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- Title
De novo synthesized polyunsaturated fatty acids operate as both host immunomodulators and nutrients for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Authors
Laval, Thomas; Pedró-Cos, Laura; Malaga, Wladimir; Guenin-Macé, Laure; Pawlik, Alexandre; Mayau, Véronique; Yahia-Cherbal, Hanane; Delos, Océane; Frigui, Wafa; Bertrand-Michel, Justine; Guilhot, Christophe; Demangel, Caroline
- Abstract
Successful control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection by macrophages relies on immunometabolic reprogramming, where the role of fatty acids (FAs) remains poorly understood. Recent studies unraveled Mtb's capacity to acquire saturated and monounsaturated FAs via the Mce1 importer. However, upon activation, macrophages produce polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), mammal-specific FAs mediating the generation of immunomodulatory eicosanoids. Here, we asked how Mtb modulates de novo synthesis of PUFAs in primary mouse macrophages and whether this benefits host or pathogen. Quantitative lipidomics revealed that Mtb infection selectively activates the biosynthesis of ?6 PUFAs upstream of the eicosanoid precursor arachidonic acid (AA) via transcriptional activation of Fads2. Inhibiting FADS2 in infected macrophages impaired their inflammatory and antimicrobial responses but had no effect on Mtb growth in host cells nor mice. Using a click-chemistry approach, we found that Mtb efficiently imports ?6 PUFAs via Mce1 in axenic culture, including AA. Further, Mtb preferentially internalized AA over all other FAs within infected macrophages by mechanisms partially depending on Mce1 and supporting intracellular persistence. Notably, IFN? repressed de novo synthesis of AA by infected mouse macrophages and restricted AA import by intracellular Mtb. Together, these findings identify AA as a major FA substrate for intracellular Mtb, whose mobilization by innate immune responses is opportunistically hijacked by the pathogen and downregulated by IFN?.
- Subjects
MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; ARACHIDONIC acid; AXENIC cultures; IMMUNOMODULATORS; UNSATURATED fatty acids; FATTY acids; EICOSANOIDS
- Publication
eLife, 2022, p1
- ISSN
2050-084X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7554/eLife.71946