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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Plasma Membrane Profiling Reveals Upregulation of ABCA1 by Infected Macrophages Leading to Restriction of Mycobacterial Growth.

Jing Long, Robindra Basu Roy, Yanjia J Zhang, Robin Antrobus, Yuxian Du, Duncan L Smith, Michael P Weekes, Babak Javid

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Proteomics ofFrontiers in immunology · 2018
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  12. Comparative Proteomics Analysis of Human Macrophages Infected with VirulentFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Jing LongCollaboration Innovation Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University Beijing, China.
Robindra Basu RoyHarvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA.
Yanjia J ZhangHarvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA.
Robin AntrobusCambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK.
Yuxian DuCollaboration Innovation Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University Beijing, China.
Duncan L SmithCancer Research UK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester Manchester, UK.
Michael P WeekesCambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK.
Babak JavidCollaboration Innovation Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tsinghua UniversityBeijing, China; Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, BostonMA, USA.
Tsinghua University · CNHarvard University · USUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K023446/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The plasma membrane represents a critical interface between the internal and extracellular environments, and harbors multiple proteins key receptors and transporters that play important roles in restriction of intracellular infection. We applied plasma membrane profiling, a technique that combines quantitative mass spectrometry with selective cell surface aminooxy-biotinylation, to Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-infected THP-1 macrophages. We quantified 559 PM proteins in BCG-infected THP-1 cells. One significantly upregulated cell-surface protein was the cholesterol transporter ABCA1. We showed that ABCA1 was upregulated on the macrophage cell-surface following infection with pathogenic mycobacteria and knockdown of ABCA1 resulted in increased mycobacterial survival within macrophages, suggesting that it may be a novel mycobacterial host-restriction factor.

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ABCA1cholesterolMycobacteriumplasma membrane profilingSILAC

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PMID27462310
PMCPMC4940386
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