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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-23
pubmed:abstractText
The current model of innate immune recognition of Gram-positive bacteria suggests that the bacterial cell wall interacts with host recognition proteins such as TLRs and Nod proteins. We describe an additional recognition system mediated by the platelet-activating factor receptor (PAFr) and directed to the pathogen-associated molecular pattern phosphorylcholine that results in the uptake of bacterial components into host cells. Intravascular choline-containing cell walls bound to endothelial cells and caused rapid lethality in wild-type, Tlr2(-/-), and Nod2(-/-) mice but not in Pafr(-/-) mice. The cell wall exited the vasculature into the heart and brain, accumulating within endothelial cells, cardiomyocytes, and neurons in a PAFr-dependent way. Physiological consequences of the cell wall/PAFr interaction were cell specific, being noninflammatory in endothelial cells and neurons but causing a rapid loss of cardiomyocyte contractility that contributed to death. Thus, PAFr shepherds phosphorylcholine-containing bacterial components such as the cell wall into host cells from where the response ranges from quiescence to severe pathophysiology.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
177
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6182-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Cell Wall, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Gram-Positive Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Immunity, Innate, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Mice, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Phosphorylcholine, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Pneumococcal Infections, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Streptococcus pneumoniae, pubmed-meshheading:17056547-Toll-Like Receptor 2
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Platelet-activating factor receptor and innate immunity: uptake of gram-positive bacterial cell wall into host cells and cell-specific pathophysiology.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article