Abstract
Availability of iron is a key factor in the survival and multiplication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) within host macrophage phagosomes. Despite host cell iron regulatory machineries attempts to deny supply of this essential micronutrient, intraphagosomal M.tb continues to access extracellular iron. In the current study, we report that intracellular M.tb exploits mammalian secreted Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (sGAPDH) for the delivery of host iron carrier proteins lactoferrin (Lf) and transferrin (Tf). Studying the trafficking of iron carriers in infected cells we observed that sGAPDH along with the iron carrier proteins are preferentially internalized into infected cells and trafficked to M.tb containing phagosomes where they are internalized by resident mycobacteria resulting in iron delivery. Collectively our findings provide a new mechanism of iron acquisition by M.tb involving the hijack of host sGAPDH. This may contribute to its successful pathogenesis and provide an option for targeted therapeutic intervention.
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Abbreviations
- GAPDH:
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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
- Tf:
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Transferrin
- Lf:
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Lactoferrin
- TfR:
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Transferrin receptor
- SFM:
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Serum free medium
- M.tb :
-
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- LAM:
-
Lipoarabinomannan
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Mr. Anil Theophilus & Mr. Randeep Sharma are acknowledged for technical assistance. This is IMTECH communication No. 035/2021.
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S.C. and R.S.M. received fellowships from University Grants Commission India, A.D., A. P., G.K.C. and S.T. from Department of Biotechnology, India and R.D. was supported by a fellowship of the Indian Council of Medical Research. Partial Financial support was received from CSIR, DBT (Project no's. BT/PR13469/BRB/10/1395/2015 and BT/PR14292/NNT/28/853/2015), ICMR and DST (Project no. EMR/2016/001898).
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Patidar, A., Malhotra, H., Chaudhary, S. et al. Host glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase-mediated iron acquisition is hijacked by intraphagosomal Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 79, 62 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-021-04110-3
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