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Antibodies directed against the protein constituents of the outer envelope membrane of Escherichia coli O26 K60 were demonstrated in antisera elicited in rabbits against three different preparations of the bacterium. Outer membraned solubilized by sodium dodecyl sulphate were applied to the antisera in an interfacial precipitin test, followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the resulting immunecomplexes. Protein profiles showed a complete outer membrane protein pattern, indicating the antigenic character of these proteins. Antisera containing antibodies against outer membrane proteins and free of reactive antibodies against lipopolysaccharide showed relatively low agglutinating activities against the bacteria. The antibodies against the protein constituents of the outer membrane belong mainly to the 7S class immunoglobulins, as indicated by 2-mercaptoethanol treatment of the antisera.
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PMID:Antibodies against outer membrane proteins in rabbit antisera prepared against Escherichia coli O26 K60. 34 33

Rheumatoid synovitis is characterized by an infiltration of mononuclear cells and by the proliferation of synoviocytes. Monocytes and synoviocytes are major producers of cytokines, growth factors, and enzymes that contribute to the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) process. Since they are in close contact in vivo, we engaged in an in vitro study of the functional consequences of their interactions. Coculture of unstimulated elutriated normal blood monocytes over RA synoviocytes resulted in a synergistic increase of the production of IL-6, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), and IL-8, when compared with their respective production in culture alone. In contrast, cytokines such as IL-10, IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, and TNF-alpha could not be detected. The IL-6 production in coculture was further increased by the addition of IL-1 beta, GM-CSF, IFN-gamma, or TNF-alpha, but was inhibited by the addition of IL-10, IL-4, IL-13, or IL-1Ra, an effect reverted by the addition of IL-1 beta. Moreover, an inhibition was also observed with anti-CD14 mAb and newly raised mAbs directed against RA synoviocytes. Under reducing conditions, the mAb SY12 precipitated a 150-kDa surface membrane protein, identified as amino-peptidase N (CD13/AP-N). Collectively, these results indicate that 1) monocytes and synoviocytes interact with each other to produce proinflammatory cytokines, 2) pro- and antiinflammatory cytokines have opposite effects on IL-6 production, and 3) molecules such as IL-1, CD14, and CD13 are involved.
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PMID:Contribution of IL-1, CD14, and CD13 in the increased IL-6 production induced by in vitro monocyte-synoviocyte interactions. 756 Oct 64

Recent work has established that bacterial endotoxin (LPS) binds to the plasma protein LPS-binding protein (LBP) forming high affinity complexes (LPS-LBP), that LBP is an opsonin for LPS-bearing particles, and that LPS-LBP complexes are potent agonists for monocytic cells (MO). mAb to the MO plasma membrane protein, CD14, inhibit LBP-dependent binding of LPS to MO, and LPS-LBP-dependent stimulation of cytokine release from MO. These data suggest that CD14 functions as a membrane receptor for LPS but do not demonstrate a direct association of LPS with CD14. Calcitriol was used to induce a high level of CD14 expression in the human monocyte-like cell line THP-1, resulting in enhanced responses of these cells to LPS-LBP complexes manifested by enhanced binding of LPS and a decrease in the amount of LPS needed to induce IL-8 release. An Re595 LPS derivative containing a radioiodinated, photoreactive, phenyl azide (125I-ASD-LPS) was used in cross-linking experiments to identify membrane proteins in calcitriol-treated THP-1 cells that interact with LPS. 125I-ASD-LPS was added to calcitriol-induced THP-1 cells in the presence or absence of LBP, the mixture photolyzed, and the resultant radioiodinated proteins analyzed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography. We observed strong cross-linking of 125I-ASD-LPS to a 55-kDa membrane protein when LBP was present, but failed to observe radiolabeling of any other proteins with apparent molecular masses distinct from CD14. The cross-linked product was identified as CD14 by immunoprecipitation with anti-human CD14 mAb. Studies with human CD14 expressing transfectants of the murine B cell line 70Z/3 also revealed LBP-dependent cross-linking of 125I-ASD-LPS to CD14. These data document binding of LPS to a specific membrane protein that serves as an LPS receptor.
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PMID:Cross-linking of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to CD14 on THP-1 cells mediated by LPS-binding protein. 768 Oct 85

