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- Title
An injected bacterial effector targets chromatin access for transcription factor NF-kappaB to alter transcription of host genes involved in immune responses.
- Authors
Arbibe, Laurence; Kim, Dong Wook; Batsche, Eric; Pedron, Thierry; Mateescu, Bogdan; Muchardt, Christian; Parsot, Claude; Sansonetti, Philippe J
- Abstract
Phosphorylation of histone H3 at Ser10 increases chromatin accessibility to transcription factor NF-kappaB on a subset of genes involved in immune responses. Here we report that a bacterial pathogen abrogated phosphorylation of histone H3 to 'shape' the transcriptional responses of infected host cells. We identify the Shigella flexneri protein effector OspF as a dually specific phosphatase that dephosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinases in the nucleus, thus preventing histone H3 phosphorylation at Ser10 in a gene-specific way. That activity of OspF enabled shigella to block the activation of a subset of NF-kappaB-responsive genes, leading to compromised recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes to infected tissues. S. flexneri has thus evolved the capacity to precisely modulate host cell epigenetic 'information' as a strategy for repressing innate immunity.
- Publication
Nature immunology, 2007, Vol 8, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1529-2908
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ni1423