A Novel Role of the Lumican Core Protein in Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide-induced Innate Immune Response

Abstract

Lumican is an extracellular matrix protein modified as a proteoglycan in some tissues. The core protein with leucine-rich repeats, characteristic of the leucine-rich-repeat superfamily, binds collagen fibrils and regulates its structure. In addition, we believe that lumican sequestered in the pericellular matrix interacts with cell surface proteins for specific cellular functions. Here we show that bacterial lipopolysaccharide sensing by the Toll-like receptor 4 signaling pathway and innate immune response is regulated by lumican. Primary cultures of lumican-deficient (Lum-/-) macrophages show impaired innate immune response to lipopolysaccharides with lower induction of tumor necrosis and response to is by lumican a specific for the lumican core protein in the Toll-like receptor 4 lumican core protein induction and innate immune response in show that the core protein binds of lumican a cell surface protein that is in its to Toll-like receptor The to with induction of and and in the the a for lumican in the of bacterial lipopolysaccharide to and response to bacterial Lumican is an extracellular matrix protein modified as a proteoglycan in some tissues. The core protein with leucine-rich repeats, characteristic of the leucine-rich-repeat superfamily, binds collagen fibrils and regulates its structure. In addition, we believe that lumican sequestered in the pericellular matrix interacts with cell surface proteins for specific cellular functions. Here we show that bacterial lipopolysaccharide sensing by the Toll-like receptor 4 signaling pathway and innate immune response is regulated by lumican. 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