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Le Mouëllic W, Poquet Y, Neyrolles O. Dual-action compounds unleash a one-two punch against tuberculosis. Cell Chem Biol 2024; 31:627-629. [PMID: 38640900 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2024.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2024] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Gries et al.1 employ an innovative screening approach to identify anti-tuberculosis compounds with dual modes of action: anti-virulence against the type VII secretion system ESX-1 and enhanced ethionamide efficacy. These compounds hold promise for developing multi-target tuberculosis drugs with potential clinical applications.
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- Wendy Le Mouëllic
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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Corral D, Charton A, Krauss MZ, Blanquart E, Levillain F, Lefrançais E, Sneperger T, Vahlas Z, Girard JP, Eberl G, Poquet Y, Guéry JC, Argüello RJ, Belkaid Y, Mayer-Barber KD, Hepworth MR, Neyrolles O, Hudrisier D. ILC precursors differentiate into metabolically distinct ILC1-like cells during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Cell Rep 2022; 39:110715. [PMID: 35443177 PMCID: PMC9043616 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Tissue-resident innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) regulate tissue homeostasis, protect against pathogens at mucosal surfaces, and are key players at the interface of innate and adaptive immunity. How ILCs adapt their phenotype and function to environmental cues within tissues remains to be fully understood. Here, we show that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection alters the phenotype and function of lung IL-18Rα+ ILC toward a protective interferon-γ-producing ILC1-like population. This differentiation is controlled by type 1 cytokines and is associated with a glycolytic program. Moreover, a BCG-driven type I milieu enhances the early generation of ILC1-like cells during secondary challenge with Mtb. Collectively, our data reveal how tissue-resident ILCs adapt to type 1 inflammation toward a pathogen-tailored immune response.
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- Dan Corral
- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France; Metaorganism Immunity Section, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Division of Infection, Immunity, and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires (INFINITY), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Microenvironment & Immunity Unit, 75724 Paris, France; INSERM U1224, 75724 Paris, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires (INFINITY), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, INSERM, CIML, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France
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- Metaorganism Immunity Section, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Inflammation and Innate Immunity Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Division of Infection, Immunity, and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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Levillain F, Kim H, Woong Kwon K, Clark S, Cia F, Malaga W, Lanni F, Brodin P, Gicquel B, Guilhot C, Bancroft GJ, Williams A, Jae Shin S, Poquet Y, Neyrolles O. Preclinical assessment of a new live attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing-based vaccine for tuberculosis. Vaccine 2019; 38:1416-1423. [PMID: 31862194 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.11.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Tuberculosis still claims more lives than any other pathogen, and a vaccine better than BCG is urgently needed. One of the challenges for novel TB vaccines is to protect against all Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages, including the most virulent ones, such as the Beijing lineage. Here we developed a live attenuated M. tuberculosis mutant derived from GC1237, a Beijing strain responsible for tuberculosis outbreaks in the Canary Islands. The mutant strain is inactivated both in the Rv1503c gene, responsible for surface glycolipid synthesis, and in the two-component global regulator PhoPR. This double mutant is as safe as BCG in immunodeficient SCID mice. In immune-competent mice and guinea pigs, the mutant is as protective as BCG against M. tuberculosis strains of common lineage 4 (Euro-American). By contrast, in mice the vaccine is protective against a M. tuberculosis strain of lineage 2 (East-Asian, Beijing), while BCG is not. These results highlight differences in protection efficacy of live attenuated M. tuberculosis-derived vaccine candidates depending on their genetic background, and provide insights for the development of novel live vaccines against TB, especially in East-Asian countries where M. tuberculosis strains of the Beijing family are highly dominant.
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- Florence Levillain
- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Shenzhen Nanshan Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Public Health England, Salisbury, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Immunology and Immunological Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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Dumas A, Corral D, Colom A, Levillain F, Peixoto A, Hudrisier D, Poquet Y, Neyrolles O. The Host Microbiota Contributes to Early Protection Against Lung Colonization by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2656. [PMID: 30487801 PMCID: PMC6246741 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the airborne bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains a major source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. So far, the study of host-pathogen interactions in TB has mostly focused on the physiology and virulence of the pathogen, as well as, on the various innate and adaptive immune compartments of the host. Microbial organisms endogenous to our body, the so-called microbiota, interact not only with invading pathogens, but also with our immune system. Yet, the impact of the microbiota on host defense against M. tuberculosis remains poorly understood. In order to address this question, we adapted a robust and reproducible mouse model of microbial dysbiosis based on a combination of wide-spectrum antibiotics. We found that microbiota dysbiosis resulted in an increased early colonization of the lungs by M. tuberculosis during the first week of infection, correlating with an altered diversity of the gut microbiota during this time period. At the cellular level, no significant difference in the recruitment of conventional myeloid cells, including macrophages, dendritic cells and neutrophils, to the lungs could be detected during the first week of infection between microbiota-competent and -deficient mice. At the molecular level, microbiota depletion did not impact the global production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interferon (IFN)γ, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)α and interleukin (IL)-1β in the lungs. Strikingly, a reduced number of mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, a population of innate-like lymphocytes whose development is known to depend on the host microbiota, was observed in the lungs of the antibiotics-treated animals after 1week of infection. These cells produced less IL-17A in antibiotics-treated mice. Notably, dysbiosis correction through the inoculation of a complex microbiota in antibiotics-treated animals reversed these phenotypes and improved the ability of MAIT cells to proliferate. Altogether, our results demonstrate that the host microbiota contributes to early protection of lung colonization by M. tuberculosis, possibly through sustaining the function(s) of MAIT cells. Our study calls for a better understanding of the impact of the microbiota on host-pathogen interactions in TB. Ultimately, this study may help to develop novel therapeutic approaches based on the use of beneficial microbes, or components thereof, to boost anti-mycobacterial immunity.
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- Alexia Dumas
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, IPBS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Dumas A, Bernard L, Poquet Y, Lugo-Villarino G, Neyrolles O. The role of the lung microbiota and the gut-lung axis in respiratory infectious diseases. Cell Microbiol 2018; 20:e12966. [PMID: 30329198 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
The pulmonary microbial community, described only a few years ago, forms a discreet part of the human host microbiota. The airway microbiota has been found to be substantially altered in the context of numerous respiratory disorders; nonetheless, its role in health and disease is as yet only poorly understood. Another important parameter to consider is the gut-lung axis, where distal (gut) immune modulation during respiratory disease is mediated by the gut microbiota. The use of specific microbiota strains, termed "probiotics," with beneficial effects on the host immunity and/or against pathogens, has proven successful in the treatment of intestinal disorders and is also showing promise in the context of airway diseases. In this review, we highlight the beneficial role of the body's commensal bacteria during airway infectious diseases, including recent evidence highlighting their local (lung) or distal (gut) contribution in this process.
