Journal
SHOCK
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 612-619Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000000349
Keywords
Pneumonia; innate immunity; cytokine; lipopolysaccharide-binding protein; alveolar macrophage
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [K08-GM078610, RO1-GM029507, RO1-GM061656]
- American College of Surgeons
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
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Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) is upregulated as part of the acute-phase response. Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein has a known multifunctional role in potentiating the recognition, clearance, and killing of gram-negative bacteria. In a Klebsiella pneumonia model, we previously demonstrated that LBP gene-deficient mice (LBP-/-) mice experience increased mortality when compared with wild-type (Wt) mice (98% vs. 59%). We hypothesize that LBP is essential to bacterial clearance from the lung, and its absence leads to alteration of the pulmonary inflammatory response to pneumonia. Twelve-to 16-week-old female C57Bl/6 Wt mice and age-matched LBP-/- mice were administered 1 x 10(3) colony-forming units of Klebsiella pneumoniae by intratracheal injection. Animals were euthanized at 6, 12, 24, or 36 h after inoculation. Lung tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage samples were obtained. Lung homogenate samples were assayed to determine quantitative bacterial load per whole lung, proinflammatory cytokine concentrations, myeloperoxidase activity, and assessment of pulmonary leukocyte populations. In vitro production of inflammatory mediators were also assayed after LPS stimulation of peritoneal macrophages isolated from Wt, Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-deficient, and LBP-/- mice. The LBP-/- mice demonstrated significantly elevated levels of bacteria in the lung at 24 and 36 h when compared with Wt controls. The average lung levels of proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), IL-6, keratinocyte-derived chemokine, and macrophage-inflammatory protein-2 were greater in the LBP-/- mice and remained elevated longer when compared with those in the Wt mice. Myeloperoxidase activity, an indicator of neutrophil content, was significantly increased at time 36 h in the LBP-/- mice. After in vitro stimulation of peritoneal macrophages with LPS, production of IL-1 beta, IL-6, IL-10, keratinocyte-derived chemokine, and macrophage-inflammatory protein-1 alpha were suppressed in LBP-/- and TLR4-deficient mice compared with that in Wt. Absence of a functional LBP gene results in diminished clearance of gram-negative bacteria from the pulmonary system. Failure to recognize and clear gram-negative bacteria via the LBP/TLR4 axis results in an initial delayed inflammatory response. This delay in LBP-/- mice is followed by excessive amplification and prolonged elevation of proinflammatory mediators and neutrophil sequestration within the lungs.
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