Intestinal GCN2 controls Drosophila systemic growth in response to Lactiplantibacillus plantarum symbiotic cues encoded by r/tRNA operons
- Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5242, France
- University of Lyon, France
Abstract
Symbiotic bacteria interact with their host through symbiotic cues. Here, we took advantage of the mutualism between Drosophila and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (Lp) to investigate a novel mechanism of host-symbiont interaction. Using chemically-defined diets, we found that association with Lp improves the growth of larvae fed amino acid-imbalanced diets, even though Lp cannot produce the limiting amino acid. We show that in this context Lp supports its host's growth through a molecular dialog that requires functional operons encoding ribosomal and transfer RNAs (r/tRNAs) in Lp and the GCN2 kinase in Drosophila's enterocytes. Our data indicate Lp's r/tRNAs are packaged in extracellular vesicles and activate GCN2 in a subset of larval enterocytes, a mechanism necessary to remodel the intestinal transcriptome and ultimately to support anabolic growth. Based on our findings, we propose a novel beneficial molecular dialog between host and microbes, which relies on a non-canonical role of GCN2 as a mediator of non-nutritional symbiotic cues encoded by r/tRNA operons.
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-RNAseq raw data are deposited at NCBI Sequence Read Archive under the numbers SUB10970982 and PRJNA799161.-Source data files containing all the numerical data used to generate the figures are provided for each figure.
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Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (DEQ20180339196)
- Théodore Grenier
- Jessika Consuegra
- Mariana G Ferrarini
- Houssam Akherraz
- Longwei Bai
- Yves Dusabyinema
- Isabelle Rahioui
- Pedro Da Silva
- Benjamin Gillet
- Sandrine Hughes
- Cathy I Ramos
- Renata C Matos
- François Leulier
Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (SPF20170938612)
- Jessika Consuegra
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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- Sara Cherry, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Version history
- Preprint posted: October 31, 2021 (view preprint)
- Received: December 21, 2021
- Accepted: June 8, 2023
- Accepted Manuscript published: June 9, 2023 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: June 22, 2023 (version 2)
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© 2023, Grenier et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Intestinal GCN2 controls Drosophila systemic growth in response to Lactiplantibacillus plantarum symbiotic cues encoded by r/tRNA operons
eLife 12:e76584.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76584
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