Journal: The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Article Title: Human Lipopolysaccharide-binding Protein (LBP) and CD14 Independently Deliver Triacylated Lipoproteins to Toll-like Receptor 1 (TLR1) and TLR2 and Enhance Formation of the Ternary Signaling Complex
doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.453266
Figure Lengend Snippet: Recombinant sTLR proteins are monomeric, properly folded, and biologically functional. A, 100 μg of each purified sTLR protein as indicated was loaded for 7.5% SDS-PAGE and stained with Coomassie blue dye. B, each purified sTLR protein as indicated was analyzed by size exclusion chromatography using a Superdex 200 column. C, soluble TLRs were incubated in microtiter plate wells coated with either the anti-TLR1 mAb (clone GD2F4) or the anti-TLR2 mAb (T2.5) as indicated. Binding of soluble TLR1, TLR1P315L, or TLR2 was detected using HRP-conjugated anti-HA and anti-FLAG mAbs. D, SW620 cells were co-transfected with full-length TLR1, TLR2, an IL-8 promoter-driven luciferase reporter gene, and a Renilla luciferase transfection control. 48 h post-transfection, the cells were stimulated with 10 ng/ml Pam3CSK4 with or without 1 μg/ml soluble TLR1 or TLR2 as indicated. Firefly luciferase activities were normalized to that of the Renilla luciferase control. These values were normalized to that of empty CMV vector whose value was taken as 1. Error bars represent the S.D. of three independent events. mAu, milliabsorbance units.
Article Snippet: The unconjugated anti-human TLR1 mAb (clone GD2.F4, CD281) and anti-human TLR2 mAb (clone T2.5, CD282) were obtained from eBioscience (San Diego, CA).
Techniques: Recombinant, Functional Assay, Purification, SDS Page, Staining, Size-exclusion Chromatography, Incubation, Binding Assay, Transfection, Luciferase, Plasmid Preparation