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- Alexia Dumas
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Kairo G, Poquet Y, Haji H, Tchamitchian S, Cousin M, Bonnet M, Pelissier M, Kretzschmar A, Belzunces LP, Brunet JL. Assessment of the toxic effect of pesticides on honey bee drone fertility using laboratory and semifield approaches: A case study of fipronil. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017; 36:2345-2351. [PMID: 28224659 DOI: 10.1002/etc.3773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Revised: 10/06/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Concern about the reproductive toxicity of plant protection products in honey bee reproducers is increasing. Because the reproductive capacity of honey bees is not currently considered during the risk assessment procedure performed during plant protection product registration, it is important to provide methods to assess such potential impairments. To achieve this aim, we used 2 different approaches that involved semifield and laboratory conditions to study the impact of fipronil on drone fertility. For each approach, the drones were reared for 20 d, from emergence to sexual maturity, and exposed to fipronil via a contaminated sugar solution. In both groups, the effects of fipronil were determined by studying life traits and fertility indicators. The results showed that the survival and maturity rates of the drones were better under laboratory conditions than under semifield conditions. Moreover, the drones reared under laboratory conditions produced more seminal fluid. Although these differences could be explained by environmental factors that may vary under semifield conditions, it was found that regardless of the approach used, fipronil did not affect survival rates, maturity rates, or semen volumes, whereas it did affect fertility by inducing a decrease in spermatozoa quantity that was associated with an increase in spermatozoa mortality. These results confirm that fipronil affects drone fertility and support the relevance of each approach for assessing the potential reproductive toxicity of plant protection products in honey bees. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017;36:2345-2351. © 2017 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC.
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- Guillaume Kairo
- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Biostatistiques & Processus Spatiaux, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Abeilles & Environnement, Toxicologie Environnementale, Avignon, France
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Poquet Y, Kairo G, Tchamitchian S, Brunet JL, Belzunces LP. Wings as a new route of exposure to pesticides in the honey bee. Environ Toxicol Chem 2015; 34:1983-8. [PMID: 25867802 DOI: 10.1002/etc.3014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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In pesticide risk assessment, estimating the routes and levels of exposure is critical. For honey bees subjected to pesticide spray, toxicity is assessed by thorax contact to account for all possible contact exposures. In the present study, the authors tested 6 active substances with different hydrophobicity. For the first time, the authors demonstrated that it is possible to induce mortality by pesticide contact with only the wings of the honey bee. The toxicities induced by contact with the wings and thorax were similar, with the wing median lethal dose (LD50) being 0.99 to 2.23 times higher than that of the thorax. This finding demonstrates that the wings represent a relevant route of exposure in the honey bee. In a second approach, the authors estimated the air volume displaced by the wings during 1 beating cycle to be 0.51 ± 0.03 cm(3), which corresponds to a volume of 116.8 ± 5.8 cm(3) s(-1) at a wing beat frequency of 230 Hz. The authors then tested realistic scenarios of exposure for bees flying through a pesticide cloud at different concentrations. In the worst-case scenario, the dose accumulated during the flight reached 525 ng bee(-1) s(-1). These results show that the procedure used to assess the risk posed by contact with pesticides could be improved by accounting for wing exposure.
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- Yannick Poquet
- INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Environmental Toxicology, Bees and Environment, Avignon Cedex, France
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- INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Environmental Toxicology, Bees and Environment, Avignon Cedex, France
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- INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Environmental Toxicology, Bees and Environment, Avignon Cedex, France
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- INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Environmental Toxicology, Bees and Environment, Avignon Cedex, France
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- INRA, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Environmental Toxicology, Bees and Environment, Avignon Cedex, France
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of TB, is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen that replicates inside host macrophages and other phagocytes within a membrane-bound vacuole or phagosome. How M. tuberculosis captures and exploits vital nutrients inside host cells is an intensive research area that might lead to novel therapeutics for tuberculosis. Recent reports provided evidence that M. tuberculosis relies on amino acid uptake and degradation pathways to thrive inside its host. This opens novel research venues for the development of innovative antimicrobials against TB.
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- Alexandre Gouzy
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 5089, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS), 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 04, France
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Poquet Y, Bodin L, Tchamitchian M, Fusellier M, Giroud B, Lafay F, Buleté A, Tchamitchian S, Cousin M, Pélissier M, Brunet JL, Belzunces LP. A pragmatic approach to assess the exposure of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) when subjected to pesticide spray. PLoS One 2014; 9:e113728. [PMID: 25412103 PMCID: PMC4239102 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 10/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Plant protection spray treatments may expose non-target organisms to pesticides. In the pesticide registration procedure, the honey bee represents one of the non-target model species for which the risk posed by pesticides must be assessed on the basis of the hazard quotient (HQ). The HQ is defined as the ratio between environmental exposure and toxicity. For the honey bee, the HQ calculation is not consistent because it corresponds to the ratio between the pesticide field rate (in mass of pesticide/ha) and LD50 (in mass of pesticide/bee). Thus, in contrast to all other species, the HQ can only be interpreted empirically because it corresponds to a number of bees/ha. This type of HQ calculation is due to the difficulty in transforming pesticide field rates into doses to which bees are exposed. In this study, we used a pragmatic approach to determine the apparent exposure surface area of honey bees submitted to pesticide treatments by spraying with a Potter-type tower. The doses received by the bees were quantified by very efficient chemical analyses, which enabled us to determine an apparent surface area of 1.05 cm(2)/bee. The apparent surface area was used to calculate the exposure levels of bees submitted to pesticide sprays and then to revisit the HQ ratios with a calculation mode similar to that used for all other living species. X-tomography was used to assess the physical surface area of a bee, which was 3.27 cm(2)/bee, and showed that the apparent exposure surface was not overestimated. The control experiments showed that the toxicity induced by doses calculated with the exposure surface area was similar to that induced by treatments according to the European testing procedure. This new approach to measure risk is more accurate and could become a tool to aid the decision-making process in the risk assessment of pesticides.
