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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 287, Issue 6, Pages 4323-4334Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.295113
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- National Health Research Institutes [99A1-CSPP09-014]
- National Science Council of Taiwan [98-2320-B-400-007-MY3]
- National Tsing Hua University
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CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG ODN) cellular uptake into endosomes, the rate-limiting step of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) signaling, is critical in eliciting innate immune responses. ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6) is a member of the Ras superfamily, which is critical to a wide variety of cellular events including endocytosis. Here, we found that inhibition of ARF6 by dominant mutants and siRNA impaired CpG ODN-mediated responses, whereas cells expressing the constitutively active ARF6 mutant enhanced CpG ODN-induced cytokine production. Inhibition of ARF6 impaired TLR9 trafficking into endolysosomes, thereby inhibiting proceed functional cleavage of TLR9. Additional studies showed that CpG ODN uptake was increased in ARF6-activated cells but impaired in ARF6-defective cells. Furthermore, cells pretreated with CpG ODN but not GpC ODN had increased CpG ODN uptake due to CpG ODN-induced ARF6 activity. Further studies with ARF6-defective and ARF6-activated cells demonstrated that class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3K) was required for downstream ARF6 regulation of CpG ODN uptake. Together, our findings demonstrate that a novel class III PI3K-ARF6 axis pathway mediates TLR9 signaling by regulating the cellular uptake of CpG ODN.
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