Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8978134 | Developmental & Comparative Immunology | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Immunocytes, which include antigen-presenting cells, B cells, natural killer cells and neutrophils, can be stimulated directly or indirectly with bacterial DNA and synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) with different structures and sequences. In the present study, we investigated the effect of synthetic ODNs on the respiratory burst of dolphin neutrophils using a chemiluminescence assay. Phosphorothioate (PS)-ODNs dose-dependently induced the respiratory burst, while phosphodiester (PO)-ODNs did not, regardless of CpG-content. The PS-ODN-induced activity was completely abolished by the flavoprotein inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium, which indicates that the NADPH-oxidase is activated by PS-ODNs. These results reveal that PS-ODNs induce dolphin neutrophil NADPH-oxidase activation in a CpG motif-independent but phosphorothioate-dependent manner.
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Authors
Takuya Itou, Tomoko Endo, Takeo Sakai, Anna Karlsson, L. Vincent Collins,