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ArticleImmunity2017

Phenolic Glycolipid Facilitates Mycobacterial Escape from Microbicidal Tissue-Resident Macrophages.

C J Cambier, Seónadh M O'Leary, Mary P O'Sullivan, Joseph Keane, Lalita Ramakrishnan

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Article in Immunity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

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97citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed, 167 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

C J CambierDepartment of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Molecular Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK; Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CT 94305, USA.
Seónadh M O'LearyDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Mary P O'SullivanDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Joseph KeaneDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland. Electronic address: josephmk@tcd.ie.
Lalita RamakrishnanDepartment of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Molecular Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK; Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: lr404@cam.ac.uk.
Trinity College Dublin · IEMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GBUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Host-Responses to Mycobacterium Infection in ZebrafishR37AI054503 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RAMAKRISHNAN, LALITA · 2012 to 2021
$3.1M
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIST32AI055396 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FANG, FERRIC C · 2003 to 2019
$2.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI054503NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI055396Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) enters the host in aerosol droplets deposited in lung alveoli, where the bacteria first encounter lung-resident alveolar macrophages. We studied the earliest mycobacterium-macrophage interactions in the optically transparent zebrafish. First-responding resident macrophages phagocytosed and eradicated infecting mycobacteria, suggesting that to establish a successful infection, mycobacteria must escape out of the initially infected resident macrophage into growth-permissive monocytes. We defined a critical role for mycobacterial membrane phenolic glycolipid (PGL) in engineering this transition. PGL activated the STING cytosolic sensing pathway in resident macrophages, inducing the production of the chemokine CCL2, which in turn recruited circulating CCR2

Indexed as

AnimalsChemokine CCL2ChemotaxisCytokinesDisease Models, AnimalGene Knockout TechniquesGlycolipidsHumansInflammation MediatorsMacrophagesMacrophages, AlveolarMembrane ProteinsMonocytesMutationMycobacterium tuberculosisOrgan SpecificityChemokine CCL2CytokinesGlycolipidsInflammation MediatorsMembrane ProteinsSting1 protein, mouseSTING Protein

Identifiers

PMID28844797
PMCPMC5610147
OpenAlexW2746586093

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