Tyrosine-Phosphorylated Caveolin-1 Blocks Bacterial Uptake by Inducing Vav2-RhoA-Mediated Cytoskeletal Rearrangements |
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Authors: | Jan Peter Boettcher Marieluise Kirchner Yuri Churin Alexis Kaushansky Malvika Pompaiah Hans Thorn Volker Brinkmann Gavin MacBeath Thomas F. Meyer |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany;2.Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America;University of Vermont, United States of America |
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Abstract: | Certain bacterial adhesins appear to promote a pathogen''s extracellular lifestyle rather than its entry into host cells. However, little is known about the stimuli elicited upon such pathogen host-cell interactions. Here, we report that type IV pili (Tfp)-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (P+GC) induces an immediate recruitment of caveolin-1 (Cav1) in the host cell, which subsequently prevents bacterial internalization by triggering cytoskeletal rearrangements via downstream phosphotyrosine signaling. A broad and unbiased analysis of potential interaction partners for tyrosine-phosphorylated Cav1 revealed a direct interaction with the Rho-family guanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav2. Both Vav2 and its substrate, the small GTPase RhoA, were found to play a direct role in the Cav1-mediated prevention of bacterial uptake. Our findings, which have been extended to enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, highlight how Tfp-producing bacteria avoid host cell uptake. Further, our data establish a mechanistic link between Cav1 phosphorylation and pathogen-induced cytoskeleton reorganization and advance our understanding of caveolin function. |
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