Cutting edge: IL-1R1 mediates host resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis by trans-protection of infected cells

AC Bohrer, C Tocheny, M Assmann… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
AC Bohrer, C Tocheny, M Assmann, VV Ganusov, KD Mayer–Barber
The Journal of Immunology, 2018journals.aai.org
IL-1R1 deficiency in mice causes severe susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mice
and macrophage cultures lacking IL-1R1 display increased bacterial growth, suggesting that
phagocytes may require IL-1R1–dependent antimicrobial signals to limit intracellular M.
tuberculosis replication directly. However, the myeloid-cell–intrinsic versus–extrinsic
requirements for IL-1R1 to control M. tuberculosis infection in mice have not been directly
addressed. Using single-cell analysis of infected cells, competitive mixed bone marrow …
Abstract
IL-1R1 deficiency in mice causes severe susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mice and macrophage cultures lacking IL-1R1 display increased bacterial growth, suggesting that phagocytes may require IL-1R1–dependent antimicrobial signals to limit intracellular M. tuberculosis replication directly. However, the myeloid-cell–intrinsic versus–extrinsic requirements for IL-1R1 to control M. tuberculosis infection in mice have not been directly addressed. Using single-cell analysis of infected cells, competitive mixed bone marrow chimeras, and IL-1R1 conditional mutant mice, we show in this article that IL-1R1 expression by pulmonary phagocytes is uncoupled from their ability to control intracellular M. tuberculosis growth. Importantly, IL-1R1–dependent control was provided to infected cells in trans by both nonhematopoietic and hematopoietic cells. Thus, IL-1R1–mediated host resistance to M. tuberculosis infection does not involve mechanisms of cell-autonomous antimicrobicidal effector functions in phagocytes but requires the cooperation between infected cells and other cells of hematopoietic or nonhematopoietic origin to promote bacterial containment and control of infection.
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