angiogenesis in vivo; however, the mechanisms implicated in VPA-induced autophagy remain unclear. The current study aimed to assess VPA-induced autophagy in three prostate cancer cell lines (PC3, DU145 and LNCaP), in addition to analyzing the Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signal pathway. Prostate cancer cell lines were cultured with various doses of VPA. Cell cycle was analyzed using flow cytometry, and autophagy markers [1A/1B-light chain 3 (LC3)-II and Beclin-1] were examined using transmission electron microscopy, fluorescent microscopy and western blotting. Activation of the Akt/mTOR signal pathway was also assessed by western blotting. The results demonstrated that VPA induced autophagosomes and suppressed the Akt/mTOR signal pathway. This was confirmed by detection of increased LC3-II and Beclin-1 in VPA-treated cells compared with untreated controls. Phosphorylated forms of Akt (PC3, P=0.048; DU145, P=0.045; LNCaP, P=0.039) and mTOR (PC3, P=0.012; DU145, P=0.41; LNCaP, P=0.35) were significantly reduced following VPA treatment. These results suggest that VPA may function as a histone deacetylase inhibitor, suppressing the growth of prostate cancer cells by modulating autophagy pathways, including inhibition of the Akt/mTOR pathway. Further experiments are required to determine the significance of all involved pathways regarding VPA-induced growth inhibition.
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- Qinghua Xia
- Department of Minimally Invasive Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P.R. China
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- Department of Emergency, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250012, P.R. China
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P.R. China
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- Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P.R. China
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- Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P.R. China
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Sprenkeler EGG, Gresnigt MS, van de Veerdonk FL. LC3-associated phagocytosis: a crucial mechanism for antifungal host defence against Aspergillus fumigatus. Cell Microbiol 2016; 18:1208-16. [PMID: 27185357 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Revised: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) is a non-canonical autophagy pathway involved in the maturation of single-membrane phagosomes and subsequent killing of ingested pathogens by phagocytes. This pathway is initiated following recognition of pathogens by pattern recognition receptors and leads to the recruitment of LC3 into the phagosomal membrane. This form of phagocytosis is utilized for the antifungal host defence and is required for an efficient fungal killing. Here, we provide an overview of the LAP pathway and review the role of LAP in anti-Aspergillus host defence, as well as mechanisms induced by Aspergillus that modulate LAP to promote its survival in the host.
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- Evelien G G Sprenkeler
- Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases (RCI), Radboud University Medical Center, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Prado M, Eickel N, De Niz M, Heitmann A, Agop-Nersesian C, Wacker R, Schmuckli-Maurer J, Caldelari R, Janse CJ, Khan SM, May J, Meyer CG, Heussler VT. Long-term live imaging reveals cytosolic immune responses of host hepatocytes against Plasmodium infection and parasite escape mechanisms. Autophagy 2016. [PMID: 26208778 PMCID: PMC4590598 DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1067361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Plasmodium parasites are transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes to the mammalian host and actively infect hepatocytes after passive transport in the bloodstream to the liver. In their target host hepatocyte, parasites reside within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV). In the present study it was shown that the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) can be targeted by autophagy marker proteins LC3, ubiquitin, and SQSTM1/p62 as well as by lysosomes in a process resembling selective autophagy. The dynamics of autophagy marker proteins in individual Plasmodium berghei-infected hepatocytes were followed by live imaging throughout the entire development of the parasite in the liver. Although the host cell very efficiently recognized the invading parasite in its vacuole, the majority of parasites survived this initial attack. Successful parasite development correlated with the gradual loss of all analyzed autophagy marker proteins and associated lysosomes from the PVM. However, other autophagic events like nonselective canonical autophagy in the host cell continued. This was indicated as LC3, although not labeling the PVM anymore, still localized to autophagosomes in the infected host cell. It appears that growing parasites even benefit from this form of nonselective host cell autophagy as an additional source of nutrients, as in host cells deficient for autophagy, parasite growth was retarded and could partly be rescued by the supply of additional amino acid in the medium. Importantly, mouse infections with P. berghei sporozoites confirmed LC3 dynamics, the positive effect of autophagy activation on parasite growth, and negative effects upon autophagy inhibition.
