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Lipoproteins of Listeria monocytogenes are critical for virulence and TLR2-mediated immune activation.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2008
Machata Silke, Tchatalbachev Svetlin, Mohamed Walid, Jänsch Lothar, Hain Torsten, Chakraborty Trinad
Abstract excerpt
Numerous cell surface components of Listeria influence and regulate innate immune recognition and virulence. Here, we demonstrate that lipidation of prelipoproteins in Listeria monocytogenes is required to promote NF-kappaB activation via TLR2. In HeLa cells transiently expressing TLR2, L. monocytogenes and Listeria innocua mutants lacking the prolipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase (lgt) gene are unable to...
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