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Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 112 (2006) 302–308 www.elsevier.com/locate/vetimm Short communication Cloning and radiation hybrid mapping of bovine toll-like receptor-4 (TLR-4) signaling molecules§ Erin E. Connor a, Elizabeth A. Cates a,b, John L. Williams c, Douglas D. Bannerman a,* a Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA b University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA c Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, UK Received 17 January 2006; accepted 7 March 2006 Abstract Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 is a transmembrane receptor for lipopolysaccharide, a highly pro-inflammatory component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. To date, molecules of the TLR-4 signaling pathway have not been well characterized in cattle. The goal of this study was to clone and sequence the full-length coding regions of bovine genes involved in TLR-4 signaling including CASP8, IRAK1, LY96 (MD-2), TICAM2, TIRAP, TOLLIP and TRAF 6 and to position these genes, as well as MyD88 and TICAM1, on the bovine genome using radiation hybrid mapping. Results of this work indicate differences with a previously published bovine sequence for LY96 and a predicted sequence in the GenBank database for TIRAP based on the most recent assembly of the bovine genome. In addition, discrepancies between actual and predicted chromosomal map positions based on the Btau_2.0 genome assembly release were identified, although map positions were consistent with predicted locations based on the current bovine-human comparative map. Alignment of the bovine amino acid sequences with human and murine sequences showed a broad range in conservation, from 52 to 93%. Overall, this work should assist in the assembly and annotation of the bovine genome sequence, the identification of variations in genes critically involved in host innate immunity, and facilitate the study of TLR-4 signaling pathways in cattle. # 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Apoptosis; Mastitis; Endotoxin; Inflammation § The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper were submitted to GenBank and assigned accession numbers DQ319070–DQ319076. * Corresponding author at: Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, BARC-East, Bldg. 1040, Room #2, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA. Tel.: +1 301 504 5066; fax: +1 301 504 5306. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.D. Bannerman). 0165-2427/$ – see front matter # 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.vetimm.2006.03.003 E.E. Connor et al. / Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 112 (2006) 302–308 303 1. Introduction have been implicated in mediating TLR-4-induced apoptosis (Bannerman and Goldblum, 2003; Dauphi- Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for several nee and Karsan, 2006). TICAM-2, which in concert economically important diseases in cattle, including with TICAM-1 promotes TLR-4-elicited activation of enteric colibacillosis, coliform septicemia, brucello- the IRF-3 transcription factor that regulates IFN-b sis, metritis, pneumonia, salmonellosis, campylobac- production (Vogel et al., 2003; Takeda and Akira, teriosis, and mastitis (Cullor, 1992). It is estimated that 2005), has recently been implicated in mediating almost 40% of the clinical cases of mastitis are caused TLR-4-induced pro-apoptotic signaling (Kaiser and by Gram-negative bacteria (Erskine et al., 1991; Ziv, Offermann, 2005). There is evidence to suggest that 1992). Many of the cows with these infections develop the ability of these various TLR-4 signaling molecules septic shock, an exaggerated inflammatory response to induce apoptosis is through FADD-mediated elicited largely by a highly pro-inflammatory compo- activation of caspase-8 (Bannerman and Goldblum, nent of the Gram-negative bacterial envelope known as endotoxin or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS induces inflammation, in part, through its binding and activation of toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 (Chow et al., 1999), which leads to the downstream activation of the transcription factor NF-kB and corresponding pro-inflammatory cytokine production (Baldwin, 1996). Following LPS recognition by TLR-4 anditsassociatedproteinsMD-2andCD-14,theadapter protein myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) is recruited to the cytoplasmic domain of TLR-4 through homotypic binding of respective toll receptor-inter- leukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains contained within each protein (Medzhitov et al., 1998). Human MyD88 contains a highly conserved death domain (DD) that facilitates its interaction with another DD-containing signaling molecule, IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK). In the absence of MyD88, TIR domain- containing