Inhibition of the master regulator of Listeria monocytogenes virulence enables bacterial clearance from spacious replication vacuoles in infected macrophages
Thao Thanh Tran
(1)
,
Carmen D Mathmann
(1)
,
Marcela Gatica-Andrades
(1)
,
Rachel F Rollo
(1)
,
Melanie Oelker
(2)
,
Johanna K Ljungberg
(1)
,
Tam T K Nguyen
(1)
,
Alina Zamoshnikova
(1)
,
Lalith K Kummari
(3, 4)
,
Orry J K Wyer
(1)
,
Katharine M Irvine
(4, 5)
,
Javier Melo-Bolívar
(1)
,
Annette Gross
(1)
,
Darren Brown
(4)
,
Jeffrey y W Mak
(4, 5)
,
David P Fairlie
(4, 5)
,
Karl A Hansford
(4)
,
Matthew A Cooper
(4)
,
Rabina Giri
(6)
,
Veronika Schreiber
(6)
,
Shannon R Joseph
(7)
,
Fiona Simpson
(7)
,
Timothy C Barnett
(8)
,
Jörgen Johansson
(9)
,
Wendy Dankers
(10)
,
James Harris
(10)
,
Timothy J Wells
(11)
,
Ronan Kapetanovic
(4)
,
Matthew J Sweet
(4)
,
Eleanor A Latomanski
(12)
,
Hayley J Newton
(12)
,
Romain J R Guérillot
(12)
,
Abderrahman Hachani
(12)
,
Timothy P Stinear
(12)
,
Sze Ying Ong
(12, 13)
,
Yogeswari Chandran
(13, 12)
,
Elizabeth L Hartland
(12, 13)
,
Bostjan Kobe
(14, 4)
,
Jennifer L Stow
(4)
,
A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson
(2)
,
Jakob Begun
(15)
,
Jessica C Kling
(7)
,
Antje Blumenthal
(7)
1
University of Queensland - The Diamantina Institute
2 Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden
3 School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre
4 Institute for Molecular Bioscience
5 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging [Victoria, Australia]
6 Mater Research Institute - The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
7 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia
8 Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases
9 Umeå University, Sweden
10 School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
11 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
12 The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity [Melbourne]
13 Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Department of Molecular and Translational Science
14 School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
15 Mater Research Institute - The University of Queensland,
2 Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, 90187, Umeå, Sweden
3 School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre
4 Institute for Molecular Bioscience
5 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging [Victoria, Australia]
6 Mater Research Institute - The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
7 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia
8 Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases
9 Umeå University, Sweden
10 School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
11 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
12 The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity [Melbourne]
13 Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Department of Molecular and Translational Science
14 School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
15 Mater Research Institute - The University of Queensland,
Carmen D Mathmann
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Rachel F Rollo
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Alina Zamoshnikova
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Lalith K Kummari
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Katharine M Irvine
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Javier Melo-Bolívar
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Annette Gross
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Darren Brown
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Jeffrey y W Mak
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Karl A Hansford
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Matthew A Cooper
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Rabina Giri
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Fiona Simpson
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Timothy C Barnett
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Wendy Dankers
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James Harris
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Timothy J Wells
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Ronan Kapetanovic
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Matthew J Sweet
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Hayley J Newton
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Romain J R Guérillot
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Abderrahman Hachani
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Timothy P Stinear
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Bostjan Kobe
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Jakob Begun
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Antje Blumenthal
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Résumé
A hallmark of Listeria (L.) monocytogenes pathogenesis is bacterial escape from maturing entry vacuoles, which is required for rapid bacterial replication in the host cell cytoplasm and cell-to-cell spread. The bacterial transcriptional activator PrfA controls expression of key virulence factors that enable exploitation of this intracellular niche. The transcriptional activity of PrfA within infected host cells is controlled by allosteric coactivation. Inhibitory occupation of the coactivator site has been shown to impair PrfA functions, but consequences of PrfA inhibition for L. monocytogenes infection and pathogenesis are unknown. Here we report the crystal structure of PrfA with a small molecule inhibitor occupying the coactivator site at 2.0 Å resolution. Using molecular imaging and infection studies in macrophages, we demonstrate that PrfA inhibition prevents the vacuolar escape of L. monocytogenes and enables extensive bacterial replication inside spacious vacuoles. In contrast to previously described spacious Listeria-containing vacuoles, which have been implicated in supporting chronic infection, PrfA inhibition facilitated progressive clearance of intracellular L. monocytogenes from spacious vacuoles through lysosomal degradation. Thus, inhibitory occupation of the PrfA coactivator site facilitates formation of a transient intravacuolar L. monocytogenes replication niche that licenses macrophages to effectively eliminate intracellular bacteria. Our findings encourage further exploration of PrfA as a potential target for antimicrobials and highlight that intra-vacuolar residence of L. monocytogenes in macrophages is not inevitably tied to bacterial persistence.
Domaines
Immunologie
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Licence : CC BY - Paternité