PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-07eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012902
Hedi Mammeri, Youssouf Sereme, Eya Toumi, Hélène Faury, David Skurnik
{"title":"Interplay between porin deficiency, fitness, and virulence in carbapenem-non-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae.","authors":"Hedi Mammeri, Youssouf Sereme, Eya Toumi, Hélène Faury, David Skurnik","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012902","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012902","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing resistance of Gram-negative bacteria to last resort antibiotics, such as carbapenems, is particularly of concern as it is a significant cause of global health threat. In this context, there is an urgent need for better understanding underlying mechanisms leading to antimicrobial resistance in order to limit its diffusion and develop new therapeutic strategies. In this review, we focus on the specific role of porins in carbapenem-resistance in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which are major human pathogens. Porins are outer membrane proteins, which play a key role in the bacterial permeability to allow nutrients to enter and toxic waste to leave. However, these channels are also \"Achilles' heel\" of bacteria as antibiotics can also pass through them to reach their target and kill the bacteria. After describing normal structures and pathways regulating the expression of porins, we discuss strategies implemented by bacteria to limit the access of carbapenems to their cytoplasmic target. We further examine the real impact of changes in porins on carbapenems susceptibility. Finally, we decipher what is the effect of such changes on bacterial fitness and virulence. Our goal is to integrate all these findings to give a global overview of how bacteria modify their porins to face antibiotic selective pressure trying to not induce fitness cost.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012902"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11805372/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143371310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-07eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012933
Roberto Jhonatan Olea-Ozuna, Melanie J Campbell, Samantha Y Quintanilla, Sinjini Nandy, Jennifer S Brodbelt, Joseph M Boll
{"title":"Alternative lipid synthesis in response to phosphate limitation promotes antibiotic tolerance in Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens.","authors":"Roberto Jhonatan Olea-Ozuna, Melanie J Campbell, Samantha Y Quintanilla, Sinjini Nandy, Jennifer S Brodbelt, Joseph M Boll","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012933","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012933","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Gram-negative outer membrane protects bacterial cells from environmental toxins such as antibiotics. The outer membrane lipid bilayer is asymmetric; while glycerophospholipids compose the periplasmic facing leaflet, the surface layer is enriched with phosphate-containing lipopolysaccharides. The anionic phosphates that decorate the cell surface promote electrostatic interactions with cationic antimicrobial peptides such as colistin, allowing them to penetrate the bilayer, form pores, and lyse the cell. Colistin is prescribed as a last-line therapy to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections. Acinetobacter baumannii is an ESKAPE pathogen that rapidly develops resistance to antibiotics and persists for extended periods in the host or on abiotic surfaces. Survival in environmental stress such as phosphate scarcity, represents a clinically significant challenge for nosocomial pathogens. In the face of phosphate starvation, certain bacteria encode adaptive strategies, including the substitution of glycerophospholipids with phosphorus-free lipids. In bacteria, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, and cardiolipin are conserved glycerophospholipids that can form lipid bilayers, particularly in the presence of other lipids. Here, we demonstrate that in response to phosphate limitation, conserved regulatory mechanisms induce alternative lipid production in A. baumannii. Specifically, phosphate limitation induces formation of three lipids, including amine-containing ornithine and lysine aminolipids. Mutations that inactivate aminolipid biosynthesis exhibit fitness defects relative to wild type in colistin growth and killing assays. Furthermore, we show that other Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens accumulate aminolipids under phosphate limiting growth conditions, suggesting aminolipid biosynthesis may represent a broad strategy to overcome cationic antimicrobial peptide-mediated killing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012933"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11828411/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143371218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-06eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012820
Jennifer McIntyre, Alison Morrison, Kirsty Maitland, Duncan Berger, Daniel R G Price, Sam Dougan, Dionysis Grigoriadis, Alan Tracey, Nancy Holroyd, Katie Bull, Hannah Rose Vineer, Mike J Glover, Eric R Morgan, Alasdair J Nisbet, Tom N McNeilly, Yvonne Bartley, Neil Sargison, Dave Bartley, Matt Berriman, James A Cotton, Eileen Devaney, Roz Laing, Stephen R Doyle
