Responses to Amyloids of Microbial and Host Origin Are Mediated through Toll-like Receptor 2

Autor: R. Paul Wilson, Milad Pezeshki, Jessalyn H. Nishimori, Brett A. Chromy, Andreas J. Bäumler, Çagla Tükel
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Cell Host & Microbe. 6:45-53
ISSN: 1931-3128
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2009.05.020
Popis: SummaryCurli fibrils are proteinaceous bacterial structures formed by amyloid fibrils composed of the major curli subunit CsgA. Like β-amyloid 1–42, which is associated with brain inflammation and Alzheimer's disease, curli fibrils have been implicated in the induction of host inflammatory responses. However, the underlying mechanisms of amyloid-induced inflammation are not fully understood. In a mouse sepsis model, we show that curli fibrils contributed to Nos2 expression, a hallmark of inflammation, by stimulating Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2. The TLR2 agonist activity was reduced by an amyloidogenicity-lowering amino acid substitution (N122A) in CsgA. Amyloid-forming synthetic peptides corresponding to β-amyloid 1–42 or CsgA 111–151 stimulated Nos2 production in macrophages and microglia cells through a TLR2-dependent mechanism. This activity was abrogated when an N122A substitution was introduced into the synthetic CsgA peptide. The induction of TLR2-mediated responses by bacterial and eukaryotic amyloids may explain the inflammation associated with amyloids and the resulting pathologies.
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