Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: CD36 neutralisation blunts TLR2-IRF7 but not IRF3 pathway in neonatal mouse brain and immature human microglia following innate immune challenge
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29423-0
Figure Lengend Snippet: Blocking CD36 significantly alters TLR-2 and TLR-3 signalling. ( a ) Western blot of whole brain protein lysates from the control (saline), anti-CD36, LPS and anti-CD36 + LPS injected pups. ( b ) Iba1, ( c ) TLR2, ( d ) TLR3, ( e ) IRF7, ( f ) phosrpho-P65 expression levels were quantified in different conditions. GAPDH was used as loading control A significant increase in the levels of all the tested proteins is observed after LPS injection. Treating the pups with anti-CD36 before LPS injections considerably reduces their expression to the level as observed in the control pups. ( g ) Western blot of total protein lysates from the control, anti-CD36, LPS and anti-CD36 + LPS injected mice. ( h ) TLR4, ( i ) IRF3, ( j ) iNOS expression levels were quantified in above-described conditions. GAPDH is used as loading control. A significant increase in the levels of all the proteins tested is observed after LPS injection when compared to control and anti-CD36 treated mice. Of note, LPS-mediated increase in expression of TLR4/IRF3 is maintained in the anti-CD36 + LPS treated group. The entire data was presented as mean ± SEM and statistical significance between the groups was achieved using one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparison test (ctl vs LPS, ctl vs anti-CD36, LPS vs anti-CD36 + LPS) and depicted as ****p ≤ 0.0001; ***p ≤ 0.001; **p ≤ 0.01 and *p ≤ 0.05.
Article Snippet: By using a specific CD36 receptor blocking antibody in conjunction with biophotonic/bioluminescence imaging in the live TLR2-luc GFP mice, here we show that systemic delivery of an anti-CD36 antibody completely blunts TLR2 induction following LPS-mediated innate immune challenge in P9 brain.
Techniques: Blocking Assay, Western Blot, Control, Saline, Injection, Expressing, Comparison