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Histone lactylation during host–pathogen interaction: An intimate and persistent affair between Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing signaling and host lactate

ABSTRACT: Bacteria can stimulate host lactate production, aiding their colonization and virulence. However, the role of pathogen-driven host lactate remains underexplored. We show that Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA)-secreted quorum-sensing (QS) signaling molecule 2’-aminoacetophenone (2-AA) elevates and sustains lactate in PA-infected immune-cells and animal tissues. In support, 2-AA increases the protein abundance of the lactate transporter, MCT4, and lactyl-coenzyme A synthetase (guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-specific SCS (GTPSCS)), and GTPSCS’s interaction with the transcriptional coactivators CREB-binding protein (CBP) and p300. Lactate augmentation drives histone H3 lysine 18 lactylation (H3K18la) enrichment at the regulatory regions of key immune and metabolic genes. H3K18la and consequent transcriptional changes promote PA survival in macrophages. Inhibition of lactate or 2-AA synthesis impedes lactate augmentation and H3K18la and reduces PA survival in macrophages. The uncovered QS-driven H3K18la represents a seminal interplay during host-pathogen interaction. Targeting this QS-epigenetic axis may offer a viable therapeutic approach for chronic PA infection.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE302311 | GEO | 2025/12/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) causes severe respiratory infections utilizing multiple virulence functions. Our previous findings on PA quorum sensing (QS)-regulated small molecule, 2’-aminoacetophenone (2-AA), secreted in host infected tissues, revealed its effect on immune and metabolic functions favoring a long-term presence of PA in host tissues. However, studies on 2-AA’s effect on bronchial-airway epithelium and pulmonary endothelium remain elusive. To evaluate 2AA’s spatiotemporal changes in the human airway, considering endothelial cells as the first point of contact when the route of lung infection is through the bloodstream, we utilized the microfluidic bronchial-airway-on-a-chip lined by polarized human bronchial-airway epithelium and pulmonary endothelium. Using this platform, we performed RNA-sequencing to analyse responses of 2-AA treated primary human pulmonary microvascular endothelium (HPMEC) and adjacent primary normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) cells from healthy female donors and potential cross-talk between these cells. Analyses unveiled specific signaling and biosynthetic pathways to be differentially regulated by 2-AA in epithelial cells, including HIF-1 and pyrimidine signaling, glycosaminoglycan, and glycosphingolipid biosynthesis, while in endothelial cells were fatty acid metabolism, phosphatidylinositol and estrogen receptor signaling, and the proinflammatory signaling pathways. As part of the significant overlap in gene regulation and signaling pathways in both cell types impacted by 2-AA were genes implicated in immune response and cellular functionality. Moreover, we found cellular responses differentially regulated in each cell type, affecting barrier permeability, cholesterol metabolism, and oxidative phosphorylation. These 2-AA-mediated distinct responses may result from the cross-talk between these cells. Murine in-vivo and additional in vitro cell culture studies confirmed cholesterol accumulation and its effect on lung physiology by 2-AA. Results also revealed specific biomarkers associated with cystic fibrosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to be modulated by 2-AA in both cell types, with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator expression to be affected only in endothelial cells. The 2-AA-mediated effects on epithelial and endothelial cells within a microphysiological dynamic environment that mimics the human lung airway enhance our understanding of the influence of this QS signaling molecule in HPMEC and NHBE cells. This study provides novel insights into their functions and potential interactions, paving the way for innovative therapeutic strategies to combat PA lung infections.

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