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IL-1β enhances the antibacterial activity of astrocytes by activation of NF-κB

✍ Scribed by Yulei Xia; Qiwei Zhai

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
949 KB
Volume
58
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-1491

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Abstract

Astrocytes have important immune functions in CNS, and astrocytes stimulated by interferon‐γ were showed to have direct antimicrobial function. However whether astrocytes without the stimulation of cytokines have antibacterial function, and how this function is regulated are still largely unknown. In this study, we found that primary cultured astrocytes inhibited the growth of both gram‐negative and gram‐positive bacteria. Further more, we showed that interleukin‐1β (IL‐1β) enhanced the antibacterial effect in a dose‐dependent manner, and the antibacterial effect of astrocytes from IL‐1β receptor‐deficient mice failed to be enhanced by IL‐1β. IL‐1β stimulated IκBα degradation, NF‐κB nuclear translocation, and transactivation in astrocytes. NF‐κB inhibitors blocked NF‐κB activation and the enhanced antibacterial effect induced by IL‐1β. In addition, overexpression of dominant negative IκBα in astrocytes inhibited IκBα degradation and NF‐κB transactivation, and also inhibited the enhanced antibacterial effect induced by IL‐1β. All these data demonstrated that IL‐1β enhanced the antibacterial activity of astrocytes by activation of NF‐κB. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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