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:Innate immune cells respond to microbial invaders using pattern recognition receptors that detect conserved microbial patterns. Among the cellular processes stimulated downstream of pattern recognition machinery is the initiation of autophagy, which plays protective roles against intracellular microbes. We have shown recently that Dictyostelium discoideum, which takes up bacteria for nutritive purposes, may employ pattern recognition machinery to respond to bacterial prey, as D. discoideum cells upregulate bactericidal activity upon stimulation by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Here we extend these findings, showing that LPS treatment leads to induction of autophagosomal maturation in cells responding to the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Cells treated with the autophagy-inducing drug rapamycin clear internalized bacteria at an accelerated rate, while LPS-enhanced clearance of bacteria is reduced in cells deficient for the autophagy-related genes atg1 and atg9. These findings link microbial pattern recognition with autophagy in the social amoeba D. discoideum.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Pflaum K,Gerdes K,Yovo K,Callahan J,Snyder MLdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.05.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-06-08 00:00:00pages
417-22issue
3eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(12)00857-1journal_volume
422pub_type
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