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Modulation of outer membrane vesicle-based immune responses by cathelicidins

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VACCINE
卷 40, 期 16, 页码 2399-2408

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.03.015

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Outer Membrane Vesicles; Host Defense Peptides; Bordetella bronchiseptica; Innate immune response; TLR activation

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  1. NWO-TTW [14924]

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Antibiotic resistance is increasing, and bacterial vaccines, such as outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) produced by Gram-negative bacteria, can be used to prevent resistance development. Host defense peptides (HDPs), specifically cathelicidins, have been found to modulate immune responses by interacting with OMVs and neutralizing LPS-induced TLR4 activation. Additionally, TLR2, 4, 5, and 9 play a role in macrophage stimulation by OMVs.
Antibiotic resistance is increasing and one strategy to prevent resistance development is the use of bacterial vaccines. For Gram-negative bacteria, natural outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) could be used for vaccine development. These vesicular structures are naturally produced by all Gram-negative bacteria and contain several antigens in their native environment. However, despite that the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may aid as intrinsic adjuvant, there is a risk that it may also cause undesired immune responses. Therefore, molecules to dampen LPS-induced toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 activation may be needed. Here host defense peptides (HDPs), like cathelicidins, can play an important role. They have been shown to interact with LPS and thereby neutralize LPS-induced TLR4 activation. However, there is currently no knowledge about neutralization in an OMV-based setting. Therefore, in this paper the immune modulating capacity of HDPs was investigated after macrophage stimulation with either spontaneous or heat-induced B. bronchiseptica OMVs. This revealed that the cathelicidins LL-37, CATH2, PMAP-36 and K9CATH were able to modulate immune responses. Interestingly, immune modulation by these cathelicidins was different for spontaneous compared to heat-induced OMVs. Interaction studies revealed that the mode of binding of cathelicidins to OMVs slightly differed between OMV classes. Furthermore, TLR screening revealed that TLR2, 4, 5 and 9 were involved in stimulation of macrophages by OMVs, with TLR4-mediated activation being the most important pathway. Uptake of OMVs did not play a major role in macrophage activation. Taken together, this study shows how OMVs can activate macrophages and how cathelicidins may modulate these immune responses. (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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