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Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle
- Source :
- The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Rockefeller University Press, 2009.
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Abstract
- Tuberculosis remains a fatal disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which contains various unique components that affect the host immune system. Trehalose-6,6′-dimycolate (TDM; also called cord factor) is a mycobacterial cell wall glycolipid that is the most studied immunostimulatory component of M. tuberculosis. Despite five decades of research on TDM, its host receptor has not been clearly identified. Here, we demonstrate that macrophage inducible C-type lectin (Mincle) is an essential receptor for TDM. Heat-killed mycobacteria activated Mincle-expressing cells, but the activity was lost upon delipidation of the bacteria; analysis of the lipid extracts identified TDM as a Mincle ligand. TDM activated macrophages to produce inflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide, which are completely suppressed in Mincle-deficient macrophages. In vivo TDM administration induced a robust elevation of inflammatory cytokines in sera and characteristic lung inflammation, such as granuloma formation. However, no TDM-induced lung granuloma was formed in Mincle-deficient mice. Whole mycobacteria were able to activate macrophages even in MyD88-deficient background, but the activation was significantly diminished in Mincle/MyD88 double-deficient macrophages. These results demonstrate that Mincle is an essential receptor for the mycobacterial glycolipid, TDM.
- Subjects :
- Lung Diseases
medicine.medical_treatment
Immunology
Biology
Ligands
Proinflammatory cytokine
chemistry.chemical_compound
Mice
Glycolipid
Immune system
C-type lectin
medicine
Immunology and Allergy
Macrophage
Animals
Lectins, C-Type
Cord factor
Granuloma
Receptors, IgG
Brief Definitive Report
Membrane Proteins
Macrophage Activation
Trehalose dimycolate
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Cytokine
chemistry
Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
Cord Factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00221007
- Volume :
- 206
- Issue :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68bbc804a23d22a58b8af78c556f3f5b