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From the Second Department of Pathology*
and
Second Department of Internal Medicine,
Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata; the Department of
Microbiology,
Graduate School of Medicine,
Kyoto University, Kyoto; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
Ltd.,§
Shizuoka; and the Department of
Molecular Biology and Medicine,¶
Research Center
for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type I and type II macrophage scavenger receptors (SR-A I/II) recognize a variety of polyanions including bacterial cell-wall products such as lipopolysaccharide, suggesting a role for SR-A I/II in immunity against bacterial infection. SR-A I/II-deficient (MSR-A-/-) mice were more susceptible to infection with listeriolysin-O (LLO)-producing Listeria monocytogenes. After infection, Kupffer cells in wild-type (MSR-A+/+) mice phagocytized larger numbers of Listeria than those in MSR-A-/- mice. The number and the diameter of hepatic granulomas were larger in MSR-A-/- mice than MSR-A+/+ mice. L. monocytogenes replicated at higher levels in the liver of MSR-A-/- mice compared with MSR-A+/+ mice, and macrophages from MSR-A-/- mice showed impaired ability to kill Listeria in vitro. However, macrophages from MSR-A+/+ and MSR-A-/- mice showed similar levels of listericidal activity against isogenic mutant L. monocytogenes with an inactivated LLO gene. The listerial phagocytic activities of MSR-A+/+ macrophages treated with an anti-SR-A I/II antibody (2F8) and MSR-A-/- macrophages were significantly impaired compared with untreated MSR-A+/+ macrophages, indicating that SR-A I/II function as a receptor for L. monocytogenes. Electron microscopy revealed that most L. monocytogenes had been eliminated from the lysosomes of MSR-A+/+ macrophages in vivo and in vitro. In contrast, L. monocytogenes rapidly lysed the phagosomal membrane and escaped to the cytosol in MSR-A-/- macrophages and in MSR-A+/+ macrophages treated with 2F8 before phagosome-lysosome fusion. These findings imply that SR-A I/II plays a crucial role in host defense against listerial infection not only by functioning as a receptor but also by mediating listericidal mechanisms through the regulation of LLO-dependent listerial escape from the macrophages.
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