Cryo-ET of a human GBP coatomer governing cell-autonomous innate immunity to infection

Abstract All living organisms deploy cell-autonomous defenses to combat infection. In plants and animals, these activities generate large supramolecular complexes that recruit immune proteins for protection. Here, we solve the native structure of a massive antimicrobial complex generated by polymerization of 30,000 human guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs) over the entire surface of virulent bacteria. Construction of this giant nanomachine takes ∼1-3 minutes, remains stable for hours, and acts as a cytokine and cell death signaling platform atop the coated bacterium. Cryo-ET of this “coatomer” revealed thousands of human GBP1 molecules undergo ∼260 Å insertion into the bacterial outer membrane, triggering lipopolysaccharide release that activates co-assembled caspase-4. Together, our results provide a quasi-atomic view of how the GBP coatomer mobilizes cytosolic immunity to combat infection in humans.One-Sentence Summary Thousands of GBPs coat cytosolic bacteria to engineer an antimicrobial signaling platform inside human cells..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 30. Aug. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Shiwei [VerfasserIn]
Bradfield, Clinton J. [VerfasserIn]
Mamińska, Agnieszka [VerfasserIn]
Park, Eui-Soon [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Bae-Hoon [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Pradeep [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yongdeng [VerfasserIn]
Bewersdorf, Joerg [VerfasserIn]
MacMicking, John D. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2021.08.26.457804

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XBI03246925X