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Cutting edge: distinct Toll-like receptor 2 activators selectively induce different classes of mediator production from human mast cells 总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15
McCurdy JD Olynych TJ Maher LH Marshall JS 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2003,170(4):1625-1629
Mast cells play a critical role in host defense against bacterial infection. Murine mast cells produce cytokines in response to bacterial peptidoglycan and LPS via Toll-like receptor (TLR) TLR2- and TLR4-dependent mechanisms. The expression of TLRs by human mast cells and responses to known TLR activators was examined. Human mast cells expressed mRNA for TLR1, TLR2, and TLR6 but not TLR4. Bacterial peptidoglycan and yeast zymosan were potent inducers of GM-CSF and IL-1beta and also induced substantial short-term cysteinyl leukotriene generation. In contrast, a synthetic triacylated lipopeptide induced short-term degranulation but failed to induce cysteinyl leukotriene production. The TLR4 activator Escherichia coli LPS did not induce a GM-CSF, IL-1beta leukotriene, or degranulation response. These data demonstrate highly selective production of different classes of mast cell mediators in response to distinct TLR activators of potential importance to the host response to bacterial or fungal pathogens. 相似文献
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Ouabain-insensitive salt and water movements in duck red cells. II. The role of chloride in the volume response
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This paper describes the effect of external chloride on the typical swelling response induced in duck red cells by hypertonicity or norepinephrine. Lowering chloride inhibits swelling and produces concomitant changes in net movements of sodium and potassium in ouabain-treated cells, which resemble the effect of lowering external sodium or potassium. Inhibition is the same whether chloride is replaced with gluconate or with an osmotic equivalent of sucrose. Since changes in external chloride also cause predictable changes in cell chloride, pH, and water, these variables were systematically investigated by varying external pH along with chloride. Lowering pH to 6.60 does not abolish the response if external chloride levels are normal, although the cells are initially swollen due to the increased acidity. Cells deliberately preswollen in hypotonic solutions with appropriate ionic composition can also respond to norepinephrine by further swelling. These results rule out initial values of cell water, chloride, and pH as significant variables affecting the response. Initial values of the chloride equilibrium potential do have marked effect on the direction and rate of net water movement. If chloride is lowered by replacement with the permeant anion, acetate, E(Cl) is unchanged and a normal response to norepinephrine, which is inhibited by furosemide, is observed. Increasing internal sodium by the nystatin technique also inhibits the response. A theory is developed which depicts that the cotransport carrier proposed in the previous paper (W.F. Schmidt and T.J. McManus. 1977b. J. Gen. Physiol. 70:81-97) moves in response to the net electrochemical potential difference driving sodium and potassium across the membrane. Predictions of this theory fit the data for both cations and anions. 相似文献
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Two novel gene orders and the role of light-strand replication in rearrangement of the vertebrate mitochondrial genome 总被引:22,自引:8,他引:14
Macey JR; Larson A; Ananjeva NB; Fang Z; Papenfuss TJ 《Molecular biology and evolution》1997,14(1):91-104
Two novel mitochondrial gene arrangements are identified in an agamid
lizard and a ranid frog. Statistical tests incorporating phylogeny indicate
a link between novel vertebrate mitochondrial gene orders and movement of
the origin of light-strand replication. A mechanism involving errors in
light-strand replication and tandem duplication of genes is proposed for
rearrangement of vertebrate mitochondrial genes. A second mechanism
involving small direct repeats also is identified. These mechanisms
implicate gene order as a reliable phylogenetic character. Shifts in gene
order define major lineages without evidence of parallelism or reversal.
The loss of the origin of light-strand replication from its typical
vertebrate position evolves in parallel and, therefore, is a less reliable
phylogenetic character. Gene junctions also evolve in parallel. Sequencing
across multigenic regions, in particular transfer RNA genes, should be a
major focus of future systematic studies to locate novel gene orders and to
provide a better understanding of the evolution of the vertebrate
mitochondrial genome.
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Evolutionary relationships among the male and female mitochondrial DNA lineages in the Mytilus edulis species complex 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A novel form of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance has previously been
documented for the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis). Female mussels inherit
their mtDNA solely from their mother while males inherit mtDNA from both
their mother and their father. In males, the paternal mtDNA is
preferentially amplified so that the male gonad is highly enriched for the
paternal mtDNA that is then transmitted from fathers to sons. We
demonstrate that this mode of mtDNA inheritance also operates in the
closely related species M. galloprovincialis and M. trossulus. The
evolutionary relationship between the male and female mtDNA lineages is
estimated by phylogenetic analysis of 455 nucleotides from the large
subunit ribosomal RNA gene. We have found that the male and female lineages
are highly divergent; the divergence of these lineages began prior to the
speciation of the three species of blue mussels. Further, the separation
between the male and female lineages is estimated to have occurred between
5.3 and 5.7 MYA.
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