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Integrin-based diffusion barrier separates membrane domains enabling formation of microbiostatic frustrated phagosomes

  1. Michelle E Maxson
  2. Xenia Naj
  3. Teresa R O'Meara
  4. Jonathan D Plumb
  5. Leah E Cowen
  6. Sergio Grinstein  Is a corresponding author
  1. The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
  2. University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  3. University of Toronto, Canada
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34798
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  1. Michelle E Maxson
  2. Xenia Naj
  3. Teresa R O'Meara
  4. Jonathan D Plumb
  5. Leah E Cowen
  6. Sergio Grinstein
(2018)
Integrin-based diffusion barrier separates membrane domains enabling formation of microbiostatic frustrated phagosomes
eLife 7:e34798.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34798
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Abstract

Candida albicans hyphae can reach enormous lengths, precluding their internalization by phagocytes. Nevertheless, macrophages engulf a portion of the hypha, generating incompletely sealed tubular phagosomes. These frustrated phagosomes are stabilized by a thick cuff of F-actin that polymerizes in response to non-canonical activation of integrins by fungal glycan. Despite their continuity, the surface and invaginating phagosomal membranes retain a strikingly distinct lipid composition. PtdIns(4,5)P2 is present at the plasmalemma but is not detectable in the phagosomal membrane, while PtdIns(3)P and PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 co-exist in the phagosomes yet are absent from the surface membrane. Moreover, endo-lysosomal proteins are present only in the phagosomal membrane. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching revealed the presence of a diffusion barrier that maintains the identity of the open tubular phagosome separate from the plasmalemma. Formation of this barrier depends on Syk, Pyk2/Fak and formin-dependent actin assembly. Antimicrobial mechanisms can thereby be deployed, limiting the growth of the hyphae.

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  1. Michelle E Maxson

    Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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  2. Xenia Naj

    Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  3. Teresa R O'Meara

    Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  4. Jonathan D Plumb

    Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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  5. Leah E Cowen

    Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  6. Sergio Grinstein

    Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN‑143202)

  • Sergio Grinstein

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (462167)

  • Leah E Cowen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-148548)

  • Leah E Cowen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-86452)

  • Leah E Cowen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-119520)

  • Leah E Cowen

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (Heart and Stroke Pfizer Fellowship)

  • Michelle E Maxson

National Institutes of Health (AI115947-01)

  • Teresa R O'Meara

The Research Training Group 1459

  • Xenia Naj

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (6261)

  • Leah E Cowen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-154288)

  • Leah E Cowen

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-153403)

  • Leah E Cowen

National Institutes of Health (1R01AI127375-01)

  • Leah E Cowen

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (477598)

  • Leah E Cowen

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2018, Maxson et al.

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  1. Michelle E Maxson
  2. Xenia Naj
  3. Teresa R O'Meara
  4. Jonathan D Plumb
  5. Leah E Cowen
  6. Sergio Grinstein
(2018)
Integrin-based diffusion barrier separates membrane domains enabling formation of microbiostatic frustrated phagosomes
eLife 7:e34798.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34798

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