Microtubule plus-end dynamics link wound repair to the innate immune response
- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, CNRS, France
- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS UMR7332, France
Abstract
The skin protects animals from infection and physical damage. In C. elegans, wounding the epidermis triggers an immune reaction and a repair response, but it is not clear how these are coordinated. Previous work implicated the microtubule cytoskeleton in the maintenance of epidermal integrity (Chuang et al, 2016). Here, by establishing a simple wounding system, we show that wounding provokes a reorganisation of plasma membrane subdomains. This is followed by recruitment of the microtubule plus end-binding protein EB1/EBP-2 around the wound and actin ring formation, dependant on ARP2/3 branched actin polymerisation. We show that microtubule dynamics are required for the recruitment and closure of the actin ring, and for the trafficking of the key signalling protein SLC6/SNF-12 towards the injury site. Without SNF-12 recruitment, there is an abrogation of the immune response. Our results suggest that microtubule dynamics coordinate the cytoskeletal changes required for wound repair and the concomitant activation of innate immunity.
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Sébastien Mailfert
Jean-François Rupprecht
Funding
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16-CE15-0001-01)
- Clara Taffoni
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Nathalie Pujol
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- Jonathan Ewbank
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Shizue Omi
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jean-François Rupprecht
- Nathalie Pujol
Aix-Marseille Université
- Clara Taffoni
- Caroline Huber
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-12-BSV3-0001-01)
- Clara Taffoni
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Nathalie Pujol
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-LABX-0054)
- Clara Taffoni
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Nathalie Pujol
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02)
- Clara Taffoni
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Nathalie Pujol
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-INBS-04-01)
- Clara Taffoni
- Sébastien Mailfert
- Matthieu Fallet
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Nathalie Pujol
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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© 2020, Taffoni et al.
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Microtubule plus-end dynamics link wound repair to the innate immune response
eLife 9:e45047.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45047
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