Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Microbial Priming Enhances TLR7-Driven Myddosome Assembly Dynamics
doi: 10.64898/2025.12.16.693659
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Schematic of TLR4-dependent signaling pathways and respective KOs and inhibitors used. (B) Functional validation of CRISPR-Cas9 knockouts of IFNAR, TRIF or IRF3 in Hoxb8 macrophages. Cells were stimulated with LPS 100ng/ml or IFN-β 800U/ml, and expression of the interferon stimulated gene Viperin was measured by intracellular staining and flow cytometry (each dot represents an independent KO line) (C) Intracellular TNF staining of knockout lines after 100ng/ml LPS stimulation for 6 hours (N=2). (D) Characterization of IRAK4 inhibitor Zimlovisertib: WT Hoxb8 macrophages were treated with Zimlovisertib (20µM) or vehicle and stimulated with TLR ligands: R848 20ng/ml, CpG-B 100nM, LPS 100ng/ml. Viperin and TNF production was measured by intracellular staining (N=1). (E) Intracellular TNF staining and viability control for Polymyxin-B: Hoxb8 WT macrophages were stimulated with LPS 100ng/ml for 6 hours after preincubation with increasing doses of Polymyxin-B (0, 10, 25, 50µg/ml) (N=1). (F) IL6-ELISA of WT Hoxb8 macrophages primed for 24 hours with LPS 100ng/ml in presence or absence of IRAK4 inhibitor Zimlovisertib (20µM) and re-stimulated with R848 10ng/ml or CpG-B 50nM (N=3) after washout of the inhibitor. (G) IL-6 ELISA of Hoxb8 macrophages primed with Poly:IC 10µg/ml for 24 hours and re-stimulated with R848 10ngml for 6 hours (N=4). (H) TLR7 staining of Hoxb8 macrophages left unprimed or primed with Poly:IC 10µg/ml for 24 hours. Representative histogram out of N=3. Graph shows pooled repeats. P-values were calculated with ratio paired t-test, ns: not significant.
Article Snippet: TLR7 was stimulated with R848 (Resiquimod) (Invivogen, #tlrl-r848-1).
Techniques: Protein-Protein interactions, Functional Assay, Biomarker Discovery, CRISPR, Expressing, Staining, Flow Cytometry, Knock-Out, Control, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay