Toll-like receptor 2 is upregulated by hog confinement dust in an IL-6-dependent manner in the airway epithelium

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology - Tập 294 Số 6 - Trang L1049-L1054 - 2008
Kristina L. Bailey1, Jill Poole2, T. Mathisen3, Todd A. Wyatt4, Susanna G. Von Essen5, Debra J. Romberger5
1Pulmonary, Nebraska Medicine
2Central States Center for Agricultural Safety & Health
3University of Nebraska Medical Center
4Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health Sciences
5Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine

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Hog confinement workers are at high risk to develop chronic bronchitis as a result of their exposure to organic dust. Chronic bronchitis is characterized by inflammatory changes of the airway epithelium. A key mediator in inflammation is Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We investigated the role of TLR2 in pulmonary inflammation induced by hog confinement dust. Normal human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE) were grown in culture and exposed to hog confinement dust extract. Hog confinement dust upregulated airway epithelial cell TLR2 mRNA in a concentration- and time-dependent manner using real-time PCR. There was a similar increase in TLR2 protein at 48 h as shown by Western blot. TLR2 was upregulated on the surface of airway epithelial cells as shown by flow cytometry. A similar upregulation of pulmonary TLR2 mRNA and protein was shown in a murine model of hog confinement dust exposure. Hog confinement dust is known to stimulate epithelial cells to produce IL-6. To determine whether TLR2 expression was being regulated by IL-6, the production of IL-6 was blocked using an IL-6-neutralizing antibody. This resulted in attenuation of the dust-induced upregulation of TLR2. To further demonstrate the importance of IL-6 in the regulation of TLR2, NHBE were directly stimulated with recombinant human IL-6. IL-6 alone was able to upregulate TLR2 in airway epithelial cells. Hog confinement dust upregulates TLR2 in the airway epithelium through an IL-6-dependent mechanism.

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American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Tập 294 Số 6

L1049-L1054

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