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First published online May 10, 2006
doi: 10.1242/10.1242/jcs.02911
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1 Inserm, U511, 91 Bd de l'Hôpital, F-75013 Paris, France
2 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91 Bd de l'Hôpital, F-75013 Paris, France
3 Inserm, U602, 14 Av Paul Vaillant Couturier, F-94807 Villejuif, France
4 Université Paris-Sud 11, 14 Av Paul Vaillant Couturier, F-94807 Villejuif, France
5 Institut André Lwoff, IFR 89, 7 rue Guy Môquet, F-94801 Villejuif, France
6 Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
7 University Medical Centre St Radboud, Department of Medical Microbiology, 6500HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
8 CNRS, UPR1983, 7 rue Guy Môquet, F-94801 Villejuif, France
* Authors for correspondence (e-mail: erubin{at}vjf.inserm.fr; silvie{at}ext.jussieu.fr)
Accepted 1 February 2006
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Key words: Tetraspanins, Microdomains, Cholesterol, Malaria, Plasmodium
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6ß1 and
3ß1 directly associate with CD151 but not with other tetraspanins (Serru et al., 1999
There are some lines of evidence indicating a role of tetraspanins during infection by pathogens. For instance, infection by some viruses can be specifically blocked by antibodies to certain tetraspanins, including human T cell leukemia virus 1 by anti-CD81 and anti-CD82 antibodies (Imai and Yoshie, 1993
), canine distemper virus and feline immunodeficiency virus by anti-CD9 antibodies (Loffler et al., 1997
; Willett et al., 1997
), and human immunodeficiency virus 1 by anti-CD63 antibodies (von Lindern et al., 2003
). Additionally, the tetraspanin CD81 is required for infection of hepatocytes by hepatitis C virus (HCV), and functions as a receptor for HCV envelope glycoprotein E2, at least for certain viral strains (Bartosch et al., 2003
; Pileri et al., 1998
; Zhang et al., 2004
). Recently, we reported that CD81 is also required for infection by Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for malaria. Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted by infected Anopheles mosquitoes, and first infect the host hepatocytes by forming a parasitophorous vacuole where they further differentiate into a replicative exo-erythrocytic form (EEF). We have shown that CD81 is required for invasion of hepatocytes by sporozoites of human malaria Plasmodium falciparum and rodent malaria Plasmodium yoelii parasites (Silvie et al., 2003
). Indeed, P. yoelii sporozoites fail to infect CD81-deficient mouse hepatocytes, and anti-CD81 antibodies inhibit P. yoelii and P. falciparum sporozoite invasion of hepatocytes. However, we found no evidence that CD81 interacts directly with Plasmodium sporozoites, suggesting that CD81 does not act as a receptor for the parasite but, rather, is involved indirectly (Silvie et al., 2003
).
The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanisms underlying tetraspanin microdomain assembly and to determine the functionality of these microdomains with respect to Plasmodium sporozoite invasion. So far, these aspects have remained poorly understood, primarily because of a lack of appropriate tools, including mAbs specific for microdomain-associated tetraspanins and reagents able to disrupt tetraspanin microdomains in live cells.
