期刊
FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 57, 期 1, 页码 40-45出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00577.x
关键词
galectin-3; cytokines; periodontopathic bacteria; endotoxin
资金
- Private Universities
- MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) of Japan, 2006-2010
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [20592150]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20592150, 21592344] Funding Source: KAKEN
Galectins, a family of animal lectins, are involved not only in development and differentiation but also in immunoregulation and host-pathogen interactions. Galectin-3 interacts with lipopolysaccharides in gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella minnesota and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The present study investigated whether galectin-3 inhibited the cytokine-inducing activity of periodontopathic bacterial lipopolysaccharides using splenocytes derived from mice of different ages. Lipopolysaccharides were extracted from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Y4 and Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277, and then purified. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis revealed that galectin-3 adhered to A. actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharides, but not to the lipopolysaccharides of P. gingivalis. Splenocytes were prepared from 1- or 7-month-old C57BL/6 mice. Either A. actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharides (200 ng mL(-1)) alone or lipopolysaccharides and murine galectin-3 (10 mu g mL(-1)) were added to culture solutions, and the release of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interferon-gamma (IFN gamma) from splenocytes was measured by ELISA after a 17-h incubation. In all mice tested, A. actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharide stimulation significantly increased the production of IL-6 and IFN gamma (P < 0.01). Murine galectin-3 suppressed lipopolysaccharide-induced cytokine production in the splenocytes of the 1-month-old mice (P < 0.02 for IL-6; P < 0.05 for IFN gamma), but not in the splenocytes of the 7-month-old mice. This suggests that responses change with age.
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