Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11705898›Full record

ArticleInfection and immunity2001

Enzyme degradation and proinflammatory activity in arthritogenic and nonarthritogenic Eubacterium aerofaciens cell walls.

X Zhang, M Rimpiläinen, E Simelyte, P Toivanen

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

X ZhangDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Turku Immunology Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. xzhang@utu.fi
M Rimpiläinen
E Simelyte
P Toivanen
University of Turku · FI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two almost-identical strains of Eubacterium aerofaciens isolated from the normal human gut flora were used. The cell wall (CW) of one strain with a peptidoglycan (PG) type A4alpha induces chronic arthritis in the rat after a single intraperitoneal injection, whereas CW of the other with PG type A4beta induces only a transient acute arthritis. The CW of the arthritogenic E. aerofaciens was a twofold-more-potent stimulator of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) than the nonarthritogenic CW. After degradation with mutanolysin, the capacity of the arthritogenic PG to stimulate production of TNF-alpha and MCP-1 was significantly increased, whereas that of the nonarthritogenic PG was significantly decreased. In other words, after enzyme degradation the arthritogenic PG had a four- to fivefold-stronger stimulatory capacity than that of the enzyme-treated nonarthritogenic PG. These findings indicate that the arthritogenicity of CW or a PG is not dependent on the enzyme resistance alone but also on how the PG fragments released by enzyme degradation stimulate the production of proinflammatory cytokines.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthritis, InfectiousArthritis, RheumatoidCarbohydrate SequenceCell WallChemokine CCL2Digestive SystemEndopeptidasesEubacteriumGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsLiverMacrophages, PeritonealMolecular Sequence DataMuramic AcidsMuramidasePeptidoglycanChemokine CCL2EndopeptidasesMuramic AcidsMuramidasemutanolysinPeptidoglycanTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID11705898
PMCPMC98812
OpenAlexW2169024003

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