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Published on: January 7, 2019
MYD88-dependent and -independent activation of TREM-1 via specific TLR ligands
Heng Zheng1, Caitlin A Heiderscheidt, Myung Joo
1Department of Veterans Affairs, Jesse Brown VA Hospital, and Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Abstract:
Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 plays an important role in myeloid cell-activated inflammatory responses. Although TLR ligands such as LPS and lipoteichoic acid have been shown to upregulate TREM-1 expression in macrophage and neutrophils, the role of specific TLR in inducing the expression of TREM-1 remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether the presence of TLR is necessary for the expression of TREM-1. We show that BM-derived macrophages from TLR4 and TLR2 KO mice failed to induce expression of TREM-1 message and protein in response to their specific ligands. Interestingly, the expression of TREM-1 in response to LPS is not altered in myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) KO macrophages, suggesting that downstream of TLR a MyD88-independent pathway induces the expression of TREM-1. Inhibiting toll/IL-1R domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-beta (TRIF) expression by siRNA decreased TREM-1 expression in response to LPS, suggesting that the expression of TREM-1 in response to LPS was mediated by the TRIF signaling pathway. On the other hand, the expression of TREM-1 in response to lipoteichoic acid is dependent on MyD88 expression. These data indicate that the expression of TREM-1 in response to TLR ligands occurs secondary to downstream signaling events and that the presence of TLR is necessary for the expression of TREM-1 in response to their specific ligands. However, the downstream signaling required for the expression of TREM-1 is dependent on the stimulus and the surface receptor through which the signaling is initiated.
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