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- Monica Prado
- b Molecular Parasitology; Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ; Hamburg , Germany
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- a Institute of Cell Biology; University of Bern ; Bern , Switzerland
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- a Institute of Cell Biology; University of Bern ; Bern , Switzerland
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- b Molecular Parasitology; Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ; Hamburg , Germany
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- a Institute of Cell Biology; University of Bern ; Bern , Switzerland
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- a Institute of Cell Biology; University of Bern ; Bern , Switzerland
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- c Center of Infectious Diseases; Leiden University Medical Center ; Leiden , The Netherlands
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- c Center of Infectious Diseases; Leiden University Medical Center ; Leiden , The Netherlands
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- d Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ; Hamburg , Germany
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- e Molecular Medicine; Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine ; Hamburg , Germany.,f Institute of Tropical Medicine; Eberhard-Karls University ; Tübingen , Germany
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- a Institute of Cell Biology; University of Bern ; Bern , Switzerland
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Matte C, Casgrain PA, Séguin O, Moradin N, Hong WJ, Descoteaux A. Leishmania major Promastigotes Evade LC3-Associated Phagocytosis through the Action of GP63. PLoS Pathog 2016; 12:e1005690. [PMID: 27280768 PMCID: PMC4900527 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The protozoan Leishmania parasitizes macrophages and evades the microbicidal consequences of phagocytosis through the inhibition of phagolysosome biogenesis. In this study, we investigated the impact of this parasite on LC3-associated phagocytosis, a non-canonical autophagic process that enhances phagosome maturation and functions. We show that whereas internalization of L. major promastigotes by macrophages promoted LC3 lipidation, recruitment of LC3 to phagosomes was inhibited through the action of the parasite surface metalloprotease GP63. Reactive oxygen species generated by the NOX2 NADPH oxidase are necessary for LC3-associated phagocytosis. We found that L. major promastigotes prevented, in a GP63-dependent manner, the recruitment of NOX2 to phagosomes through a mechanism that does not involve NOX2 cleavage. Moreover, we found that the SNARE protein VAMP8, which regulates phagosomal assembly of the NADPH oxidase NOX2, was down-modulated by GP63. In the absence of VAMP8, recruitment of LC3 to phagosomes containing GP63-deficient parasites was inhibited, indicating that VAMP8 is involved in the phagosomal recruitment of LC3. These findings reveal a role for VAMP8 in LC3-associated phagocytosis and highlight a novel mechanism exploited by L. major promastigotes to interfere with the host antimicrobial machinery. The early events surrounding and following the phagocytosis of pathogens largely determine whether internalization will lead to efficient killing of the microbe or successful establishment of an intracellular infection. Growing evidence supports the notion that the autophagy machinery lends a hand to phagocytosis in eliminating intracellular pathogens, in a process known as LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP). Protozoan parasites of the Leishmania genus use surface virulence factors such as lipophosphoglycan and the metalloprotease GP63 to interfere with phagolysosome biogenesis and sabotage macrophage antimicrobial functions. Here, we provide the first evidence that L. major promastigotes evade LAP in a GP63-dependent manner and uncover a novel role for the membrane fusion mediator VAMP8 in LAP. Our findings offer a better understanding of Leishmania pathogenesis and of the mechanism behind LAP.
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- Christine Matte
- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier and Centre for host-parasite interactions, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier and Centre for host-parasite interactions, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier and Centre for host-parasite interactions, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier and Centre for host-parasite interactions, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China
- Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier and Centre for host-parasite interactions, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Nakamura T, Furukawa A, Uchida K, Ogawa T, Tamura T, Sakonishi D, Wada Y, Suzuki Y, Ishige Y, Minami J, Akashi T, Eishi Y. Autophagy Induced by Intracellular Infection of Propionibacterium acnes. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156298. [PMID: 27219015 PMCID: PMC4878785 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Sarcoidosis is caused by Th1-type immune responses to unknown agents, and is linked to the infectious agent Propionibacterium acnes. Many strains of P. acnes isolated from sarcoid lesions cause intracellular infection and autophagy may contribute to the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis. We examined whether P. acnes induces autophagy. Methods Three cell lines from macrophages (Raw264.7), mesenchymal cells (MEF), and epithelial cells (HeLa) were infected by viable or heat-killed P. acnes (clinical isolate from sarcoid lymph node) at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 100 or 1000 for 1 h. Extracellular bacteria were killed by washing and culturing infected cells with antibiotics. Samples were examined by colony assay, electron-microscopy, and fluorescence-microscopy with anti-LC3 and anti-LAMP1 antibodies. Autophagy-deficient (Atg5-/-) MEF cells were also used. Results Small and large (≥5 μm in diameter) LC3-positive vacuoles containing few or many P. acnes cells (LC3-positive P. acnes) were frequently found in the three cell lines when infected by viable P. acnes at MOI 1000. LC3-positive large vacuoles were mostly LAMP1-positive. A few small LC3-positive/LAMP1-negative vacuoles were consistently observed in some infected cells for 24 h postinfection. The number of LC3-positive P. acnes was decreased at MOI 100 and completely abolished when heat-killed P. acnes was used. LC3-positive P. acnes was not found in autophagy-deficient Atg5-/- cells where the rate of infection was 25.3 and 17.6 times greater than that in wild-type Atg5+/+ cells at 48 h postinfection at MOI 100 and 1000, respectively. Electron-microscopic examination revealed bacterial cells surrounded mostly by a single-membrane including the large vacuoles and sometimes a double or multi-layered membrane, with occasional undigested bacterial cells in ruptured late endosomes or in the cytoplasm. Conclusion Autophagy was induced by intracellular P. acnes infection and contributed to intracellular bacterial killing as an additional host defense mechanism to endocytosis or phagocytosis.
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- Teruko Nakamura
- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Engineering, School of Health Sciences, Tokyo University of Technology, Tokyo 144–8650, Japan
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- Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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- Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
- Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo 113–8510, Japan
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LAP-like process as an immune mechanism downstream of IFN-γ in control of the human malaria Plasmodium vivax liver stage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E3519-28. [PMID: 27185909 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525606113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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IFN-γ is a major regulator of immune functions and has been shown to induce liver-stage Plasmodium elimination both in vitro and in vivo. The molecular mechanism responsible for the restriction of liver-stage Plasmodium downstream of IFN-γ remains uncertain, however. Autophagy, a newly described immune defense mechanism, was recently identified as a downstream pathway activated in response to IFN-γ in the control of intracellular infections. We thus hypothesized that the killing of liver-stage malarial parasites by IFN-γ involves autophagy induction. Our results show that whereas IFN-γ treatment of human hepatocytes activates autophagy, the IFN-γ-mediated restriction of liver-stage Plasmodium vivax depends only on the downstream autophagy-related proteins Beclin 1, PI3K, and ATG5, but not on the upstream autophagy-initiating protein ULK1. In addition, IFN-γ enhanced the recruitment of LC3 onto the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) and increased the colocalization of lysosomal vesicles with P. vivax compartments. Taken together, these data indicate that IFN-γ mediates the control of liver-stage P. vivax by inducing a noncanonical autophagy pathway resembling that of LC3-associated phagocytosis, in which direct decoration of the PVM with LC3 promotes the fusion of P. vivax compartments with lysosomes and subsequent killing of the pathogen. Understanding the hepatocyte response to IFN-γ during Plasmodium infection and the roles of autophagy-related proteins may provide an urgently needed alternative strategy for the elimination of this human malaria.