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- Yannick Poquet
- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- ANSES, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, 27–31 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 94701 Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, CRIP, National Veterinary School (Oniris), Nantes, France
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- Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS Université Lyon 1, ENS-Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS Université Lyon 1, ENS-Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS Université Lyon 1, ENS-Lyon, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale, UR 406 A&E, CS 40509, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
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Gouzy A, Larrouy-Maumus G, Bottai D, Levillain F, Dumas A, Wallach JB, Caire-Brandli I, de Chastellier C, Wu TD, Poincloux R, Brosch R, Guerquin-Kern JL, Schnappinger D, Sório de Carvalho LP, Poquet Y, Neyrolles O. Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits asparagine to assimilate nitrogen and resist acid stress during infection. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1003928. [PMID: 24586151 PMCID: PMC3930563 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 12/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an intracellular pathogen. Within macrophages, M. tuberculosis thrives in a specialized membrane-bound vacuole, the phagosome, whose pH is slightly acidic, and where access to nutrients is limited. Understanding how the bacillus extracts and incorporates nutrients from its host may help develop novel strategies to combat tuberculosis. Here we show that M. tuberculosis employs the asparagine transporter AnsP2 and the secreted asparaginase AnsA to assimilate nitrogen and resist acid stress through asparagine hydrolysis and ammonia release. While the role of AnsP2 is partially spared by yet to be identified transporter(s), that of AnsA is crucial in both phagosome acidification arrest and intracellular replication, as an M. tuberculosis mutant lacking this asparaginase is ultimately attenuated in macrophages and in mice. Our study provides yet another example of the intimate link between physiology and virulence in the tubercle bacillus, and identifies a novel pathway to be targeted for therapeutic purposes.
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- Alexandre Gouzy
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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- Mycobacterial Research Division, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Inserm UMR 1104, CNRS UMR 7280, Aix-Marseille University UM 2, Marseille, France
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- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Inserm UMR 1104, CNRS UMR 7280, Aix-Marseille University UM 2, Marseille, France
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- Institut Curie, Laboratoire de Microscopie Ionique, Orsay, France
- INSERM U759, Orsay, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Pathogénomique Mycobactérienne Intégrée, Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, Laboratoire de Microscopie Ionique, Orsay, France
- INSERM U759, Orsay, France
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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Gouzy A, Poquet Y, Neyrolles O. A central role for aspartate in Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and virulence. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2013; 3:68. [PMID: 24187657 PMCID: PMC3807545 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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- Alexandre Gouzy
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale Toulouse, France ; Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France
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Botella H, Peyron P, Levillain F, Poincloux R, Poquet Y, Brandli I, Wang C, Tailleux L, Tilleul S, Charrière GM, Waddell SJ, Foti M, Lugo-Villarino G, Gao Q, Maridonneau-Parini I, Butcher PD, Castagnoli PR, Gicquel B, de Chastellier C, Neyrolles O. Mycobacterial p(1)-type ATPases mediate resistance to zinc poisoning in human macrophages. Cell Host Microbe 2012; 10:248-59. [PMID: 21925112 PMCID: PMC3221041 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2011] [Revised: 07/22/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis thrives within macrophages by residing in phagosomes and preventing them from maturing and fusing with lysosomes. A parallel transcriptional survey of intracellular mycobacteria and their host macrophages revealed signatures of heavy metal poisoning. In particular, mycobacterial genes encoding heavy metal efflux P-type ATPases CtpC, CtpG, and CtpV, and host cell metallothioneins and zinc exporter ZnT1, were induced during infection. Consistent with this pattern of gene modulation, we observed a burst of free zinc inside macrophages, and intraphagosomal zinc accumulation within a few hours postinfection. Zinc exposure led to rapid CtpC induction, and ctpC deficiency caused zinc retention within the mycobacterial cytoplasm, leading to impaired intracellular growth of the bacilli. Thus, the use of P1-type ATPases represents a M. tuberculosis strategy to neutralize the toxic effects of zinc in macrophages. We propose that heavy metal toxicity and its counteraction might represent yet another chapter in the host-microbe arms race.
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- Hélène Botella
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France
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Brodin P, Poquet Y, Levillain F, Peguillet I, Larrouy-Maumus G, Gilleron M, Ewann F, Christophe T, Fenistein D, Jang J, Jang MS, Park SJ, Rauzier J, Carralot JP, Shrimpton R, Genovesio A, Gonzalo-Asensio JA, Puzo G, Martin C, Brosch R, Stewart GR, Gicquel B, Neyrolles O. High content phenotypic cell-based visual screen identifies Mycobacterium tuberculosis acyltrehalose-containing glycolipids involved in phagosome remodeling. PLoS Pathog 2010; 6:e1001100. [PMID: 20844580 PMCID: PMC2936551 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2010] [Accepted: 08/12/2010] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The ability of the tubercle bacillus to arrest phagosome maturation is considered one major mechanism that allows its survival within host macrophages. To identify mycobacterial genes involved in this process, we developed a high throughput phenotypic cell-based assay enabling individual sub-cellular analysis of over 11,000 Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants. This very stringent assay makes use of fluorescent staining for intracellular acidic compartments, and automated confocal microscopy to quantitatively determine the intracellular localization of M. tuberculosis. We characterised the ten mutants that traffic most frequently into acidified compartments early after phagocytosis, suggesting that they had lost their ability to arrest phagosomal maturation. Molecular analysis of these mutants revealed mainly disruptions in genes involved in cell envelope biogenesis (fadD28), the ESX-1 secretion system (espL/Rv3880), molybdopterin biosynthesis (moaC1 and moaD1), as well as in genes from a novel locus, Rv1503c-Rv1506c. Most interestingly, the mutants in Rv1503c and Rv1506c were perturbed in the biosynthesis of acyltrehalose-containing glycolipids. Our results suggest that such glycolipids indeed play a critical role in the early intracellular fate of the tubercle bacillus. The unbiased approach developed here can be easily adapted for functional genomics study of intracellular pathogens, together with focused discovery of new anti-microbials.
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- Priscille Brodin
- Biology of Intracellular Pathogens Inserm Avenir Group, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea.
