Journal article
Metal-independent variants of phosphoglycerate mutase promote resistance to nutritional immunity and retention of glycolysis during infection
PLoS pathogens, Vol.15(7), pp.e1007971-e1007971
07/01/2019
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007971
PMCID: PMC6684088
PMID: 31344131
Abstract
The ability of Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens to consume glucose is critical during infection. However, glucose consumption increases the cellular demand for manganese sensitizing S. aureus to host-imposed manganese starvation. The current investigations were undertaken to elucidate how S. aureus copes with the need to consume glucose when metal-limited by the host. A critical component of host defense is production of the manganese binding protein calprotectin. S. aureus has two variants of phosphoglycerate mutase, one of which is manganese-dependent, GpmI, and another that is manganese-independent, GpmA. Leveraging the ability to impose metal starvation in culture utilizing calprotectin revealed that the loss of GpmA, but not GpmI, sensitized S. aureus to manganese starvation. Metabolite feeding experiments revealed that the growth defect of GpmA when manganese-starved was due to a defect in glycolysis and not gluconeogenesis. Loss of GpmA reduces the ability of S. aureus to cause invasive disease in wild type mice. However, GpmA was dispensable in calprotectin-deficient mice, which have defects in manganese sequestration, indicating that this isozyme contributes to the ability of S. aureus to overcome manganese limitation during infection. Cumulatively, these observations suggest that expressing a metal-independent variant enables S. aureus to consume glucose while mitigating the negative impact that glycolysis has on the cellular demand for manganese. S. aureus is not the only bacterium that expresses manganese-dependent and -independent variants of phosphoglycerate mutase. Similar results were also observed in culture with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium mutants lacking the metal-independent isozyme. These similar observations in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens suggest that expression of metal-independent glycolytic isozymes is a common strategy employed by bacteria to survive in metal-limited environments, such as the host.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Metal-independent variants of phosphoglycerate mutase promote resistance to nutritional immunity and retention of glycolysis during infection
- Creators
- Jana N Radin - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJessica L Kelliher - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPaola K Párraga Solórzano - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignKyle P Grim - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignRouhallah Ramezanifard - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJames M Slauch - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignThomas E Kehl-Fie - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PLoS pathogens, Vol.15(7), pp.e1007971-e1007971
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007971
- PMID
- 31344131
- PMCID
- PMC6684088
- ISSN
- 1553-7366
- eISSN
- 1553-7374
- Grant note
- R01 AI123381 / NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118880 / NIAID NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Record Identifier
- 9984618632502771
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