Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9425408 | Neuroscience | 2005 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Between one-third and one-half of all cases of sepsis are known to be caused by gram-positive microorganisms through the cell wall component, e.g. lipoteichoic acid (LTA). Gram-positive bacteria are also known to induce encephalomyelitis and meningeal inflammation, and enhance the production of nitric oxide (NO) via expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in murine tissue macrophages. It remains to be explored if LTA could activate microglia considered to be resident brain macrophages. We report here that LTA derived from gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) significantly induces NO release and iNOS expression in primary microglia. LTA-induced NO accumulation was detected at 2 h in microglial culture and was significantly attenuated by pretreatment with anti-CD14, complement receptor type 3 (CR3) or scavenger receptor (SR) antibodies. LTA activated mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) such as extracellular signal-regulated kinase, p38 MAPK or c-Jun N-terminal kinase in cultured microglia. LTA-elicited microglial NO production was also drastically suppressed by SB203580 (p38 MAPK inhibitor) or pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (an inhibitor of nuclear factor κB), indicating that p38 MAPK and nuclear factor κB were involved in microglial NO release after LTA challenge. These results suggest that gram-positive bacterial product such as LTA can activate microglia to release NO via the signal transduction pathway involving multiple LTA receptors (e.g. CD14, CR3 or SR), p38 MAPK and nuclear factor κB. The in vivo study further confirmed that administered intracerebrally LTA induced considerable noticeable iNOS, phospho-IκB and phospho-p38 MAPK expression in microglia/macrophages.
Keywords
NF-κBnuclear factor-κ BTNFtris-buffer salinePDTCCR3LTAIKKTLRIκBDAPIiNOSERKTBSHEPESFITCLPSEGTAJnk4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acidc-Jun N-terminal kinaseMAPKsEDTAStaphylococcus aureuslipoteichoic acidExotoxinToll-like receptorpyrrolidine dithiocarbamateinducible nitric oxide synthaseSignalingtumor necrosis factorfluorescein isothiocyanatelipopolysaccharidebrain macrophagecomplement receptor type 3Nitric oxideextracellular signal-regulated kinasemitogen-activated protein kinasesScavenger receptor
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Authors
H.F. Chien, K.Y. Yeh, Y.F. Jiang-Shieh, I.H. Wei, C.Y. Chang, M.L. Chang, C.H. Wu,