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Macrophage as a crucial component of innate immunity, plays an important role in inflammation and infection immunity. Notch signal pathway is a highly conserved pathway, which regulates cellular fate and participates in numerous pathological processes. At present, a lot of literature has confirmed the role of Notch signaling in regulating the differentiation, activation and metabolism of macrophage during inflammation and infection. This review focuses on how Notch signaling promotes macrophage pro-inflammatory and anti-infective immune function in different inflammatory and infectious diseases. In this regulation, Notch signaling interact with TLR signaling in macrophages or inflammatory-related cytokines including IL-6, IL-12, and TNF-α. Additionally, the potential application and challenges of Notch signaling as a therapeutic target against inflammation and infectious diseases are also discussed.
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Humans , Signal Transduction , Macrophages , Cytokines/metabolism , Inflammation/metabolism , Communicable Diseases , Receptors, Notch/metabolismABSTRACT
Objective:To clone and express human Fas activation domain(FasAD)with the bioactivity.Methods:The FasAD cDNA was amplified by seminested RT PCR,and then inserted into the prokaryote vector of pTYB12 expressed intein protein to construct the recombinant plasmid of FasAD pTYB12.The FasAD peptide was expressed and purified in IMPACT TM CN system by the method of one step affinity purification.Results:Sequence analysis revealed that cloned FasAD cDNA sequence was completely same as that of Genebank record(M67454).Soluble fusion protein was successfully expressed by induction of IPTG.The FasAD peptide with a molecular weight of 5 000 was obtained by purification and was recognized by the rabbit anti human Fas polyclonal antibody in Western blot analysis.It’s activity of inhibition of apoptosis induced by rhFasL can each to 70% in primary biological detection.Conclusion:The above results indicated that FasAD peptide could be prepared by using the IMPACT TM CN system,thus laid a relatively experimental foundation for further research of relationship between structure, function and interaction with it’s ligands,and for further development of biological immune modulator. [
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Objective To make soluble expression of Plasmodium falciparum (FCC1/HN) glutamate dehydrogenase(GDH) in Escherichia coli, purification and immunocompetence identification of the recombinant non-fusion GDH. Methods The GDH gene was cloned into prokaryotic expression vector pET23(a) to form recombinant expression vector pET23(a)/GDH. pET23(a)/GDH was transformed into E.coli BL21(DE3). Induced by IPTG(isopropyl-beta D-thiogalactoside), GDH was highly expressed in the supernatant after sonication. The soluble recombinant GDH was purified by Source-Q and Source-S chromatography. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western blotting were carried out to identify the immunocompetence of the purified product. Results SDS-PAGE analysis showed that the soluble GDH protein accounted for approximately 15% of the total bacterial protein. By two-step ion-exchange chromatography, the purity of GDH reached more than 90% and the GDH possessed high antigenicity. Conclusion The soluble expression of GDH results in an integral three-dimensional structure epitope with high biological activity.