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  2. SAC1 regulates autophagosomal phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate for xenophagy-directed bacterial clearance

SAC1 regulates autophagosomal phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate for xenophagy-directed bacterial clearance

  • Cell Rep. 2021 Jul 27;36(4):109434. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109434.
Kai Liu 1 Lingjia Kong 1 Daniel B Graham 2 Kimberly L Carey 3 Ramnik J Xavier 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
  • 2 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • 3 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • 4 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract

Phosphoinositides are important molecules in lipid signaling, membrane identity, and trafficking that are spatiotemporally controlled by factors from both mammalian cells and intracellular pathogens. Here, using small interfering RNA (siRNA) directed against phosphoinositide kinases and phosphatases, we screen for regulators of the host innate defense response to intracellular Bacterial replication. We identify SAC1, a transmembrane phosphoinositide Phosphatase, as an essential regulator of xenophagy. Depletion or inactivation of SAC1 compromises fusion between Salmonella-containing autophagosomes and lysosomes, leading to increased Bacterial replication. Mechanistically, the loss of SAC1 results in aberrant accumulation of phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate [PI(4)P] on Salmonella-containing autophagosomes, thus facilitating recruitment of SteA, a PI(4)P-binding Salmonella effector protein, which impedes lysosomal fusion. Replication of Salmonella lacking SteA is suppressed by SAC-1-deficient cells, however, demonstrating Bacterial adaptation to xenophagy. Our findings uncover a paradigm in which a host protein regulates the level of its substrate and impairs the function of a Bacterial effector during xenophagy.

Keywords

PI(4)P; SAC1; Salmonella; SteA; autophagosome; phosphatidylinositol; phosphoinositide phosphatase; xenophagy.

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