{"title":"Chromosomal genome assembly resolves drug resistance loci in the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta.","authors":"Jennifer McIntyre, Alison Morrison, Kirsty Maitland, Duncan Berger, Daniel R G Price, Sam Dougan, Dionysis Grigoriadis, Alan Tracey, Nancy Holroyd, Katie Bull, Hannah Rose Vineer, Mike J Glover, Eric R Morgan, Alasdair J Nisbet, Tom N McNeilly, Yvonne Bartley, Neil Sargison, Dave Bartley, Matt Berriman, James A Cotton, Eileen Devaney, Roz Laing, Stephen R Doyle","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012820","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012820","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta is one of the most important pathogens of sheep and goats in temperate climates worldwide and can rapidly evolve resistance to drugs used to control it. To understand the genetics of drug resistance, we have generated a highly contiguous genome assembly for the UK T. circumcincta isolate, MTci2. Assembly using PacBio long-reads and Hi-C long-molecule scaffolding together with manual curation resulted in a 573 Mb assembly (N50 = 84 Mb, total scaffolds = 1,286) with five autosomal and one sex-linked chromosomal-scale scaffolds consistent with its karyotype. The genome resource was further improved via annotation of 22,948 genes, with manual curation of over 3,200 of these, resulting in a robust and near complete resource (96.3% complete protein BUSCOs) to support basic and applied research on this important veterinary pathogen. Genome-wide analyses of drug resistance, combining evidence from three distinct experiments, identified selection around known candidate genes for benzimidazole, levamisole and ivermectin resistance, as well as novel regions associated with ivermectin and moxidectin resistance. These insights into contemporary and historic genetic selection further emphasise the importance of contiguous genome assemblies in interpreting genome-wide genetic variation associated with drug resistance and identifying key loci to prioritise in developing diagnostic markers of anthelmintic resistance to support parasite control.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012820"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11801625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-06eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012918
Hu Zhang, Quanxin Long, Yuanjie Liu, Alexander L Marchetti, Cheng-Der Liu, Ning Sun, Haitao Guo
{"title":"Host 3' flap endonuclease Mus81 plays a critical role in trimming the terminal redundancy of hepatitis B virus relaxed circular DNA during covalently closed circular DNA formation.","authors":"Hu Zhang, Quanxin Long, Yuanjie Liu, Alexander L Marchetti, Cheng-Der Liu, Ning Sun, Haitao Guo","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012918","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hepatitis B virus (HBV) relaxed circular DNA (rcDNA) possesses an 8-9 nucleotide-long terminal redundancy (TR, or r) on the negative (-) strand DNA derived from the reverse transcription of viral pregenomic RNA (pgRNA). It remains unclear whether the TR forms a 5' or 3' flap structure on HBV rcDNA and which TR copy is removed during covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) formation. To address these questions, a mutant HBV cell line HepDES-C1822G was established with a C1822G mutation in the pgRNA coding sequence, altering the sequence of 3' TR of (-) strand DNA while the 5' TR remained wild type (wt). The production of HBV rcDNA and cccDNA in HepDES-C1822G cells was comparable to wt levels. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis revealed that the positive (+) strand DNA of rcDNA and both strands of cccDNA predominantly carried the wt nt1822 residue, indicating that the 5' TR of (-) strand DNA serves as the template during rcDNA replication, forming a duplex with the (+) strand DNA, while the 3' TR forms a flap-like structure, which is subsequently removed during cccDNA formation. In a survey of known cellular flap endonucleases using a loss-of-function study, we found that the 3' flap endonuclease Mus81 plays a critical role in cccDNA formation in wild-type HBV replicating cells, alongside the 5' flap endonuclease FEN1. Additionally, we have mapped the potential Mus81 and FEN1 cleavage sites within the TR of nuclear DP-rcDNA by RACE-NGS analyses. The overlapping function between Mus81 and FEN1 in cccDNA formation indicates that the putative 5' and 3' flap formed by TR are dynamically interchangeable on rcDNA precursor. These findings shed light on HBV rcDNA structure and cccDNA formation mechanisms, contributing to our understanding of HBV replication cycle.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012918"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11801639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-06eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012874
Alivelu M Irrinki, Jasmine Kaur, Bally Randhawa, Ryan McFadden, Chelsea Snyder, Hoa Truong, Daniel Soohoo, Eric Hu, Helen Yu, Bernard P Murray, Bing Lu, Dmytro Kornyeyev, Ishak Darryl Irwan, Lan Nguyen, Yu-San Yang, Jean-Philippe Belzile, Uli Schmitz, Todd C Appleby, Brian Schultz, Jay Lalezari, Steven Deeks, Tomas Cihlar, Jeffrey P Murry