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Bah A, Lacarrière C, Vergne I. Autophagy-Related Proteins Target Ubiquitin-Free Mycobacterial Compartment to Promote Killing in Macrophages. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2016; 6:53. [PMID: 27242971 PMCID: PMC4863073 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative process that plays essential functions in innate immunity, particularly, in the clearance of intracellular bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The molecular mechanisms involved in autophagy activation and targeting of mycobacteria, in innate immune responses of macrophages, are only partially characterized. Autophagy targets pathogenic M. tuberculosis via a cytosolic DNA recognition- and an ubiquitin-dependent pathway. In this report, we show that non-pathogenic M. smegmatis induces a robust autophagic response in THP-1 macrophages with an up regulation of several autophagy-related genes. Autophagy activation relies in part on recognition of mycobacteria by Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). Notably, LC3 targeting of M. smegmatis does not rely on membrane damage, ubiquitination, or autophagy receptor recruitment. Lastly, M. smegmatis promotes recruitment of several autophagy proteins, which are required for mycobacterial killing. In conclusion, our study uncovered an alternative autophagic pathway triggered by mycobacteria which involves cell surface recognition but not bacterial ubiquitination.
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- Tuberculosis and Infection Biology, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, UMR 5089 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université de Toulouse Toulouse, France
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- Tuberculosis and Infection Biology, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, UMR 5089 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université de Toulouse Toulouse, France
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- Tuberculosis and Infection Biology, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, UMR 5089 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université de Toulouse Toulouse, France
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Meng E, Tang B, Hou Y, Chen X, Chen J, Yu XQ. Altered immune function of Octodonta nipae (Maulik) to its pupal endoparasitoid, Tetrastichus brontispae Ferrière. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2016; 198:100-9. [PMID: 27101988 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2016.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Revised: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Most studies on the contribution of the altered immune response by endoparasitoid have been restricted to the interactions between Ichneumonoidea and their hosts, while effects of parasitism by Chalcidoidea on the hosts have rarely been characterized except some wasps such as Pteromalidae. Endoparasitoid Tetrastichus brontispae Ferrière, belonging to Eulophidae (Hymenoptera), has a great potential to control some Coleopteran beetles such as Octodonta nipae, one invasive species in southern China. However, the physiological mechanism underlying the escape from the melanotic encapsulation in O. nipae pupae has not been demonstrated. In the present study, effects of parasitism on the immune function of its pupal host O. nipae were investigated. The combining results that granulocytes and plasmatocytes could phagocytize bacteria from 2 to 48h and granulocytes, plasmatocytes and oenocytoids were prophenoloxidase/phenoloxidase positive hemocytes indicated that granulocytes, plasmatocytes and oenocytoids were the main immunocompetent hemocytes in O. nipae pupae. Parasitism by T. brontispae resulted in a significant increase in the percentage of hemocytes viability and spreading at 96h, growing percentage of granulocytes at 24h but no effects on the total hemocyte counts, and an enhanced phenoloxidase activity only at 12 and 72h while a significantly longer melanization time of the hemolymph at 96h following parasitism. These results indicate that mixtures of systemic active and local active regulation are used for T. brontispae to escape host encapsulation in O. nipae pupae. The present study contributes to the understanding of the diversity of virulence strategies used by parasitoids.
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Fujian-Taiwan, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Fujian-Taiwan, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Fujian-Taiwan, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China.
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Fujian-Taiwan, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Fujian-Taiwan, Ministry of Agriculture, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Department of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China; Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
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Tam JM, Mansour MK, Acharya M, Sokolovska A, Timmons AK, Lacy-Hulbert A, Vyas JM. The Role of Autophagy-Related Proteins in Candida albicans Infections. Pathogens 2016; 5:E34. [PMID: 27043636 PMCID: PMC4931385 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens5020034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 02/26/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Autophagy plays an important role in maintaining cell homeostasis by providing nutrients during periods of starvation and removing damaged organelles from the cytoplasm. A marker in the autophagic process is the reversible conjugation of LC3, a membrane scaffolding protein, to double membrane autophagosomes. Recently, a role for LC3 in the elimination of pathogenic bacteria and fungi, including Candida albicans (C. albicans), was demonstrated, but these organisms reside in single membrane phagosomes. This process is distinct from autophagy and is termed LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP). This review will detail the hallmarks of LAP that distinguish it from classical autophagy and review the role of autophagy proteins in host response to C. albicans and other pathogenic fungi.
