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The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 176: 3890-3894.
Copyright © 2006 by The American Association of Immunologists


CUTTING EDGE

Cutting Edge: Enhanced Pulmonary Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Muc1 Knockout Mice1

Wenju Lu*, Akinori Hisatsune*, Takeshi Koga*,{dagger}, Kosuke Kato*,{dagger}, Ippei Kuwahara*, Erik P. Lillehoj{ddagger}, Wilbur Chen{ddagger}, Alan S. Cross{ddagger}, Sandra J. Gendler§, Andrew T. Gewirtz and K. Chul Kim2,*,{dagger},{ddagger}

* Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201; {dagger} Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM 87108; {ddagger} Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201; § Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ 85259; and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322

MUC1 (MUC1 in human and Muc1 in nonhumans) is a membrane-tethered mucin that interacts with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) through flagellin. In this study, we compared PA pulmonary clearance and proinflammatory responses by Muc1–/– mice with Muc1+/+ littermates following intranasal instillation of PA or flagellin. Compared with Muc1+/+ mice, Muc1–/– mice showed increased PA clearance, greater airway recruitment of neutrophils, higher levels of TNF-{alpha} and KC in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, higher levels of TNF-{alpha} in media of flagellin-stimulated alveolar macrophages, and higher levels of KC in media of tracheal epithelial cells. Knockdown of MUC1 enhanced flagellin-induced IL-8 production by primary human bronchial epithelial cells. Expression of MUC1 in HEK293T cells attenuated TLR5-dependent IL-8 release in response to flagellin, which was completely ablated when its cytoplasmic tail was deleted. We conclude that MUC1/Muc1 suppresses pulmonary innate immunity and speculate its anti-inflammatory activity may play an important modulatory role during microbial infection.




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