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BLOOD
Volume 107, Issue 9, Pages 3727-3732Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-06-2259
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA82515] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI48694] Funding Source: Medline
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Hepcidin is an antimicrobial peptide secreted by the liver during inflammation that plays a central role in mammalian iron homeostasis. Here we demonstrate the endogenous expression of hepcidin by macrophages and neutrophils in vitro and in vivo. These myeloid cell types produced hepcidin in response to bacterial pathogens in a toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-dependent fashion. Conversely, bacterial stimulation of macrophages triggered a TLR4-dependent reduction in the iron exporter ferroportin. In vivo, intraperitoneal challenge with Pseudomonas aeruginosa induced TLR4-dependent hepcidin expression and iron deposition in splenic macrophages, findings mirrored in subcutaneous infection with group A Streptococcus where hepcidin induction was further observed in neutrophils migrating to the tissue site of infection. Hepcidin expression in cultured hepatocytes or in the livers of mice infected with bacteria was independent of TLR4, suggesting the TLR4-hepcidin pathway is restricted to myeloid cell types. Our findings identify enclogenous myeloid cell hepcidin production as a previously unrecognized component of the host response to bacterial pathogens.
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