PMID- 34748367 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220221 LR - 20220221 IS - 1098-5522 (Electronic) IS - 0019-9567 (Print) IS - 0019-9567 (Linking) VI - 90 IP - 1 DP - 2022 Jan 25 TI - IRE1alpha-Driven Inflammation Promotes Clearance of Citrobacter rodentium Infection. PG - e0048121 LID - 10.1128/IAI.00481-21 [doi] LID - e00481-21 AB - Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is intimately linked with inflammation in response to pathogenic infections. ER stress occurs when cells experience a buildup of misfolded or unfolded protein during times of perturbation, such as infections, which facilitates the unfolded protein response (UPR). The UPR involves multiple host pathways in an attempt to reestablish homeostasis, which oftentimes leads to inflammation and cell death if unresolved. The UPR is activated to help resolve some bacterial infections, and the IRE1alpha pathway is especially critical in mediating inflammation. To understand the role of the IRE1alpha pathway of the UPR during enteric bacterial infection, we employed Citrobacter rodentium to study host-pathogen interactions in intestinal epithelial cells and the murine gastrointestinal (GI) tract. C. rodentium is an enteric mouse pathogen that is similar to the human pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC, respectively), for which we have limited small-animal models. Here, we demonstrate that both C. rodentium and EPEC induced the UPR in intestinal epithelial cells. UPR induction during C. rodentium infection correlated with the onset of inflammation in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs). Our previous work implicated IRE1alpha and NOD1/2 in ER stress-induced inflammation, which we observed were also required for proinflammatory gene induction during C. rodentium infection. C. rodentium induced IRE1alpha-dependent inflammation in mice, and inhibiting IRE1alpha led to a dysregulated inflammatory response and delayed clearance of C. rodentium. This study demonstrates that ER stress aids inflammation and clearance of C. rodentium through a mechanism involving the IRE1alpha-NOD1/2 axis. FAU - Sweet, Lydia A AU - Sweet LA AD - Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA. FAU - Kuss-Duerkop, Sharon K AU - Kuss-Duerkop SK AD - Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA. FAU - Keestra-Gounder, A Marijke AU - Keestra-Gounder AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2231-652X AD - Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA. LA - eng GR - R21 AI154043/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI164154/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21AI154043/HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/ PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20211108 PL - United States TA - Infect Immun JT - Infection and immunity JID - 0246127 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Nod1 Signaling Adaptor Protein) RN - 0 (Nod1 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein) RN - 0 (Nod2 protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Ern1 protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 3.1.- (Endoribonucleases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Bacterial Load MH - Biomarkers MH - Citrobacter rodentium/*physiology MH - Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress MH - Endoribonucleases/genetics/*metabolism MH - Enterobacteriaceae Infections/immunology/*metabolism/*microbiology MH - Gene Expression MH - *Host-Pathogen Interactions/immunology MH - Mice MH - Nod1 Signaling Adaptor Protein/genetics/metabolism MH - Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein/genetics/metabolism MH - Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction PMC - PMC8788755 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Citrobacter OT - Citrobacter rodentium OT - EPEC OT - ER stress OT - Escherichia OT - IRE1a OT - IRE1alpha OT - KIRA6 OT - NOD1 OT - NOD1/2 OT - NOD2 OT - innate immunity EDAT- 2021/11/09 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/22 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/25 CRDT- 2021/11/08 17:13 PHST- 2021/11/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/11/08 17:13 [entrez] PHST- 2022/01/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 00481-21 [pii] AID - iai.00481-21 [pii] AID - 10.1128/IAI.00481-21 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Infect Immun. 2022 Jan 25;90(1):e0048121. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00481-21. Epub 2021 Nov 8.