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integrin, CD9P-1 and EWI2. We selected two mAbs, MT81 and MT81w (for mouse tetraspanin CD81 `web'), which gave a pattern very similar to that of CD9, and clearly different from the pattern obtained with a mAb to
5 integrin, which does not associate with tetraspanins (Fig. 1). This pattern strongly suggested that MT81 and MT81w were anti-tetraspanin antibodies, and additional experiments demonstrated that MT81 and MT81w are both anti-mouse CD81 antibodies. First, MT81 and MT81w labeled the surface of embryonic fibroblasts from wild-type and CD9-deficient mice, but not from CD81-deficient mice (Fig. 2, upper panels). Second, MT81 and MT81w labeling of Hepa1-6 could be specifically knocked-down by siRNA-mediated silencing of CD81 (Fig. 2, middle panels). We were concerned that MT81 and MT81w could recognize a mouse molecule that associates with CD81 and the expression of which depends on the expression of CD81, as described for CD19 in B lymphoid cells (Shoham et al., 2003
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MT81w recognizes a subset of CD81 molecules associated with tetraspanin microdomains
As shown by flow cytometry analysis, the intensity of labeling with MT81w only reached 40-60%, depending on the experiment, of the intensity of labeling with MT81 on Hepa1-6 cells (Fig. 3), suggesting that MT81w may recognize only a subset of CD81 molecules. To further characterize this subset, we analyzed the ability of MT81w to immunoprecipitate CD81 from cell lysates made under different detergent conditions, using MT81 as a control anti-CD81 antibody. Western blot analysis of immunoprecipitates showed that MT81 could precipitate CD81 under all detergent conditions tested (Fig. 4A). By sharp contrast, MT81w was able to precipitate CD81 only from Brij 97 and CHAPS lysates, both detergents preserving tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions, but not from digitonin and Triton X-100 lysates (Fig. 4A). These latter conditions prevent tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions, as confirmed by the absence of CD81 in the CD9 immunoprecipitate, and reciprocally by the absence of CD9 in the CD81 immunoprecipitate. These results suggest that MT81w binds only to CD81 associated with other tetraspanins. To provide further evidence in favor of this hypothesis, we performed experiments where cells were lysed in 1% Brij 97 (to preserve tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions) followed by depletion of tetraspanin complexes by successive rounds of pre-clearing with the anti-CD9 mAb 4.1F12. Immunoprecipitation with MT81, MT81w and 4.1F12 were then performed and analyzed by western blot. Complete CD9 depletion was confirmed by the absence of CD9 in the lysates (Fig. 4B). Strikingly, CD9 depletion induced a dramatic reduction (
85%, as determined by densitometry) of CD81 recovered by MT81 (Fig. 4B, upper left panel). This indicates that in Hepa1-6 cells a major fraction of the CD81 molecules is engaged in tetraspanin microdomains. Moreover, CD9 depletion completely removed the pool of CD81 molecules recognized by MT81w (Fig. 4B, upper middle panel), confirming that MT81w essentially recognizes CD81 associated with tetraspanins in tetraspanin microdomains.
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CD81 localization into cell surface tetraspanin microdomains depends on cholesterol.
Since MT81w binds only to CD81 associated with other tetraspanins, this mAb constitutes a valuable tool not only to evaluate the level of association of CD81 on live cells, but also to dissect the mechanisms underlying tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions. We have previously shown that tetraspanins interact with cholesterol, as indicated by the labeling of the tetraspanins CD9, CD81 and CD82 with photoactivatable cholesterol and by precipitation of tetraspanins by digitonin, which forms insoluble complexes with cholesterol (Charrin et al., 2003c
). We performed digitonin-precipitation experiments in Hepa1-6 cells, using MT81w as a marker for CD81 association with tetraspanins. Treatment of Brij 97 lysates with digitonin resulted in a dramatic reduction in the amount of CD81 that could be recovered by MT81w in the soluble fraction, as compared with MT81, whereas immunoprecipitation of
5 integrin (used as a control) was not affected by digitonin precipitation (Fig. 5). This result, together with the fact that digitonin precipitates tetraspanins only under conditions preserving their mutual interaction (Charrin et al., 2003c
), shows that digitonin preferentially precipitates tetraspanins associated with each other, and supports the idea that association of tetraspanins with cholesterol is concomitant with the formation of tetraspanin-tetraspanin complexes.
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CD81 in tetraspanin-enriched microdomains supports infection by P. yoelii sporozoites
We have previously reported that hepatocyte CD81 is required for infection by P. falciparum and P. yoelii sporozoites (Silvie et al., 2003
). As shown in Fig. 7A, MT81w efficiently inhibited P. yoelii invasion of Hepa1-6 cells, which normally support P. yoelii sporozoite invasion and exoerythrocytic development (Mota and Rodriguez, 2000
), in a concentration-dependent manner (Fig. 7A). This shows that the fraction of CD81 associated with tetraspanin-enriched microdomains contributes to infection by P. yoelii sporozoites. However, MT81w was not as efficient as MT81 in blocking infection. MT81 could almost completely block sporozoite invasion (>95% inhibition), whereas MT81w induced a maximal inhibition of 60-70%. The blocking efficiency of MT81w was increased when cells were pretreated with MßCD-cholesterol complexes (Fig. 7B). Importantly, both mAbs also inhibited P. yoelii sporozoite invasion of primary mouse hepatocytes, with a similar efficiency to that seen with Hepa1-6 cells (data not shown).