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Peyron P, Vaubourgeix J, Poquet Y, Levillain F, Botanch C, Bardou F, Daffé M, Emile JF, Marchou B, Cardona PJ, de Chastellier C, Altare F. Foamy macrophages from tuberculous patients' granulomas constitute a nutrient-rich reservoir for M. tuberculosis persistence. PLoS Pathog 2008; 4:e1000204. [PMID: 19002241 PMCID: PMC2575403 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 509] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2008] [Accepted: 10/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) is characterized by a tight interplay between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and host cells within granulomas. These cellular aggregates restrict bacterial spreading, but do not kill all the bacilli, which can persist for years. In-depth investigation of M. tuberculosis interactions with granuloma-specific cell populations are needed to gain insight into mycobacterial persistence, and to better understand the physiopathology of the disease. We have analyzed the formation of foamy macrophages (FMs), a granuloma-specific cell population characterized by its high lipid content, and studied their interaction with the tubercle bacillus. Within our in vitro human granuloma model, M. tuberculosis long chain fatty acids, namely oxygenated mycolic acids (MA), triggered the differentiation of human monocyte-derived macrophages into FMs. In these cells, mycobacteria no longer replicated and switched to a dormant non-replicative state. Electron microscopy observation of M. tuberculosis–infected FMs showed that the mycobacteria-containing phagosomes migrate towards host cell lipid bodies (LB), a process which culminates with the engulfment of the bacillus into the lipid droplets and with the accumulation of lipids within the microbe. Altogether, our results suggest that oxygenated mycolic acids from M. tuberculosis play a crucial role in the differentiation of macrophages into FMs. These cells might constitute a reservoir used by the tubercle bacillus for long-term persistence within its human host, and could provide a relevant model for the screening of new antimicrobials against non-replicating persistent mycobacteria. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is responsible for dramatic health problems globally. It is estimated that this pathogen infects one-third of the human population and causes three million deaths annually. Most individuals remain asymptomatic for several years before developing an active disease. In such individuals, the bacilli are not cleared but rather persist in a dormant state. Major goals of TB research are to (i) understand how the bacilli remain alive for years within infected individuals, and (ii) find how to prevent their reactivation and hence clinical disease. During dormancy, most of the bacilli are confined to granulomas that consist of well-defined aggregates of different host immune cells. Granulomas prevent spreading of bacilli. In this study, we analyzed the role of a particular cell population found within granulomas, the “foamy macrophages”. These cells are filled with droplets of lipids, a well-known nutrient for persistent bacilli. We found that within these cells, the bacilli do not replicate, but remain alive and seem to internalize host lipids. The foamy macrophages might thus constitute a reservoir for persisting bacilli within their human host, and could provide a relevant model for screening of new antimicrobials against non-replicating persistent mycobacteria.
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- Pascale Peyron
- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- Service des Maladies Infectieuses et tropicales, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Unitat de Tuberculosi Experimental, Department of Microbiology, Fundació Institut per a la Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
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- Aix Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France
- Inserm U631, CIML, Marseille, France
- CNRS, UMR6102, CIML, Marseille, France
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- CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), Département Mécanismes Moléculaires des Infections Mycobactériennes, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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Lay G, Poquet Y, Salek-Peyron P, Puissegur MP, Botanch C, Bon H, Levillain F, Duteyrat JL, Emile JF, Altare F. Langhans giant cells from M. tuberculosis-induced human granulomas cannot mediate mycobacterial uptake. J Pathol 2007; 211:76-85. [PMID: 17115379 DOI: 10.1002/path.2092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Tuberculosis is characterized by a tight interplay between Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and host cells within granulomas. These cellular aggregates restrain M. tb spreading but do not kill all bacilli, which persist for years. A more detailed investigation of the interaction between M. tb and granuloma cells is needed to improve our understanding of this persistence and to explain the physiopathology of tuberculosis. In the present study, a recently developed in vitro human model of tuberculous granulomas has been used to analyse the modulation of granuloma cell differentiation by M. tb, in comparison to poorly virulent mycobacteria, which do not persist. It is reported that whilst all mycobacteria species induce granuloma formation, only M. tb triggers the differentiation of granuloma macrophages into very large multinucleated giant cells (MGCs) that are unable to mediate any bacterial uptake. This loss of function is not due to cell quiescence, as MGCs still display NADPH oxidase activity, but it correlates with decreased expression of phagocytosis receptors. This phenomenon is specific for the virulent species of M. tuberculosis complex, as poorly virulent species only induce the formation of small multinucleated cells (MCs) with conserved mycobacterial uptake ability, which never reach the MGC differentiation stage. The phenotype of MGCs thus strongly resembles mature dendritic cells with a loss of microbial uptake ability, despite conserved antigen presentation. In M. tb-induced granulomas, MGCs thus seem to be devoted to the destruction of bacilli that have been ingested in previous differentiation stages, ie in macrophages and MCs.
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- G Lay
- Department Molecular Mechanisms of Mycobacterial Infections, IPBS, CNRS-UMR5089, Toulouse, France
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Devesa F, Chams V, Dinadayala P, Stella A, Ragas A, Auboiroux H, Stegmann T, Poquet Y. Functional reconstitution of the HIV receptors CCR5 and CD4 in liposomes. Eur J Biochem 2002; 269:5163-74. [PMID: 12392548 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03213.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Reconstitution of membrane proteins allows their study in a membrane environment that can be manipulated at will. Because membrane proteins have diverse biophysical properties, reconstitution methods have so far been developed for individual proteins on an ad hoc basis. We developed a postinsertion reconstitution method for CCR5, a G protein coupled receptor, with seven transmembrane alpha helices and small ecto- and endodomains. A His6-tagged version of CCR5 was expressed in mammalian cells, purified using the detergent N-dodecyl-beta-d-maltoside (DDM) and reconstituted into preformed liposomal membranes saturated with DDM, removing the detergent with hydrophobic polystyrene beads. We then attempted to incorporate CD4, a protein with a single transmembrane helix and a large hydrophilic ectodomain into liposomal membranes, together with CCR5. Surprisingly, reconstitution of this protein was also achieved by the method. Both proteins were found to be present together in individual liposomes. The reconstituted CCR5 was recognized by several monoclonal antibodies, recognized its natural ligand, and CD4 bound a soluble form of gp120, a subunit of the HIV fusion protein that uses CD4 as a receptor. Moreover, cells expressing the entire fusion protein of HIV bound to the liposomes, indicating that the proteins were intact and that most of them were oriented right side out. Thus, functional coreconstitution of two widely different proteins can be achieved by this method, suggesting that it might be useful for other proteins.
