Potential role of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase, rather than DNA-dependent protein kinase, in CpG DNA-induced immune activation.

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2002-07-15

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Ishii, KJ
Takeshita, F
Gursel, I
Gürsel, Mayda
Conover, J
Nussenzweig, A
Klinman, DM

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Unmethylated CpG motifs present in bacterial DNA stimulate a strong innate immune response. There is evidence that DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) mediates CpG signaling. Specifically, wortmannin (an inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase [PI3]-kinases including DNA-PK) interferes with CpG-dependent cell activation, and DNA-PK knockout (KO) mice fail to respond to CpG stimulation. Current studies establish that wortmannin actually inhibits the uptake and colocalization of CpG DNA with toll-like receptor (TLR)-9 in endocytic vesicles, thereby preventing CpG-induced activation of the NF-kappaB signaling cascade. We find that DNA-PK is not involved in this process, since three strains of DNA-PK KO mice responded normally to CpG DNA. These results support a model in which CpG signaling is mediated through TLR-9 but not DNA-PK, and suggest that wortmannin-sensitive member(s) of the PI3-kinase family play a critical role in shuttling CpG DNA to TLR-9.

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Immunology, Immunology and Allergy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40266

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The Journal of experimental medicine

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https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20020773

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K. Ishii et al., “Potential role of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase, rather than DNA-dependent protein kinase, in CpG DNA-induced immune activation.,” The Journal of experimental medicine, pp. 269–74, 2002, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40266.