Cdc42 and RhoB Activation Are Required for Mannose Receptor-mediated Phagocytosis by Human Alveolar Macrophages

Overview

Journal Mol Biol Cell

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2004 Dec 3

PMID 15574879

Citations 36

Authors

Jianmin Zhang

Jinping Zhu

Xia Bu

Melanie Cushion

T Bernard Kinane

Hava Avraham

Henry Koziel

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Abstract

Human alveolar macrophages (AMs) phagocytose Pneumocystis (Pc) organisms predominantly through mannose receptors, although the molecular mechanism mediating this opsonin-independent process is not known. In this study, using AMs from healthy individuals, Pc phagocytosis was associated with focal F-actin polymerization and Cdc42, Rac1, and Rho activation in a time-dependent manner. Phagocytosis was primarily dependent on Cdc42 and RhoB activation (as determined by AM transfection with Cdc42 and RhoB dominant-negative alleles) and mediated predominantly through mannose receptors (as determined by siRNA gene silencing of AM mannose receptors). Pc also promoted PAK-1 phosphorylation, which was also dependent on RhoGTPase activation. HIV infection of AMs (as a model for reduced mannose receptor expression and function) was associated with impaired F-actin polymerization, reduced Cdc42 and Rho activation, and markedly reduced PAK-1 phosphorylation in response to Pc organisms. In healthy AMs, Pc phagocytosis was partially dependent on PAK activation, but dependent on the Rho effector molecule ROCK. These data provide a molecular mechanism for AM mannose receptor-mediated phagocytosis of unopsonized Pc organisms that appears distinct from opsonin-dependent phagocytic receptors. Reduced AM mannose receptor-mediated Cdc42 and Rho activation in the context of HIV infection may represent a mechanism that contributes to the pathogenesis of opportunistic pneumonia.

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