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Host cell membrane cholesterol is necessary for P. yoelii and P. falciparum sporozoite invasion
If CD81 localization in tetraspanin microdomains is important for its function during hepatocyte infection by sporozoites, then cholesterol depletion should inhibit, to some extent, the level of infection, since as shown above it affects the organization of surface tetraspanin microdomains. Hepa1-6 cells were treated with MßCD prior to inoculation with P. yoelii sporozoites. MßCD treatment resulted in a reduction in the number of EEF-infected cells by 40-60% depending on the experiment (Fig. 9A). Interestingly, this inhibition was of the same magnitude as the reduction of MT81w binding following treatment with MßCD (Fig. 6B). Inhibition of infection was specifically due to cholesterol removal from the cell surface since it was completely reversed by cholesterol replenishment before sporozoite inoculation. Cholesterol removal was effective in preventing P. yoelii infection because of inhibition of sporozoite entry into MßCD-treated Hepa1-6 cells, as evidenced by counting intracellular sporozoites 3 hours after parasite inoculation (Fig. 9B). Interestingly, treatment of cells with MßCD-cholesterol complexes without prior cholesterol depletion enhanced infection (Fig. 9C). Furthermore, treatment of Hepa1-6 cells with MßCD or MßCD-cholesterol after completion of sporozoite invasion had no effect on infection (Fig. 9C), confirming that the host membrane cholesterol is required at the invasion step, and clearly demonstrating that MßCD is not toxic under the experimental conditions used here. We also tested the role of cholesterol during infection of primary mouse hepatocytes by P. yoelii sporozoites. As shown in Fig. 9D, cholesterol depletion by MßCD inhibited hepatocyte infection by P. yoelii sporozoites, and as seen with Hepa1-6 cells this effect was completely reversed by cholesterol replenishment before sporozoite inoculation.
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We have reported previously that invasion of hepatocytes by the human parasite P. falciparum can be specifically blocked by anti-CD81 but not anti-CD9 antibodies (Silvie et al., 2003
). To directly assess whether expression of CD81 is essential for P. falciparum infection, as for P. yoelii, we used RNA interference to knock-down CD81 expression in primary human hepatocytes in vitro. We could achieve
50% reduction of CD81 surface expression using a small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting CD81 (Fig. 10A). CD9 expression was not affected by the CD81 siRNA, showing the specificity of silencing. The reduced expression of CD81 led to an inhibition of P. falciparum sporozoite infection of the same magnitude (Fig. 10B). As a control, a siRNA targeting CD9 had no effect on infection, although it reduced by
40% the surface expression of CD9 (data not shown). Together, these results provide additional evidence for the specific role of CD81 during P. falciparum sporozoite invasion. We then analyzed the effects of MßCD-mediated cholesterol depletion on infection of primary human hepatocytes by P. falciparum sporozoites. As seen with P. yoelii, MßCD inhibited P. falciparum sporozoite invasion by up to 75%, and this effect was fully reversed by cholesterol replenishment of cholesterol-depleted hepatocytes (Fig. 10C), indicating a role for the host membrane cholesterol also in P. falciparum sporozoite infection.
