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Coxiella manipulation of cholesterol in the intracellular niche

柯克斯体对细胞内生态位中胆固醇的操纵

基本信息

批准号：
10270536
负责人：
STACEY D GILK
金额：
$ 35.9万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-10-01 至 2023-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10270536
关键词：
Acute Affect Antibiotic Therapy Antibiotics Autophagosome Bacteria Bacterial Proteins Binding Biological Assay Cell Survival Cells Cessation of life Cholesterol Chronic Chronic Disease Clinical Coxiella Coxiella burnetii Data Disease Disease Outbreaks Endocarditis Endoplasmic Reticulum Endosomes Enzymes Fatigue Growth Health Human Immune response In Vitro Individual Infection Life Lipids Lysosomes Maintenance Mediating Membrane Microscopy Modification Molecular Molecular Target Netherlands Organelles Oxidoreductase Pathogenesis Patient Noncompliance Patients Process Proteins Publishing Q Fever Regimen Research Role Site Sterols Symptoms Testing Therapeutic Intervention Toxic effect Type IV Secretion System Pathway Vacuole Virulence Factors Zoonoses base cholesterol-binding protein chronic infection fitness flu insight knock-down macrophage mutant new therapeutic target novel novel therapeutics oxysterol binding protein pathogen pathogenic bacteria recruit small hairpin RNA targeted treatment

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of human Q fever, a zoonotic disease that can cause a debiliting, flu- like illness in acute cases, or a life-threatening endocarditis in chronic patients. Q fever patients present with few distinguishing clinical features, and chronic disease requires a minimum of 18 months of antibiotic treatment, highlighting the need for new therapeutics. An obligate intracellular pathogen, Coxiella survives inside a large, lysosome-like parasitophorous vacuole that is essential for bacterial replication and protects the bacteria from the host immune response. The Coxiella parasitophorous vacuole (CPV) forms through heterotypic fusion with host endosomes and autophagosomes, a process which also delivers cholesterol to the CPV membrane. We recently determined that accumulation of host cholesterol in the CPV is toxic to the bacteria, and hypothesize that Coxiella must deplete CPV cholesterol in order to survive within the host cell. The objective of this application is to test our hypothesis that Coxiella uses two distinct mechanisms to manipulate CPV cholesterol. Aim 1 will test the role of membrane contact sites in cholesterol transfer between the CPV and the host endoplasmic reticulum. Aim 2 will determine the role of putative Coxiella sterol reductases in modifying CPV cholesterol. At the conclusion of these studies, we will have elucidated how Coxiella manipulates host cholesterol to maintain the optimal microenvironment for bacterial surivival.

项目总结/文摘