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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 514-522Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.1.514-522.2005
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI52439, AI56979, R01 AI052439, R01 AI056979] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI052439, R01AI056979] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Previous studies in our laboratory have shown a differential activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in primary bone marrow-derived macrophages following infection with pathogenic Mycobacterium avium compared to the activation following infection with nonpathogenic Mycobacterium smegmatis. Additionally, M. smegmatis-infected macrophages produced significantly elevated levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) compared to the levels produced by M. avium-infected macrophages. The TNF-alpha production was dependent on both p38 and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK 1/2) activation. However, the macrophage transcription factors downstream of the MAPKs, which were required for TNF-alpha production, remained undefined. In this study we determined that the transcription factor cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) is significantly more activated in M. smegmatis-infected macrophages than in M. avium-infected macrophages. We also found that CREB activation was dependent on p38 and protein kinase A but not on ERK 1/2 or calmodulin kinase H. Moreover, mutating the cAMP-responsive element on the TNF-a promoter resulted in significantly diminished promoter activity following M. smegmatis infection but not M. avium infection. The inability of macrophages infected with M. avium to sustain MAPK activation and to produce high levels of TNF-alpha was due, in part, to an increase in serine/threonine phosphatase PP2A activity. Our studies are the first to demonstrate an important role for the transcription factor CREB in TNF-alpha production by mycobacterium-infected macrophages, as well as a role for M. avium's induction of PP2A phosphatase activity as a mechanism to limit macrophage activation.
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