| Literature DB >> 24248369 |
Poonam Rath1, Chengdong Huang, Tao Wang, Tianzhi Wang, Huilin Li, Rafael Prados-Rosales, Olivier Elemento, Arturo Casadevall, Carl F Nathan.
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) restrains immune responses well enough to escape eradication but elicits enough immunopathology to ensure its transmission. Here we provide evidence that this host-pathogen relationship is regulated in part by a cytosolic, membrane-associated protein with a unique structural fold, encoded by the Mtb gene rv0431. The protein acts by regulating the quantity of Mtb-derived membrane vesicles bearing Toll-like receptor 2 ligands, including the lipoproteins LpqH and SodC. We propose that rv0431 be named "vesiculogenesis and immune response regulator."Entities:
Keywords: TLR2; macrophages
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24248369 PMCID: PMC3856836 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320118110
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205