The clock gene Bmal1 inhibits macrophage motility, phagocytosis, and impairs defense against pneumonia

Autor: John Blaikley, Gareth B. Kitchen, Tracy Hussell, Mudassar Iqbal, Robert Maidstone, Laura Matthews, Hannah J. Durrington, Peter S. Cunningham, James Bagnall, Nicola Begley, Matthew Baxter, Ben Saer, Toryn Poolman, Julie E. Gibbs, Andrew S. I. Loudon, David W. Ray, David H. Dockrell
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
endocrine system
actin cytoskeleton
RHOA
Disease Resistance/genetics
Circadian Clocks/genetics
Lydia Becker Institute
Phagocytosis/drug effects
Phagocytosis
Motility
Cell Movement/drug effects
Cell morphology
Mice
03 medical and health sciences
Macrophages/drug effects
0302 clinical medicine
ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/lydia_becker_institute_of_immunology_and_inflammation
rhoA GTP-Binding Protein/metabolism
Animals
Macrophage
Cytoskeleton
Actin
ARNTL Transcription Factors/antagonists & inhibitors
030304 developmental biology
Mice
Knockout

0303 health sciences
Multidisciplinary
biology
Circadian
RhoA
Pneumonia
Pneumococcal/metabolism

Streptococcus pneumoniae/pathogenicity
Actin cytoskeleton
3. Good health
Cell biology
Mice
Inbred C57BL

Disease Models
Animal

Streptococcus pneumoniae
Actins/metabolism
biology.protein
Female
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Kitchen, G B, Cunningham, P S, Poolman, T M, Iqbal, M, Maidstone, R, Baxter, M, Bagnall, J, Begley, N, Saer, B, Hussell, T, Matthews, L C, Dockrell, D H, Durrington, H J, Gibbs, J E, Blaikley, J F, Loudon, A S & Ray, D W 2020, ' The clock gene Bmal1 inhibits macrophage motility, phagocytosis, and impairs defense against pneumonia ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 3, pp. 1543-1551 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915932117
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915932117
Popis: The circadian clock regulates many aspects of immunity. Bacterial infections are affected by time of day, but the mechanisms involved remain undefined. Here we show that loss of the core clock protein BMAL1 in macrophages confers protection against pneumococcal pneumonia. Infected mice show both reduced weight loss and lower bacterial burden in circulating blood. In vivo studies of macrophage phagocytosis reveal increased bacterial ingestion following Bmal1 deletion, which was also seen in vitro. BMAL1 −/− macrophages exhibited marked differences in actin cytoskeletal organization, a phosphoproteome enriched for cytoskeletal changes, with reduced phosphocofilin and increased active RhoA. Further analysis of the BMAL1 −/− macrophages identified altered cell morphology and increased motility. Mechanistically, BMAL1 regulated a network of cell movement genes, 148 of which were within 100 kb of high-confidence BMAL1 binding sites. Links to RhoA function were identified, with 29 genes impacting RhoA expression or activation. RhoA inhibition restored the phagocytic phenotype to that seen in control macrophages. In summary, we identify a surprising gain of antibacterial function due to loss of BMAL1 in macrophages, associated with a RhoA-dependent cytoskeletal change, an increase in cell motility, and gain of phagocytic function.
Databáze: OpenAIRE