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- Jenny M Tam
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Immunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Immunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Campbell-Valois FX, Pontier SM. Implications of Spatiotemporal Regulation of Shigella flexneri Type Three Secretion Activity on Effector Functions: Think Globally, Act Locally. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2016; 6:28. [PMID: 27014638 PMCID: PMC4783576 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Shigella spp. are Gram-negative bacterial pathogens that infect human colonic epithelia and cause bacterial dysentery. These bacteria express multiple copies of a syringe-like protein complex, the Type Three Secretion apparatus (T3SA), which is instrumental in the etiology of the disease. The T3SA triggers the plasma membrane (PM) engulfment of the bacteria by host cells during the initial entry process. It then enables bacteria to escape the resulting phagocytic-like vacuole. Freed bacteria form actin comets to move in the cytoplasm, which provokes bacterial collision with the inner leaflet of the PM. This phenomenon culminates in T3SA-dependent secondary uptake and vacuolar rupture in neighboring cells in a process akin to what is observed during entry and named cell-to-cell spread. The activity of the T3SA of Shigella flexneri was recently demonstrated to display an on/off regulation during the infection. While the T3SA is active when bacteria are in contact with PM-derived compartments, it switches to an inactive state when bacteria are released within the cytosol. These observations indicate that effector proteins transiting through the T3SA are therefore translocated in a highly time and space constrained fashion, likely impacting on their cellular distribution. Herein, we present what is currently known about the composition, the assembly and the regulation of the T3SA activity and discuss the consequences of the on/off regulation of T3SA on Shigella effector properties and functions during the infection. Specific examples that will be developed include the role of effectors IcsB and VirA in the escape from LC3/ATG8-positive vacuoles formed during cell-to-cell spread and of IpaJ protease activity against N-miristoylated proteins. The conservation of a similar regulation of T3SA activity in other pathogens such as Salmonella or Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli will also be briefly discussed.
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- F-X Campbell-Valois
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Deen NS, Gong L, Naderer T, Devenish RJ, Kwok T. Analysis of the Relative Contribution of Phagocytosis, LC3-Associated Phagocytosis, and Canonical Autophagy During Helicobacter pylori Infection of Macrophages. Helicobacter 2015; 20:449-59. [PMID: 25864465 DOI: 10.1111/hel.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Previous findings have suggested that Helicobacter pylori induces autophagic processes and subsequently takes refuge in autophagosomes, thereby contributing to persistent infection. Recently, a noncanonical form of autophagy, LC3 (microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3)-associated phagocytosis (LAP), has been shown to be required for efficient clearance of some intracellular bacteria. Whether H. pylori infection induces LAP had not been examined previously. In this study, we determined the extent to which H. pylori infection induces canonical autophagy or LAP in macrophages, and the involvement of the H. pylori cag pathogenicity island (cagPAI) with these processes. METHODS Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy was used to analyze the formation of GFP-LC3 puncta and their colocalization with H. pylori. Transmission electron microscopy was used to detect the ultrastructure of H. pylori-containing compartments. RESULTS The majority of intracellular bacteria (85-95%) were found in phagosomes that were LC3-negative, with a small proportion (4-14%) appearing "free" in the cytosol. Only a very small percentage (0.5-6%) of intracellular H. pylori was sequestered in autophagosomes. Furthermore, no statistically significant difference in the relative distribution of H. pylori in the various compartments was observed between wild-type and cagPAI-mutant bacteria. CONCLUSIONS In macrophages, H. pylori infection does not induce LAP, but can induce canonical autophagy, which entraps a very small fraction of intracellular bacteria. We propose that this subpopulation of intracellular H. pylori might have escaped from phagosomes into the cytosol before being sequestered by autophagosomes. The cagPAI of H. pylori has only minor influence, if any, on the extent of these processes.
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- Nadia S Deen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia.,Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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Insufficient Acidification of Autophagosomes Facilitates Group A Streptococcus Survival and Growth in Endothelial Cells. mBio 2015; 6:e01435-15. [PMID: 26419882 PMCID: PMC4611045 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01435-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Group A streptococcus (GAS) is an important human pathogen, and its invasion via blood vessels is critically important in serious events such as bacteremia or multiorgan failure. Although GAS was identified as an extracellular bacterium, the internalization of GAS into nonphagocytic cells may provide a strategy to escape from immune surveillance and antibiotic killing. However, GAS has also been reported to induce autophagy and is efficiently killed within lysosome-fused autophagosomes in epithelial cells. In this study, we show that GAS can replicate in endothelial cells and that streptolysin O is required for GAS growth. Bacterial replication can be suppressed by altering GAS gene expression in an acidic medium before internalization into endothelial cells. The inhibitory effect on GAS replication can be reversed by treatment with bafilomycin A1, a specific inhibitor of vacuolar-type H+-ATPase. Compared with epithelial cells in which acidification causes autophagy-mediated clearance of GAS, there was a defect in acidification of GAS-containing vesicles in endothelial cells. Consequently, endothelial cells fail to maintain low pH in GAS-containing autophagosomes, thereby permitting GAS replication inside LAMP-1- and LC3-positive vesicles. Furthermore, treatment of epithelial cells with bafilomycin A1 resulted in defective GAS clearance by autophagy, with subsequent bacterial growth intracellularly. Therefore, low pH is a key factor for autophagy-mediated suppression of GAS growth inside epithelial cells, while defective acidification of GAS-containing vesicles results in bacterial growth in endothelial cells. Previous reports showed that GAS can induce autophagy and is efficiently killed within lysosome-fused autophagosomes in epithelial cells. In endothelial cells, in contrast, induction of autophagy is not sufficient for GAS killing. In this study, we provide the first evidence that low pH is required to prevent intracellular growth of GAS in epithelial cells and that this mechanism is defective in endothelial cells. Treatment of GAS with low pH altered GAS growth rate and gene expression of virulence factors and resulted in enhanced susceptibility of GAS to intracellular lysosomal killing. Our findings reveal the existence of different mechanisms of host defense against GAS invasion between epithelial and endothelial cells.