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Cholesterol and CD81 are functionally linked during Plasmodium sporozoite infection
So far, our data demonstrate that, (1) CD81 molecules associated with the tetraspanin web participate in sporozoite invasion, (2) cholesterol contributes to the organization of tetraspanin microdomains on the cell surface and (3) both CD81 and cholesterol are required on the host cell surface for sporozoite infection. Taken together these observations suggest that cholesterol is required during sporozoite invasion through the assembly of tetraspanin microdomains and that the effects of cholesterol depletion on infection are due to the disorganization of these microdomains. To obtain further evidence that the role of cholesterol is linked to CD81 during sporozoite invasion, we tested the effect of cholesterol depletion on CD81-independent infection by the rodent parasite P. berghei. In contrast to P. yoelii, sporozoites from P. berghei can infect CD81-deficient mouse hepatocytes (Silvie et al., 2003
), as well as human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells (Hollingdale et al., 1983
), which do not express CD81 (Berditchevski et al., 1996
; Charrin et al., 2001
). As shown in Fig. 11A, MßCD treatment had no effect on P. berghei sporozoite invasion of HepG2 cells. To rule out a low efficiency of MßCD-mediated cholesterol depletion in HepG2 cells, we repeated the experiments using HepG2 cells stably expressing CD81 (HepG2/CD81), which support P. yoelii sporozoite invasion and exo-erythrocytic development (Silvie et al., in press). Infection of HepG2/CD81 cells by P. yoelii was inhibited by MßCD treatment, showing that MßCD is efficient in depleting cholesterol (Fig. 11B). Inhibition was fully reversed by cholesterol replenishment prior to sporozoite inoculation, confirming the specificity of MßCD effects. By contrast, P. berghei invasion of HepG2/CD81 was not affected by MßCD-mediated cholesterol depletion, as observed with the parental CD81-negative HepG2 cells (Fig. 11C). By showing that cholesterol is required only for sporozoite invasion through the CD81-dependent pathway, our results unravel a functional link between cholesterol and CD81 during Plasmodium sporozoite entry.
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Recently, it became evident that antibodies recognizing subpopulations of tetraspanin molecules could be useful to analyze the tetraspanin web, notably on live cells. For example, the binding of two anti-tetraspanin antibodies is modulated by the expression of molecular partners. The anti-CD151 mAb TS151r only binds to CD151 when it is not associated with
3ß1 or
6ß1 integrins (Kazarov et al., 2002
; Serru et al., 1999
; Sterk et al., 2002
), whereas the binding of the anti-CD9 mAb PAINS13 depends both on the expression of the integrin
6 subunit and on the activation of the ß1 integrin subunit (Gutierrez-Lopez et al., 2003
). Here, we describe a new anti-mouse CD81 mAb, named MT81w (for mouse tetraspanin CD81 `web'), which specifically recognizes CD81 associated with other tetraspanins. This is evidenced by the lack of recognition of CD81 after cell lysis with detergents that do not preserve tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions, and by the complete removal of the CD81 pool recognized by MT81w following immunodepletion of tetraspanin complexes. Additional studies will be required to determine the molecular basis of MT81w-restricted specificity. Even though the slope of MT81w binding curve is very similar to that of MT81, MT81w may be a low-affinity antibody that binds to CD81 bivalently, and thus would bind preferentially to CD81 molecules clustered within tetraspanin microdomains. Alternatively, MT81w may recognize an epitope on CD81 induced by CD81 localization within tetraspanin-enriched microdomains. This epitope may be induced as a consequence of the interaction with other tetraspanins or with cholesterol. It is very unlikely that MT81w could recognize CD81 associated with cholesterol outside tetraspanin-microdomains, because there is a tight correlation between association of tetraspanins with other tetraspanins and association with cholesterol (Charrin et al., 2003c
), and all the CD81 fraction recognized by MT81w is associated with CD9. Whatever the molecular basis for MT81w specificity is, our data demonstrate that this antibody is a valuable tool that can be used as a marker for CD81 association with the tetraspanin web. In this regard, we have found that a major fraction of CD81 associates with the tetraspanin web in mouse hepatoma Hepa1-6 cells, and also in primary mouse hepatocytes, where MT81w labeling was at 55-75% that of MT81 (data not shown). Conversely, MT81w labeling was lower in embryonic fibroblasts (30% of MT81, Fig. 2) and much lower in mouse fibroblastic LM cells (3% of MT81, data not shown). These observations suggest that a high level of CD81 engagement into the tetraspanin web may constitute a specific feature of hepatocytic cells as compared to other cell types.
