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Center for the Development of Molecular Target Drugs, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Antigenic stimulation activates T cells and simultaneously destines them to die by Fas-mediated apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated that various pathogen-associated molecular patterns up-regulated Fas expression in macrophages and sensitized them specifically to Fas ligand (FasL), but not to other apoptosis-inducing agents such as TNF-
, etoposide (VP-16), and staurosporine. Toll-like receptor, NF-
B, and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase mediated these responses. LPS stimulation induced the expression of Fas, caspase 8, cellular FLIP Bfl-1/A1, and Bcl-x, but not FasL, TNFR p55, Bak, Bax, and Bad at the transcriptional level. Thus, LPS selectively induced the expression of apoptotic molecules of the Fas death pathway (except for cellular FLIP) and antiapoptotic molecules of the mitochondrial death pathway. However, the kinetics of macrophage disappearance following Escherichia coli-induced peritonitis was similar between wild-type and Fas-deficient mice, suggesting that Fas is not essential for the turnover of activated macrophages in T cell-independent inflammation. In contrast, LPS-activated macrophages produced a large amount of IL-1
upon FasL stimulation. Thus, unlike the activation-induced cell death of T cells, the sensitization of macrophages to FasL by pathogen-associated molecular patterns seems to be a proinflammatory rather than an anti-inflammatory event.
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