PUBLICATION
Mycobacterium abscessus cording prevents phagocytosis and promotes abscess formation
- Authors
- Bernut, A., Herrmann, J.L., Kissa, K., Dubremetz, J.F., Gaillard, J.L., Lutfalla, G., Kremer, L.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140513-474
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111: E943-52 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kissa-Marin, Karima, Lutfalla, Georges
- Keywords
- granuloma, innate immunity, morphotype, pathogenesis
- MeSH Terms
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- Abscess/physiopathology*
- Animals
- Clodronic Acid
- Cord Factors/immunology
- Cord Factors/metabolism*
- DNA Primers/genetics
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Glycolipids/metabolism*
- Glycopeptides/metabolism*
- Histocytochemistry
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Immunologic Factors/metabolism*
- Macrophages/metabolism
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Morpholinos/administration & dosage
- Morpholinos/genetics
- Mycobacterium/cytology
- Mycobacterium/metabolism
- Mycobacterium/pathogenicity*
- Mycobacterium Infections/physiopathology*
- Phagocytosis/physiology
- Virulence
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 24567393 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Bernut, A., Herrmann, J.L., Kissa, K., Dubremetz, J.F., Gaillard, J.L., Lutfalla, G., Kremer, L. (2014) Mycobacterium abscessus cording prevents phagocytosis and promotes abscess formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111:E943-52.
Abstract
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium causing a wide spectrum of clinical syndromes. It now is recognized as a pulmonary pathogen to which cystic fibrosis patients have a particular susceptibility. The M. abscessus rough (R) variant, devoid of cell-surface glycopeptidolipids (GPLs), causes more severe clinical disease than the smooth (S) variant, but the underlying mechanisms of R-variant virulence remain obscure. Exploiting the optical transparency of zebrafish embryos, we observed that the increased virulence of the M. abscessus R variant compared with the S variant correlated with the loss of GPL production. The virulence of the R variant involved the massive production of serpentine cords, absent during S-variant infection, and the cords initiated abscess formation leading to rapid larval death. Cording occurred within the vasculature and was highly pronounced in the central nervous system (CNS). It appears that M. abscessus is transported to the CNS within macrophages. The release of M. abscessus from apoptotic macrophages initiated the formation of cords that grew too large to be phagocytized by macrophages or neutrophils. This study is a description of the crucial role of cording in the in vivo physiopathology of M. abscessus infection and emphasizes cording as a mechanism of immune evasion.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping