Phagocytosis mediated by Yersinia invasin induces collagenase-1 expression in rabbit synovial fibroblasts through a proinflammatory cascade
Erica Werner1,*,
Farrah Kheradmand1,
,
Ralph R. Isberg2 and
Zena Werb1,
1 Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0452, USA
2 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
* Present address: Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Present address: Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77025, USA

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Fig. 1. Context-dependent induction of CL-1 expression by invasin. RSFs were plated on FN- or invasin-coated dishes. Beads coated with INV497 or fibronectin were added to cells spreading on FN or INV497. CL-1 expression was measured in the supernatant by slot blot 24 hours later. The error bars represent ± s.e.m. of two or more independent experiments. INV497-coated beads produced a large increase in CL-1 secretion, whereas FN-coated beads did not in cells plated on FN. The difference in CL-1 produced in response to FN-coated beads in cells plated on FN, compared to cells plated on INV497 was small, but significant (P=0.046).
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Fig. 2. Effect of affinity of invasin binding on bead phagocytosis and CL-1 induction. RSF were incubated for 2 or 24 hours with beads coated with MBP (nonspecific binding control), INV497D911E (low-affinity binding) or INV497 (high-affinity binding). Bead phagocytosis was analyzed after 3 hours and CL-1 expression was measured in the supernatant by slot blot after 24 hours. (A) Quantitative representation of bead binding and uptake after 3 hours and CL-1 expression after 24 hours for each type of coating. (B) Micrographs of the phagocytosis assay. The green beads are outside and the red beads are inside the cells. Error bars represent ± s.e.m. of 3 independent experiments. Bar, 50 µm.
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Fig. 4. RhoA is required for phagocytosis and bead-induced CL-1 expression. (A) Anti- 5 mAb-coated beads were added to cells transfected with dominant-negative mutants of Rac 1, RhoA or Cdc42 and a reporter construct of CL-1 promoter driving luciferase expression. Luciferase activity was measured 24 hours after bead addition. (B) CL-1 promoter driven luciferase activity was measured 24 hours after addition of invasin-coated beads to cells transfected with RhoAN19 or RhoAV14. Error bars represent ± s.d. of triplicates in one of two experiments. (C) Micrographs of the phagocytosis assay after 2 hours of bead addition to dominant-negative RhoA-transfected cells.
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