Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death.
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin ExoS, secreted by the type III secretion system (T3SS), supports intracellular persistence via its ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPr) activity. For epithelial cells, this involves inhibiting vacuole acidification, promoting vacuolar escape, countering autophagy, and niche...
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| author | Abby R Kroken Naren Gajenthra Kumar Timothy L Yahr Benjamin E Smith Vincent Nieto Hart Horneman David J Evans Suzanne M J Fleiszig |
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| description | The Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin ExoS, secreted by the type III secretion system (T3SS), supports intracellular persistence via its ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPr) activity. For epithelial cells, this involves inhibiting vacuole acidification, promoting vacuolar escape, countering autophagy, and niche construction in the cytoplasm and within plasma membrane blebs. Paradoxically, ExoS and other P. aeruginosa T3SS effectors can also have antiphagocytic and cytotoxic activities. Here, we sought to reconcile these apparently contradictory activities of ExoS by studying the relationships between intracellular persistence and host epithelial cell death. Methods involved quantitative imaging and the use of antibiotics that vary in host cell membrane permeability to selectively kill intracellular and extracellular populations after invasion. Results showed that intracellular P. aeruginosa mutants lacking T3SS effector toxins could kill (permeabilize) cells when extracellular bacteria were eliminated. Surprisingly, wild-type strain PAO1 (encoding ExoS, ExoT and ExoY) caused cell death more slowly, the time extended from 5.2 to 9.5 h for corneal epithelial cells and from 10.2 to 13.0 h for HeLa cells. Use of specific mutants/complementation and controls for initial invasion showed that ExoS ADPr activity delayed cell death. Triggering T3SS expression only after bacteria invaded cells using rhamnose-induction in T3SS mutants rescued the ExoS-dependent intracellular phenotype, showing that injected effectors from extracellular bacteria were not required. The ADPr activity of ExoS was further found to support internalization by countering the antiphagocytic activity of both the ExoS and ExoT RhoGAP domains. Together, these results show two additional roles for ExoS ADPr activity in supporting the intracellular lifestyle of P. aeruginosa; suppression of host cell death to preserve a replicative niche and inhibition of T3SS effector antiphagocytic activities to allow invasion. These findings add to the growing body of evidence that ExoS-encoding (invasive) P. aeruginosa strains can be facultative intracellular pathogens, and that intracellularly secreted T3SS effectors contribute to pathogenesis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6b5c23595a64c07b96dce3bce31bbb92022-12-21T20:03:45ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Pathogens1553-73661553-73742022-02-01182e101030610.1371/journal.ppat.1010306Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death.Abby R KrokenNaren Gajenthra KumarTimothy L YahrBenjamin E SmithVincent NietoHart HornemanDavid J EvansSuzanne M J FleiszigThe Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin ExoS, secreted by the type III secretion system (T3SS), supports intracellular persistence via its ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPr) activity. For epithelial cells, this involves inhibiting vacuole acidification, promoting vacuolar escape, countering autophagy, and niche construction in the cytoplasm and within plasma membrane blebs. Paradoxically, ExoS and other P. aeruginosa T3SS effectors can also have antiphagocytic and cytotoxic activities. Here, we sought to reconcile these apparently contradictory activities of ExoS by studying the relationships between intracellular persistence and host epithelial cell death. Methods involved quantitative imaging and the use of antibiotics that vary in host cell membrane permeability to selectively kill intracellular and extracellular populations after invasion. Results showed that intracellular P. aeruginosa mutants lacking T3SS effector toxins could kill (permeabilize) cells when extracellular bacteria were eliminated. Surprisingly, wild-type strain PAO1 (encoding ExoS, ExoT and ExoY) caused cell death more slowly, the time extended from 5.2 to 9.5 h for corneal epithelial cells and from 10.2 to 13.0 h for HeLa cells. Use of specific mutants/complementation and controls for initial invasion showed that ExoS ADPr activity delayed cell death. Triggering T3SS expression only after bacteria invaded cells using rhamnose-induction in T3SS mutants rescued the ExoS-dependent intracellular phenotype, showing that injected effectors from extracellular bacteria were not required. The ADPr activity of ExoS was further found to support internalization by countering the antiphagocytic activity of both the ExoS and ExoT RhoGAP domains. Together, these results show two additional roles for ExoS ADPr activity in supporting the intracellular lifestyle of P. aeruginosa; suppression of host cell death to preserve a replicative niche and inhibition of T3SS effector antiphagocytic activities to allow invasion. These findings add to the growing body of evidence that ExoS-encoding (invasive) P. aeruginosa strains can be facultative intracellular pathogens, and that intracellularly secreted T3SS effectors contribute to pathogenesis.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010306 |
| spellingShingle | Abby R Kroken Naren Gajenthra Kumar Timothy L Yahr Benjamin E Smith Vincent Nieto Hart Horneman David J Evans Suzanne M J Fleiszig Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. PLoS Pathogens |
| title | Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. |
| title_full | Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. |
| title_fullStr | Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. |
| title_short | Exotoxin S secreted by internalized Pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death. |
| title_sort | exotoxin s secreted by internalized pseudomonas aeruginosa delays lytic host cell death |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010306 |
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