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How Mycobacterium tuberculosis builds a home: Single-cell analysis reveals M. tuberculosis ESX-1-mediated accumulation of anti-inflammatory macrophages in infected mouse lungs.

Zheng, W.; Borja, M.; Dorman, L.; Liu, J.; Zhou, A.; Seng, A.; Arjyal, R.; Sunshine, S.; Nalyvayko, A.; Pisco, A. O.; Rosenberg, O.; Neff, N.; Zha, B. S. S.

2024-04-21 microbiology
10.1101/2024.04.20.590421 bioRxiv
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infects and replicates in lung mononuclear phagocytes (MNPs) with astounding ability to evade elimination. ESX-1, a type VII secretion system, acts as a virulence determinant that contributes to MTBs ability to survive within MNPs, but its effect on MNP recruitment and/or differentiation remains unknown. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing, we studied the role of ESX-1 in MNP heterogeneity and response in mice and murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM). We found that ESX-1 is required for MTB to recruit diverse MNP subsets with high MTB burden. Further, MTB induces an anti-inflammatory signature in MNPs and BMDM in an ESX-1 dependent manner. Similarly, spatial transcriptomics revealed an upregulation of anti-inflammatory signals in MTB lesions, where monocyte-derived macrophages concentrate near MTB-infected cells. Together, our findings suggest that MTB ESX-1 mediates the recruitment and differentiation of anti-inflammatory MNPs, which MTB can infect and manipulate for survival.

Published in Science Advances (predicted rank #8) · training set

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