1. Outer membrane protein A of Acinetobacter baumannii regulates pulmonary inflammation through the TLR2-NF-κB pathway.
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Li Y, Liu L, Xiao C, Sun B, Luo S, Yang D, Zhang X, Huang T, Yu Z, and Li X
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- Animals, NF-kappa B genetics, NF-kappa B metabolism, Inflammasomes genetics, Inflammasomes metabolism, NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein genetics, NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein metabolism, Toll-Like Receptor 2 genetics, Signal Transduction, Inflammation veterinary, Caspase 1 metabolism, Acinetobacter baumannii genetics, Pneumonia veterinary
- Abstract
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is characterized by a high prevalence of drug resistance; how to effectively treat it is still a major clinical challenge. Our previous experiments confirmed that ompA, which is one of the most well-characterized virulence factors, may be dependent on the caspase-1 pathway-stimulated expression of NLRP3 inflammasome to enhance inflammation. TLRs (i.e., TLR2, etc.) is the initiating signal for NLRP3 inflammasome activation; how it relates to ompA in its underlying pathogenic mechanism is not clear. In this study, we proofed that ompA promoted NLRP3 inflammasome activation while the TLR2-NF-κB pathway was also activated after A. baumannii infection. Additionally, the expression of NLRP3 inflammasome-associated proteins and genes was inhibited by silencing TLR2 and NLRP3. This indicated that ompA might depend on the TLR2-NF-κB pathway to assemble and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome. OmpA promoted the assembly of the NLRP3 inflammasome through the TLR2-NF-κB pathway and inhibited the degradation of caspase-1 by the proteasome so that a large number of mature IL-1β/IL-18 and other proinflammatory factors were released extracellularly to enhance the body's inflammatory response. Taken together, the results of the joint pre-study confirmed a novel TLR2-NF-κB/NLRP3/caspase-1-modulated mechanism underpinning ompA activity, the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway may be as a potential immunomodulatory target against A. baumannii infections., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing fnancial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to infuence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2023
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