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Katherine S Lee1, Charles A Scanga, Eric M Bachelder, Quanyi Chen, Clifford M Snapper.
Abstract
We previously demonstrated that induction of splenic cytokine and chemokine secretion in response to Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pn) is MyD88-, but not critically TLR2-dependent, suggesting a role for additional TLRs. In this study, we investigated the role of TLR2, TLR4, and/or TLR9 in mediating this response. We show that a single deficiency in TLR2, TLR4, or TLR9 has only modest, selective effects on cytokine and chemokine secretion, whereas substantial defects were observed in TLR2(-/-)xTLR9(-/-) and TLR2(-/-)xTLR4(-/-) mice, though not as severe as in MyD88(-/-) mice. Chloroquine, which inhibits the function of intracellular TLRs, including TLR9, completely abrogated detectable cytokine and chemokine release in spleen cells from TLR2(-/-)xTLR4(-/-) mice, similar to what is observed for mice deficient in MyD88. These data demonstrate significant synergy between TLR2 and both TLR4 and TLR9 for induction of the MyD88-dependent splenic cytokine and chemokine response to Pn.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17521621 PMCID： PMC2691573 DOI： 10.1016/j.cellimm.2007.04.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Immunol ISSN： 0008-8749 Impact factor: 4.868