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Interactions between Autophagy and Bacterial Toxins: Targets for Therapy? Toxins (Basel) 2015; 7:2918-58. [PMID: 26248079 PMCID: PMC4549733 DOI: 10.3390/toxins7082918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Autophagy is a physiological process involved in defense mechanisms for clearing intracellular bacteria. The autophagic pathway is finely regulated and bacterial toxins interact with this process in a complex manner. Bacterial toxins also interact significantly with many biochemical processes. Evaluations of the effects of bacterial toxins, such as endotoxins, pore-forming toxins and adenylate cyclases, on autophagy could support the development of new strategies for counteracting bacterial pathogenicity. Treatment strategies could focus on drugs that enhance autophagic processes to improve the clearance of intracellular bacteria. However, further in vivo studies are required to decipher the upregulation of autophagy and potential side effects limiting such approaches. The capacity of autophagy activation strategies to improve the outcome of antibiotic treatment should be investigated in the future.
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Owczarczyk AB, Schaller MA, Reed M, Rasky AJ, Lombard DB, Lukacs NW. Sirtuin 1 Regulates Dendritic Cell Activation and Autophagy during Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Induced Immune Responses. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2015; 195:1637-46. [PMID: 26157176 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the major cause of lower respiratory tract infection in children worldwide. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), an NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase, has been associated with the induction of autophagy and the regulation of inflammatory mediators. We found that Sirt1 was upregulated in mouse lung after RSV infection. Infected animals that received EX-527, a selective SIRT1 inhibitor, displayed exacerbated lung pathology, with increased mucus production, elevated viral load, and enhanced Th2 cytokine production. Gene expression analysis of isolated cell populations revealed that Sirt1 was most highly upregulated in RSV-treated dendritic cells (DCs). Upon RSV infection, EX-527-treated DCs, Sirt1 small interfering RNA-treated DCs, or DCs from conditional knockout (Sirt1(f/f)-CD11c-Cre(+)) mice showed downregulated inflammatory cytokine gene expression and attenuated autophagy. Finally, RSV infection of Sirt1(f/f)-CD11c-Cre(+) mice resulted in altered lung and lymph node cytokine responses, leading to exacerbated pathology. These data indicate that SIRT1 promotes DC activation associated with autophagy-mediated processes during RSV infection, thereby directing efficient antiviral immune responses.
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- Anna B Owczarczyk
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and
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Circulating Hemocytes from Larvae of the Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle Allomyrina dichotoma (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and the Cellular Immune Response to Microorganisms. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0128519. [PMID: 26030396 PMCID: PMC4452365 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Hemocytes of the last larva of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle A. dichotoma (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) were classified as granulocytes, plasmatocytes, oenocytoids, spherulocytes, prohemocytes, and adipohemocytes. Among these cell types, only the granulocytes became immunologically activated with obvious morphological changes, displaying large amoeba-like, lobopodia-like, and fan-like structures. In addition, their cytoplasmic granules became larger and greatly increased in number. To explore whether these granules could be immunologically generated as phagosomes, total hemocytes were stained with LysoTracker. Greater than 90% of the granulocytes retained the LysoTracker dye at 4 h post-bacterial infection. In flow cytometry analysis, the red fluorescent signal was highly increased at 4 h post-bacterial infection (60.36%) compared to controls (5.08%), as was confirmed by fluorescent microscopy. After 12 h post-infection, these signals returned to basal levels. The uptake of pathogens by granulocytes rapidly triggered the translocation of the microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3) to the phagosome, which may result in enhanced pathogen killing.
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Escape of Actively Secreting Shigella flexneri from ATG8/LC3-Positive Vacuoles Formed during Cell-To-Cell Spread Is Facilitated by IcsB and VirA. mBio 2015; 6:e02567-14. [PMID: 26015503 PMCID: PMC4447254 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02567-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The enteropathogenic bacterium Shigella flexneri uses a type 3 secretion apparatus (T3SA) to transfer proteins dubbed translocators and effectors inside host cells, inducing bacterial uptake and subsequent lysis of the entry vacuole. Once in the cytoplasm, the outer membrane protein IcsA induces actin polymerization, enabling cytoplasmic movement and cell-to-cell spread of bacteria. During this infectious process, S. flexneri is targeted by ATG8/LC3. The effector IcsB was proposed to inhibit LC3 recruitment by masking a region of IcsA recognized by the autophagy pathway component ATG5. The effector VirA, a GTPase-activating protein (GAP) for Rab1, was also shown to prevent LC3 recruitment. However, the context of LC3 recruitment around S. flexneri is not fully understood. Here, we show that LC3 is recruited specifically around secreting bacteria that are still present in vacuoles formed during entry and cell-to-cell spread. While LC3 recruitment occurs around a small proportion of intracellular wild-type bacteria, the icsB, virA, and icsB virA mutants display incremental defaults in escape from LC3-positive vacuoles formed during cell-to-cell spread. Our results indicate that IcsB and VirA act synergistically to allow bacteria to escape from LC3-positive vacuoles by acting at or in the immediate vicinity of the vacuole membrane(s). We also demonstrate that LC3 is recruited around bacteria still present in the single-membrane entry vacuole, in a manner akin to that seen with LC3-associated phagocytosis. Our results indicate that LC3 recruitment occurs around bacteria still, or already, in membrane compartments formed during entry and cell-to-cell spread, and not around bacteria free in the cytoplasm. The targeting of S. flexneri by LC3 is a classic example of the targeting of foreign cytoplasmic particles by autophagy (so-called “xenoautophagy”). It is often assumed that LC3 is recruited around bacteria present in the cytoplasm through the formation of canonical double-membrane autophagosomes. Our results indicate that LC3 is recruited around the entry vacuole composed of a single membrane as in the case of LC3-associated phagocytosis. Effectors IcsB and VirA had been implicated in the blocking of LC3 recruitment, but it was not known if they acted on the same or distinct LC3-recruiting pathways. Our results indicate that LC3 is recruited exclusively around bacteria present in vacuoles formed during entry and cell-to-cell spread and that both IcsB and VirA intervene at the latter stage to facilitate bacterial escape. Our report reconciles several findings and may have broad implications for our understanding of the specific targeting of bacterial pathogens by LC3.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Autophagy plays a crucial role in intracellular defense against various pathogens. Xenophagy is a form of selective autophagy that targets intracellular pathogens for degradation. In addition, several related, yet distinct, intracellular defense responses depend on autophagy-related genes. This review gives an overview of these processes, pathogen strategies to subvert them, and their crosstalk with various cell death programs. RECENT FINDINGS The recruitment of autophagy-related proteins plays a key role in multiple intracellular defense programs, specifically xenophagy, microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3)-associated phagocytosis, and the interferon gamma-mediated elimination of pathogens, such as Toxoplasma gondii and murine norovirus. Recent progress has revealed methods employed by pathogens to resist these intracellular defense mechanisms and/or persist in spite of them. The intracellular pathogen load can tip the balance between cell survival and cell death. Further, it was recently observed that LC3-associated phagocytosis is indispensable for the efficient clearance of dying cells. SUMMARY Autophagy-dependent and autophagy-related gene-dependent pathways are essential in intracellular defense against a broad range of pathogens.
