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Journal article

MARCO, TLR2, and CD14 Are Required for Macrophage Cytokine Responses to Mycobacterial Trehalose Dimycolate and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Abstract

Virtually all of the elements of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis, including pro-inflammatory cytokine production, granuloma formation, cachexia, and mortality, can be induced by its predominant cell wall glycolipid, trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM/cord factor). TDM mediates these potent inflammatory responses via interactions with macrophages both in vitro and in vivo in a myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88)-dependent manner …

Authors

Bowdish DME; Sakamoto K; Kim M-J; Kroos M; Mukhopadhyay S; Leifer CA; Tryggvason K; Gordon S; Russell DG

Journal

PLOS Pathogens, Vol. 5, No. 6,

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Publication Date

June 2009

DOI

10.1371/journal.ppat.1000474

ISSN

1553-7366