Mannosylated adamantane-containing desmuramyl peptide recognition by NOD2 receptor: a molecular dynamics study

Author(s):  
Aleksandra Maršavelski ◽  
Marija Paurević ◽  
Rosana Ribic

Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2) is an intracellular receptor that recognizes the bacterial peptidoglycan fragment, muramyl dipeptide (MDP). Our group has synthesized and biologically evaluated desmuramyl peptides containing adamantane and...

2008 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. A-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohiro Watanabe ◽  
Naoki Asano ◽  
Peter Murray ◽  
Keiko Ozato ◽  
Atsushi Kitani ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 706-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margreet A. Wolfert ◽  
Abhijit Roychowdhury ◽  
Geert-Jan Boons

ABSTRACT Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) protein 1 (NOD1) and NOD2 are pathogen recognition receptors that sense breakdown products of peptidoglycan (PGN) (muropeptides). It is shown that a number of these muropeptides can induce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) gene expression without significant TNF-α translation. This translation block is lifted when the muropeptides are coincubated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), thereby accounting for an apparently synergistic effect of the muropeptides with LPS on TNF-α protein production. The compounds that induced synergistic effects were also able to activate NF-κB in a NOD1- or NOD2-dependent manner, implicating these proteins in synergistic TNF-α secretion. It was found that a diaminopimelic acid (DAP)-containing muramyl tetrapeptide could activate NF-κB in a NOD1-dependent manner, demonstrating that an exposed DAP is not essential for NOD1 sensing. The activity was lost when the α-carboxylic acid of iso-glutamic acid was modified as an amide. However, agonists of NOD2, such as muramyl dipeptide and lysine-containing muramyl tripeptides, were not affected by amidation of the α-carboxylic acid of iso-glutamic acid. Many pathogens modify the α-carboxylic acid of iso-glutamic acid of PGN, and thus it appears this is a strategy to avoid recognition by the host innate immune system. This type of immune evasion is in particular relevant for NOD1.


2012 ◽  
Vol 287 (27) ◽  
pp. 23057-23067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyao Mo ◽  
Joseph P. Boyle ◽  
Christopher B. Howard ◽  
Tom P. Monie ◽  
Beckley K. Davis ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitendra Maharana ◽  
Banikalyan Swain ◽  
Bikash R. Sahoo ◽  
Manas R. Dikhit ◽  
Madhubanti Basu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Tomohiro Watanabe ◽  
Naoki Asano ◽  
Peter J. Murray ◽  
Keiko Ozato ◽  
Prafullakumar Tailor ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Youjia Zhong ◽  
Chiung-Hui Huang ◽  
Win Mar Soe ◽  
Koon Wing Chan ◽  
Mas Suhaila Isa ◽  
...  

Abstract We report on 2 Asian siblings with X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis deficiency that arose from a novel deletion that presented with Epstein-Barr virus disease and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. This disease is ascribed to dysfunction in the nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain receptor pathway, tested using a modified muramyl dipeptide–mediated assay.


2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1541-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almut Dufner ◽  
Gordon S. Duncan ◽  
Andrew Wakeham ◽  
Alisha R. Elford ◽  
Håkan T. Hall ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT We have previously reported the cloning and characterization of CARD6, a caspase recruitment domain (CARD)-containing protein that is structurally related to the interferon (IFN)-inducible GTPases. CARD6 associates with microtubules and with receptor-interacting protein 2 (RIP2). RIP2 mediates NF-κB activation induced by the intracellular nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) receptors that sense bacterial peptidoglycan. Here we report that the expression of CARD6 and RIP2 in bone marrow-derived macrophages is rapidly induced by beta IFN and gamma IFN. This IFN-induced upregulation of CARD6 is suppressed by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), in contrast to LPS's enhancement of IFN-induced RIP2 upregulation. We generated CARD6-deficient (CARD6−/−) mice and carried out extensive analyses of signaling pathways mediating innate and adaptive immune responses, including the NOD pathways, but did not detect any abnormalities. Moreover, CARD6−/− mice were just as susceptible as wild-type mice to infection by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, Candida albicans, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, or mouse adenovirus type 1. Thus, although structural and in vitro analyses strongly suggest an important role for CARD6 in immune defense, the physiological function of CARD6 remains obscure.


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