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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2006

Flagellin suppresses epithelial apoptosis and limits disease during enteric infection.

Matam Vijay-Kumar, Huixia Wu, Rheinallt Jones, George Grant, Brian Babbin, Timothy P King, Denise Kelly, Andrew T Gewirtz, Andrew S Neish

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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69 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matam Vijay-KumarDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Epithelial Pathobiology Unit, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Huixia Wu
Rheinallt Jones
George Grant
Brian Babbin
Timothy P King
Denise Kelly
Andrew T Gewirtz
Andrew S Neish
Emory University · US

Funding

Emory Epithelial Pathobiology Research Development CenterR24DK064399 · NIDDK · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI PARKOS, CHARLES A · 2003 to 2012
$5.3M
Flagellin-Induced Gut Epithelial Chemokine SecretionR01DK061417 · NIDDK · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GEWIRTZ, ANDREW T · 2003 to 2012
$3.4M
Intestinal cell response to bacterial apoptotic signalsR01DK071604 · NIDDK · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI NEISH, ANDREW S · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
Epithelial Responses to Enteric OrganismsR01AI051282 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI NEISH, ANDREW S. · 2002 to 2005
$912k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051282NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI51282NIDDK NIH HHS DK061417NIDDK NIH HHS DK071604NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK061417NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK071604NIDDK NIH HHS R24 DK064399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flagellin, the primary component of bacterial flagella, is a potent activator of toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) signaling and is a major proinflammatory determinant of enteropathogenic Salmonella. In accordance with this, we report here that aflagellate Salmonella mutants are impaired in their ability to up-regulate proinflammatory and anti-apoptotic effector molecules in murine models of salmonellosis and that these mutants elicit markedly reduced early mucosal inflammation relative to their isogenic parent strains. Conversely, aflagellate bacteria were more potent activators of epithelial caspases and subsequent apoptosis. These phenomena correlated with a delayed but markedly exacerbated mucosal inflammation at the later stages of infection as well as elevated extra-intestinal and systemic bacterial load, culminating in a more severe clinical outcome. Systemic administration of exogenous flagellin primarily reversed the deleterious effects of in vivo Salmonella infection. These observations indicate that in Salmonella infection, flagellin plays a dominant role in activation of not only innate immunity but also anti-apoptotic processes in epithelial cells. These latter TLR-mediated responses that delay epithelial apoptosis may be as critical to mucosal defense as the classic acute inflammatory response. This notion is consistent with the emerging paradigm that specific TLR ligands may have a fundamental cytoprotective effect during inflammatory stress.

Indexed as

ApoptosisAnimalsCaco-2 CellsCaspasesCecumCells, CulturedCell SurvivalDisease Models, AnimalEnteritisEpithelial CellsFemaleFlagellinHumansIleumInflammationIntestinal MucosaCaspasesFlagellin

Identifiers

PMID17071592
PMCPMC1780197
OpenAlexW2023968424

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