Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells.
Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular bacterium that resides and multiplies within cytoplasmic vacuoles of phagocytes. The Ehrlichia-containing vacuole (ECV) does not fuse with lysosomes, an essential condition for Ehrlichia to survive inside phagocytes, but the mechanism of inhibitin...
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| author | Yan Cheng Yan Liu Bin Wu Jian-zhi Zhang Jiang Gu Ya-ling Liao Fu-kun Wang Xu-hu Mao Xue-jie Yu |
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| description | Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular bacterium that resides and multiplies within cytoplasmic vacuoles of phagocytes. The Ehrlichia-containing vacuole (ECV) does not fuse with lysosomes, an essential condition for Ehrlichia to survive inside phagocytes, but the mechanism of inhibiting the fusion of the phagosome with lysosomes is not clear. Understanding the ECV molecular composition may decipher the mechanism by which Ehrlichia inhibits phagosome-lysosome fusion. In this study, we obtained highly purified ECVs from E. chaffeensis-infected DH82 cells by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and analyzed their composition by mass spectrometry-based proteomics. The ECV composition was compared with that of phagolysosomes containing latex beads. Lysosomal proteins such as cathepsin D, cathepsin S, and lysosomal acid phosphatase were not detected in E. chaffeensis phagosome preparations. Some small GTPases, involved in membrane dynamics and phagocytic trafficking, were detected in ECVs. A notable finding was that Rab7, a late endosomal marker, was consistently detected in E. chaffeensis phagosomes by mass spectrometry. Confocal microscopy confirmed that E. chaffeensis phagosomes contained Rab7 and were acidified at approximately pH 5.2, suggesting that the E. chaffeensis vacuole was an acidified late endosomal compartment. Our results also demonstrated by mass spectrometry and immunofluorescence analysis that Ehrlichia morulae were not associated with the autophagic pathway. Ehrlichia chaffeensis did not inhibit phagosomes containing latex beads from fusing with lysosomes in infected cells. We concluded that the E. chaffeensis vacuole was a late endosome and E. chaffeensis might inhibit phagosome-lysosome fusion by modifying its vacuolar membrane composition, rather than by regulating the expression of host genes involved in trafficking. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d969481ffc74fa6873a01f2067e047f2022-12-22T01:15:24ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0192e8846110.1371/journal.pone.0088461Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells.Yan ChengYan LiuBin WuJian-zhi ZhangJiang GuYa-ling LiaoFu-kun WangXu-hu MaoXue-jie YuEhrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular bacterium that resides and multiplies within cytoplasmic vacuoles of phagocytes. The Ehrlichia-containing vacuole (ECV) does not fuse with lysosomes, an essential condition for Ehrlichia to survive inside phagocytes, but the mechanism of inhibiting the fusion of the phagosome with lysosomes is not clear. Understanding the ECV molecular composition may decipher the mechanism by which Ehrlichia inhibits phagosome-lysosome fusion. In this study, we obtained highly purified ECVs from E. chaffeensis-infected DH82 cells by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and analyzed their composition by mass spectrometry-based proteomics. The ECV composition was compared with that of phagolysosomes containing latex beads. Lysosomal proteins such as cathepsin D, cathepsin S, and lysosomal acid phosphatase were not detected in E. chaffeensis phagosome preparations. Some small GTPases, involved in membrane dynamics and phagocytic trafficking, were detected in ECVs. A notable finding was that Rab7, a late endosomal marker, was consistently detected in E. chaffeensis phagosomes by mass spectrometry. Confocal microscopy confirmed that E. chaffeensis phagosomes contained Rab7 and were acidified at approximately pH 5.2, suggesting that the E. chaffeensis vacuole was an acidified late endosomal compartment. Our results also demonstrated by mass spectrometry and immunofluorescence analysis that Ehrlichia morulae were not associated with the autophagic pathway. Ehrlichia chaffeensis did not inhibit phagosomes containing latex beads from fusing with lysosomes in infected cells. We concluded that the E. chaffeensis vacuole was a late endosome and E. chaffeensis might inhibit phagosome-lysosome fusion by modifying its vacuolar membrane composition, rather than by regulating the expression of host genes involved in trafficking.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3928192?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Yan Cheng Yan Liu Bin Wu Jian-zhi Zhang Jiang Gu Ya-ling Liao Fu-kun Wang Xu-hu Mao Xue-jie Yu Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. PLoS ONE |
| title | Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. |
| title_full | Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. |
| title_fullStr | Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. |
| title_short | Proteomic analysis of the Ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured DH82 cells. |
| title_sort | proteomic analysis of the ehrlichia chaffeensis phagosome in cultured dh82 cells |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3928192?pdf=render |
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