Hydrophobic Amino-Terminal Pocket CD14 Reveals a Bent Solenoid with a the Crystal Structure of Human Soluble
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The Crystal Structure of Human Soluble CD14 Reveals a Bent Solenoid with a Hydrophobic Amino-Terminal Pocket This information is current as Stacy L. Kelley, Tiit Lukk, Satish K. Nair and Richard I. of September 25, 2021. Tapping J Immunol 2013; 190:1304-1311; Prepublished online 21 December 2012; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1202446 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/190/3/1304 Downloaded from Supplementary http://www.jimmunol.org/content/suppl/2012/12/31/jimmunol.120244 Material 6.DC1 http://www.jimmunol.org/ References This article cites 87 articles, 45 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/190/3/1304.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision by guest on September 25, 2021 • No Triage! Every submission reviewed by practicing scientists • Fast Publication! 4 weeks from acceptance to publication *average Subscription Information about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: http://jimmunol.org/subscription Permissions Submit copyright permission requests at: http://www.aai.org/About/Publications/JI/copyright.html Email Alerts Receive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at: http://jimmunol.org/alerts The Journal of Immunology is published twice each month by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc., 1451 Rockville Pike, Suite 650, Rockville, MD 20852 Copyright © 2013 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0022-1767 Online ISSN: 1550-6606. The Journal of Immunology The Crystal Structure of Human Soluble CD14 Reveals a Bent Solenoid with a Hydrophobic Amino-Terminal Pocket Stacy L. Kelley,* Tiit Lukk,* Satish K. Nair,* and Richard I. Tapping†,‡ Human monocyte differentiation Ag CD14 is a pattern recognition receptor that enhances innate immune responses to infection by sensitizing host cells to bacterial LPS (endotoxin), lipoproteins, lipoteichoic acid, and other acylated microbial products. CD14 physically delivers these lipidated microbial products to various TLR signaling complexes that subsequently induce intracellular proinflammatory signaling cascades upon ligand binding. The ensuing cellular responses are usually protective to the host but can also result in host fatality through sepsis. In this work, we have determined the x-ray crystal structure of human CD14. The structure reveals a bent solenoid typical of leucine-rich repeat proteins with an amino-terminal pocket that presumably binds acylated ligands including LPS. Comparison of human and mouse CD14 structures shows great similarity in overall protein fold. However, compared with mouse CD14, human CD14 contains an expanded pocket and alternative rim residues that are likely to be important for LPS Downloaded from binding and cell activation. The x-ray crystal structure of human CD14 presented in this article may foster additional ligand-bound structural studies, virtual docking studies, and drug design efforts to mitigate LPS-induced sepsis and other inflammatory diseases. The Journal of Immunology, 2013, 190: 1304–1311. D14 was first characterized as a membrane cell-surface site of infection, proinflammatory signaling resulting from CD14 differentiation marker of myeloid lineage cells (1). Mem- activity is protective, leading to local clearance of invading bac- http://www.jimmunol.org/ C brane CD14 is a GPI-anchored 55-kDa glycoprotein (2, 3) teria. However, widespread infection and activation of this proin- that is highly expressed on monocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils flammatory signaling system can cause fatality through sepsis with lower surface expression observed on a variety of other hema- (reviewed in Refs. 6, 7). In response to LPS, CD14-deficient mice topoietic and stromal cells. Soluble forms of CD14 exist in serum, have blunted proinflammatory cytokine production and lack the cerebrospinal, and other body fluids. Soluble CD14 is generated by lethargy, respiratory, and ruffled fur symptoms associated with at least three different mechanisms that include bypassing of GPI murine septic shock. CD14-deficient mice also survive challenge addition, cleavage of the GPI anchor by phospholipase D, or direct with otherwise lethal doses of LPS (8). proteolytic cleavage from the cell surface (reviewed in Ref. 4). LPS is the major lipid present in the outer membrane of Gram- CD14 is best known as a pattern recognition receptor of the negative bacteria (9). LPS is an amphipathic molecule and in en- by guest on September 25, 2021 innate immune system that plays a prominent role in sensitizing teric bacteria is composed of a hexaacylated lipid A region with cells to the presence of Gram-negative bacterial LPS (endotoxin) a diglucosamine backbone flanked by 1 and 49 phosphates. The (4). CD14 is thought to sensitize cells to LPS by delivering this length, number, and saturation of the fatty acid tails in LPS can vary agonist to the TLR4 receptor signaling complex. Membrane CD14 between different species of bacteria (10), as can the length and