A Bacterial Effector Reveals the V-ATPase-ATG16L1 Axis that Initiates Xenophagy.
Xu YCollege of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, 100094 Beijing, China; National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Zhou PNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Cheng SInstitute of Analytical Chemistry & Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China.
Lu QNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Nowak KDepartment of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Hopp AKDepartment of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Li LNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Shi XNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Zhou ZNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Gao WNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Li DNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
He HNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China.
Liu XInstitute of Analytical Chemistry & Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China.
Ding JNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China; National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China.
Hottiger MODepartment of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Shao FNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, 102206 Beijing, China; Tsinghua Institute of Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research, Tsinghua University, 102206 Beijing, China. Electronic address: shaofeng@nibs.ac.cn.
English
Antibacterial autophagy (xenophagy) is an important host defense, but how it is initiated is unclear. Here, we performed a bacterial transposon screen and identified a T3SS effector SopF that potently blocked Salmonella autophagy. SopF was a general xenophagy inhibitor without affecting canonical autophagy. S. Typhimurium ΔsopF resembled S. flexneri ΔvirAΔicsB with the majority of intracellular bacteria targeted by autophagy, permitting a CRISPR screen that identified host V-ATPase as an essential factor. Upon bacteria-caused vacuolar damage, the V-ATPase recruited ATG16L1 onto bacteria-containing vacuole, which was blocked by SopF. Mammalian ATG16L1 bears a WD40 domain required for interacting with the V-ATPase. Inhibiting autophagy by SopF promoted S. Typhimurium proliferation in vivo. SopF targeted Gln124 of ATP6V0C in the V-ATPase for ADP-ribosylation. Mutation of Gln124 also blocked xenophagy, but not canonical autophagy. Thus, the discovery of SopF reveals the V-ATPase-ATG16L1 axis that critically mediates autophagic recognition of intracellular pathogen.