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Neisseria gonorrhoeae Evades Calprotectin-Mediated Nutritional Immunity and
Survives Neutrophil Extracellular Traps by Production of TdfH
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Jean S
; Juneau RA
; Criss AK
; Cornelissen CN
Infect Immun
2016[Oct]; 84
(10
): 2982-94
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae successfully overcomes host strategies to limit essential
nutrients, termed nutritional immunity, by production of TonB-dependent
transporters (TdTs)-outer membrane proteins that facilitate nutrient transport in
an energy-dependent manner. Four gonococcal TdTs facilitate utilization of iron
or iron chelates from host-derived proteins, including transferrin (TbpA),
lactoferrin (LbpA), and hemoglobin (HpuB), in addition to xenosiderophores from
other bacteria (FetA). The roles of the remaining four uncharacterized TdTs
(TdfF, TdfG, TdfH, and TdfJ) remain elusive. Regulatory data demonstrating that
production of gonococcal TdfH and TdfJ are unresponsive to or upregulated under
iron-replete conditions led us to evaluate the role of these TdTs in the
acquisition of nutrients other than iron. In this study, we found that production
of gonococcal TdfH is both Zn and Zur repressed. We also found that TdfH confers
resistance to calprotectin, an immune effector protein highly produced in
neutrophils that has antimicrobial activity due to its ability to sequester Zn
and Mn. We found that TdfH directly binds calprotectin, which enables gonococcal
Zn accumulation in a TdfH-dependent manner and enhances bacterial survival after
exposure to neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). These studies highlight Zn
sequestration by calprotectin as a key functional arm of NET-mediated killing of
gonococci. We demonstrate for the first time that N. gonorrhoeae exploits this
host strategy in a novel defense mechanism, in which TdfH production hijacks and
directly utilizes the host protein calprotectin as a zinc source and thereby
evades nutritional immunity.