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Bauckman KA, Owusu-Boaitey N, Mysorekar IU. Selective autophagy: xenophagy. Methods 2014; 75:120-7. [PMID: 25497060 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2014] [Revised: 11/30/2014] [Accepted: 12/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Xenophagy is an autophagic phenomenon that specifically involves pathogens and other non-host entities. Although the understanding of the relationship between autophagosomes and invading organisms has grown significantly in the past decade, the exact steps to confirm xenophagy has been not been thoroughly defined. Here we describe a methodical approach to confirming autophagy, its interaction with bacterial invasion, as well as the specific type of autophagic formation (i.e. autophagosome, autolysosome, phagolysosome). Further, we argue that xenophagy is not limited to pathogen interaction with autophagosome, but also non-microbial entities such as iron.
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- Kyle A Bauckman
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Cutting AS, Del Rosario Y, Mu R, Rodriguez A, Till A, Subramani S, Gottlieb RA, Doran KS. The role of autophagy during group B Streptococcus infection of blood-brain barrier endothelium. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:35711-23. [PMID: 25371213 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.588657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Bacterial meningitis occurs when bloodborne pathogens invade and penetrate the blood-brain barrier (BBB), provoking inflammation and disease. Group B Streptococcus (GBS), the leading cause of neonatal meningitis, can enter human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMECs), but the host response to intracellular GBS has not been characterized. Here we sought to determine whether antibacterial autophagy, which involves selective recognition of intracellular organisms and their targeting to autophagosomes for degradation, is activated in BBB endothelium during bacterial infection. GBS infection resulted in increased punctate distribution of GFP-microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3) and increased levels of endogenous LC3-II and p62 turnover, two hallmark indicators of active autophagic flux. Infection with GBS mutants revealed that bacterial invasion and the GBS pore-forming β-hemolysin/cytolysin (β-h/c) trigger autophagic activation. Cell-free bacterial extracts containing β-h/c activity induced LC3-II conversion, identifying this toxin as a principal provocative factor for autophagy activation. These results were confirmed in vivo using a mouse model of GBS meningitis as infection with WT GBS induced autophagy in brain tissue more frequently than a β-h/c-deficient mutant. Elimination of autophagy using Atg5-deficient fibroblasts or siRNA-mediated impairment of autophagy in hBMECs led to increased recovery of intracellular GBS. However, electron microscopy revealed that GBS was rarely found within double membrane autophagic structures even though we observed GBS-LC3 co-localization. These results suggest that although autophagy may act as a BBB cellular defense mechanism in response to invading and toxin-producing bacteria, GBS may actively thwart the autophagic pathway.
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- From the Department of Biology and
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- Division of Biological Sciences and San Diego Center for Systems Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0322, Stem Cell Pathologies Group, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, D-53127 Bonn, Germany, and
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- Division of Biological Sciences and San Diego Center for Systems Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0322
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- Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182
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- From the Department of Biology and Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093
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Qin Y, Zhou ZW, Pan ST, He ZX, Zhang X, Qiu JX, Duan W, Yang T, Zhou SF. Graphene quantum dots induce apoptosis, autophagy, and inflammatory response via p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and nuclear factor-κB mediated signaling pathways in activated THP-1 macrophages. Toxicology 2014; 327:62-76. [PMID: 25446327 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2014.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Revised: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The biomedical application of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) is a new emerging area. However, their safety data are still in scarcity to date. Particularly, the effect of GQDs on the immune system remains unknown. This study aimed to elucidate the interaction of GQDs with macrophages and the underlying mechanisms. Our results showed that GQDs slightly affected the cell viability and membrane integrity of macrophages, whereas GQDs significantly increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and apoptotic and autophagic cell death with an increase in the expression level of Bax, Bad, caspase 3, caspase 9, beclin 1, and LC3-I/II and a decrease in that of Bcl-2. Furthermore, low concentrations of GQDs significantly increased the expression of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-8, whereas high concentrations of GQDs elicited opposite effects on the cytokines production. SB202190, a selective inhibitor of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), abolished the cytokine-inducing effect of GQDs in macrophages. Moreover, GQDs significantly increased the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and p65, and promoted the nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB). Taken together, these results show that GQDs induce ROS generation, apoptosis, autophagy, and inflammatory response via p38MAPK and NF-κB mediated signaling pathways in THP-1 activated macrophages.
