Complement Activation and Complement-Dependent Inflammation by Neisseria meningitidis Are Independent of Lipopolysaccharide
AUTOR(ES)
Sprong, Tom
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Fulminant meningococcal sepsis has been termed the prototypical lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated gram-negative septic shock. Systemic inflammation by activated complement and cytokines is important in the pathogenesis of this disease. We investigated the involvement of meningococcal LPS in complement activation, complement-dependent inflammatory effects, and cytokine or chemokine production. Whole blood anticoagulated with lepirudin was stimulated with wild-type Neisseria meningitidis H44/76 (LPS+), LPS-deficient N. meningitidis H44/76lpxA (LPS−), or purified meningococcal LPS (NmLPS) at concentrations that were relevant to meningococcal sepsis. Complement activation products, chemokines, and cytokines were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, and granulocyte CR3 (CD11b/CD18) upregulation and oxidative burst were measured by flow cytometry. The LPS+ and LPS− N. meningitidis strains both activated complement effectively and to comparable extents. Purified NmLPS, used at a concentration matched to the amount present in whole bacteria, did not induce any complement activation. Both CR3 upregulation and oxidative burst were also induced, independent of LPS. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor alpha, and macrophage inflammatory protein 1α production was predominantly dependent on LPS, in contrast to IL-8 production, which was also markedly induced by the LPS− meningococci. In this whole blood model of meningococcal sepsis, complement activation and the immediate complement-dependent inflammatory effects of CR3 upregulation and oxidative burst occurred independent of LPS.
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