Journal
BIO-PROTOCOL
Volume 8, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
BIO-PROTOCOL
DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2926
Keywords
Toll-like receptor; TLR; TLR4; CD14; Endocytosis; Macrophage; BMDM; Innate immunity; LPS
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- National Institutes of Health [GM108989, 5T32GM007055-41]
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After recognizing extracellular bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-CD14 signaling complex initiates two distinct signaling pathways-one from the plasma membrane and the other from the signaling endosomes (Kagan et al., 2008). Understanding the early stages of TLR4 signal transduction therefore requires a robust and quantitative method to measure LPStriggered TLR4 and CD14 receptor endocytosis, one of the earliest events of LPS detection. Here, we describe a flow cytometry-based method that we used recently to study the role of the ion channel TRPM7 in TLR4 endocytosis (Schappe et al., 2018). The assay relies on stimulating the cells with LPS and measuring the cell surface levels of TLR4 (or CD14) at various time points using flow cytometry. Although we detail the method specifically for TLR4 and CD14 from murine bone marrow-derived macrophages, it can be readily adapted to evaluate receptor endocytosis in a variety of other signaling contexts.
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