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Subcellular antibiotic visualization reveals a dynamic drug reservoir in infected macrophages

ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis, caused by the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains the world's deadliest infectious disease. Sterilizing chemotherapy requires at least 6 months of multidrug therapy. Difficulty visualizing the subcellular localization of antibiotics in infected host cells means that it is unclear whether antibiotics penetrate all mycobacteria-containing compartments in the cell. Here, we combined correlated light, electron, and ion microscopy to image the distribution of bedaquiline in infected human macrophages at submicrometer resolution. Bedaquiline accumulated primarily in host cell lipid droplets, but heterogeneously in mycobacteria within a variety of intracellular compartments. Furthermore, lipid droplets did not sequester antibiotic but constituted a transferable reservoir that enhanced antibacterial efficacy. Thus, strong lipid binding facilitated drug trafficking by host organelles to an intracellular target during antimicrobial treatment.

INSTRUMENT(S): Liquid Chromatography MS - alternating - reverse phase

SUBMITTER: Mariana Silva dos Santos

PROVIDER: MTBLS959 | MetaboLights | 2020-12-07

REPOSITORIES: MetaboLights

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Subcellular antibiotic visualization reveals a dynamic drug reservoir in infected macrophages.

Greenwood Daniel J DJ Dos Santos Mariana Silva MS Huang Song S Russell Matthew R G MRG Collinson Lucy M LM MacRae James I JI West Andy A Jiang Haibo H Gutierrez Maximiliano G MG

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190627 6447

Tuberculosis, caused by the intracellular pathogen <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>, remains the world's deadliest infectious disease. Sterilizing chemotherapy requires at least 6 months of multidrug therapy. Difficulty visualizing the subcellular localization of antibiotics in infected host cells means that it is unclear whether antibiotics penetrate all mycobacteria-containing compartments in the cell. Here, we combined correlated light, electron, and ion microscopy to image the distribution ...[more]

PMID: 31249058

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Project description:Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem, especially in developing countries, with 1.5 million deaths annually worldwide. Antibiotics are commonly used in the treatment of bacterial infections. As with most drugs, antibiotic treatment can also alter host metabolism, leading to adverse side-effects. Antibiotics can also interfere with the immune system, indirectly through the disturbance of the body’s microbiota or directly by modulating the functions of immune cells. It is therefore important to understand how antibiotic treatment modulates immune cell functions. Here we aim to evaluate the impact of first-line anti-TB drugs on the response of human macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Results: Human macrophages were stimulated with heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (hk-MTB) and treated with isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RIF), ethambutol, pyrazinamide (PZA) or amikacin (AMK). After 24h of treatment, RNA was collected and we characterized the genome-wide gene expression profiles of drug-treated cells by RNAseq. 556, 752 and 7 genes were differentially expressed in hk-MTB-stimulated macrophages upon RIF, PZA and EMB treatment respectively, whereas in uninfected macrophages, 448 and 11 genes were differentially expressed upon RIF and PZA treatment respectively. No genes were differentially expressed upon INH and AMK treatment. We classified all modulated genes by performing gene-set enrichment analysis. The gene set regulated by PZA in infected macrophages was significantly enriched for genes involved in Integral to lumenal side of endoplasmic reticulum membrane, Cytokine-mediated signaling pathway or Interferon-gamma-mediated signaling pathway. In hk-MTB-stimulated macrophages treated by RIF, we found an enrichment in Endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response, NADP binding or Lipid metabolic process. Conclusions: Our results highlight the importance to understand how antibiotic treatment modulates macrophage (Mφ) functions, and more generally, how it impacts the host immune response.

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Subcellular antibiotic visualization reveals a dynamic drug reservoir in infected macrophages

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Subcellular antibiotic visualization reveals a dynamic drug reservoir in infected macrophages.

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