| Literature DB >> 15944308 |
Lauren A Zenewicz1, Zhengyu Wei, Howard Goldfine, Hao Shen.
Abstract
Phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipases (PI-PLCs) are virulence factors produced by many pathogenic bacteria, including Bacillus anthracis and Listeria monocytogenes. Bacillus PI-PLC differs from Listeria PI-PLC in that it has strong activity for cleaving GPI-anchored proteins. Treatment of murine DCs with Bacillus, but not Listeria, PI-PLC inhibited dendritic cell (DC) activation by TLR ligands. Infection of mice with Listeria expressing B. anthracis PI-PLC resulted in a reduced Ag-specific CD4 T cell response. These data indicate that B. anthracis PI-PLC down-modulates DC function and T cell responses, possibly by cleaving GPI-anchored proteins important for TLR-mediated DC activation.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15944308 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.8011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Immunol ISSN: 0022-1767 Impact factor: 5.422