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Rapid removal of phagosomal ferroportin in macrophages contributes to nutritional immunity
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Nutrient sequestration is an essential facet of host innate immunity. Macrophages play a critical role in controlling iron availability through expression of the iron transport protein ferroportin (FPN), which extrudes iron from the cytoplasm to the extracellular milieu. During phagocytosis, the limiting phagosomal membrane, which derives from the plasmalemma, can be decorated with FPN and, if functional, will move iron from the cytosol into the phagosome lumen. This serves to feed iron to phagocytosed microbes and would be counterproductive to the many other known host mechanisms working to starve microbes of this essential metal. To understand how FPN is regulated during phagocytosis, we expressed FPN as a green fluorescent protein–fusion protein in macrophages and monitored its localization during uptake of various phagocytic targets, including Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, human erythrocytes, and immunoglobulin G opsonized latex beads. We find that FPN is rapidly removed, independently of Vps34 and PI(3)P, from early phagosomes and does not follow recycling pathways that regulate transferrin receptor recycling. Live-cell video microscopy showed that FPN movement on the phagosome is dynamic, with punctate and tubular structures forming before FPN is trafficked back to the plasmalemma. N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor, which disrupts soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE)–mediated membrane fusion and trafficking, prevented FPN removal from the phagosome. Our data support the hypothesis that removal of FPN from the limiting phagosomal membrane will, at the cellular level, ensure that iron cannot be pumped into phagosomes. We propose this as yet another mechanism of host nutritional immunity to subvert microbial growth.
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“According to a study, FPN is quickly removed from the phagosomal barrier by macrophages, which stops Fe from extruding into the phagosome lumen. This might contribute to the expanding list of host mechanisms of nutritional immunity by further limiting the uptake of iron by bacteria (Flannagan et al. 2021).”
From Nutritional Immunity in Wound Infection: Unveiling the Role of Dietary Elements in Host–Pathogen Interaction (2025) · cites this paper as Flannagan et al. 2021
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- Authors
- Flannagan, R. S., Farrell, T. J., Trothen, S. M., Dikeakos, J. D., & Heinrichs, D. E.
- Venue
- Blood Advances
- Publisher
- American Society of Hematology
- Published
- 2021-01-21
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 459-474
- ISSN
- 2473-9529
- 2473-9537
- Cited by
- 31
- References
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- Language
- en
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