线粒体感知细菌乳酸并驱动中性粒体细胞外陷的释放
Ashley D Wise1, Eden G TenBarge1, Jessica D C Mendonça1
1Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Cell host & microbe
|February 28, 2025
概括
细菌乳酸信号中性粒细胞释放抗微生物陷. 中性粒细胞使用线粒体来检测这种信号,但这种过程在全身性红斑狼 (SLE) 患者中受损.
科学领域:
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 中性粒细胞通过氧化压力创造了一个敌对的体环境.
- 金黄色葡萄球菌可以在中性粒细胞中持续存在,因此需要细菌感应机制.
研究的目的:
- 研究葡萄球菌乳酸盐作为代谢危险信号,触发中性粒细胞外细胞陷释放 (NETosis).
- 探索线粒体在感知细菌代谢活动中的作用.
- 为了检查系统性红斑狼 (SLE) 中性粒细胞中的NETosis缺陷.
主要方法:
- 研究了葡萄球菌乳酸在引发NETosis中的作用.
- 分析了线粒体协调与含有S. aureus的体.
- 检查了乳酸盐转化为pyruvate和随后的反应性氧物种生产.
- 从SLE患者的中性粒细胞中评估了NETosis.
主要成果:
- 葡萄球菌乳酸盐作为一种代谢危险信号,启动NETosis.
- 中性粒细胞线粒体感知细菌的乳酸盐,导致pyruvate转化和线粒体反应性氧物种的产生,这是NETosis的前体.
- 乳酸积累触发NETosis作为对各种细菌的反应.
- SLE中性粒细胞表现出乳酸感应受损,导致对S. aureus有缺陷的NETosis,但异常的NETosis与亡残留物.
结论:
- 中性粒细胞利用线粒体作为感官器官来检测细菌的代谢活动.
- 这种传感机制决定了下游的抗菌过程,包括NETosis.
- 在SLE中性粒细胞中缺陷的乳酸感应有助于增加对细菌感染的易感性.
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