{"title":"Activating PKC-ε induces HIV expression with improved tolerability.","authors":"Alivelu M Irrinki, Jasmine Kaur, Bally Randhawa, Ryan McFadden, Chelsea Snyder, Hoa Truong, Daniel Soohoo, Eric Hu, Helen Yu, Bernard P Murray, Bing Lu, Dmytro Kornyeyev, Ishak Darryl Irwan, Lan Nguyen, Yu-San Yang, Jean-Philippe Belzile, Uli Schmitz, Todd C Appleby, Brian Schultz, Jay Lalezari, Steven Deeks, Tomas Cihlar, Jeffrey P Murry","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012874","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV-1 persists in latent reservoirs that seed new HIV infections if ART is interrupted, necessitating lifelong therapy for people with HIV. Activation of latent HIV during ART could improve recognition and elimination of infected cells by the immune system. Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes increase HIV transcription and hence are potential latency reversal agents. However, the clinical utility of PKCs for this application is limited due to toxicity, which is poorly understood. Our studies showed that PKC activation with multiple classes of agonists leads to widespread platelet activation, consistent with disseminated intravascular coagulation, at concentrations that were similar to those required for T-cell activation. Differential expression analysis indicated that PKC-ε and PKC-η isoforms are expressed at high levels in human CD4+ T cells but not in platelets. Using structure-based drug design, we developed a novel PKC agonist, C-233, with increased selectivity for PKC-ε. C-233 increased both supernatant HIV RNA and p24 expression ex vivo after treatment of CD4+ T cells from ART-suppressed people with HIV. C-233 was 5-fold more potent for T-cell activation relative to platelet activation. Our studies support the use of structure-based drug design to create selective novel PKC agonists for the safe activation of HIV reservoirs and improved tolerability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012874"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11801715/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-05eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012924
Morten Kals, Emma Kals, Jurij Kotar, Allen Donald, Leonardo Mancini, Pietro Cicuta
{"title":"Antibiotics change the population growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria.","authors":"Morten Kals, Emma Kals, Jurij Kotar, Allen Donald, Leonardo Mancini, Pietro Cicuta","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012924","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A better understanding of the system-level effects of antibiotics on bacterial cells is essential to address the growing challenge of antibiotic resistance. Utilising Multipad Agarose Plate (MAP) platforms, we monitor the growth rate and cell morphology of three clinically relevant species (E.coli, S.aureus and P.aeruginosa) following exposure to 14 antibiotics across 11 concentrations (31 microbe-antibiotic combinations in total). Our results reveal a consistent increase in population growth rate heterogeneity (PGRH) as drug concentrations approach the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). Strikingly, the magnitude of this heterogeneity correlates with the functional distance between the ribosome and the specific cellular processes targeted by the antibiotics. Among the seven antibiotic classes studied, protein synthesis inhibitors and disruptors cause the lowest PGRH, while heterogeneity progressively increases with RNA synthesis inhibitors, DNA replication inhibitors, cell membrane disruptors and cell wall synthesis inhibitors. Because the ribosome is central to growth rate control, we hypothesize that heterogeneity might arise at the system level as a result of the propagation of damage to protein synthesis. Low heterogeneity is desirable from a clinical perspective, as high heterogeneity is often associated with persistence and treatment survival. Additionally, we observed a strong correlation between morphological alterations and growth inhibition across all antibiotics and species tested. This led to the development of a novel morphological parameter, MOR50, which enables rapid estimation of MIC for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) with a single snapshot after just 2.5 hours of incubation. In addition to introducing a novel, resource-efficient and rapid AST method, our findings shed new light on the system-level effects of antibiotic perturbations on bacteria, which might inform treatment design.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012924"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11835381/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-05eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012911
Juliana Tamayo-Quintero, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Nubia E Matta, M Andreína Pacheco, Héctor F Rivera-Gutierrez
{"title":"Imprudent use of MalAvi names biases the estimation of parasite diversity of avian haemosporidians.","authors":"Juliana Tamayo-Quintero, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Nubia E Matta, M Andreína Pacheco, Héctor F Rivera-Gutierrez","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012911","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012911"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11798444/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-04eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012912
Shuaini Yang, Jinxi Yu, Xue Dong, Jiajia Zeng, Lu Tan, Hong Zhang, Ruoyuan Sun, Yuqing Tuo, Jing Yang, Chunxiao Wan, Hong Bai
