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 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Amyloid
Cancer Research MICROBIO Protein subunit Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II Peptide Inflammation Biology Microbiology Article Mice Bacterial Proteins Sepsis Immunology and Microbiology(all) Virology medicine Animals Receptor Molecular Biology Cells Cultured chemistry.chemical_classification Toll-like receptor Amyloid beta-Peptides Microglia Gene Expression Profiling Macrophages Peptide Fragments Toll-Like Receptor 2 TLR2 medicine.anatomical_structure Amino Acid Substitution chemistry Mutagenesis Site-Directed Female Parasitology medicine.symptom |
| Zdroj: | Cell Host & Microbe. 6:45-53 |
| ISSN: | 1931-3128 |
| 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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