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. 2011 Jul;91(4):314-21.
doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.03.003. Epub 2011 Apr 8.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis components stimulate production of the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin

Fatoumata B Sow  1 , Subhadra Nandakumar, Vijayakumar Velu, Kathryn L Kellar, Larry S Schlesinger, Rama R Amara, William P Lafuse, Thomas M Shinnick, Suraj B Sable
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis components stimulate production of the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin

Fatoumata B Sow et al. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2011 Jul.

Abstract

We investigated the in vitro production of the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin by cells of the innate immune system that harbor Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Stimulation of mouse lung macrophages with M. tuberculosis or IFN-γ + M. tuberculosis induced hepcidin mRNA. In human alveolar A549 epithelial cells, lipoglycans of M. tuberculosis, in particular mannose-capped lipoarabinomannan and phosphatidyl-myo-inositol mannosides, were strong inducers of hepcidin mRNA. In mouse dendritic cells, hepcidin mRNA was increased by subcellular fractions and culture filtrate proteins of M. tuberculosis and by TLR2 and TLR4 agonists, but not by TLR9 agonists, IL-1α, IL-6 or TNF-α. Flow cytometry evaluation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells demonstrated that CD11c(+) myeloid dendritic cells stimulated with killed M. tuberculosis or live M. bovis BCG produced hepcidin. The production of the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin by cells that interact with M. tuberculosis suggests a host defense mechanism against mycobacteria.

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