Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Salmonella Typhimurium reprograms macrophage metabolism via T3SS effector SopE2 to promote intracellular replication and virulence

  • Lingyan Jiang,
  • Peisheng Wang,
  • Xiaorui Song,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Shuangshuang Ma,
  • Jingting Wang,
  • Wanwu Li,
  • Runxia Lv,
  • Xiaoqian Liu,
  • Shuai Ma,
  • Jiaqi Yan,
  • Haiyan Zhou,
  • Di Huang,
  • Zhihui Cheng,
  • Chen Yang,
  • Lu Feng,
  • Lei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21186-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Salmonella Typhimurium establishes systemic infection by replicating in host macrophages. Here, Jiang et al. show that infected macrophages exhibit upregulated glycolysis and decreased serine synthesis, leading to accumulation of glycolytic intermediates that promote intracellular replication and virulence of S. Typhimurium.