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MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 4, Pages 392-398Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2010.07.018
Keywords
rYopJ; Toll-like receptor; Apoptosis; Yersinia pestis
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- Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), New Delhi
- UGC
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Bacterial species evolved evasive maneuvers to bypass their recognition by the receptors primarily TLRs of the innate immune cells. We have reported that 3 mu g/ml of recombinant YopJ when provided extracellularly induced apoptosis in murine peritoneal macrophages in vitro. The present investigations demonstrate the role of TLR2 in apoptotic signals induced by rYopJ protein in murine peritoneal macrophages. The role of TLR2 in rYopJ induced macrophage apoptosis was shown by neutralization experiments and its co-immunoprecipitation with downstream molecule MyD88. The observed functional consequence of TLR2 neutralization were the inhibition of caspase-8 and caspase-3 activation, change in mitochondrial membrane potential (Delta psi m) and DNA fragmentation induced by rYopJ in macrophages. Further, rYopJ induced enhanced expression of IRAK-4, FADD, phosphorylation of I kappa B and p38 MAP kinase in macrophages. Pharmacological inhibitor of p38 MAP kinase and neutralization of TLR2 with neutralizing antibodies significantly inhibited the rYopJ induced caspases activation and DNA fragmentation, suggesting the possible involvement of TLR2 and p38 MAP kinase in rYopJ induced macrophages apoptosis. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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