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Role of the WASP family proteins for Mycobacterium marinum actin tail formation.


ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium marinum, a natural pathogen of fish and frogs and an occasional pathogen of humans, is capable of inducing actin tail formation within the cytoplasm of macrophages, leading to actin-based motility and intercellular spread. Actin tail formation by M. marinum is markedly reduced in macrophages deficient in the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP), which still contain the closely related and ubiquitously expressed protein N-WASP (neuronal WASP). In fibroblasts lacking both WASP and N-WASP, M. marinum is incapable of efficient actin polymerization and of intercellular spread. By reconstituting these cells, we find that M. marinum is able to use either WASP or N-WASP to induce actin polymerization. Inhibition or genetic deletion of tyrosine phosphorylation, Nck, WASP-interacting protein, and Cdc42 does not affect M. marinum actin tail formation, excluding the participation of these molecules as upstream activators of N-WASP in the initiation of actin-based motility. In contrast, deletion of the phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate-binding basic motif in N-WASP eliminates M. marinum actin tail formation. Together, these data demonstrate that M. marinum subversion of host actin polymerization is most similar to distantly related Gram-negative organisms but that its mechanism for activating WASP family proteins is unique.

SUBMITTER: Stamm LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1239894 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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