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- Yiru Qin
- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Research Center & Sino-US Joint Laboratory for Medical Sciences, Guiyang Medical University, Guiyang 550004, Guizhou, China
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- Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Medicine, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3217, Australia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
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Devenish RJ, Lai S. Autophagy and Burkholderia. Immunol Cell Biol 2014; 93:18-24. [DOI: 10.1038/icb.2014.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Revised: 09/11/2014] [Accepted: 09/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Rodney J Devenish
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton CampusMelbourneVICAustralia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton CampusMelbourneVICAustralia
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Hosseini R, Lamers GE, Hodzic Z, Meijer AH, Schaaf MJ, Spaink HP. Correlative light and electron microscopy imaging of autophagy in a zebrafish infection model. Autophagy 2014; 10:1844-57. [PMID: 25126731 PMCID: PMC4198367 DOI: 10.4161/auto.29992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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High-resolution imaging of autophagy has been used intensively in cell culture studies, but so far it has been difficult to visualize this process in detail in whole animal models. In this study we present a versatile method for high-resolution imaging of microbial infection in zebrafish larvae by injecting pathogens into the tail fin. This allows visualization of autophagic compartments by light and electron microscopy, which makes it possible to correlate images acquired by the 2 techniques. Using this method we have studied the autophagy response against Mycobacterium marinum infection. We show that mycobacteria during the progress of infection are frequently associated with GFP-Lc3-positive vesicles, and that 2 types of GFP-Lc3-positive vesicles were observed. The majority of these vesicles were approximately 1 μm in size and in close vicinity of bacteria, and a smaller number of GFP-Lc3-positive vesicles was larger in size and were observed to contain bacteria. Quantitative data showed that these larger vesicles occurred significantly more in leukocytes than in other cell types, and that approximately 70% of these vesicles were positive for a lysosomal marker. Using electron microscopy, it was found that approximately 5% of intracellular bacteria were present in autophagic vacuoles and that the remaining intracellular bacteria were present in phagosomes, lysosomes, free inside the cytoplasm or occurred as large aggregates. Based on correlation of light and electron microscopy images, it was shown that GFP-Lc3-positive vesicles displayed autophagic morphology. This study provides a new approach for injection of pathogens into the tail fin, which allows combined light and electron microscopy imaging in vivo and opens new research directions for studying autophagy process related to infectious diseases.
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- Rohola Hosseini
- Institute of Biology; Leiden University; Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology; Leiden University; Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology; Leiden University; Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology; Leiden University; Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology; Leiden University; Leiden, The Netherlands
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Kwon H, Bang K, Cho S. Characterization of the hemocytes in Larvae of Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis: involvement of granulocyte-mediated phagocytosis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e103620. [PMID: 25083702 PMCID: PMC4118905 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 06/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Hemocytes are key players in the immune response against pathogens in insects. However, the hemocyte types and their functions in the white-spotted flower chafers, Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis (Kolbe), are not known. In this study, we used various microscopes, molecular probes, and flow cytometric analyses to characterize the hemocytes in P. brevitarsis seulensis. The circulating hemocytes were classified based on their size, morphology, and dye-staining properties into six types, including granulocytes, plasmatocytes, oenocytoids, spherulocytes, prohemocytes, and adipohemocytes. The percentages of circulating hemocyte types were as follows: 13% granulocytes, 20% plasmatocytes, 1% oenocytoids, 5% spherulocytes, 17% prohemocytes, and 44% adipohemocytes. Next, we identified the professional phagocytes, granulocytes, which mediate encapsulation and phagocytosis of pathogens. The granulocytes were immunologically or morphologically activated and phagocytosed potentially hazardous substances in vivo. In addition, we showed that the phagocytosis by granulocytes is associated with autophagy, and that the activation of autophagy could be an efficient way to eliminate pathogens in this system. We also observed a high accumulation of autophagic vacuoles in activated granulocytes, which altered their shape and led to autophagic cell death. Finally, the granulocytes underwent mitotic division thus maintaining their number in vivo.
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- Hyojung Kwon
- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Environment Friendly Agriculture Center, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Environment Friendly Agriculture Center, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Environment Friendly Agriculture Center, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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Ligeon LA, Moreau K, Barois N, Bongiovanni A, Lacorre DA, Werkmeister E, Proux-Gillardeaux V, Galli T, Lafont F. Role of VAMP3 and VAMP7 in the commitment of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis to LC3-associated pathways involving single- or double-membrane vacuoles. Autophagy 2014; 10:1588-602. [PMID: 25046114 DOI: 10.4161/auto.29411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can replicate inside macrophages by hijacking autophagy and blocking autophagosome acidification. In bone marrow-derived macrophages, the bacteria are mainly observed inside double-membrane vacuoles positive for LC3, a hallmark of autophagy. Here, we address the question of the membrane traffic during internalization of Yersinia investigating the role of vesicle- associated membrane proteins (VAMPs). First, we show that as in epithelial cells, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis replicates mainly in nonacidic LC3-positive vacuoles. Second, in these cells, we unexpectedly found that VAMP3 localizes preferentially to Yersinia-containing vacuoles (YCVs) with single membranes using correlative light-electron microscopy. Third, we reveal the precise kinetics of VAMP3 and VAMP7 association with YCVs positive for LC3. Fourth, we show that VAMP7 knockdown alters LC3's association with single-and multimembrane-YCVs. Finally, in uninfected epithelial cells stimulated for autophagy, VAMP3 overexpression and knockdown led respectively to a lower and higher number of double-membrane, LC3-positive vesicles. Hence, our results highlight the role that VAMPs play in selection of the pathways leading to generation of ultrastructurally different LC3 compartments and pave the way for determining the full set of docking and fusion proteins involved in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis' intravesicular life cycle.