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- François Devesa
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale; CNRS UMR 5089, Toulouse, France
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Belmant C, Espinosa E, Poupot R, Peyrat MA, Guiraud M, Poquet Y, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ. 3-Formyl-1-butyl pyrophosphate A novel mycobacterial metabolite-activating human gammadelta T cells. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:32079-84. [PMID: 10542241 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.45.32079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Most human blood gammadelta T cells react without major histocompatibility complex restriction to small phosphorylated nonpeptide antigens (phosphoantigens) that are abundantly produced by mycobacteria and several other microbial pathogens. Although isopentenyl pyrophosphate has been identified as a mycobacterial antigen for gammadelta T cells, the structure of several other stimulating compounds with bioactivities around 1000-fold higher than isopentenyl pyrophosphate remains to be elucidated. This paper describes the structural identification of 3-formyl-1-butyl-pyrophosphate as the core of several non-prenyl mycobacterial phosphoantigens bioactive at the nM range. Recognition of this molecule by gammadelta T cells is very selective and relies on its aldehyde and pyrophosphate groups. This novel pyrophosphorylated aldehyde most probably corresponds to a metabolic intermediate of the non-mevalonate pathway of prenyl phosphate biosynthesis in eubacteria and algae. The reactivity to 3-formyl-1-butyl-pyrophosphate supports the view that human gammadelta T cells are physiologically devoted to antimicrobial surveillance.
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- C Belmant
- INSERM U395, CHU Purpan, BP3028, 31024 Toulouse, 31077 Toulouse France
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Boullier S, Poquet Y, Debord T, Fournie JJ, Gougeon ML. Regulation by cytokines (IL-12, IL-15, IL-4 and IL-10) of the Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell response to mycobacterial phosphoantigens in responder and anergic HIV-infected persons. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:90-9. [PMID: 9933090 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199901)29:01<90::aid-immu90>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Human Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells contribute to immunity against intracellular pathogens and recognize nonpeptidic antigens, such as the mycobacterial phosphoantigen TUBAg. HIV infection is associated with a polyclonal decrease of peripheral Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells and we previously reported that the remaining cells show a proliferative anergy to stimulation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 60% of patients. Because of alterations in the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance reported in HIV infection, we analyzed, at the single-cell level, the influence of exogenous IL-4, IL-10, IL-12 and IL-15 on the response to mycobacterial phosphoantigens of gammadelta T cells from HIV-infected patients and healthy donors. We report that the strong gammadelta T cell response to TUBAg is characterized by the rapid and selective production of the Th1/proinflammatory cytokines IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha in responder HIV-infected donors. In addition, a positive regulation by IL-12 and IL-15 of the production of these cytokines by Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells in response to nonpeptidic ligands was observed, whereas IL-4 and IL-10 had no effect. In contrast, Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells from the anergic HIV-infected donors had lost the ability to produce Th1 cytokines and were not shifted towards a Th2 profile. Furthermore, neither IL-12 nor IL-15 could reverse this functional anergy. The consequences of these observations are discussed in the context of HIV pathogenesis.
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- S Boullier
- Département SIDA et Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Boullier S, Poquet Y, Halary F, Bonneville M, Fournie JJ, Gougeon ML. Phosphoantigen activation induces surface translocation of intracellular CD94/NKG2A class I receptor on CD94- peripheral Vgamma9 Vdelta2 T cells but not on CD94- thymic or mature gammadelta T cell clones. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:3399-410. [PMID: 9842883 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199811)28:11<3399::aid-immu3399>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Most adult peripheral blood gammadelta T cells express Vgamma9/Vdelta2-encoded TCR that recognize a restricted set of nonpeptidic phosphorylated compounds, referred to as phosphoantigens. They also express various MHC class I-specific inhibitory receptors (IR), in particular CD94/ NKG2-A heterodimers, which participate in the fine tuning of their TCR-mediated activation threshold. Most mature Vgamma9/Vdelta2 T cells express surface CD94 receptors, unlike cord blood or thymus-derived Vgamma9/Vdelta2 clones, thus suggesting a role for the microenvironment in IR expression. In the present study we show that most CD94- Vgamma9Vdelta2 PBL ex vivo express an intracellular pool of CD94/NKG2-A receptors that is translocated to the cell surface upon activation by phosphoantigens or IL-2. In stark contrast, intracellular CD94/NKG2-A complexes are undetectable in CD94- thymus or PBL-derived mature Vdelta2 T cell clones, and no surface induction is observed following phosphoantigen activation of T cell clones. Altogether these results provide new insights into the regulation of CD94/NKG2-A expression on T lymphocytes and suggest the existence of distinct mechanisms controlling in vivo and in vitro induction of IR on these cells.
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- S Boullier
- Unité d'Oncologie Virale, Département SIDA et Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Poquet Y, Kroca M, Halary F, Stenmark S, Peyrat MA, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ, Sjöstedt A. Expansion of Vgamma9 Vdelta2 T cells is triggered by Francisella tularensis-derived phosphoantigens in tularemia but not after tularemia vaccination. Infect Immun 1998; 66:2107-14. [PMID: 9573096 PMCID: PMC108170 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.5.2107-2114.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Tularemia is a disease caused by the facultative intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. Here we demonstrate that during the first weeks of infection, a significant increase in levels of Vgamma9 Vdelta2 cells occurred in peripheral blood: in 13 patients analyzed 7 to 18 days after the onset of disease, these lymphocytes represented, on average, 30.5% of CD3+ cells and nearly 100% of gammadelta+ T cells. By contrast, after vaccination with the live vaccine strain (LVS) of F. tularensis, only a minor increase occurred. Eleven days after vaccination, gammadelta T cells represented an average of 6.7% and Vgamma9 Vdelta2 cells represented an average of 5.3% of T cells, as in control subjects. Since derivatives of nonpeptidic pyrophosphorylated molecules, referred to as phosphoantigens, are powerful stimuli for Vgamma9 Vdelta2 cells, this observation prompted an investigation of phosphoantigens in F. tularensis strains. The F. tularensis phosphoantigens triggered in vitro a proliferative response of human Vgamma9 Vdelta2 peripheral blood leukocytes as well as a cytotoxic response and tumor necrosis factor release from a Vgamma9 Vdelta2 T-cell clone. Quantitatively similar phosphoantigenic activity was detected in acellular extracts from two clinical isolates (FSC171 and Schu) and from LVS. Taken together, the chemical nature of the stimulus from the clinical isolates and the significant increase in levels of Vgamma9 Vdelta2 cells in peripheral blood of tularemia patients indicate that phosphoantigens produced by virulent strains of F. tularensis trigger in vivo expansion of gammadelta T cells in tularemia.
