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SCIENCE
卷 291, 期 5508, 页码 1544-1547出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5508.1544
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 07118, AI 47868, AI 22553] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR 40312] Funding Source: Medline
The mammalian innate immune system retains from Drosophila a family of homologous Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that mediate responses to microbial ligands. Here, we show that TLR2 activation Leads to killing of intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis in both mouse and human macrophages, through distinct mechanisms. In mouse macrophages, bacterial lipoprotein activation of TLR2 Leads to a nitric oxide-dependent killing of intracellular tubercle bacilli, but in human monocytes and alveolar macrophages, this pathway was nitric oxide-independent. Thus, mammalian TLRs respond (as Drosophila Toll receptors do) to microbial ligands and also have the ability to activate antimicrobial effector pathways at the site of infection.
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