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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 899-U123Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1758
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- National Institutes of Health [AI50216, AI072143]
- Fonds de la Recherche en Santedu Quebec
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Induction of macrophage necrosis is a strategy used by virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to avoid innate host defense. In contrast, attenuated Mtb causes apoptosis, which limits bacterial replication and promotes T cell cross-priming by antigen-presenting cells. Here we show that Mtb infection causes plasma membrane microdisruptions. Resealing of these lesions, a process crucial for preventing necrosis and promoting apoptosis, required translocation of lysosomal and Golgi apparatus-derived vesicles to the plasma membrane. Plasma membrane repair depended on prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)), which regulates synaptotagmin 7 (Syt-7), the calcium sensor involved in the lysosome-mediated repair mechanism. By inducing production of lipoxin A(4) (LXA(4)), which blocks PGE(2) biosynthesis, virulent Mtb prevented membrane repair and induced necrosis. Thus, virulent Mtb impairs macrophage plasma membrane repair to evade host defenses.
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