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Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany;
Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin III, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; and
Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Research Center, Borstel, Germany
The soluble form of the endotoxin receptor CD14 is required for the LPS-induced activation of cells lacking membrane-bound CD14. It has been shown that a deletion mutant of human CD14 consisting of the N-terminal 152 amino acids has the capacity to mediate the stimulation of different cell types by LPS. To identify the structural domains of the molecule related to this functional property, we screened a set of alanine substitution mutants using CD14-negative U373 astrocytoma cells. We show that 3 of 18 soluble mutants of human CD14 failed to mediate the LPS-induced IL-6 production in U373 cells. These mutants were located in two regions of the molecule (aa 913 and 91101) that are not essential for LPS binding. In addition, the mutants had a reduced capacity to mediate LPS-stimulated IL-6 production in human vascular endothelial and SMC. In contrast, the potential of sCD14(9194,96)A, and sCD14(97101)A to signal LPS-induced activation of human PBMC was not significantly reduced. These results show that the regions 913 and 91101 are involved in the sCD14-dependent stimulation of cells by LPS but that the mechanisms by which different cell types are activated may not be identical.
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