Journal
VIRULENCE
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages 1820-1832Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1377881
Keywords
fibroblast; macrophage; MLKL; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; necroptosis; RIPK1; RIPK3
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- Wellcome Trust [WT090242MA]
- MRC [MR/P028225/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/P028225/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Rosetrees Trust [M377] Funding Source: researchfish
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An important feature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis is the ability to control cell death in infected host cells, including inhibition of apoptosis and stimulation of necrosis. Recently an alternative form of programmed cell death, necroptosis, has been described where necrotic cell death is induced by apoptotic stimuli under conditions where apoptotic execution is inhibited. We show for the first time that M. tuberculosis and TNF alpha synergise to induce necroptosis in murine fibroblasts via RIPK1-dependent mechanisms and characterized by phosphorylation of Ser345 of the MLKL necroptosis death effector. However, in murine macrophages M. tuberculosis and TNF alpha induce non-necroptotic cell death that is RIPK1-dependent but independent of MLKL phosphorylation. Instead, M. tuberculosis-infected macrophages undergo RIPK3-dependent cell death which occurs both in the presence and absence of TNF alpha and involves the production of mitochondrial ROS. Immunocytochemical staining for MLKL phosphorylation further demonstrated the occurrence of necroptosis in vivo in murine M. tuberculosis granulomas. Phosphorylated-MLKL immunoreactivity was observed associated with the cytoplasm and nucleus of fusiform cells in M. tuberculosis lesions but not in proximal macrophages. Thus whereas pMLKL-driven necroptosis does not appear to be a feature of M. tuberculosis-infected macrophage cell death, it may contribute to TNF alpha-induced cytotoxicity of the lung stroma and therefore contribute to necrotic cavitation and bacterial dissemination.
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