adapter protein (TIRAP) (also known as MAL) has been shown to function in a redundant role to MyD88 (Horng et al., 2001). Following recruitment to Fig.1. SchematicofhumanTLR-4signalingmoleculesreportedto MyD88, IRAK-1 undergoes rapid autophosphorylation be involved in the induction of cellular pro-inflammatory and pro- and dissociation from the signaling complex. Phos- apoptotic responses. Following LPS binding to the tri-partite recognition complex composed of TLR-4, MD-2 (LY96), and phorylated IRAK subsequently interacts with TNF CD14, various signaling molecules are recruited to the intracellular receptor-associated factor-6 (TRAF-6), initiating the domain of TLR-4 leading to the activation of a series of signal activation of a kinase cascade involving IkB kinase transduction pathways. TIRAP, MyD88, and IRAK-1 have been (IKK) (Swantek et al., 2000). Activation of this cascade proposed to function upstream of TRAF-6, the latter of which can culminates in the phosphorylation and degradation of activate IKK resulting in NF-kB nuclear translocation and the upregulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines. TICAM-1 and the NF-kB inhibitor, IkB, enabling NF-kB to translo- TICAM-2 have been shown to function upstream of TRAF-6 cate to the nucleus and promote pro-inflammatory gene and RIP, the latter of which also promotes NF-kB activation. expression. Adding to the level of complexity is the Further signaling roles have been demonstrated for TICAM-1 finding that another molecule, TOLLIP, is involved in and TICAM-2 in the activation of the transcription factor IRF-3, negatively regulating TLR-4-induced NF-kB activation which promotes the expression of IFN-b.Finally,boththeTIRAP/ MyD88/IRAK-1/TRAF-6 and TICAM-2/TICAM-1/RIP-1 path- (Zhang and Ghosh, 2002). ways have been implicated in caspase-8 mediated apoptosis. In addition to their involvement in NF-kB (Circled proteins indicate those whose bovine gene orthologs were activation, MyD88, TIRAP, IRAK-1, and TRAF-6 sequenced and/or mapped in the present report.). 304 E.E. Connor et al. / Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 112 (2006) 302–308 2003; Kaiser and Offermann, 2005; Dauphinee and Table 1 Karsan, 2006). A schematic of select TLR-4 Summary of primer sequences used for cloning bovine toll-like receptor signaling molecules intracellular signaling molecules involved in NF-kB 0 0 and IRF-3 activation (Vogel et al., 2003; Takeda and Locus Primer sequences (5 ! 3 ) Amplicon size (bp) Akira, 2005), as well as apoptosis, is shown (Fig. 1). CASP8 gatgttgccaggactgtgtg 1681 Molecules involved in intracellular TLR-4 signal- gcattttaactattgttcagttgcat IRAK-1a tgtgccgcttctacaaagtg 1149 ing have not been well characterized in cattle and agctgaaggtgtcggtgtct information is lacking regarding their roles in mastitis gagttccaacgtccttctgg 1197 and other diseases of cattle caused by Gram-negative ccatgagaacttccgaccat bacteria. Therefore, the goal of this study was to clone LY96 catttttaaagttttggagagattga 603 and sequence the full-length coding regions of bovine tggcagacctagcaaacaaa TICAM2 tcctcttctgactcggatcttt 854 genes involved in TLR-4 signaling, including inter- gggctccacaggtttctgta leukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK1), MD-2 TIRAP ccctcccttctcccacttta 825 protein (LY96), toll-like receptor adaptor molecule 2 gggccctctaactccatttc (TICAM2), toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain contain- TOLLIP gtctggtcgcgtctctgtc 1034 ing adaptor protein (TIRAP), toll interacting protein ctgcaagaaccaaaaccaca TRAF6 gagcagttgatgatcacgttact 1819 (TOLLIP), TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6), cccaaggattatggctcaa and caspase 8 (CASP8), to facilitate study of these a molecules in cattle. In addition, the chromosomal Two primer pairs were used to obtain overlapping segments of the IRAK-1 transcript; the remaining 112 bp at the 50 end were locations of these seven genes, as well as myeloid obtained by 50 rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88), and toll-like receptor adaptor molecule 1 (TICAM1) kit (Stratagene) according to kit instructions. To obtain were determined by radiation hybrid mapping. the complete 50 end of the IRAK-1 transcript, 50 rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) was performed using the SMART RACE cDNA amplification kit 2. Materials and methods (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA), 1 mg of total RNA isolated from bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells, and 2.1. Cloning and sequencing gene-specific primer 50-CGGTTGATCCACGGCCA- CAG-30, according to manufacturer’s instructions. For the cloning and sequencing of each gene target, Reaction products for each gene were separated by total RNAwas obtained using the RNeasy kit (Qiagen, agarose gel electrophoresis and the products of the Valencia, CA) from primary cultures of aortic and expected size were extracted using the