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J. Bacteriol., Dec 1997, 7233-7242, Vol 179, No. 23
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Host cell phospholipids are trafficked to and then modified by Chlamydia trachomatis

JL Wylie, GM Hatch and G McClarty
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

There is little information on the trafficking of eukaryotic lipids from a host cell to either the cytoplasmic membrane of or the vacuolar membrane surrounding intracellular pathogens. Purified Chlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intracellular bacterial parasite, contains several eukaryotic glycerophospholipids, yet attempts to demonstrate transfer of these lipids to the chlamydial cell membrane have not been successful. In this report, we demonstrate that eukaryotic glycerophospholipids are trafficked from the host cell to C. trachomatis. Phospholipid trafficking was assessed by monitoring the incorporation of radiolabelled isoleucine, a precursor of C. trachomatis specific branched-chain fatty acids, into host-derived glycerophospholipids and by monitoring the transfer of host phosphatidylserine to chlamydiae and its subsequent decarboxylation to form phosphatidylethanolamine. Phospholipid trafficking to chlamydiae was unaffected by brefeldin A, an inhibitor of Golgi function. Furthermore, no changes in trafficking were observed when C. trachomatis was grown in a mutant cell line with a nonfunctional, nonspecific phospholipid transfer protein. Host glycerophospholipids are modified by C. trachomatis, such that a host-synthesized straight- chain fatty acid is replaced with a chlamydia-synthesized branched- chain fatty acid. We also demonstrate that despite the acquisition of host-derived phospholipids, C. trachomatis is capable of de novo synthesis of phospholipids typically synthesized by prokaryotic cells. Our results provide novel information on chlamydial phospholipid metabolism and eukaryotic cell lipid trafficking, and they increase our understanding of the evolutionary steps leading to the establishment of an intimate metabolic association between an obligate intracellular bacterial parasite and a eukaryotic host cell.


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