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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 1166-1167Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST0351166
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bacterial meningitis; brain abscess; lipoteichoic acid; microglia; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation
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Gram-positive bacterial infections of the central nervous system, such as meningitis, induce an extensive inflammatory response, which in turn may damage neurons. LTA (lipoteichoic acid) is a component of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall that induces glial inflammatory activation in vitro and in vivo. it does so by binding to Toll-like receptor-2 on microglia and astrocytes, rapidly activating ERK1/2 (extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 1/2) and p38 MAPKs (mitogen-activated protein kinases), causing NF-kappa B (nuclear factor kappa B) activation and leading to the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (in synergy with muramyl dipeptide). LTA-activated microglia kill co-cultured neurons apparently via nitric oxide, superoxide and peroxynitrite, which may induce apoptosis of neurons that are then phagocytosed by microglia.
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