{"title":"CCR2 signaling regulates anti-chlamydia T cell immune responses in the airway.","authors":"Shuaini Yang, Jinxi Yu, Xue Dong, Jiajia Zeng, Lu Tan, Hong Zhang, Ruoyuan Sun, Yuqing Tuo, Jing Yang, Chunxiao Wan, Hong Bai","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012912","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CCR2, a member of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, is widely expressed on monocytes, macrophages, activated T cells, and other cell types, and plays a critical role in coordinating the immune response to various infections. Here we demonstrate that CCR2 expression is significantly elevated during Chlamydia muridarum (C. muridarum) respiratory infection, and its absence leads to exacerbated susceptibility, as evidenced by significant weight loss, higher bacterial loads, severe lung pathology, and elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines (il-1β, tnfα, and il-6). The absence of ccr2 impairs both myeloid cell infiltration and T cell responses, which are crucial for effective immune defense. Specifically, ccr2 deficiency disrupts the differentiation and response of Th1 cells, which are the primary effector lineage responsible for clearing chlamydia through secretion of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ). As a result, there is a significant decrease in CD3+CD4+IFN-γ+ T cells in the lung and spleen, accompanied by reduced levels of IFN-γ protein and mRNA, as well as downregulated mRNA expression of Th1-promoting cytokines (il-12p35, il-12p40) and transcription factors (stat4, T-bet), which play crucial roles in Th1 differentiation. Moreover, ccr2 deficiency greatly diminishes STAT1 phosphorylation, a key regulator of IFN-γ secretion by Th1 cells. Meanwhile, we also observed a significant reduction in IFN-γ secretion by CD8+ T cells following ccr2 deficiency. Conversely, ccr2-/- mice exhibit an exaggerated Th2-type immune response, with elevated levels of Th2-promoting cytokines (IL-4), transcription factors (STAT6 and gata3), and il-5, which together lead to more severe lung tissue damage and increased susceptibility to infection. Furthermore, these mice show higher levels of IL-17 along with an enhanced Th17-type immune response, characterized by increased Th17-promoting cytokines TGFB, transcription factors stat3 and RORγt, and il-21, suggesting a compensatory mechanism that drives neutrophil infiltration to exacerbate lung inflammation. These findings underscore the pivotal role of CCR2, a chemokine receptor, in orchestrating the immune response to Chlamydia infection by facilitating Th1 cells differentiation while restraining Th2-type and Th17-type immune responses, thereby alleviating pulmonary inflammation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012912"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-04eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012908
Shideh Mojerlou, Benjamin Schwessinger, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba
{"title":"Sexual recombination in cereal rust fungi: Knowns and unknowns of pathogen evolution and adaptation.","authors":"Shideh Mojerlou, Benjamin Schwessinger, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012908","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012908"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11793755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PLoS PathogensPub Date : 2025-02-04eCollection Date: 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012784
Amelia Bercusson, Thomas J Williams, Nicholas J Simmonds, Eric Wfw Alton, Uta Griesenbach, Anand Shah, Adilia Warris, Darius Armstrong-James
{"title":"Increased NFAT and NFκB signalling contribute to the hyperinflammatory phenotype in response to Aspergillus fumigatus in a mouse model of cystic fibrosis.","authors":"Amelia Bercusson, Thomas J Williams, Nicholas J Simmonds, Eric Wfw Alton, Uta Griesenbach, Anand Shah, Adilia Warris, Darius Armstrong-James","doi":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012784","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.ppat.1012784","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aspergillus fumigatus (Af) is a major mould pathogen found ubiquitously in the air. It commonly infects the airways of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) leading to Aspergillus bronchitis or allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Resident alveolar macrophages and recruited neutrophils are important first lines of defence for clearance of Af in the lung. However, their contribution to the inflammatory phenotype in CF during Af infection is not well understood. Here, utilising CFTR deficient mice we describe a hyperinflammatory phenotype in both acute and allergic murine models of pulmonary aspergillosis. We show that during aspergillosis, CFTR deficiency leads to increased alveolar macrophage death and persistent inflammation of the airways in CF, accompanied by impaired fungal control. Utilising CFTR deficient murine cells and primary human CF cells we show that at a cellular level there is increased activation of NFκB and NFAT in response to Af which, as in in vivo models, is associated with increased cell death and reduced fungal control. Taken together, these studies indicate that CFTR deficiency promotes increased activation of inflammatory pathways, the induction of macrophage cell death and reduced fungal control contributing to the hyper-inflammatory of pulmonary aspergillosis phenotypes in CF.</p>","PeriodicalId":48999,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Pathogens","volume":"21 2","pages":"e1012784"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11957335/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}