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* Zentrum für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Abteilung für Biochemische Pharmakologie, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; ¶ Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine Cochin, Paris, || Unité de Biologie des Pathogènes à Gram-positif, Institut Pasteur, Paris France; # Dipartimento di Patologia e Microbiologia Sperimentale, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy;** Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Boston, MA 02115; Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) cell walls potently activate phagocytes by a largely TLR2-independent mechanism. In contrast, the cell wall component lipoteichoic acid (LTA) from diverse Gram-positive bacterial species has been shown to engage TLR2. In this study we examined the role of LTA from GBS in phagocyte activation and the requirements for TLR-LTA interaction. Using cells from knockout mice and genetic complementation in epithelial cells we found that highly pure LTA from both GBS and Staphylococcus aureus interact with TLR2 and TLR6, but not TLR1, in contrast to previous reports. Furthermore, NF-
B activation by LTA required the integrity of two putative PI3K binding domains within TLR2 and was inhibited by wortmannin, indicating an essential role for PI3K in cellular activation by LTA. However, LTA from GBS proved to be a relatively weak stimulus of phagocytes containing 
20% of the activity observed with LTA from Staphylococcus aureus. Structural analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry revealed important differences between LTA from GBS and S. aureus, specifically differences in glycosyl linkage, in the glycolipid anchor and a lack of N-acetylglucosamine substituents of the glycerophosphate backbone. Furthermore, GBS expressing LTA devoid of D-alanine residues, that are essential within immune activation by LTA, exhibited similar inflammatory potency as GBS with alanylated LTA. In conclusion, LTA from GBS is a TLR2/TLR6 ligand that might contribute to secreted GBS activity, but does not contribute significantly to GBS cell wall mediated macrophage activation.
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