Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages 1179-1189Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00600.x
Keywords
antigen processing; innate immunity; lysosomal targeting
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R37-AI023081] Funding Source: Medline
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Gamma interferon-induced lysosomal thiolreductase (GILT) is expressed constitutively in antigen-presenting cells, where it reduces disulfide bonds to facilitate antigen presentation. GILT is synthesized as an enzymatically active precursor protein and is processed in early endosomes to yield the mature enzyme. The exposure of the promonocytic cell line THP-1 to Escherichia coli causes a differentiation-dependent induction of GILT expression in which the majority of precursor GILT is secreted as active enzyme. We confirm this result in cultured primary monocytes and macrophages, and demonstrate, as an in vivo correlate of the phenomenon, upregulation of precursor GILT levels in the serum of mice injected with lipopolysaccharide. We show that macrophage differentiation is accompanied by a transcriptional downregulation of man nose-6-phosphorylation, which likely prevents the recognition and proper sorting of soluble lysosomal enzymes by the mannose-6-phosphate receptors. We provide evidence for a mechanism of generalized soluble lysosomal enzyme secretion through the constitutive secretory pathway.
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