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- Y Poquet
- INSERM U395 and IFR 30, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
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Poccia F, Cipriani B, Vendetti S, Colizzi V, Poquet Y, Battistini L, López-Botet M, Fournié JJ, Gougeon ML. CD94/NKG2 inhibitory receptor complex modulates both anti-viral and anti-tumoral responses of polyclonal phosphoantigen-reactive V gamma 9V delta 2 T lymphocytes. J Immunol 1997; 159:6009-17. [PMID: 9550399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Viral, bacterial, protozoal, and cancer-associated Ags elicit strong responses in human gammadelta T lymphocytes. The majority of these cells in the peripheral blood express the Vgamma9Vdelta2-encoded TCR and recognize nonpeptidic phosphoantigens without an apparent MHC restriction. We have shown that Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells express the inhibitory CD94/NKG2 receptor for HLA class I molecules. The anti-CD94 mAb inhibits 1) the Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell proliferation in response mycobacterial phosphoantigens and 2) the HIV-induced Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell expansion. Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells stimulated with nonpeptidic mycobacterial antigens produce IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha. Signaling through the CD94/NKG2 receptor interferes with the synthesis of these cytokines. The CD94/HLA class I interaction is also involved in the cytotoxic activity of Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells. The Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell regulation through the CD94 receptor may be important for the potentially dual function in innate immunity, i.e., 1) NK-like and 2) TCR ligand-induced cytolytic activities.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/physiology
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- Gene Rearrangement, delta-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- HIV-1/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/metabolism
- Humans
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lectins, C-Type
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Membrane Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mycobacterium fortuitum/immunology
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily C
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily D
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
- Receptors, Immunologic/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Mitogen/metabolism
- Receptors, Natural Killer Cell
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/virology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- F Poccia
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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Poccia F, Cipriani B, Vendetti S, Colizzi V, Poquet Y, Battistini L, López-Botet M, Fournié JJ, Gougeon ML. CD94/NKG2 inhibitory receptor complex modulates both anti-viral and anti-tumoral responses of polyclonal phosphoantigen-reactive V gamma 9V delta 2 T lymphocytes. The Journal of Immunology 1997. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.159.12.6009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Viral, bacterial, protozoal, and cancer-associated Ags elicit strong responses in human gammadelta T lymphocytes. The majority of these cells in the peripheral blood express the Vgamma9Vdelta2-encoded TCR and recognize nonpeptidic phosphoantigens without an apparent MHC restriction. We have shown that Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells express the inhibitory CD94/NKG2 receptor for HLA class I molecules. The anti-CD94 mAb inhibits 1) the Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell proliferation in response mycobacterial phosphoantigens and 2) the HIV-induced Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell expansion. Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells stimulated with nonpeptidic mycobacterial antigens produce IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha. Signaling through the CD94/NKG2 receptor interferes with the synthesis of these cytokines. The CD94/HLA class I interaction is also involved in the cytotoxic activity of Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cells. The Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell regulation through the CD94 receptor may be important for the potentially dual function in innate immunity, i.e., 1) NK-like and 2) TCR ligand-induced cytolytic activities.
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- F Poccia
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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Poupot R, Behr C, Champagne E, Poquet Y, Peyrat MA, Dubois P, Bonneville M, Foumié JJ. Malarial phosphorylated antigens activating human γδ T cell responses. Immunol Lett 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2478(97)86723-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Poquet Y, Constant P, Peyrat MA, Poupot R, Halary F, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ. High-pH anion-exchange chromatographic analysis of phosphorylated compounds: application to isolation and characterization of nonpeptide mycobacterial antigens. Anal Biochem 1996; 243:119-26. [PMID: 8954533 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1996.0489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A rapid and sensitive high-pH anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) method for the separation and quantification of phosphorylated antigens in mycobacterial extracts has been developed. This method provides the separation of mono-, di-, or triphosphonucleotides and of various other phosphorylated molecules. Dual detection by conductimetry and UV absorption downstream of a chemical suppressor constitute nondegradative and highly sensitive tools for the physical detection and the quantification of phosphorylated compounds in biological samples. The lower limit of accurate quantification is around 1 nmol per sample. This method was used for the separation of several phosphorylated antigens activating human gamma delta T lymphocytes from semipurified mycobacterial fractions. Their quantification revealed that the minimal concentration activating a gamma delta T cell clone is between 1 and 5 nM. This approach can be used for more general preparative purposes with samples where minute amounts of biologically active phosphoanions are analyzed.
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- Y Poquet
- INSERM U395, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
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Poquet Y, Constant P, Halary F, Peyrat MA, Gilleron M, Davodeau F, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ. A novel nucleotide-containing antigen for human blood gamma delta T lymphocytes. Eur J Immunol 1996; 26:2344-9. [PMID: 8898943 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830261011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The stimulation of human gamma delta T cells by mycobacteria occurs through recognition of four distinct nonpeptide phosphorylated antigens termed TUBag1-4. Among these latter, TUBag4 has already been biochemically characterized as a gamma-X derivative of 5'-deoxythymidine triphosphate (Constant, P., Davodeau, F., Peyrat, M. A., Poquet, Y., Puzo, G., Bonneville, M. and Fournié, J.-J., Science 1994. 264: 267). However, despite chemical synthesis of weakly stimulatory nucleotide-containing analogs, these mycobacterial compounds remained the sole nucleotide-containing antigens actually isolated from natural sources. Here, we present the complete isolation of the TUBag3 antigen from Mycobacterium fortuitum and demonstrate that this nonpeptide molecule contains a 5'-UTP nucleotide moiety. On selected V gamma 9/V delta 2 clones, T cell responses can be triggered with nanomolar concentrations of TUBag3. Like crude mycobacterial extracts, this purified nucleotide conjugate elicits a strong polyclonal response of gamma delta PBL from healthy donors. Furthermore, we present evidence that this compound is distinct from the recently synthesized gamma-isopentenyl 5'-UTP, a nucleotide conjugate of isopentenyl pyrophosphate that was found to be stimulatory for human gamma delta T cells (Tanaka, Y., Morita, C.T., Tanaka, Y., Nieves, E., Brenner, M. B. and Bloom, B. R., Nature 1995. 375: 155). Since it appears that both mycobacterial nucleotide antigens are molecules structurally related to peculiar precursors of nucleic acid synthesis, we propose that TUBag-reactive T cells might be specifically devoted to surveillance of proliferating cells.