Cholesterol and tetraspanin microdomains
Although membrane cholesterol directly associates with tetraspanins (Charrin et al., 2003c
), its role in the assembly of tetraspanin microdomains has remained unclear. Tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions (notably CD81-CD9) are not readily disrupted upon MßCD treatment of intact cells (Charrin et al., 2003b
; Charrin et al., 2003c
; Claas et al., 2001
). By contrast, cell lysis in the presence of MßCD results in a significant disruption of tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions (Charrin et al., 2003c
). Also, MßCD treatment strongly reduces the amount of tetraspanin complexes recovered in the light membrane fractions of sucrose gradients (Claas et al., 2001
; Delaguillaumie et al., 2004
). In one study, it was shown that this phenomenon can result from the shedding of tetraspanin microdomains from the cell membrane induced upon MßCD treatment (Claas et al., 2001
). Here, using MT81w as a marker for tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions, we provide clear evidence that the membrane cholesterol regulates the organization of cell surface tetraspanin microdomains. Indeed, the binding of MT81w to cells decreased after MßCD-mediated cholesterol depletion, and increased following cholesterol cell loading. Importantly, in our experimental conditions (using 10 mM MßCD, for 15 minutes at 37°C), there was no significant shedding of tetraspanin microdomains induced by MßCD, as evidenced by no reduction of surface expression of either CD9 or CD81. However, we noticed that increasing the concentration or the duration of MßCD treatment could eventually cause a reduction of surface expression of both CD81 and CD9 (up to 30%), which was not reversed by the back-addition of cholesterol and thus is consistent with a loss of tetraspanins from the plasma membrane.
The observation that MßCD directly affects cell surface tetraspanin microdomains, as evidenced by the reduction of MT81w labeling, without inducing major changes in tetraspanin-tetraspanin interactions observable by biochemical methods (Charrin et al., 2003c
; Claas et al., 2001
), may be explained by the existence of different levels of organization of tetraspanin microdomains (Claas et al., 2001
). On one level, tetraspanins may interact with each other through a mechanism that is not affected by MßCD treatment of live cells. This level of interaction is likely to involve membrane cholesterol since these complexes can be disrupted with a Brij 97 lysis buffer supplemented with MßCD (Charrin et al., 2003c
). We propose that on a second level these complexes cluster into higher order structures, through a mechanism affected by MßCD treatment of live cells. The existence of a MßCD-resistant level of interaction between tetraspanins would explain why the effect of MßCD on live cells is not detectable through biochemical approaches, but is uncovered using labeling with the mAb MT81w.
There are some lines of evidence suggesting that the MßCD-sensitive second level corresponds to a functional level of tetraspanin microdomain organization. In one study, MßCD treatment of B lymphoid cells was found to inhibit tyrosine phosphorylation induced upon ligation of tetraspanins, whereas, on the contrary, addition of cholesterol enhanced phosphorylation induced by tetraspanin engagement (Charrin et al., 2003c
). In another study, all functional effects linked to CD82 engagement were abolished or strongly reduced in MßCD-treated Jurkat T cells (Delaguillaumie et al., 2004
).
Tetraspanin microdomains and infection by intracellular pathogens
Previous studies have shown that the host membrane cholesterol is required for infection by erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium (Lauer et al., 2000
; Samuel et al., 2001
), and also by tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii, a distant relative of Plasmodium (Coppens and Joiner, 2003
). Interestingly, the parasitophorous vacuole membrane of Plasmodium erythrocytic stages and also Toxoplasma was found to be enriched in raft components (Lauer et al., 2000
; Mordue et al., 1999
), suggesting that these parasite stages may use conventional lipid rafts for cell entry. Here, we show that membrane cholesterol is also necessary during host cell infection by P. yoelii and P. falciparum sporozoites, as evidenced by the inhibition of infection resulting from cholesterol depletion induced by MßCD. Membrane cholesterol is needed for sporozoite invasion, as shown by the inhibition of P. yoelii sporozoite entry into MßCD-treated cells and by the absence of inhibition when cells were treated with MßCD after completion of invasion.