We have tested the possible physical interactions between the iC3b receptor (CR3), lymphocyte function-associated Ag-1, and class III Fc gamma receptor (Fc gamma RIII) at neutrophil surfaces. Cells were labeled using fluorochrome-conjugated Fab or F(ab')2 fragments of antireceptor mAb. Labeled receptors were capped using second-step F(ab')2 fragments of goat anti-mouse Fab antiserum. After 20 min at 37 degrees C, 68% of the cells capped the anti-CR3 plus second-step complex. Capping was time, temperature, and cytochalasin B sensitive. When capped cells were probed with Fab' or F(ab')2 fragments of anti-Fc gamma RIII labeled with a distinct fluorochrome, 41% of the cells cocapped Fc gamma RIII. Indistinguishable results were obtained when potential antibody combining sites within caps were blocked with a large excess of Fab or F(ab')2 fragments. When Fc gamma RIII was capped, 49% of the cells cocapped CR3. Similarly, LFA-1 cocapped with both CR3 and Fc gamma RIII. Importantly, other membrane components including HLA class I, Mo5, CD13, CR type 1, and IL-8 receptors and N-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1, 3-diszole L-alpha-dimyristoyl phosphatidylethanolamine did not cocap with CR3. However, the positive control Con A did cocap with CR3 and Fc gamma RIII. We next evaluated the effect of saccharides on CR3-Fc gamma RIII cocapping and found that 0.15 M N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (NADG), alpha-methyl-D-mannoside, and D-mannose significantly inhibited cocapping by 70, 58, and 48%, respectively. No inhibition was obtained using glucose, galactose, N-acetyl-neuraminic acid, fucose, sorbitol, fructose, or sucrose. Similarly, Fc gamma RIII-lymphocyte function-associated-1 cocapping was inhibited by NADG. However, the cocapping of CR3 with lymphocyte function-associated-1 or Con A were not affected by 0.15 M NADG, which suggests that NADG inhibition of leukoadhesin-Fc gamma RIII cocapping is not due to a general effect of NADG on capping. Inasmuch as Fc gamma RIII is a glycophospholipid-linked membrane protein, we speculate that it interacts with CR3 and/or lymphocyte function-associated-1 via lectin-like interactions.
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PMID:Cocapping of the leukoadhesin molecules complement receptor type 3 and lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 with Fc gamma receptor III on human neutrophils. Possible role of lectin-like interactions. 768 Oct 86

Yersinia enterocolitica has recently been shown to produce a low molecular mass envelope protein that contains an epitope(s) that is cross-reactive with the extracellular domain of the human thyrotropin receptor (ETSHR). In this study, we have generated mAb to this cross-reactive protein and have obtained amino acid sequences for peptide fragments obtained from Lys-c digestion of the protein. The amino acid sequences of these peptides were identical to sequences present in bacterial lipoprotein (LP). All bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family produce LP as a major outer membrane protein. However, the ETSHR cross-reactive epitope(s) was shown to be unique to LP produced by Yersinia species. This was shown by Western blot analysis using a mAb specific for LP and with affinity-purified Ab specific for either LP or ETSHR and obtained from mouse antiserum generated to Y. enterocolitica. LPs from different Gram-negative bacteria were shown to be mitogenic for C3H/HeJ spleen cells and induced production and secretion of significant levels of Ig. Production of Ab that recognized the ETSHR was only induced in spleen cells stimulated with the LP obtained from Yersinia. In contrast, LP was not mitogenic for either human PBMC or human B cells. However, LP did induce IL6 and IL8 production in human monocytes at levels equivalent to that seen after LPS activation. These results identify, for the first time, the Yersinia envelope protein that is cross-reactive with the ETSHR and show that it can activate human monocytes. These findings are potentially important for advancing our understanding of the role molecular mimicry plays in the induction of autoimmunity to the thyrotropin receptor.
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PMID:Lipoprotein from Yersinia enterocolitica contains epitopes that cross-react with the human thyrotropin receptor. 902 41

