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Location, Location, Location: Is Membrane Partitioning Everything When It Comes to Innate Immune Activation?

Authors :
Triantafilou, Martha
Lepper, Philipp M.
Olden, Robin
de Seabra Rodrigues Dias, Ivo
Triantafilou, Kathy
Source :
Mediators of Inflammation; 2011, Vol. 2011, Special section p1-10, 10p
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

In the last twenty years, the general view of the plasma membrane has changed from a homogeneous arrangement of lipids to a mosaic of microdomains. It is currently thought that islands of highly ordered saturated lipids and cholesterol, which are laterally mobile, exist in the plane of the plasma membrane. Lipid rafts are thought to provide a means to explain the spatial segregation of certain signalling pathways emanating from the cell surface. They seem to provide the necessary microenvironment in order for certain specialised signalling events to take place, such as the innate immune recognition. The innate immune system seems to employ germ-lined encoded receptors, called pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), in order to detect pathogens. One family of such receptors are the Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which are the central "sensing" apparatus of the innate immune system. In recent years, it has become apparent that TLRs are recruited into membrane microdomains in response to ligands. These nanoscale assemblies of sphingolipid, cholesterol, and TLRs stabilize and coalesce, forming signalling platforms, which transduce signals that lead to innate immune activation. In the current paper, we will investigate all past and current literature concerning recruitment of extracellular and intracellular TLRs into lipid rafts and how this membrane organization modulates innate immune responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
09629351
Volume :
2011
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Mediators of Inflammation
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
71249071
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/186093