shuttles LPS to TLR4 complexes in a two-dimensional search (4), sugar content of the core and O-Ag regions (11). The binding of whereas soluble CD14 enables cells that lack endogenous CD14, LPS by CD14 is slow unless this binding reaction is catalyzed by including most epithelial and endothelial cells, to respond to LPS LPS-binding protein (LBP) (12, 13). LBP is a 60-kDa human serum (reviewed in Ref. 5). LPS-induced TLR4 activation initiates host glycoprotein produced by liver hepatocytes (14, 15) that disag- inflammation by driving cellular production of proinflammatory gregates and catalytically transfers LPS to CD14 (16). In concert cytokines, chemokines, and cell adhesion molecules. At the local with LBP, CD14 binds monomeric LPS (12) and shuttles it to the TLR4 complex. This effectively concentrates low levels of LPS and increases the sensitivity of the system (4, 12, 13, 17, 18). The major *Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, LPS acceptor of the TLR4 receptor complex is a 25-kDa corecep- IL 61801; †Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; and ‡College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana- tor called MD-2, which is physically associated with TLR4. The Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 binding of LPS to the TLR4–MD-2 complex facilitates dimeriza- Received for publication August 30, 2012. Accepted for publication November 15, tion, resulting in a homodimeric receptor signaling complex com- 2012. posed of two TLR4 monomers, two MD-2 proteins, and two LPS This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 AI052344 (to molecules (19). Cell signaling is facilitated by the intracellular R.I.T.) and T32 GM007283 (to S.L.K.). signaling domain of TLR4, which upon dimerization creates a The protein structure coordinates presented in this article were submitted to the Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=4GLP) under platform for intracellular signaling adaptors (20). Small gel filtra- accession number 4GLP. tion mixing studies have demonstrated a catalytic role for CD14 in Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Richard I. Tapping, Department the delivery of LPS to the TLR4–MD-2 complex (17, 21–24). of Microbiology, University of Illinois, B103 CLSL MC-110, 601 South Goodwin As a pattern recognition receptor, CD14 is capable of binding Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801. E-mail address: [email protected] a wide variety of natural and synthetic acylated ligands in addition The online version of this article contains supplemental material. to LPS. For example, CD14 and LBP can work together to opsonize Abbreviations used in this article: LBP, LPS-binding protein; PEG, polyethylene whole bacteria and apoptotic cells, clearing infection and reducing glycol; PNGaseF, peptide N-glycosidase F. inflammation (25–29). CD14 is also able to bind and shuttle Copyright Ó 2013 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/13/$16.00 certain host phospholipids (30–32). Further, CD14 has been shown www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.1202446 The Journal of Immunology 1305 to enhance cellular inflammatory responses to a variety of acylated CD14 were collected and injected on the two tandem Protein A columns three bacterial agonists of TLR2, including lipoteichoic acid, myco- consecutive times to remove Fc. Flow-through fractions containing soluble bacterial lipoarabinomannan, atypical LPSs, and lipoproteins (33– CD14 were pooled and concentrated to 1 ml using an Amicon Ultra-15 U (Millipore). 40). Given this central role in TLR agonist delivery, CD14 is an Because glycosylation contributes to protein heterogeneity, we removed obvious drug target for the treatment of sepsis (reviewed in Refs. N-linked glycans from CD14 by a 1-h incubation at 37˚C in 1xG7 buffer 6, 7). (0.05 M sodium phosphate, pH 7.5) containing 1000 U peptide N-glycosidase The molecular interactions involved in the binding and delivery F (PNGaseF) (New England Biolabs). This deglycosylated CD14 was further purified by anion exchange chromatography using two tandem 5-ml Hi-Trap of structurally diverse ligands presumably requires multiple pro- Q anion exchange columns (GE Healthcare) and a linear NaCl gradient tein–ligand and protein–protein interaction sites on CD14 that are (0.02–1M)in0.02MTris-HCl,pH8.5at4˚Cusinga1ml/minflowrate. currently undefined. In addition, the mechanisms involved in de- CD14-containing fractions were concentrated using an Amicon Ultra-15 U livery of these ligands to multiple TLR complexes are also un- (Millipore) to 0.5 ml. Finally, size-exclusion chromatography was performed resolved. To address this gap in knowledge, many groups have using a Superdex 200 column (GE Healthcare) equilibrated with 0.02 M Tris- HCl, pH 8.5, and 0.1 M NaCl at a flow rate of 0.4 ml/min. The fractions purified various recombinant forms of soluble CD14 using bac- containing CD14 were pooled and concentrated to 10 mg/ml using an teria, yeast, insect, and human cellular expression systems (12, Amicon Ultra-4 U (Millipore) as measured by Pierce BCA assay (Pierce, 41–51), often with the goal of structure determination (49, 50).