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Cooperative Interactions between Toll-Like Receptor 2 and Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Murine Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections

  • Jeon, Hee-Yeon (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Park, Jong-Hyung (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Park, Jin-Il (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Kim, Jun-Young (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Seo, Sun-Min (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Ham, Seung-Hoon (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University) ;
  • Jeong, Eui-Suk (Laboratory Animal Center, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation) ;
  • Choi, Yang-Kyu (Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University)
  • Received : 2017.04.18
  • Accepted : 2017.06.03
  • Published : 2017.08.28

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic and clinically significant emerging pathogen. We investigated the relative roles of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4 in initiating host defenses against K. pneumoniae. TLR2 knockout (KO), TLR4 KO, TLR2/4 double KO (DKO), and wild-type (WT) mice were inoculated with K. pneumoniae. Mice in each group were sacrificed after either 12 or 24h, and the lungs, liver, and blood were harvested to enumerate bacterial colony-forming units (CFU). Cytokine and chemokine levels were analyzed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and real-time PCR, and pneumonia severity was determined by histopathological analysis. Survival was significantly shortened in TLR4 KO and TLR2/4 DKO mice compared with that of WT mice after infection with $5{\times}10^3CFU$. TLR2 KO mice were more susceptible to infection than WT mice after exposure to a higher infectious dose. Bacterial burdens in the lungs and liver were significantly higher in TLR2/4 DKO mice than in WT mice. Serum $TNF-{\alpha}$, MCP-1, MIP-2, and nitric oxide levels were significantly decreased in TLR2/4 DKO mice relative to those in WT mice, and TLR2/4 DKO mice showed significantly decreased levels of $TNF-{\alpha}$, IL-6, MCP-1, and inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA in the lung compared with those in WT mice. Collectively, these data indicate that TLR2/4 DKO mice were more susceptible to K. pneumoniae infection than single TLR2 KO and TLR4 KO mice. These results suggest that TLR2 and TLR4 play cooperative roles in lung innate immune responses and bacterial dissemination, resulting in systemic inflammation during K. pneumoniae infection.

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