دورية أكاديمية
The pH-responsive PacC transcription factor of Aspergillus fumigatus governs epithelial entry and tissue invasion during pulmonary aspergillosis.
| العنوان: | The pH-responsive PacC transcription factor of Aspergillus fumigatus governs epithelial entry and tissue invasion during pulmonary aspergillosis. |
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| المؤلفون: | Margherita Bertuzzi, Markus Schrettl, Laura Alcazar-Fuoli, Timothy C Cairns, Alberto Muñoz, Louise A Walker, Susanne Herbst, Maryam Safari, Angela M Cheverton, Dan Chen, Hong Liu, Shinobu Saijo, Natalie D Fedorova, Darius Armstrong-James, Carol A Munro, Nick D Read, Scott G Filler, Eduardo A Espeso, William C Nierman, Hubertus Haas, Elaine M Bignell |
| المصدر: | PLoS Pathogens, Vol 10, Iss 10, p e1004413 (2014) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Immunologic diseases. Allergy LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | Destruction of the pulmonary epithelium is a major feature of lung diseases caused by the mould pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Although it is widely postulated that tissue invasion is governed by fungal proteases, A. fumigatus mutants lacking individual or multiple enzymes remain fully invasive, suggesting a concomitant requirement for other pathogenic activities during host invasion. In this study we discovered, and exploited, a novel, tissue non-invasive, phenotype in A. fumigatus mutants lacking the pH-responsive transcription factor PacC. Our study revealed a novel mode of epithelial entry, occurring in a cell wall-dependent manner prior to protease production, and via the Dectin-1 β-glucan receptor. ΔpacC mutants are defective in both contact-mediated epithelial entry and protease expression, and significantly attenuated for pathogenicity in leukopenic mice. We combined murine infection modelling, in vivo transcriptomics, and in vitro infections of human alveolar epithelia, to delineate two major, and sequentially acting, PacC-dependent processes impacting epithelial integrity in vitro and tissue invasion in the whole animal. We demonstrate that A. fumigatus spores and germlings are internalised by epithelial cells in a contact-, actin-, cell wall- and Dectin-1 dependent manner and ΔpacC mutants, which aberrantly remodel the cell wall during germinative growth, are unable to gain entry into epithelial cells, both in vitro and in vivo. We further show that PacC acts as a global transcriptional regulator of secreted molecules during growth in the leukopenic mammalian lung, and profile the full cohort of secreted gene products expressed during invasive infection. Our study reveals a combinatorial mode of tissue entry dependent upon sequential, and mechanistically distinct, perturbations of the pulmonary epithelium and demonstrates, for the first time a protective role for Dectin-1 blockade in epithelial defences. Infecting ΔpacC mutants are hypersensitive to cell wall-active antifungal agents highlighting the value of PacC signalling as a target for antifungal therapy. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1553-7366 1553-7374 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7366; https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7374 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004413 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/eb8eb45ee83a4e99a63533f7c78440cd |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.b8eb45ee83a4e99a63533f7c78440cd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 15537366 15537374 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004413 |