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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 6, Pages 4208-4218Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.6.4208
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- Ministry of Education, Culture. Science, and Technology of the Japanese Government
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Cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) caused septic peritonitis in wild-type (WT) mice, with similar to 33% mortality within 7 days after the procedure. Concomitantly, the protein level of intraperitoneal CX3CL1/fractalkine was increased, with infiltration by CX3CR1-expressing macrophages into the peritoneum. CLP induced 75% mortality in CX3CR1-deficient (CX3CR1(-/-)) mice, which, however, exhibited a similar degree of intraperitoneal leukocyte infiltration as WT mice. Despite this, CX3CR1(-/-) mice exhibited impairment in intraperitoneal bacterial clearance, together with a reduction in the expression of intraperitoneal inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and bactericidal proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and IL-12, compared with WT mice. Bactericidal ability of peritoneal phagocytes such as neutrophils and macrophages was consistently attenuated in CX3CR1(-/-) mice compared with WT mice. Moreover, when WT macrophages were stimulated in vitro with CX3CL1, their bactericidal activity was augmented in a dose-dependent manner, with enhanced iNOS gene expression and subsequent NO generation. Furthermore, CX3CL1 enhanced the gene expression of IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and IL-12 by WT macrophages with NF-kappa B activation. Thus, CX3CL1-CX3CR1 interaction is crucial for optimal host defense against bacterial infection by activating bacterial killing functions of phagocytes, and by augmenting iNOS-mediated NO generation and bactericidal proinflammatory cytokine production mainly through the NF-kappa B signal pathway, with few effects on macrophage infiltration.
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