RRC ID 15559
Author Paredes JC, Welchman DP, Poidevin M, Lemaitre B.
Title Negative regulation by amidase PGRPs shapes the Drosophila antibacterial response and protects the fly from innocuous infection.
Journal Immunity
Abstract Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) are key regulators of insect immune responses. In addition to recognition PGRPs, which activate the Toll and Imd pathways, the Drosophila genome encodes six catalytic PGRPs with the capacity to scavenge peptidoglycan. We have performed a systematic analysis of catalytic PGRP function using deletions, separately and in combination. Our findings support the role of PGRP-LB as a negative regulator of the Imd pathway and brought to light a synergy of PGRP-SCs with PGRP-LB in the systemic response. Flies lacking all six catalytic PGRPs were still viable but exhibited deleterious immune responses to innocuous gut infections. Together with recent studies on mammalian PGRPs, our study uncovers a conserved role for PGRPs in gut homeostasis. Analysis of the immune phenotype of flies lacking all catalytic PGRPs and the Imd regulator Pirk reveals that the Imd-mediated immune response is highly constrained by the existence of multiple negative feedbacks.
Volume 35(5)
Pages 770-9
Published 2011-11-23
DOI 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.09.018
PII S1074-7613(11)00466-3
PMID 22118526
MeSH Amidohydrolases / genetics Amidohydrolases / metabolism* Animals Animals, Genetically Modified Carrier Proteins / genetics Carrier Proteins / metabolism* Drosophila / genetics Drosophila / immunology* Drosophila / microbiology* Drosophila Proteins / genetics Drosophila Proteins / metabolism* Gene Deletion Gram-Negative Bacteria / immunology* Homeostasis / immunology Intestinal Mucosa / metabolism Intestines / immunology Mutation Myogenic Regulatory Factors / metabolism Phenotype Signal Transduction
IF 22.553
Times Cited 146
WOS Category IMMUNOLOGY
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Drosophila