Several elements suggest that the effect of MßCD on sporozoite invasion is the consequence of an alteration of tetraspanin-enriched microdomains. First, MßCD affects the organization of tetraspanin microdomains, as judged by the reduction of MT81w binding. Interestingly, the inhibition of P. yoelii infection of Hepa1-6 cells was of the same magnitude as the reduction of MT81w binding. Also, addition of cholesterol induced a significant enhancement of both infection and MT81w binding, again showing a correlation between the level of CD81 engagement into microdomains and the level of infection. Second, our data demonstrate that CD81 in microdomains participates in infection, since the mAb MT81w, which only binds to CD81 associated with tetraspanins, inhibits P. yoelii infection. The lower inhibition achieved with saturating concentrations of MT81w, as compared with MT81, seems to conflict with an essential role of tetraspanin microdomains in the invasion process. However, it is noteworthy that MT81w does not recognize all the CD81 molecules present in the microdomains, as suggested by the difference between MT81w surface labeling (40-60% of total CD81 surface expression) and the level of CD81 association (
85%, as determined by the CD9 immunodepletion experiment). Therefore, the partial inhibition of infection achieved with MT81w is not inconsistent with a major, and possibly, exclusive role of microdomain-associated CD81 during sporozoite infection, since it could simply reflect the partial recognition of this fraction of CD81 by MT81w. The higher degree of inhibition of infection achieved with MT81w when cells are pretreated with MßCD-cholesterol complexes is consistent with this hypothesis. Also, the ability of palmitoylation-defective CD81 to support infection by P. yoelii does not preclude an essential role of tetraspanin microdomains in the invasion process since palmitoylation is not the only mechanism by which tetraspanins interact with each other (Berditchevski et al., 2002
; Charrin et al., 2002
; Yang et al., 2002
).
Although P. yoelii and P. berghei are closely related parasites behaving very similarly in most aspects of sporozoite biology, only P. yoelii requires CD81 to infect hepatocytes (Silvie et al., 2003
). The present study demonstrates that the two rodent parasites also display a differential requirement of host cell membrane cholesterol for invasion. By showing that cholesterol is required only in the case of CD81-dependent sporozoite infection, our results clearly indicate a functional link between CD81 and cholesterol, and strongly suggest that CD81 localization in tetraspanin microdomains is essential for sporozoite infection.
Additional studies will be required to elucidate the mechanisms involving tetraspanin microdomains during Plasmodium sporozoite invasion of hepatocytes. In the absence of evidence of a direct interaction between sporozoites and CD81, and given the ability of CD81 to associate with multiple proteins within the tetraspanin web, one can speculate that CD81 may actually associate with one or several hepatocyte receptors for the parasite. Previous studies have shown that association with tetraspanins up-regulates the ligand binding activity of partner proteins (Feigelson et al., 2003
; Iwamoto et al., 1994
; Lammerding et al., 2003
; Nishiuchi et al., 2005
). If CD81 associates with a receptor for Plasmodium, then CD81-dependent clustering of this receptor into tetraspanin microdomains could be essential to enable high avidity interactions with parasite ligands at the entry junction. Alternatively, CD81 engagement into microdomains may be essential for some signaling events required at the time of sporozoite invasion, or the host plasma membrane in tetraspanin microdomains may display specific structural properties required during the formation of the parasitophorous vacuole.
Interestingly, CD81 is a receptor for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) (Bartosch et al., 2003
; Pileri et al., 1998
; Zhang et al., 2004
), and recent reports have pointed to a role for cholesterol during host cell infection by HCV pseudoparticles (HCVpp). In one study, MßCD treatment of Huh-7 or Hep3B human hepatocarcinoma cells specifically inhibited infection by HCVpp (Zhang et al., 2004
). In another study, high-density lipoproteins (HDL) but not low-density lipoproteins (LDL) nor lipid-free HDL apolipoproteins were shown to markedly enhance HCVpp entry into Huh-7 cells, through a mechanism dependent on the scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) (Voisset et al., 2005
). In liver cells, SR-BI functions as a lipoprotein receptor responsible for the selective uptake of cholesteryl ester from HDL (Connelly and Williams, 2004
). Based on these observations, it will be interesting to see whether the clustering of CD81 into cholesterol-dependent microdomains is also essential for HCV infection.