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- Y Poquet
- INSERM U395, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Y Poquet
- INSERM U395, CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
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Behr C, Poupot R, Peyrat MA, Poquet Y, Constant P, Dubois P, Bonneville M, Fournie JJ. Plasmodium falciparum stimuli for human gammadelta T cells are related to phosphorylated antigens of mycobacteria. Infect Immun 1996; 64:2892-6. [PMID: 8757809 PMCID: PMC174163 DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.2892-2896.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The presence in Plasmodium falciparum of a mitogenic factor for the major human blood gammadelta T-cell subset has been known for years. These gammadelta T cells bearing T-cell receptor Vgamma9 and Vdelta2 variable regions also respond to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, through recognition of several phosphorylated nonpeptidic antigens. In this study, we undertook a better characterization of the malarial stimulus and show that the polygonal activation of Vgamma9/Vdelta2 gammadelta T cells by P. falciparum schizonts is also and exclusively attributable to two phosphorylated malarial compounds. The finding of such stimuli in eukaryotic cells evidence an antigenic link between intracellular parasites as different as Plasmodium and Mycobacterium species. Hence, phosphorylated antigens could be involved in a common pattern of transdisease T-cell responses against various human pathogens.
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- C Behr
- Unité d'Immunologie Moléculaire des Parasites, URA CNRS 1960, Institu Pasteur, Paris, France
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Poccia F, Boullier S, Lecoeur H, Cochet M, Poquet Y, Colizzi V, Fournie JJ, Gougeon ML. Peripheral V gamma 9/V delta 2 T cell deletion and anergy to nonpeptidic mycobacterial antigens in asymptomatic HIV-1-infected persons. J Immunol 1996; 157:449-61. [PMID: 8683151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Gamma delta T cells represent a minor population of human peripheral lymphocytes, the majority of them expressing the V delta 2/V gamma 9 TCR. Their accumulation in infectious disease lesions and their reactivity toward mycobacterial Ags suggest that V gamma 9/V delta 2 T cells play a role during infectious diseases. We have shown previously a significant expansion of the V delta 1 subset parallel to a dramatic decrease of the V delta 2 subset in PBMC from HIV-infected persons. To understand the mechanisms involved in the deletion of V delta 2 T cells, we analyzed their ability to respond in vitro to several V gamma 9/V delta 2 t cell-specific ligands. We observed that in 60% of asymptomatic HIV-infected persons, V delta 2 T cells exhibited a functional anergy to Daudi and to Mycobacterium tuberculosis stimulations. These observations were supported by the defective expansion of this subset to the recently described nonpeptidic phosphorylated Ag, TUBAg-1. Since V delta 2 responsiveness to mycobacterial Ags was shown to be normally dependent on IL-2 secretion by Th1-type CD4 T cells, the ability of IL-2 to restore V delta 2 T cells' responsiveness to TUBAg-1 was tested. V delta 2 T cell anergy persisted in spite of the presence of IL-2, and was frequently correlated with a defect in CD25 expression on stimulated V delta 2 T cells. Since V delta 2 anergy was associated with an in vivo depletion of this subset, we studied whether programmed cell death could be involved in this process, particularly because of their activated phenotype. Although peripheral V delta 2 T cells from some HIV-infected persons showed an increased susceptibility to spontaneous and activation-induced apoptosis, statistical comparison between HIV+ and HIV- donors indicated that there was no difference between both groups in the rate of V delta 2 apoptosis. Finally, V delta 2 complementarity-determining region 3 TCR analysis indicated that, in vivo, the remaining V delta 2 T cells were still polyclonal. All together these results suggest that the qualitative and quantitative alterations of the V delta 2 subset in the course of HIV infection are the consequence of a chronic antigenic stimulation, and raise the question of the contribution of a cellular ligand induced or modified by chronic HIV infection.
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- F Poccia
- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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Poccia F, Boullier S, Lecoeur H, Cochet M, Poquet Y, Colizzi V, Fournie JJ, Gougeon ML. Peripheral V gamma 9/V delta 2 T cell deletion and anergy to nonpeptidic mycobacterial antigens in asymptomatic HIV-1-infected persons. The Journal of Immunology 1996. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.157.1.449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Gamma delta T cells represent a minor population of human peripheral lymphocytes, the majority of them expressing the V delta 2/V gamma 9 TCR. Their accumulation in infectious disease lesions and their reactivity toward mycobacterial Ags suggest that V gamma 9/V delta 2 T cells play a role during infectious diseases. We have shown previously a significant expansion of the V delta 1 subset parallel to a dramatic decrease of the V delta 2 subset in PBMC from HIV-infected persons. To understand the mechanisms involved in the deletion of V delta 2 T cells, we analyzed their ability to respond in vitro to several V gamma 9/V delta 2 t cell-specific ligands. We observed that in 60% of asymptomatic HIV-infected persons, V delta 2 T cells exhibited a functional anergy to Daudi and to Mycobacterium tuberculosis stimulations. These observations were supported by the defective expansion of this subset to the recently described nonpeptidic phosphorylated Ag, TUBAg-1. Since V delta 2 responsiveness to mycobacterial Ags was shown to be normally dependent on IL-2 secretion by Th1-type CD4 T cells, the ability of IL-2 to restore V delta 2 T cells' responsiveness to TUBAg-1 was tested. V delta 2 T cell anergy persisted in spite of the presence of IL-2, and was frequently correlated with a defect in CD25 expression on stimulated V delta 2 T cells. Since V delta 2 anergy was associated with an in vivo depletion of this subset, we studied whether programmed cell death could be involved in this process, particularly because of their activated phenotype. Although peripheral V delta 2 T cells from some HIV-infected persons showed an increased susceptibility to spontaneous and activation-induced apoptosis, statistical comparison between HIV+ and HIV- donors indicated that there was no difference between both groups in the rate of V delta 2 apoptosis. Finally, V delta 2 complementarity-determining region 3 TCR analysis indicated that, in vivo, the remaining V delta 2 T cells were still polyclonal. All together these results suggest that the qualitative and quantitative alterations of the V delta 2 subset in the course of HIV infection are the consequence of a chronic antigenic stimulation, and raise the question of the contribution of a cellular ligand induced or modified by chronic HIV infection.
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- F Poccia
- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Unit of Viral Oncology, AIDS and Retroviruses Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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Welby M, Poquet Y, Tocanne JF. The spatial distribution of phospholipids and glycolipids in the membrane of the bacterium Micrococcus luteus varies during the cell cycle. FEBS Lett 1996; 384:107-11. [PMID: 8612803 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00278-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Recently, we have developed a photocrosslinking approach which uses anthracene as a photoactivatable group and which allows us to determine the lateral distribution of lipids in membranes quantitatively. In synchronous cultures of the gram-positive bacterium Micrococcus luteus, this approach shows that the spatial distribution of phosphatidylglycerol and dimannosyldiacylglycerol, the two major lipids in the bacterial membrane, varies greatly during the cell cycle. Minimum heterogeneity was observed during cell growth while maximum heterogeneity was detected during cell division.
