Abstract
Insects defend themselves against infectious microorganisms by synthesizing potent antimicrobial peptides.Drosophilahas appeared in recent years as a favorable model to study this innate host defense. A genetic analysis of the regulation of the antifungal peptide drosomycin has demonstrated a key role for the transmembrane receptor Toll, which prompted the search for mammalian homologs. Two of these, Toll-like receptor (TLR)2 and TLR4, recently were shown to play a critical role in innate immunity against bacteria. Here we describe six additionalToll-related genes (Toll-3toToll-8) inDrosophilain addition to18-wheeler. Two of these genes,Toll-3andToll-4, are expressed at a low level.Toll-6,-7, and-8, on the other hand, are expressed at high levels during embryogenesis and molting, suggesting that, likeTolland18w, they perform developmental functions. Finally,Toll-5is expressed only in larvae and adults. By using chimeric constructs, we have tested the capacity of the signaling Toll/IL-1R homology domains of these receptors to activate antimicrobial peptide promoters and found that only Toll and Toll-5 can activate the drosomycin promoter in transfected cells, thus demonstrating specificity at the level of the Toll/IL-1R homology domain. In contrast, none of these constructs activated antibacterial peptide promoters, suggesting that Toll-related receptors are not involved in the regulation of antibacterial peptide expression. This result was independently confirmed by the demonstration that a dominant-negative version of the kinase Pelle can block induction of drosomycin by the cytokine Spaetzle, but does not affect induction of the antibacterial peptide attacin by lipopolysaccharide.
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@article{Tauszig_2000, title={Toll-related receptors and the control of antimicrobial peptide expression inDrosophila}, volume={97}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.180130797}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.180130797}, number={19}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Tauszig, Servane and Jouanguy, Emmanuelle and Hoffmann, Jules A. and Imler, Jean-Luc}, year={2000}, month=sep, pages={10520–10525} }