Publication Date:
2003-03-15
Description:
Members of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) and interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) superfamily share an intracytoplasmic Toll-IL-1 receptor (TIR) domain, which mediates recruitment of the interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) complex via TIR-containing adapter molecules. We describe three unrelated children with inherited IRAK-4 deficiency. Their blood and fibroblast cells did not activate nuclear factor kappaB and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and failed to induce downstream cytokines in response to any of the known ligands of TIR-bearing receptors. The otherwise healthy children developed infections caused by pyogenic bacteria. These findings suggest that, in humans, the TIR-IRAK signaling pathway is crucial for protective immunity against specific bacteria but is redundant against most other microorganisms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Picard, Capucine -- Puel, Anne -- Bonnet, Marion -- Ku, Cheng-Lung -- Bustamante, Jacinta -- Yang, Kun -- Soudais, Claire -- Dupuis, Stephanie -- Feinberg, Jacqueline -- Fieschi, Claire -- Elbim, Carole -- Hitchcock, Remi -- Lammas, David -- Davies, Graham -- Al-Ghonaium, Abdulaziz -- Al-Rayes, Hassan -- Al-Jumaah, Sulaiman -- Al-Hajjar, Sami -- Al-Mohsen, Ibrahim Zaid -- Frayha, Husn H -- Rucker, Rajivi -- Hawn, Thomas R -- Aderem, Alan -- Tufenkeji, Haysam -- Haraguchi, Soichi -- Day, Noorbibi K -- Good, Robert A -- Gougerot-Pocidalo, Marie-Anne -- Ozinsky, Adrian -- Casanova, Jean-Laurent -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Mar 28;299(5615):2076-9. Epub 2003 Mar 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire de Genetique Humaine des Maladies Infectieuses, Universite Rene Descartes-INSERM U550, Faculte Necker, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12637671" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Child
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Codon, Terminator
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Cytokines/secretion
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*Drosophila Proteins
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Female
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Fibroblasts/immunology
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Humans
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Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinases
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Interleukins/immunology/secretion
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Lipopolysaccharides/immunology
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Male
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Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/immunology/metabolism
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Monocytes/immunology
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Mutation
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Neutrophils/immunology
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Pedigree
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Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/*deficiency/*genetics/metabolism
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Pneumococcal Infections/*immunology/metabolism
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry/immunology/metabolism
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Receptors, Interleukin/immunology
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Receptors, Interleukin-1/chemistry
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Signal Transduction
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Staphylococcal Infections/*immunology/metabolism
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Toll-Like Receptors
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Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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