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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 33-45Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.12.002
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- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [U54 AI057160]
- Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
- Botin Foundation
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Autophagy is a cellular degradation process that can capture and eliminate intracellular microbes by delivering them to lysosomes for destruction. However, pathogens have evolved mechanisms to subvert this process. The intracellular bacterium Brucella abortus ensures its survival by forming the Brucella-containing vacuole (BCV), which traffics from the endocytic compartment to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where the bacterium proliferates. We show that Brucella replication in the ER is followed by BCV conversion into a compartment with autophagic features (aBCV). While Brucella trafficking to the ER was unaffected in autophagy-deficient cells, aBCV formation required the autophagy-initiation proteins ULK1, Beclin 1, and ATG14L and PI3-kinase activity. However, aBCV formation was independent of the autophagy-elongation proteins ATG5, ATG16L1, ATG4B, ATG7, and LC3B. Furthermore, aBCVs were required to complete the intracellular Brucella lifecycle and for cell-to-cell spreading, demonstrating that Brucella selectively co-opts autophagy-initiation complexes to subvert host clearance and promote infection.
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