IRG and GBP host resistance factors target aberrant, 'non-self' vacuoles characterized by the missing of 'self' IRGM proteins.

Autor: Arun K Haldar, Hector A Saka, Anthony S Piro, Joe Dan Dunn, Stanley C Henry, Gregory A Taylor, Eva M Frickel, Raphael H Valdivia, Jörn Coers
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: PLoS Pathogens, Vol 9, Iss 6, p e1003414 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1553-7366
1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003414
Popis: Interferon-inducible GTPases of the Immunity Related GTPase (IRG) and Guanylate Binding Protein (GBP) families provide resistance to intracellular pathogenic microbes. IRGs and GBPs stably associate with pathogen-containing vacuoles (PVs) and elicit immune pathways directed at the targeted vacuoles. Targeting of Interferon-inducible GTPases to PVs requires the formation of higher-order protein oligomers, a process negatively regulated by a subclass of IRG proteins called IRGMs. We found that the paralogous IRGM proteins Irgm1 and Irgm3 fail to robustly associate with "non-self" PVs containing either the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis or the protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. Instead, Irgm1 and Irgm3 reside on "self" organelles including lipid droplets (LDs). Whereas IRGM-positive LDs are guarded against the stable association with other IRGs and GBPs, we demonstrate that IRGM-stripped LDs become high affinity binding substrates for IRG and GBP proteins. These data reveal that intracellular immune recognition of organelle-like structures by IRG and GBP proteins is partly dictated by the missing of "self" IRGM proteins from these structures.
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