A Brucella effector modulates the Arf6-Rab8a GTPase cascade to promote intravacuolar replication
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ABSTRACT: Remodeling of host cellular membrane transport pathways is a common pathogenic trait of many intracellular microbes that is essential to their intravacuolar lifecycle and proliferation. The bacterium Brucella abortus generates a host endoplasmic reticulum-derived vacuole (rBCV) that supports its intracellular growth, via VirB Type IV secretion system-mediated delivery of effector proteins, whose functions and mode of action are mostly unknown. Here we show that the effector BspF specifically promotes Brucella replication within rBCVs by interfering with vesicular transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and recycling endocytic compartment. BspF targeted the recycling endosome, inhibited retrograde traffic to the TGN and interacted with the Arf6 GTPase-activating Protein (GAP) ACAP1 to dysregulate Arf6-/Rab8a-dependent transport within the recycling endosome, which resulted in accretion of TGN-associated vesicles by rBCVs and enhanced bacterial growth. Altogether, these findings provide mechanistic insight into bacterial modulation of membrane transport used to promote their own proliferation within intracellular vacuoles.
SUBMITTER: Dr. Jean Celli
PROVIDER: S-SCDT-EMBOJ-2021-107664 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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