Jarvis Bruce W, Harris Tajie H, Qureshi Nilofer, Splitter Gary A
Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA.
Infect Immun. 2002 Dec;70(12):7165-8. doi: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.7165-7168.2002.
The intracellular, gram-negative pathogen Brucella abortus establishes chronic infections in host macrophages while downregulating cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). When producing TNF-alpha, Brucella abortus rough lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activates the same mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways (ERK and JNK) as Escherichia coli LPS, but Brucella LPS is a much less potent agonist.
细胞内革兰氏阴性病原体流产布鲁氏菌在宿主巨噬细胞中建立慢性感染,同时下调细胞因子,如肿瘤坏死因子α(TNF-α)。当产生TNF-α时,流产布鲁氏菌粗糙脂多糖(LPS)激活与大肠杆菌LPS相同的丝裂原活化蛋白激酶信号通路(ERK和JNK),但布鲁氏菌LPS是一种效力低得多的激动剂。