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Rosazza T, Lecoeur H, Blisnick T, Moya-Nilges M, Pescher P, Bastin P, Prina E, Späth GF. Dynamic imaging reveals surface exposure of virulent Leishmania amastigotes during pyroptosis of infected macrophages. J Cell Sci 2020; 134:jcs242776. [PMID: 32501279 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.242776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Leishmania spp. are obligate intracellular parasites that infect phagocytes, notably macrophages. No information is available on how Leishmania parasites respond to pyroptosis of their host cell, which is known to limit microbial infection. Here, we analyzed the pyroptotic process and the fate of intracellular amastigotes at the single-cell level using high-content real-time imaging. Bone marrow-derived macrophages were infected with virulent Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes and sequentially treated with lipopolysaccharide and ATP to induce pyroptosis. Real-time monitoring identified distinct pyroptotic phases, including rapid decay of the parasitophorous vacuole (PV), progressive cell death and translocation of the luminal PV membrane to the cell surface in 40% of macrophages, resulting in the extracellular exposure of amastigotes that remained anchored to PV membranes. Electron microscopy analyses revealed an exclusive polarized orientation of parasites, with the anterior pole exposed toward the extracellular milieu, and the parasite posterior pole attached to the PV membrane. Exposed parasites retained their full infectivity towards naïve macrophages suggesting that host cell pyroptosis may contribute to parasite dissemination.
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Affiliation(s)
- Thibault Rosazza
- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur International Mixed Unit 'Inflammation and Leishmania infection', 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit & INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Technologie et service BioImagerie Ultrastructurale (UtechSPBI), 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Trypanosome Cell Biology Unit & INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, INSERM U1201, 75015 Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur International Mixed Unit 'Inflammation and Leishmania infection', 75015 Paris, France
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Lecoeur H, Rosazza T, Kokou K, Varet H, Coppée JY, Lari A, Commère PH, Weil R, Meng G, Milon G, Späth GF, Prina E. Leishmania amazonensis Subverts the Transcription Factor Landscape in Dendritic Cells to Avoid Inflammasome Activation and Stall Maturation. Front Immunol 2020; 11:1098. [PMID: 32582184 PMCID: PMC7295916 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Leishmania parasites are the causative agents of human leishmaniases. They infect professional phagocytes of their mammalian hosts, including dendritic cells (DCs) that are essential for the initiation of adaptive immune responses. These immune functions strictly depend on the DC's capacity to differentiate from immature, antigen-capturing cells to mature, antigen-presenting cells—a process accompanied by profound changes in cellular phenotype and expression profile. Only little is known on how intracellular Leishmania affects this important process and DC transcriptional regulation. Here, we investigate these important open questions analyzing phenotypic, cytokine profile and transcriptomic changes in murine, immature bone marrow-derived DCs (iBMDCs) infected with antibody-opsonized and non-opsonized Leishmania amazonensis (L.am) amastigotes. DCs infected by non-opsonized amastigotes remained phenotypically immature whereas those infected by opsonized parasites displayed a semi-mature phenotype. The low frequency of infected DCs in culture led us to use DsRed2-transgenic parasites allowing for the enrichment of infected BMDCs by FACS. Sorted infected DCs were then subjected to transcriptomic analyses using Affymetrix GeneChip technology. Independent of parasite opsonization, Leishmania infection induced expression of genes related to key DC processes involved in MHC Class I-restricted antigen presentation and alternative NF-κB activation. DCs infected by non-opsonized parasites maintained an immature phenotype and showed a small but significant down-regulation of gene expression related to pro-inflammatory TLR signaling, the canonical NF-kB pathway and the NLRP3 inflammasome. This transcriptomic profile was further enhanced in DCs infected with opsonized parasites that displayed a semi-mature phenotype despite absence of inflammasome activation. This paradoxical DC phenotype represents a Leishmania-specific signature, which to our knowledge has not been observed with other opsonized infectious agents. In conclusion, systems-analyses of our transcriptomics data uncovered important and previously unappreciated changes in the DC transcription factor landscape, thus revealing a novel Leishmania immune subversion strategy directly acting on transcriptional control of gene expression. Our data raise important questions on the dynamic and reciprocal interplay between trans-acting and epigenetic regulators in establishing permissive conditions for intracellular Leishmania infection and polarization of the immune response.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hervé Lecoeur
- Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1201, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France.,Pasteur Institute of Shanghai, Innate Immunity Unit, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1201, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1201, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France.,Pasteur Institute of Shanghai, Innate Immunity Unit, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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- Hub de Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Département Biologie Computationnelle, Institut Pasteur, USR 3756 CNRS, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur - Transcriptome and Epigenome Platform - Biomics Pole - C2RT, Paris, France
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- Systems Biomedicine Unit, Institut Pasteur of Iran, Teheran, Iran
