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- Title
Endothelial cells are intrinsically defective in xenophagy of Streptococcus pyogenes.
- Authors
Lu, Shiou-Ling; Kawabata, Tsuyoshi; Cheng, Yi-Lin; Omori, Hiroko; Hamasaki, Maho; Kusaba, Tatsuya; Iwamoto, Ryo; Arimoto, Hirokazu; Noda, Takeshi; Lin, Yee-Shin; Yoshimori, Tamotsu
- Abstract
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is deleterious pathogenic bacteria whose interaction with blood vessels leads to life-threatening bacteremia. Although xenophagy, a special form of autophagy, eliminates invading GAS in epithelial cells, we found that GAS could survive and multiply in endothelial cells. Endothelial cells were competent in starvation-induced autophagy, but failed to form double-membrane structures surrounding GAS, an essential step in xenophagy. This deficiency stemmed from reduced recruitment of ubiquitin and several core autophagy proteins in endothelial cells, as demonstrated by the fact that it could be rescued by exogenous coating of GAS with ubiquitin. The defect was associated with reduced NO-mediated ubiquitin signaling. Therefore, we propose that the lack of efficient clearance of GAS in endothelial cells is caused by their intrinsic inability to target GAS with ubiquitin to promote autophagosome biogenesis for xenophagy.
- Subjects
ENDOTHELIAL cells; STREPTOCOCCUS pyogenes; AUTOPHAGY; ORGANELLE formation; UBIQUITIN
- Publication
PLoS Pathogens, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1553-7366
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.ppat.1006444