Phagosomal degradation increases TLR access to bacterial ligands and enhances macrophage sensitivity to bacteria
Autor: | Andrea Arruda, Moshe Arditi, David M. Underhill, Takahiro Shimada, George Y. Liu, Amber T. Kaplan, Kenichi Shimada, Andrea J. Wolf, Christopher N. Reyes |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Staphylococcus aureus
Immunology Ligands Polymerase Chain Reaction Article Microbiology chemistry.chemical_compound Mice Immune system Phagocytosis Phagosomes Immunology and Allergy Macrophage Animals Receptor Phagosome Inflammation Mice Knockout Innate immune system biology Macrophages Toll-Like Receptors Staphylococcal Infections biology.organism_classification Immunity Innate TLR2 chemistry Peptidoglycan Bacteria Signal Transduction |
Zdroj: | Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 187(11) |
ISSN: | 1550-6606 |
Popis: | Signaling by innate immune receptors initiates and orchestrates the overall immune responses to infection. Macrophage receptors recognizing pathogens can be broadly grouped into surface receptors and receptors restricted to intracellular compartments, such as phagosomes and the cytoplasm. There is an expectation that ingestion and degradation of microorganisms by phagocytes contributes to activation of intracellular innate receptors, although direct demonstrations of this are rare, and many model ligands are studied in soluble form, outside of their microbial context. By comparing a wild-type strain of Staphylococcus aureus and a lysozyme-sensitive mutant, we have been able directly to address the role of degradation of live bacteria by mouse macrophages in determining the overall innate cellular inflammatory response. Our investigations revealed a biphasic response to S. aureus that consisted of an initial signal resulting from the engagement of surface TLR2, followed by a later, second wave on inflammatory gene induction. This second wave of inflammatory signaling was dependent on and correlated with the timing of bacterial degradation in phagosomes. We found that TLR2 signaling followed by TLR2/TLR9 signaling enhanced sensitivity to small numbers of bacteria. We further found that treating wild-type bacteria with the peptidoglycan synthesis-inhibiting antibiotic vancomycin made S. aureus more susceptible to degradation and resulted in increased inflammatory responses, similar to those observed for mutant degradation-sensitive bacteria. |
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