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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 178, Issue 5, Pages 3116-3125Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.5.3116
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [U01AI056395, R01AI028797] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 28797, AI 56395] Funding Source: Medline
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Mammals have four peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs or PGLYRPs), which are secreted innate immunity pattern recognition molecules with effector functions. In this study, we demonstrate that human PGLYRP-1, PGLYRP-3, PGLYRP-4, and. PGLYRP-3:4 have Zn2+-dependent bactericidal activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria at physiologic Zn2+ concentrations found in serum, sweat, saliva, and other body fluids. The requirement for Zn2+ can only be partially replaced by Ca2+ for killing of Gram-positive bacteria but not for killing of Gram-negative bacteria. The bactericidal activity of PGLYRPs is salt insensitive and requires N-glycosylation of PGLYRPs. The LD99 of PGLYRPs for Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria is 0.3-1.7 mu M, and killing of bacteria by PGLYRPs, in contrast to killing by antibacterial peptides, does not involve permeabilization of cytoplasmic membrane. PGLYRPs and antibacterial peptides (phospholipase A(2), alpha- and beta-defensins, and bactericidal permeability-increasing protein.), at subbactericidal concentrations, synergistically kill Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. These results demonstrate that PGLYRPs are a novel class of recognition and effector molecules with broad Zn2+-dependent bactericidal activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria that are synergistic with antibacterial peptides.
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