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* Laboratory of Experimental Internal Medicine,
Department of Pathology, and
Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605; and
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Department of Internal Medicine 1, Intensive Care Unit and Division of Infectious Diseases and Chemotherapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
LPS-binding protein (LBP) facilitates the interaction of the Gram-negative cell wall component LPS with CD14, thereby enhancing the immune response to LPS. Although lung epithelial cells have been reported to produce LBP in vitro, knowledge of the in vivo role of pulmonary LBP is limited. Therefore, in the present study we sought to determine the function of pulmonary LBP in lung inflammation induced by intranasal administration of LPS in vivo. Using LBP-deficient (LBP–/–) and normal wild-type mice, we show that the contribution of LBP to pulmonary LPS responsiveness depended entirely on the LPS dose. Although the inflammatory response to low dose (1 ng) LPS was attenuated in LBP–/– mice, neutrophil influx and cytokine/chemokine concentrations in the bronchoalveolar compartment were enhanced in LBP–/– mice treated with higher (>10 ng) LPS doses. This finding was specific for LBP, because the exogenous administration of LBP to LBP–/– mice reversed this phenotype and reduced the local inflammatory response to higher LPS doses. Our results indicate that pulmonary LBP acts as an important modulator of the LPS response in the respiratory tract in vivo. This newly identified function of pulmonary LBP might prove beneficial by enabling a protective immune response to low LPS doses while preventing an overwhelming, potentially harmful immune response to higher doses of LPS.
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