Pathway in Gastric Epithelial Cells IL-8 Secretion Via the TLR4
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The C-Terminal Disulfide Bonds of Helicobacter pylori GroES Are Critical for IL-8 Secretion via the TLR4-Dependent Pathway in Gastric Epithelial Cells This information is current as of September 26, 2021. Yu-Lin Su, Jyh-Chin Yang, Haur Lee, Fuu Sheu, Chun-Hua Hsu, Shuei-Liong Lin and Lu-Ping Chow J Immunol 2015; 194:3997-4007; Prepublished online 13 March 2015; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1401852 Downloaded from http://www.jimmunol.org/content/194/8/3997 References This article cites 66 articles, 25 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/ http://www.jimmunol.org/content/194/8/3997.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! 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The Journal of Immunology The C-Terminal Disulfide Bonds of Helicobacter pylori GroES Are Critical for IL-8 Secretion via the TLR4-Dependent Pathway in Gastric Epithelial Cells Yu-Lin Su,* Jyh-Chin Yang,† Haur Lee,* Fuu Sheu,‡ Chun-Hua Hsu,x Shuei-Liong Lin,{ and Lu-Ping Chow* Helicobacter pylori GroES (HpGroES), a potent immunogen, is a secreted virulence factor that stimulates production of proin- flammatory cytokines and may contribute to gastric carcinogenesis. HpGroES is larger than other bacterial orthologs because of an additional C-terminal region, known as domain B. We found that the HpGroES-induced IL-8 release by human gastric epithelial cells was dependent on activation of the MAPK and NF-kB pathways. HpGroES lacking domain B was unable to induce IL-8 release. Additionally, a TLR4 inhibitor significantly inhibited IL-8 secretion and reduced HpGroES-induced activa- Downloaded from tion of MAPKs. Furthermore, HpGroES-induced IL-8 release by primary gastric epithelial cells from TLR42/2 mice was significantly lower than from wild-type mice. We also found that HpGroES bound to TLR4 in cell lysates and colocalized with TLR4 on the cell membrane only when domain B was present. We then constructed two deletion mutants lacking C-terminal regions and mutants with point mutations of two of the four cysteine residues, C111 and C112, in domain B and found that the deletion mutants and a double mutant lacking the C94–C111 and C95–C112 disulfide bonds were unable to interact with TLR4 or induce IL-8 release. We conclude that HpGroES, in which a unique conformational structure, domain B, is generated by these two http://www.jimmunol.org/ disulfide bonds, induces IL-8 secretion via a TLR4-dependent mechanism. The Journal of Immunology, 2015, 194: 3997–4007. elicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic epithelial and immune cells (9–11). It is well recognized that re- bacterium that selectively colonizes the human stomach lease of these proinflammatory cytokines is closely linked to the H (1). H. pylori infection is a major cause of chronic pathogenesis of H. pylori–associated gastric cancer (12, 13). In- gastritis and peptic ulcer disease and is highly related to gastric duction of cytokine secretion by H. pylori depends on both the adenocarcinoma and MALT lymphoma (2). Despite a recent de- host genetic background and microbial virulence (9). Among cline in infection rates, the prevalence rate of H. pylori remains at these cytokines, IL-8 is the most highly expressed gene in nearly 50% of the world’s population, and the associated gastric H. pylori–infected gastric epithelial cells and appears to play a major by guest on September 26, 2021 cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death role in the epithelial cell response to H. pylori infection and in the worldwide. The most remarkable feature of persistent H. pylori pathological processes leading to gastric disease (14, 15). Several infection is that it causes inflammatory responses, which is an studies have demonstrated increased IL-8 production and secre- important risk factor for malignancy (3). H. pylori infection tion in response to H. pylori both in vivo and in vitro (16, 17). induces gastritis with infiltration of neutrophils, macrophages, Gastric mucosal IL-8 levels show a positive correlation with the dendritic cells, as well as T and B lymphocytes into the gastric degree of stomach corpus inflammation, and IL-8 expression is mucosa (4–8) in addition to the accumulation of various cyto- also highly increased in gastric cancer (18, 19). IL-8 production kines, including TNF-a, IL-1b, IL-6, and IL-8 secreted by gastric by gastric epithelial cells is enhanced by the virulence factor cytotoxin-associated gene (cag) pathogenicity island and other factors from H. pylori (20–23). We have previously reported that *Graduate Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, † H. pylori Hp National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, GroES ( GroES) can induce the production and se- Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan; cretion of proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-8, IL-6, IL-1b, ‡ x Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; De- and TNF-a, by human PBMCs and trigger IL-8 production and partment of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; and {Graduate Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan Uni- secretion by gastric epithelial cells (24). versity, Taipei 100, Taiwan HpGroES, also referred to as heat shock protein (HSP) A, is an Received for publication July 21, 2014. Accepted for publication February 9, 2015. unusual homolog of the essential bacterial GroES chaperonin This work was supported by National Science Council Grant NSC 101-2325-B-002- family (25), the members of which serve as cochaperonins of 065, the Liver Disease Prevention and Treatment Research Foundation, and the the heptameric GroEL/GroES barrel complex, which mediates the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. refolding of a variety of nonnative proteins (26). In addition to Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Lu-Ping Chow, Graduate Insti- tute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan the highly conserved GroES chaperonin domain, named domain University, No. 1, Jen-Ai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan. E-mail address: chowip@ntu. A, HpGroES contains a C-terminal extension domain named do- edu.tw main B (residues 91–118), which is absent in the other GroES Abbreviations used in this article: Cag, cytotoxin-associated gene; CD, circular di- members (25). Domain B consists of 28 aa, including 8 histi- chroism; 4CR, four-cysteine ring; EcGroES, Escherichia coli GroES; HA, hemag- glutinin; HpGroES, Helicobacter pylori GroES; HSP, heat shock protein; KC, dine and 4 cysteine residues, with the latter forming two disul- keratinocyte-derived chemokine; OxPAPC, oxidized 1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn- fide bonds, C94–C111 and C95–C112, generating a closed-loop glycero-3-phosphocholine; PGN, peptidoglycan; WT, wild-type. structure (27). Apart from its cochaperone activity, HpGroES Copyright Ó 2015 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/15/$25.00 plays important roles in nickel homeostasis and urease activation www.jimmunol.org/cgi/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.1401852 3998 C TERMINI CYSTEINES NEEDED FOR HpGroES-INDUCED IL-8 VIA TLR4 (25, 28, 29). Besides these roles in intracellular locations (30), DMEM. All cells were grown at 37˚C with 5% CO2 in medium supple- HpGroES is able to gain access to the extracellular compartment mented with 10% FBS and 100 U/ml penicillin-streptomycin, whereas and is highly antigenic (29, 31) and is specifically recognized by HEK293/TLR4-HA cultures were also supplemented with 100 mg/ml blasticidin. serum Abs in H. pylori–infected patients and is considered a potential candidate for vaccine development and diagnosis of Immunofluorescence staining H. pylori infection (32, 33). KATO-III and HEK293/TLR4-HA cells were seeded on coverslips over- The increased production and secretion of proinflammatory night, then treated for 1 h with 0.05 mM HpGroES or domain A at 4˚C, then cytokines induced by HpGroES has been shown to contribute to fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS for 15 min at room temperature, gastric inflammation (7, 16, 34). However, the molecular mecha- blocked by incubation for 1 h at room temperature with 5% BSA, and immunostained with rabbit Abs against HpGroES (1:200) or mouse mAb nism of proinflammatory cytokine induction has not been eluci- against TLR4 (1:200) followed by FITC- or tetramethylrhodamine iso- dated. In this study, we found that HpGroES induced IL-8 thiocyanate–labeled secondary Abs (1:500) and staining of nuclei with secretion by gastric carcinoma cells by activating the MAPK and DAPI (1:1000), and then images were captured using a TCS SP5 confocal NF-kB pathways via a TLR4-dependent mechanism. In TLR4- microscope (Leica, Wetzlar, Germany). deficient mice, HpGroES failed to induce production of the Expression and purification of HpGroES, domain A, and mouse IL-8 homolog keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC). We Escherichia coli GroES also demonstrated direct binding of HpGroES, but not domain A Hp E. coli Ec alone, to TLR4 on gastric epithelial cells and TLR4-overexpressing The genes encoding GroES, domain A, and GroES ( GroES) were cloned using the expression vector pQE30 as described previously cells.