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The Membrane Phospholipid Binding Protein Annexin A2 Promotes Phagocytosis and Nonlytic Exocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans and Impacts Survival in Fungal This information is current as Infection of September 23, 2021. Sabriya Stukes, Carolina Coelho, Johanna Rivera, Anne E. Jedlicka, Katherine A. Hajjar and Arturo Casadevall J Immunol published online 1 July 2016 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2016/07/01/jimmun Downloaded from ol.1501855 Supplementary http://www.jimmunol.org/content/suppl/2016/07/01/jimmunol.150185 http://www.jimmunol.org/ Material 5.DCSupplemental Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! 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Published July 1, 2016, doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1501855 The Journal of Immunology The Membrane Phospholipid Binding Protein Annexin A2 Promotes Phagocytosis and Nonlytic Exocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans and Impacts Survival in Fungal Infection Sabriya Stukes,* Carolina Coelho,*,† Johanna Rivera,* Anne E. Jedlicka,† Katherine A. Hajjar,‡,x and Arturo Casadevall*,† Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen with a unique intracellular pathogenic strategy that includes nonlytic exocytosis, a phenomenon whereby fungal cells are expunged from macrophages without lysing the host cell. The exact mechanism and specific proteins involved in this process have yet to be completely defined. Using murine macrophages deficient in the membrane Downloaded from phospholipid binding protein, annexin A2 (ANXA2), we observed a significant decrease in both phagocytosis of yeast cells and the frequency of nonlytic exocytosis. Cryptococcal cells isolated from Anxa2-deficient (Anxa22/2) bone marrow–derived macro- phages and lung parenchyma displayed significantly larger capsules than those isolated from wild-type macrophages and tissues. Concomitantly, we observed significant differences in the amount of reactive oxygen species produced between Anxa22/2 and Anxa2+/+ macrophages. Despite comparable fungal burden, Anxa22/2 mice died more rapidly than wild-type mice when infected 2/2 with C. neoformans, and Anxa2 mice exhibited enhanced inflammatory responses, suggesting that the reduced survival http://www.jimmunol.org/ reflected greater immune-mediated damage. Together, these findings suggest a role for ANXA2 in the control of cryptococcal infection, macrophage function, and fungal morphology. The Journal of Immunology, 2016, 197: 000–000. ryptococcus neoformans is an environmental fungus with and laccase, which deactivate microbicidal compounds; and 3) the a complex intracellular pathogenic strategy that is inti- ability of the fungus to damage the phagosomal membrane allowing C mately related to its capacity for virulence (1–3). Fungal efflux of phagosomal contents into the cytoplasm (1, 8, 10–13). infection results from the inhalation of aerosolized infectious However, perhaps the most unusual aspect of the intracellular strat- particles (4). Unlike other intracellular pathogens, C. neoformans egy of this fungal pathogen is its ability to escape the macrophage can survive and replicate inside an acidic phagosome that un- in a process known as nonlytic exocytosis (14, 15). by guest on September 23, 2021 dergoes normal maturation (5). The outcome of the interaction Nonlytic exocytosis has been described in vitro for different cell between this fungal pathogen and macrophages appears to be a types such as J774 murine macrophage-like cells, primary mouse and critical determinant of virulence (3, 6–9). human macrophages, Drosophila S2 cells, and amoebae (4, 16–19). The mechanisms responsible for fungal intracellular survival Nonlytic exocytosis was shown to occur in vivo and could provide a involve a combination of factors that include: 1) residence in a large mechanism by which yeast cells migrating from the lung in Trojan phagosome where lysosomal contents are diluted; 2) the presence of horse macrophages are released into the circulation to infect the powerful antioxidant mechanisms including a large polysaccharide brain by transcytosis of the blood–brain barrier (20, 21). This in- capsule, cell wall–associated melanin that can absorb lysosome- teraction appears to be a pathogen-driven phenomenon because it generated oxidants and enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase requires cryptococcal cell viability and is selectively confined to fungal cells when macrophages ingest both live yeast cells and *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medi- FITC-labeled beads (15). The phagosome appears to play a crucial cine, Bronx, NY 10461; †Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Balti- role during this process, because phagosome labeling experiments more, MD 21205; ‡Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY x suggest that during nonlytic exocytosis, the entire organelle is ex- 10065; and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medi- cine, New York, NY 10065 punged, allowing for the release of fungal cells into the extracellular ORCIDs: 0000-0002-7523-3031 (C.C.); 0000-0001-9332-4861 (J.R.); 0000-0003- environment (22). Nonlytic exocytosis is under the control of both 3977-4356 (K.A.H.); 0000-0002-9402-9167 (A.C.). host and fungal factors, including host actin (22), phagosomal pH Received for publication August 18, 2015. Accepted for publication June 2, 2016. (20), fungal SEC14 (23), cytokine stimulation (24), host autophagy This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants 5R01A1033774, (25), and the presence of a capsule on fungal cells (15). 5R37AI033142, and 5T32A107506, and Clinical and Translational Science Awards In this study, we investigated the role of the membrane binding Grants 1 ULI TR001073-01, 1 TLI 1 TR001072-01, and 1 KL2 TR001071 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. protein annexin A2 (ANXA2) during in vitro fungal interactions with macrophages and in cryptococcal pathogenesis. Annexins are a Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. family of calcium binding proteins that function by bringing cellular E-mail address: [email protected] membranes in close contact with each other to promote fusion (26). The online version of this article contains supplemental material. They function in a wide variety of biological processes, some of Abbreviations used in this article: ANXA2, annexin A2; BMDM, bone marrow– which include membrane trafficking, phagocytosis, the endocytic derived macrophage; ROS, reactive oxygen species; SNAP, soluble N-ethylmaleimide pathway, and of interest to us, exocytosis of secretory vesicles (27– sensitive fusion attachment protein. 29). Specifically, we focused on ANXA2 because this protein me- Copyright Ó 2016 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/16/$30.00 diates endosomal membrane–membrane fusion and plays a role in www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.1501855 2 ANNEXIN A2 DEPLETION IN MACROPHAGES IMPACTS FUNGAL INFECTION the docking mechanism needed for vesicles to adhere to cellular Casadevall laboratory for several years. Unless otherwise specified, yeast membranes. ANXA2 is also hypothesized to function in the cells were washed three times in sterile PBS, counted, and used at an E:T membrane fusion events leading to the release of vesicles in chro- ratio of 5:1 for all in vitro experiments unless otherwise noted. maffin cells, exocytosis of lamellar bodies in alveolar epithelial C57BL/6J and Anxa22/2 mouse strains cells, and regulated exocytosis of von Willebrand factor pack- 2/2 Homozygous breeding pairs of Anxa2 knockout (Anxa2 ) mice from a aged in Weibel-Palade bodies in bovine endothelial cells (30– C57BL/6J background were obtained from the Hajjar laboratory (New 32). In addition, ANXA2 mediates secretion of vesical-bound York, NY) (36) and were maintained at the Animal Institute of Albert macromolecular collagen VI from bronchial epithelial cells (33). Einstein College of Medicine. Male and female C57BL/6J (8–10 wk old) There is minimal information linking ANXA2 and C. neoformans, mice were obtained from the National Cancer Institute (Fredrick, MD). In all experiments, mice were used at 8–10 wk of age. Mice were housed in and what has been shown mostly focuses on the interaction of fungal sterile microisolator cages in a barrier environment and were maintained cells and endothelial cells. Vu et al. showed that ANXA2 and in a specific pathogen-free barrier facility in microisolator cages, fed irra- S100A10 genes were both upregulated upon contact and ingestion of diated rodent food, provided with autoclaved bedding, and routinely moni- fungal cells by brain endothelial cells. This upregulation translated tored