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- Laure-Anne Ligeon
- Cellular Microbiology of Infectious Pathogens Group; Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France; CNRS UMR8204; Lille, France; INSERM U1019; Lille, France; University of Lille-Nord de France; Lille, France
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- Cellular Microbiology of Infectious Pathogens Group; Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France; CNRS UMR8204; Lille, France; INSERM U1019; Lille, France; University of Lille-Nord de France; Lille, France
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- INSERM U1019; Lille, France; BioImaging Center Lille-Nord de France; IFR142; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France
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- Cellular Microbiology of Infectious Pathogens Group; Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France; BioImaging Center Lille-Nord de France; IFR142; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France
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- University of Lille-Nord de France; Lille, France; BioImaging Center Lille-Nord de France; IFR142; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France
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- BioImaging Center Lille-Nord de France; IFR142; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France; CNRS UM8161; Lille, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod; UMR 7592; CNRS; University of Paris Diderot; Paris, France; INSERM ERL U950; Membrane Traffic in Neuronal & Epithelial Morphogenesis Group; Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod; UMR 7592; CNRS; University of Paris Diderot; Paris, France; INSERM ERL U950; Membrane Traffic in Neuronal & Epithelial Morphogenesis Group; Paris, France
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- Cellular Microbiology of Infectious Pathogens Group; Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France; CNRS UMR8204; Lille, France; INSERM U1019; Lille, France; University of Lille-Nord de France; Lille, France; BioImaging Center Lille-Nord de France; IFR142; Institut Pasteur de Lille; Lille, France
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Chargui A, El May MV. Autophagy mediates neutrophil responses to bacterial infection. APMIS 2014; 122:1047-58. [PMID: 24735202 DOI: 10.1111/apm.12271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Neutrophils constitute the first line of cellular defense against pathogens and autophagy is a fundamental cellular homeostasis pathway that operates with the intracellular degradation/recycling system. Induction of the autophagic process in neutrophils, in response to invading pathogens, constitutes a crucial mechanism in innate immunity. Exploration of autophagy has greatly progressed and diverse strategies have been reported for studying this molecular process in different biological systems; especially in infectious and inflammatory diseases. Furthermore, the role of autophagy in neutrophils, during pathogenic infection, continues to be of interest, due to the role of the cell in immunity function, its recruitment to the site of infection and its implication in inflammatory diseases. This review focuses on the known role of autophagy in neutrophils defence against pathogenic infections. A more detailed discussion will concern the recent findings highlighting the role of autophagy in inflammation and cell death in infected neutrophils.
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- Abderrahman Chargui
- Laboratory of Histology, Embryology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Tunis, Tunisia; Higher School of Agriculture, Kef, Tunisia
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Smeekens SP, Malireddi RK, Plantinga TS, Buffen K, Oosting M, Joosten LAB, Kullberg BJ, Perfect JR, Scott WK, van de Veerdonk FL, Xavier RJ, van de Vosse E, Kanneganti TD, Johnson MD, Netea MG. Autophagy is redundant for the host defense against systemic Candida albicans infections. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2013; 33:711-22. [PMID: 24202731 DOI: 10.1007/s10096-013-2002-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Accepted: 10/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Autophagy has been demonstrated to play an important role in the immunity against intracellular pathogens, but very little is known about its role in the host defense against fungal pathogens such as Candida albicans. Therefore, the role of autophagy for the host defense against C. albicans was assessed by complementary approaches using mice defective in autophagy, as well as immunological and genetic studies in humans. Although C. albicans induced LC3-II formation in macrophages, myeloid cell-specific ATG7(-/-) mice with defects in autophagy did not display an increased susceptibility to disseminated candidiasis. In in vitro experiments in human blood mononuclear cells, blocking autophagy modulated cytokine production induced by lipopolysaccharide, but not by C. albicans. Furthermore, autophagy modulation in human monocytes did not influence the phagocytosis and killing of C. albicans. Finally, 18 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 13 autophagy genes were not associated with susceptibility to candidemia or clinical outcome of disease in a large cohort of patients, and there was no correlation between these genetic variants and cytokine production in either candidemia patients or healthy controls. Based on these complementary in vitro and in vivo studies, it can be concluded that autophagy is redundant for the host response against systemic infections with C. albicans.
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- S P Smeekens
- Department of Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 8, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Deen NS, Huang SJ, Gong L, Kwok T, Devenish RJ. The impact of autophagic processes on the intracellular fate of Helicobacter pylori: more tricks from an enigmatic pathogen? Autophagy 2013; 9:639-52. [PMID: 23396129 DOI: 10.4161/auto.23782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative pathogen that colonizes the gastric epithelium of 50-60% of the world's population. Approximately one-fifth of the infected individuals manifest severe diseases such as peptic ulcers or gastric cancer. H. pylori infection has proven difficult to cure despite intensive antibiotic treatment. One possible reason for the relatively high resistance to antimicrobial therapy is the ability of H. pylori to reside inside host cells. Although considered by most as an extracellular pathogen, H. pylori can invade both gastric epithelial cells and immunocytes to some extent. The intracellular survival of H. pylori has been implicated in its ability to persist in the stomach, evade host immune responses and resist eradication by membrane-impermeable antibiotics. Interestingly, recent evidence suggests that macroautophagy, a cellular self-degradation process characterized by the formation of double-membraned autophagosomes, plays an important role in determining the intracellular fate of H. pylori. Detailed understanding of the interaction between H. pylori and host cell autophagic processes is anticipated to provide novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of macroautophagy and H. pylori pathogenesis, opening new avenues for the therapeutic intervention of autophagy-related and H. pylori-related disorders.
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- Nadia S Deen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria, Australia
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