In conclusion, our study demonstrates that membrane cholesterol mediates the localization of CD81 into tetraspanin-enriched microdomains and contributes to CD81-dependent infection by Plasmodium sporozoites. Thus, tetraspanin microdomains constitute a novel type of lipid-rich membrane microdomain that could be used by pathogens for infection. More generally, the cell membrane cholesterol has been shown to be essential in a number of biological processes, notably through the use of MßCD-induced cholesterol depletion. The fact that MßCD affects tetraspanin microdomains raises the possibility that some of these cholesterol-dependent processes may actually involve tetraspanin microdomains.
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5 integrin mAb MFR5 was from BD Pharmingen (Le Pont de Claix, France). For generation of MT81 and MT81w, a rat was injected intraperitoneally twice with 107 L-CD9 cells and a final booster was given 3 weeks later with CD9-containing complexes collected from a Brij 97 lysate of
109 L-CD9 cells. Spleen cells were fused with P3x63AG8 mouse myeloma cells to generate hybridomas according to standard techniques.
Plasmids
A human CD81 mutant lacking five cysteines representing potential palmitoylation sites (triple mutant) has been previously described (Clark et al., 2004
). A sixth cysteine, located in the second transmembrane domain of CD81, was mutated using the QuickChangeTM site-directed mutagenesis kit from Stratagene (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), according to the manufacturer's specifications, resulting in a CD81 mutant lacking all potential palmitoylation sites (CD81plm).
Parasites and cells
P. yoelii (265BY strain), P. berghei (ANKA strain) and P. falciparum (NF54 strain) sporozoites were obtained from dissection of infected Anopheles stephensi mosquito salivary glands. Mouse hepatoma cells Hepa1-6 (ATCC CRL-1830), human cervical carcinoma cells HeLa (ATCC CCL-2) and mouse fibroblastic LM cells stably expressing human CD9 (L-CD9) (Rubinstein et al., 1994
) were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Invitrogen, Cergy Pontoise, France) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS; Biowest, Nuaillé, France), 2 mM glutamine, 50 µg/ml penicillin, 50 µg/ml streptomycin and 100 µg/ml neomycin (Invitrogen). Human hepatocarcinoma cells HepG2 and HepG2 stably expressing CD81 (HepG2/CD81) (Bartosch et al., 2003
) were a kind gift from F. L. Cosset, and were cultured in DMEM supplemented as above, in culture dishes coated with rat tail collagen I (Becton-Dickinson, Le Pont de Claix, France). Primary mouse hepatocytes were isolated as described previously (Renia et al., 1990
) and cultured in William's E medium (Invitrogen) supplemented as above. Primary human hepatocytes were isolated and cultured as described previously (Silvie et al., 2004
). Mouse embryonic fibroblasts were generated from E15 embryos from wild-type, CD9 (Le Naour et al., 2000
) and CD81 (Maecker and Levy, 1997
) knockout mice, according to a previously described procedure (Wurst and Joyner, 1993
).
Sporozoite invasion assay
Hepa1-6 or HepG2 cells (15x104 per well), or primary mouse (9x104 per well) or human (18x104 per well) hepatocytes were seeded in 8-chamber plastic Lab-Tek slides (Nalge Nunc International, Cergy Pontoise, France), 24-48 hours (except for human hepatocytes, 3-7 days) prior to inoculation with sporozoites (1x105 parasites per well, except for P. berghei, 3x104 parasites per well). After 3 hours at 37°C, cultures were washed and further incubated in fresh medium for 24-48 hours (P. yoelii and P. berghei) or 72 hours (P. falciparum) before quantification of infected cells (containing an EEF in their cytoplasm) in triplicate wells by immunofluorescence, as described previously (Silvie et al., 2003
). Quantification of intracellular sporozoites was carried out 3 hours post-infection using a double immunostaining technique (Silvie et al., 2002
). For antibody-mediated inhibition assays, mAbs (25 µg/ml, unless otherwise stated) were added to the cultures at the time of sporozoite inoculation and removed 3 hours later. Inhibition results were analyzed for statistical significance using the one-way ANOVA followed by the Tukey multiple comparison test.