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- M Welby
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie Fondamentales du CNRS, Dpt. III, Toulouse, France
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Constant P, Poquet Y, Peyrat MA, Davodeau F, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ. The antituberculous Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine is an attenuated mycobacterial producer of phosphorylated nonpeptidic antigens for human gamma delta T cells. Infect Immun 1995; 63:4628-33. [PMID: 7591116 PMCID: PMC173665 DOI: 10.1128/iai.63.12.4628-4633.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The mycobacterial antigens stimulating human gamma delta T lymphocytes (R. L. Modlin, C. Permitz, F. M. Hofman, V. Torigian, K. Uemura, T. H. Rea, B. R. Bloom, and M. B. Brenner, Nature (London) 339:544-548, 1989; D. H. Raulet, Annu. Rev. Immunol. 7:175-207, 1989) have been characterized recently in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv as a group of four structurally related nucleotidic or phosphorylated molecules, termed TUBag1 to -4 (tuberculous antigens 1 to 4) (P. Constant, F. Davodeau, M. A. Peyrat, Y. Poquet, G. Puzo, M. Bonneville, and J. J. Fournie, Science 264:267-270, 1994). Here, we analyzed their distribution in different mycobacterial species of the M. tuberculosis group, with special emphasis on the human vaccine Mycobacterium bovis BCG. We show that the same four TUBag1 to -4 molecules are shared by these mycobacteria. Quantitative comparison reveals, however, that while the pathogen M. bovis and M. tuberculosis species produce rather high amounts of TUBag, all of the BCG strains have a surprisingly reduced production of TUBag. These observations suggest that among tuberculous mycobacteria, the bacterial TUBag load could, to some extent, constitute an immunological determinant of mycobacterial virulence for humans.
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- P Constant
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
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Lang F, Peyrat MA, Constant P, Davodeau F, David-Ameline J, Poquet Y, Vié H, Fournié JJ, Bonneville M. Early activation of human V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell broad cytotoxicity and TNF production by nonpeptidic mycobacterial ligands. The Journal of Immunology 1995. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.154.11.5986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Human V gamma 9V delta 2 T cells were shown recently to respond to nonpeptidic phosphorylated molecules of mycobacterial origin (previously referred to as TUBag). To investigate the early events of V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell activation, we have analyzed induction of cytotoxicity and TNF production of T cell clones by these molecules. We showed that within minutes after exposure, TUBag induced cytotoxicity of V gamma 9V delta 2 CTL (but not of CTL expressing other TCR V gamma/V delta or V alpha/V beta regions) against a broad set of target cells, including effector cells themselves. Induction of V gamma 9V delta 2 cytotoxicity by TUBag was blocked by anti-TCR mAbs and was abrogated after dephosphorylation of TUBag. Similarly, TUBag, but not dephosphorylated TUBag, induced massive TNF production by V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell clones only, which already was significant 20 min after exposure. Of note, only basal amounts of TNF were produced when cells were maintained in suspension in the presence of TUBag, indicating that efficient activation of TNF production induced by these compounds required a cell-to-cell contact. Finally, preincubation experiments allowed us to demonstrate that activation of V gamma 9V delta 2 T cells was strictly dependent on the presence of TUBag because preincubation of the targets with TUBag followed by a single wash abrogated the activation. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that activation of V gamma 9V delta 2 cells by TUBag occurs after binding of these compounds to (a) yet unidentified, highly conserved, and broadly distributed molecule(s). The results also suggest either that TUBag induces a very rapid and transient expression of a V gamma 9V delta 2 TCR ligand or, more likely, that TUBag is a low affinity component of a complex recognized by the V gamma 9V delta 2 TCR.
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- F Lang
- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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Lang F, Peyrat MA, Constant P, Davodeau F, David-Ameline J, Poquet Y, Vié H, Fournié JJ, Bonneville M. Early activation of human V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell broad cytotoxicity and TNF production by nonpeptidic mycobacterial ligands. J Immunol 1995; 154:5986-94. [PMID: 7751641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Human V gamma 9V delta 2 T cells were shown recently to respond to nonpeptidic phosphorylated molecules of mycobacterial origin (previously referred to as TUBag). To investigate the early events of V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell activation, we have analyzed induction of cytotoxicity and TNF production of T cell clones by these molecules. We showed that within minutes after exposure, TUBag induced cytotoxicity of V gamma 9V delta 2 CTL (but not of CTL expressing other TCR V gamma/V delta or V alpha/V beta regions) against a broad set of target cells, including effector cells themselves. Induction of V gamma 9V delta 2 cytotoxicity by TUBag was blocked by anti-TCR mAbs and was abrogated after dephosphorylation of TUBag. Similarly, TUBag, but not dephosphorylated TUBag, induced massive TNF production by V gamma 9V delta 2 T cell clones only, which already was significant 20 min after exposure. Of note, only basal amounts of TNF were produced when cells were maintained in suspension in the presence of TUBag, indicating that efficient activation of TNF production induced by these compounds required a cell-to-cell contact. Finally, preincubation experiments allowed us to demonstrate that activation of V gamma 9V delta 2 T cells was strictly dependent on the presence of TUBag because preincubation of the targets with TUBag followed by a single wash abrogated the activation. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that activation of V gamma 9V delta 2 cells by TUBag occurs after binding of these compounds to (a) yet unidentified, highly conserved, and broadly distributed molecule(s). The results also suggest either that TUBag induces a very rapid and transient expression of a V gamma 9V delta 2 TCR ligand or, more likely, that TUBag is a low affinity component of a complex recognized by the V gamma 9V delta 2 TCR.
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- F Lang
- INSERM U211, Institute of Biology, Nantes, France
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Constant P, Davodeau F, Peyrat MA, Poquet Y, Puzo G, Bonneville M, Fournié JJ. Stimulation of human gamma delta T cells by nonpeptidic mycobacterial ligands. Science 1994; 264:267-70. [PMID: 8146660 DOI: 10.1126/science.8146660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 541] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Most human peripheral blood gamma delta T lymphocytes respond to hitherto unidentified mycobacterial antigens. Four ligands from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv that stimulated proliferation of a major human gamma delta T cell subset were isolated and partially characterized. One of these ligands, TUBag4, is a 5' triphosphorylated thymidine-containing compound, to which the three other stimulatory molecules are structurally related. These findings support the hypothesis that some gamma delta T cells recognize nonpeptidic ligands.
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- P Constant
- Department III, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales du CNRS, Toulouse, France
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