5-Hydroxy- and 5-oxo-eicosatetraenoate (5-HETE and 5-oxoETE) activate polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) through a common, receptor-like recognition system. To define this system, we examined the interaction of these eicosanoids with human PMNs. PMNs esterified 5-[3H]HETE to glycerolipids at 37 and 4 degreesC. At 37 but not 4 degreesC, the cells also hydroxylated the label to 5, 20-[3H]diHETE. The acyl:CoA synthetase blocker, triacsin C, inhibited esterification but also led to an increase in the hydroxylation of the label. PMNs processed 5-[3H]oxoETE through the same pathways but only or principally after reducing it to 5-[3H]HETE (37 or 4 degreesC). In the presence of these varying metabolic reactions, PMNs (37 or 4 degreesC; +/- triacsin C) could not be shown to receptor bind either radiolabel. Plasma membranes isolated from PMNs esterified but unlike whole cells did not reduce or hydroxylate 5-[3H]oxoETE. Triacsin C blocked esterification, thereby rendering the membranes unable to metabolize this radiolabel. Indeed, triacsin C-treated membranes bound (Kd = 3.8 nM) 5-[3H]oxoETE specifically and reversibly to 86 pmol of sites per 25 micrograms of membrane protein. 5-OxoETE, 5-HETE, and 5,15-diHETE displaced this binding at concentrations correlating with their potency in eliciting PMN Ca2+ transients. GTP and GTPgammaS, but not ATP or ATPgammaS, also reduced 5-[3H]oxoETE binding, whereas 15-HETE, leukotriene B4, platelet-activating factor, IL-8, C5a, and N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe lacked this effect. We conclude that PMNs and their plasma membranes use an acyl:CoA synthetase-dependent route to esterify 5-HETE and 5-oxoETE into lipids. Blockade of the synthetase uncovers cryptic plasmalemma sites that bind 5-oxoETE with exquisite specificity. These sites apparently mediate responses to the 5-oxo class of eicosanoids and are likely members of the serpentine superfamily of G protein-linked receptors.
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PMID:Receptors for the 5-oxo class of eicosanoids in neutrophils. 982 88

Infection by Helicobacter pylori, a noninvasive bacterium, induces chronic leukocyte infiltration in the stomach by still largely unknown molecular mechanisms. We investigated the possibility that a membrane protein of H. pylori induces an inflammatory reaction in the subepithelial tissue of the stomach. By generating an expression library of H. pylori chromosomal DNA and screening with rabbit antiserum raised to a membrane fraction of H. pylori and sera of infected patients, we cloned a 16.0-kDa protein (HP-MP1) which appeared to attach to the inner membrane of the H. pylori in a homodimeric form. Anti-HP-MP1 antibodies were detected in the sera of infected patients but not in those of uninfected controls. Coincubation of monocytes with recombinant HP-MP1 led to cell activation and production of interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha), tumor necrosis factor alpha, IL-8, and macrophage inflammatory protein 1alpha. The results indicate that HP-MP1 is an antigenic membrane-associated protein of H. pylori which potentially activates monocytes. This suggests that HP-MP1 may play roles in the pathogenesis of perpetual tissue inflammation associated with H. pylori infection.
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PMID:Cloning and characterization of a novel membrane-associated antigenic protein of Helicobacter pylori. 986 28

Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) is an emerging febrile systemic disease caused by the HGE agent, an obligatory intracellular bacterium of granulocytes. The pathogenicity- and immunity-related mechanisms of HGE are unknown. In this study, several cytokines generated in human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) incubated with the HGE agent or a recombinant 44-kDa major surface protein (rP44) of the HGE agent were examined by reverse transcription-PCR and a capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The HGE agent induced expression of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and IL-6 mRNAs and proteins in PBLs in a dose-dependent manner to levels as high as those resulting from Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide stimulation. The kinetics of induction of these three cytokines in PBLs by rP44 and by the HGE agent were similar. Proteinase K treatment of the HGE agent or rP44 eliminated the ability to induce these three cytokines. Induction of these cytokine mRNAs was not dependent on superoxide generation. These results suggest that P44 proteins have a major role in inducing the production of proinflammatory cytokines by PBLs. Expression of IL-8, IL-10, gamma interferon, transforming growth factor beta, and IL-2 mRNAs in response to the HGE agent was not remarkable. Among PBLs, neutrophils and lymphocytes expressed IL-1beta mRNA but not TNF-alpha or IL-6 mRNA in response to the HGE agent, whereas monocytes expressed all three of these cytokine mRNAs. These observations suggest that induction of proinflammatory-cytokine gene expression by the major outer membrane protein of the HGE agent in monocytes, which are not the primary host cells of the HGE agent, contributes to HGE pathogenesis and immunomodulation.
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PMID:Expression of interleukin-1beta, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interleukin-6 in human peripheral blood leukocytes exposed to human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent or recombinant major surface protein P44. 1081 90

Enteropathogenic Yersinia bacteria trigger the production of the proinflammatory chemokine IL-8, an important chemokine for the recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). Yersinia is resistant to phagocytosis by PMN, and the recruitment of these cells is thought to be part of a pathogenic strategy of Yersinia to establish infection by allowing the pathogen to gain access to, and disseminate within, host tissue. We report here that Yersinia expressing the outer membrane protein invasin triggers IL-8 production in epithelial cells. The 195 carboxyl-terminal amino acids of invasin when linked to latex beads are sufficient to trigger IL-8 production. By means of IL-8 promoter reporter gene assays and electrophoretic mobility shift assay experiments, the minimal optimal region of the IL-8 promoter responsive to invasin was identified and invasin-responsive control elements were characterized. Invasin-induced activation of the IL-8 promoter was found to be mediated through a previously identified NF-kappaB element. This NF-kappaB binding site preferentially binds Rel p65-p65 homodimers as well as some p50-p65 heterodimers in response to stimulation by invasin. Invasin-induced NF-kappaB activation correlated with degradation of IkappaBalpha and the inhibition of NF-kappaB by specific inhibitors of IkappaB activation blocked invasin-induced IL-8 secretion. Invasin-triggered IL-8 production does not depend on invasin-triggered uptake of bacteria, and is independent of a functional PI3-kinase. This report is the first to demonstrate the molecular basis of IL-8 production triggered by enteropathogenic bacteria. Together, these data elucidate the possible early pathomechanisms operating in Yersinia infection and may have implications for the design of novel therapeutics directed against this enteropathogen.
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PMID:Yersinia enterocolitica invasin protein triggers IL-8 production in epithelial cells via activation of Rel p65-p65 homodimers. 1092 81

Outer membrane protein (Omp)A is highly represented and conserved in the Enterobacteriaceae family. Using a recombinant OmpA from Klebsiella pneumoniae (P40), we have analyzed the interaction between OmpA and macrophages. We report that Alexa488-labeled P40 binds (at 4 degrees C) to murine and human macrophages in a dose-dependent manner and is rapidly internalized (at 37 degrees C). No binding or internalization of the Alexa488-labeled glycophorin A control protein is observed under the same conditions. Furthermore, P40 up-regulates the production of IL-1beta, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, and TNF-alpha by human macrophages and of NO by the RAW 264.7 murine macrophage cell line. P40 also synergizes with IFN-gamma and suboptimal concentrations of LPS to up-regulate the production of these mediators. In conclusion, P40 binds to and activates macrophages. These data suggest that recognition of OmpA by macrophages may be an initiating event in the antibacterial host response.
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PMID:Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) binds to and activates human macrophages. 1094 55


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