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- Werner, Thomas,1971-Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för molekylär patogenes (UCMP) (Medicinska fakulteten) (author)
Peptidoglycan recognition proteins in Drosophila melanogaster
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- Umeå :Umeå centrum för molekylär patogenes (UCMP) (Medicinska fakulteten),2004
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- ISBN:917305741X
- https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-355URI
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- Umeå University medical dissertations,0346-6612 ;0346-6612-922
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- The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an excellent model organism to study the innate immune response, because insects and mammals share conserved features regarding the recognition and destruction of microorganisms and Drosophila is easily accessible to genetic manipulation. In my present study, I identified a new family of pattern recognition molecules for bacterial peptidoglycan in Drosophila, the Peptidoglycan Recognition Proteins (PGRP). This family of proteins is widespread in the animal kingdom, for instance there are 4 PGRP genes in humans with unknown function. So far, all tested PGRPs (from insects and mammals) have been shown to bind peptidoglycan. In Drosophila, we found and characterized 13 PGRP genes, which fall into two classes: Short PGRPs and Long PGRPs. To the short group belong PGRP-SA, SB1, SB2, SC1A, SC1B, SC2, and SD with short transcripts and predicted extracellular proteins. The long members are PGRP-LA, LB, LC, LD, LE, and LF with long transcripts and predicted intracellular and membrane spanning proteins. Transcripts from the 13 different PGRP genes are present in immune competent organs, and the majority are inducible by infection. The transcriptional regulation of the inducible PGRP genes occurs either via the imd/Relish or in some cases Toll/Dif pathway. My RNAi experiments in mbn-2 cells revealed that the peptidoglycan recognition protein PGRP-LC is a major activator of the imd/Relish pathway. In PGRP-LC deficient mbn-2 cells, Relish signalling is almost entirely blocked. However, the complex PGRP-LC gene generates three alternative splice forms, each of them carrying one of three possible PGRP domains, LCx, LCy, and LCa. I found that in the tissue culture system PGRP-LCa plays a specific role in the recognition of Gram-negative bacteria, while PGRP-LCx is crucial for the recognition of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and peptidoglycan. Targeted mutagenesis of the PGRP-LCa isoform in vivo shows that the situation is more complicated than in the cell culture experiments. In conclusion, PGRPs constitute a highly diversified family of proteins, including key players of the innate immune response.
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- NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Biokemi och molekylärbiologi hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Biochemistry and Molecular Biology hsv//eng
- Molecular biology
- Drosophila
- PGRP
- peptidoglycan
- pattern recognition
- imd
- Relish
- isoform
- RNAi
- mbn-2
- Molekylärbiologi
- Molecular biology
- Molekylärbiologi
- molekylärbiologi
- Molecular Biology
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- Hultmark, Dan (thesis advisor)
- Lemaitre, Bruno,ProfessorCentre de Genetique, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette (opponent)
- Umeå universitetUmeå centrum för molekylär patogenes (UCMP) (Medicinska fakulteten) (creator_code:org_t)
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