1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Dynamic post-translational modification profiling of M. tuberculosis-infected primary macrophages

  1. Jonathan M Budzik
  2. Danielle L Swaney
  3. David Jimenez-Morales
  4. Jeffrey R Johnson
  5. Nicholas E Garelis
  6. Teresa Repasy
  7. Allison W Roberts
  8. Lauren M Popov
  9. Trevor J Parry
  10. Dexter Pratt
  11. Trey Ideker
  12. Nevan J Krogan
  13. Jeffery S Cox  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, San Francisco, United States
  2. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  3. University of California, San Diego, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51461
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  1. Jonathan M Budzik
  2. Danielle L Swaney
  3. David Jimenez-Morales
  4. Jeffrey R Johnson
  5. Nicholas E Garelis
  6. Teresa Repasy
  7. Allison W Roberts
  8. Lauren M Popov
  9. Trevor J Parry
  10. Dexter Pratt
  11. Trey Ideker
  12. Nevan J Krogan
  13. Jeffery S Cox
(2020)
Dynamic post-translational modification profiling of M. tuberculosis-infected primary macrophages
eLife 9:e51461.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51461
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Abstract

Macrophages are highly plastic cells with critical roles in immunity, cancer, and tissue homeostasis, but how these distinct cellular fates are triggered by environmental cues is poorly understood. To uncover how primary murine macrophages respond to bacterial pathogens, we globally assessed changes in post-translational modifications of proteins during infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a notorious intracellular pathogen. We identified hundreds of dynamically regulated phosphorylation and ubiquitylation sites, indicating that dramatic remodeling of multiple host pathways, both expected and unexpected, occurred during infection. Most of these cellular changes were not captured by mRNA profiling, and included activation of ubiquitin-mediated autophagy, an evolutionarily ancient cellular antimicrobial system. This analysis also revealed that a particular autophagy receptor, TAX1BP1, mediates clearance of ubiquitylated Mtb and targets bacteria to LC3-positive phagophores. These studies provide a new resource for understanding how macrophages shape their proteome to meet the challenge of infection.

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The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE partner repository with the dataset identifier PXD015361.

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  1. Jonathan M Budzik

    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  2. Danielle L Swaney

    Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  3. David Jimenez-Morales

    Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  4. Jeffrey R Johnson

    Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francsico, United States
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  5. Nicholas E Garelis

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  6. Teresa Repasy

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  7. Allison W Roberts

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  8. Lauren M Popov

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  9. Trevor J Parry

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  10. Dexter Pratt

    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States
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  11. Trey Ideker

    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States
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  12. Nevan J Krogan

    Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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  13. Jeffery S Cox

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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Funding

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (P01 AI063302)

  • Jeffery S Cox

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Harry Shwachman Award)

  • Jonathan M Budzik

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (P01 AI063302)

  • Nevan J Krogan

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P50 GM082250)

  • Nevan J Krogan

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19 AI106754)

  • Nevan J Krogan

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19 AI106754)

  • Jeffery S Cox

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (DP1 AI124619)

  • Jeffery S Cox

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01 AI120694)

  • Jeffery S Cox

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01 AI120694)

  • Nevan J Krogan

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1K08AI146267)

  • Jonathan M Budzik

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

Ethics

Animal experimentation: An animal use protocol (AUP-2015-11-8096) for mouse use was approved by the Office of Laboratory and Animal Care at the University of California, Berkeley, in adherence with guidelines from the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health.

Reviewing Editor

  1. Bavesh D Kana, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Publication history

  1. Received: August 29, 2019
  2. Accepted: January 16, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: January 17, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 19, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Budzik et al.

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  1. Jonathan M Budzik
  2. Danielle L Swaney
  3. David Jimenez-Morales
  4. Jeffrey R Johnson
  5. Nicholas E Garelis
  6. Teresa Repasy
  7. Allison W Roberts
  8. Lauren M Popov
  9. Trevor J Parry
  10. Dexter Pratt
  11. Trey Ideker
  12. Nevan J Krogan
  13. Jeffery S Cox
(2020)
Dynamic post-translational modification profiling of M. tuberculosis-infected primary macrophages
eLife 9:e51461.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51461

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