Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Reveals a Complex Diet of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during Early Macrophage Infection
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2017-08-22Typ
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Abstract
Nutrient acquisition from the host environment is crucial for the survival of intracellular pathogens, but conceptual and technical challenges limit our knowledge of pathogen diets. To overcome some of these technical roadblocks, we exploited an experimentally accessible model for early infection of human macrophages by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of tuberculosis, to study host-pathogen interactions with a multi-omics approach. We collected metabolomics and complete transcriptome RNA sequencing (dual RNA-seq) data of the infected macrophages, integrated them in a genome-wide reaction pair network, and identified metabolic subnetworks in host cells and M. tuberculosis that are modularly regulated during infection. Up- and downregulation of these metabolic subnetworks suggested that the pathogen utilizes a wide range of host-derived compounds, concomitant with the measured metabolic and transcriptional changes in both bacteria and host. To quantify metabolic interactions between the host and intracellular pathogen, we used a combined genome-scale model of macrophage and M. tuberculosis metabolism constrained by the dual RNA-seq data. Metabolic flux balance analysis predicted coutilization of a total of 33 different carbon sources and enabled us to distinguish between the pathogen’s substrates directly used as biomass precursors and the ones further metabolized to gain energy or to synthesize building blocks. This multiple-substrate fueling confers high robustness to interventions with the pathogen’s metabolism. The presented approach combining multi-omics data as a starting point to simulate system-wide host-pathogen metabolic interactions is a useful tool to better understand the intracellular lifestyle of pathogens and their metabolic robustness and resistance to metabolic interventions. Mehr anzeigen
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000191307Publikationsstatus
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American Society for MicrobiologyThema
systems biology; host-pathogen interactions; metabolism; Mycobacterium tuberculosisOrganisationseinheit
03713 - Sauer, Uwe / Sauer, Uwe
08839 - Zamboni, Nicola (Tit.-Prof.)
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