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- Sorbonne Universités, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm, UMR1135), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, ERL8255), Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses CIMI, Paris, France
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- Pasteur Institute of Shanghai, Innate Immunity Unit, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire Immunophysiologie et Parasitisme, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1201, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, INSERM U1201, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, Département des Parasites et Insectes Vecteurs, Paris, France.,Pasteur International Unit "Inflammation and Leishmania Infection", Paris, France
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Baek KH, Piel L, Rosazza T, Prina E, Späth GF, No JH. Infectivity and Drug Susceptibility Profiling of Different Leishmania-Host Cell Combinations. Pathogens 2020; 9:pathogens9050393. [PMID: 32443883 PMCID: PMC7281264 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9050393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a spectrum of a disease that threatens public health worldwide. Although next-generation therapeutics are urgently needed, the early stage of the drug discovery process is hampered by very low hit rates from intracellular Leishmania phenotypic high-throughput screenings. Designing and applying a physiologically relevant in vitro assay is therefore in high demand. In this study, we characterized the infectivity, morphology, and drug susceptibility of different Leishmania and host cell infection combinations. Primary bone marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM) and differentiated human acute monocytic leukemia (THP-1) cells were infected with amastigote or promastigote forms of Leishmania amazonensis and Leishmania donovani. Regardless of host cell types, amastigotes were generally well phagocytosed and showed high infectivity, whereas promastigotes, especially those of L. donovani, had predominantly remained in the extracellular space. In the drug susceptibility test, miltefosine and sodium stibogluconate (SSG) showed varying ranges of activity with 14 and >10-fold differences in susceptibility, depending on the host-parasite pairs, indicating the importance of assay conditions for evaluating antileishmanial activity. Overall, our results suggest that combinations of Leishmania species, infection forms, and host cells must be carefully optimized to evaluate the activity of potential therapeutic compounds against Leishmania.
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- Kyung-Hwa Baek
- Leishmania Research Laboratory, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13488, Korea;
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, 75015 Paris, France; (L.P.); (T.R.); (E.P.); (G.F.S.)
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, 75015 Paris, France; (L.P.); (T.R.); (E.P.); (G.F.S.)
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, 75015 Paris, France; (L.P.); (T.R.); (E.P.); (G.F.S.)
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Signalisation, 75015 Paris, France; (L.P.); (T.R.); (E.P.); (G.F.S.)
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- Leishmania Research Laboratory, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13488, Korea;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-31-8018-8210
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Mouton-Liger F, Rosazza T, Sepulveda-Diaz J, Ieang A, Hassoun SM, Claire E, Mangone G, Brice A, Michel PP, Corvol JC, Corti O. Parkin deficiency modulates NLRP3 inflammasome activation by attenuating an A20-dependent negative feedback loop. Glia 2018; 66:1736-1751. [PMID: 29665074 PMCID: PMC6190839 DOI: 10.1002/glia.23337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction, key mechanisms in the
pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD), are usually explored independently.
Loss‐of‐function mutations of PARK2 and PARK6,
encoding the E3 ubiquitin protein ligase Parkin and the mitochondrial
serine/threonine kinase PINK1, account for a large proportion of cases of autosomal
recessive early‐onset PD. PINK1 and Parkin regulate mitochondrial quality control and
have been linked to the modulation of innate immunity pathways. We report here an
exacerbation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation by specific inducers in microglia and
bone marrow‐derived macrophages from Park2−/− and Pink1−/− mice. The caspase 1‐dependent release of IL‐1β and IL‐18 was, therefore,
enhanced in Park2−/− and Pink1−/− cells. This defect was confirmed in blood‐derived macrophages from patients
with PARK2 mutations and was reversed by MCC950, which specifically
inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome complex formation. Enhanced NLRP3 signaling in
Parkin‐deficient cells was accompanied by a lack of induction of A20, a well‐known
negative regulator of the NF‐κB pathway recently shown to attenuate NLRP3
inflammasome activity. We also found an inverse correlation between A20 abundance and
IL‐1β release, in human macrophages challenged with NLRP3 inflammasome inducers.
Overall, our observations suggest that the A20/NLRP3‐inflammasome axis participates
in the pathogenesis of PARK2‐linked PD, paving the way for the
exploration of its potential as a biomarker and treatment target.
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- François Mouton-Liger
- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France.,AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Clinical Investigation Center of Neurology (CIC-1422), Department of Neurology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France.,AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Clinical Investigation Center of Neurology (CIC-1422), Department of Neurology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, F-75013, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, Paris, F-75013, France.,Inserm, U1127, Paris, F-75013, France.,CNRS, UMR 7225, Paris, F-75013, France.,Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75013, France
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