The macrophage microtubule network acts as a key cellular controller of the intracellular fate of Leishmania infantum
The macrophage microtubule network acts as a key cellular controller of the intracellular fate of Leishmania infantum
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pntd.0008396
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发表时间:
2020-07-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Lievin-Le Moal, Vanessa
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作者:
Cojean, Sandrine;Nicolas, Valerie;Lievin-Le Moal, Vanessa
Author summary Kinetoplastid parasites of the genusLeishmaniaare responsible for a diverse spectrum of mammalian infectious diseases, the leishmaniases, including cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and mucosal pathologies. Infectious metacyclic promastigotes of infected female Phlebotomus sandflies are injected into the host at the site of the bite during the sandfly blood meal, after which they are internalized by host professional phagocytic neutrophils and macrophages.Leishmania infantumis an etiological agent of potentially fatal visceral pathology. This study molecularly dissects the maturation ofL.infantum-containing phagosomes/parasitophorous vacuoles (PVs) in host macrophages. We reveal the requirement of vacuolar movement along macrophage microtubule tracks for the phagosome trafficking toward the endolysosomal pathway necessary for the development of the mature tight-fitting PV crucial forL.infantumsurvival and proliferation.The parasitophorous vacuoles (PVs) that insulateLeishmania spp. in host macrophages are vacuolar compartments wherein promastigote forms differentiate into amastigote that are the replicative form of the parasite and are also more resistant to host responses. We revisited the biogenesis of tight-fitting PVs that insulateL.infantumin promastigote-infected macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cells by time-dependent confocal laser multidimensional imaging analysis. Pharmacological disassembly of the cellular microtubule network and silencing of the dynein gene led to an impaired interaction ofL.infantum-containing phagosomes with late endosomes and lysosomes, resulting in the tight-fitting parasite-containing phagosomes never transforming into mature PVs. Analysis of the shape of theL.infantumparasite within PVs, showed that factors that impair promastigote-amastigote differentiation can also result in PVs whose maturation is arrested. These findings highlight the importance of the MT-dependent interaction ofL.infantum-containing phagosomes with the host macrophage endolysosomal pathway to secure the intracellular fate of the parasite.