Immunofluorescence labeling
For flow cytometric analysis, cells were detached using a non-enzymatic solution (Invitrogen), washed and stained with saturating concentrations (unless otherwise specified) of primary mAb. After washes in culture medium, cells were incubated with 10 µg/ml FITC-labeled secondary antibody (Beckman Coulter, Villepinte, France), washed again three times and fixed with 1% formaldehyde in PBS. All incubations were performed for 30 minutes at 4°C. Analysis of cell-surface staining was performed using a FACScalibur flow cytometer (Becton-Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA). For fluorescence microscopy, cells were fixed in paraformaldehyde and incubated with anti-CD9 mAb 4.1F12 coupled to Alexa Fluor 488 and biotin-conjugated MT81 or MT81w followed by incubation with streptavidin-Alexa Fluor 594, before examination with a Leica DMR fluorescence microscope equipped with an appropriate set of filters.
Small interfering RNA and plasmid transfection
We used small double stranded RNA oligonucleotides targeting mouse CD81 (5'-CGT GTC ACC TTC AAC TGT A-3'), mouse CD9 (5'-GAG CAT CTT CGA GCA AGA GAA-3'), human CD81 (5'-CAC GTC GCC TTC AAC TGT A-3') or human CD9 (5'-GAG CAT CTT CGA GCA AGA A-3'). A siRNA oligonucleotide targeting human CD53 (5'-CAA CTT CGG AGT GCT CTT C-3') was used as a control siRNA throughout the study. Hepa1-6 cells (5-10x106 cells in 400 µl RPMI) were transfected with 200 pmol of siRNA by electroporation (Weil et al., 2002
) using the Gene Pulser apparatus (Bio-Rad, Ivry, France). Human hepatocytes were transfected with siRNA using the Lipofectamine 2000 reagent (Invitrogen), according to the manufacturer's recommendations. Following siRNA transfection, cells were cultured for 48 hours before flow cytometry analysis or sporozoite infection. Plasmid transfections were performed using the Lipofectamine 2000 reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's specifications.
Immunoprecipitation
Surface labeling of cells with EZ-link-Sulpho-NHS-LC-biotin (Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA) was performed as described previously (Charrin et al., 2001
). Biotin-labeled and non-labeled cells were lysed at 4°C for 30 minutes in 10 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 0.02% NaN3, protease inhibitors and either 1% Brij 97 (Sigma), 1% digitonin (high purity; Calbiochem, San Diego, CA, USA), 1% CHAPS (Roche Applied Science, Meylan, France) or 1% Triton X-100 (Roche Applied Science). Immunoprecipitations were then performed using protein G-Sepharose beads (Amersham Biosciences, Rainham, Essex, UK), as described previously (Berditchevski et al., 1996
; Charrin et al., 2001
). For precipitation of cholesterol with digitonin, a 1/10th volume of 10% digitonin in methanol, or methanol as a control, was added to the Brij 97 supernatants. After 30 minutes at 4°C, the insoluble material was removed by centrifugation at 12,000 g, and the supernatant was used for immunoprecipitation as above. The immunoprecipitates were separated by SDS-PAGE (5-15% gel) under non-reducing conditions and transferred to a PVDF membrane (Amersham Biosciences). Biotin-labeled surface proteins were revealed using streptavidin-biotinylated horseradish peroxidase complex (Amersham Biosciences) revealed by enhanced chemiluminescence (Perkin Elmer Life Sciences, Zaventem, Belgium). Western blotting on immunoprecipitates was performed using biotinylated mAbs, followed by streptavidin-biotinylated horseradish peroxidase complex and visualization by enhanced chemiluminescence.
Cholesterol depletion
Cholesterol depletion was carried out by incubating cell monolayers with 10 mM methyl-ß-cyclodextrin (MßCD; Sigma) in serum-free medium at 37°C for 15 minutes, as described previously (Charrin et al., 2003c
). Treatment with MßCD removed
40% of the cholesterol content of Hepa1-6 cells, as determined using the Amplex Red cholesterol kit (Invitrogen-Molecular Probes) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Cholesterol replenishment of cholesterol-depleted cells was achieved by incubating monolayers with 1:10 (mol/mol) complex of cholesterol (Sigma) and MßCD, using a 1 mM final cholesterol concentration, in serum-free medium at 37°C for 15 minutes as described previously (Charrin et al., 2003c
).
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Present address: Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Cellulaire des Lymphocytes, 28 rue du docteur Roux, F-75015 Paris, France.
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