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Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway

The chlamydial plasmid, an essential virulence factor, encodes plasmid proteins that play important roles in chlamydial infection and the corresponding immune response. However, the virulence factors and the molecular mechanisms of Chlamydia psittaci are not well understood. In the present study, we...

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Autores principales: Chen, Qian, Li, Yumeng, Yan, Xiaoliang, Sun, Zhenjie, Wang, Chuan, Liu, Shuangquan, Xiao, Jian, Lu, Chunxue, Wu, Yimou
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343522
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.578009
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author Chen, Qian
Li, Yumeng
Yan, Xiaoliang
Sun, Zhenjie
Wang, Chuan
Liu, Shuangquan
Xiao, Jian
Lu, Chunxue
Wu, Yimou
author_facet Chen, Qian
Li, Yumeng
Yan, Xiaoliang
Sun, Zhenjie
Wang, Chuan
Liu, Shuangquan
Xiao, Jian
Lu, Chunxue
Wu, Yimou
author_sort Chen, Qian
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description The chlamydial plasmid, an essential virulence factor, encodes plasmid proteins that play important roles in chlamydial infection and the corresponding immune response. However, the virulence factors and the molecular mechanisms of Chlamydia psittaci are not well understood. In the present study, we investigated the roles and mechanisms of the plasmid-encoded protein CPSIT_P7 of C. psittaci in regulating the inflammatory response in THP-1 cells (human monocytic leukemia cell line). Based on cytokine arrays, CPSIT_P7 induces the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in THP-1 cells. Moreover, the expression levels of IL-6, IL-8, and MCP-1 stimulated by CPSIT_P7 declined after silencing of the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) gene using small interfering RNA and transfection of a dominant negative plasmid encoding TLR4 (pZERO-hTLR4). We further demonstrated that transfection with the dominant negative plasmid encoding MyD88 (pDeNy-hMyD88) and the dominant negative plasmid encoding Mal (pDeNy-hMal) could also abrogate the expression of the corresponding proteins. Western blot and immunofluorescence assay results showed that CPSIT_P7 could activate nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling pathways in THP-1 cells. Altogether, our results indicate that the CPSIT_P7 induces the TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB signaling axis and therefore contributes to the inflammatory cytokine response.
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spelling pubmed-77444872020-12-18 Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway Chen, Qian Li, Yumeng Yan, Xiaoliang Sun, Zhenjie Wang, Chuan Liu, Shuangquan Xiao, Jian Lu, Chunxue Wu, Yimou Front Microbiol Microbiology The chlamydial plasmid, an essential virulence factor, encodes plasmid proteins that play important roles in chlamydial infection and the corresponding immune response. However, the virulence factors and the molecular mechanisms of Chlamydia psittaci are not well understood. In the present study, we investigated the roles and mechanisms of the plasmid-encoded protein CPSIT_P7 of C. psittaci in regulating the inflammatory response in THP-1 cells (human monocytic leukemia cell line). Based on cytokine arrays, CPSIT_P7 induces the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in THP-1 cells. Moreover, the expression levels of IL-6, IL-8, and MCP-1 stimulated by CPSIT_P7 declined after silencing of the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) gene using small interfering RNA and transfection of a dominant negative plasmid encoding TLR4 (pZERO-hTLR4). We further demonstrated that transfection with the dominant negative plasmid encoding MyD88 (pDeNy-hMyD88) and the dominant negative plasmid encoding Mal (pDeNy-hMal) could also abrogate the expression of the corresponding proteins. Western blot and immunofluorescence assay results showed that CPSIT_P7 could activate nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling pathways in THP-1 cells. Altogether, our results indicate that the CPSIT_P7 induces the TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB signaling axis and therefore contributes to the inflammatory cytokine response. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7744487/ /pubmed/33343522 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.578009 Text en Copyright © 2020 Chen, Li, Yan, Sun, Wang, Liu, Xiao, Lu and Wu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Chen, Qian
Li, Yumeng
Yan, Xiaoliang
Sun, Zhenjie
Wang, Chuan
Liu, Shuangquan
Xiao, Jian
Lu, Chunxue
Wu, Yimou
Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title_full Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title_fullStr Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title_full_unstemmed Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title_short Chlamydia psittaci Plasmid-Encoded CPSIT_P7 Elicits Inflammatory Response in Human Monocytes via TLR4/Mal/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway
title_sort chlamydia psittaci plasmid-encoded cpsit_p7 elicits inflammatory response in human monocytes via tlr4/mal/myd88/nf-κb signaling pathway
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343522
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.578009
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