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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (4): 426-433.doi: 10.19982/j.issn.1000-6621.20220399

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Progress of innate immune mechanism activated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA-mediated pattern recognition receptors

Wang Wenjing, Sun Hong, Sun Zhaogang()   

  1. Translational Medicine Center, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University/Beijing Key Laboratory in Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Research, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing 101149, China
  • Received:2022-10-13 Online:2023-04-10 Published:2023-03-31
  • Contact: Sun Zhaogang E-mail:sunzg75@163.com
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(81871691);National Natural Science Foundation of China(82272347)

Abstract:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a major pathogen which cause tuberculosis. Innate immunity plays an important role in the host’s resistance to MTB invasion, and multiple pattern recognition receptors (PRR) in cells are involved in MTB. As the “initiator” of innate immunity, PRR activate innate immunity through signal transduction after recognizing MTB. There are many kinds of MTB components that can be recognized by PRR, including DNA, lipopolysaccharide, protein, etc. This paper focuses on the MTB DNA, from its source, the types of PRR which can recognize MTB DNA, and the mechanism by which PRR uses MTB DNA as a pathogenic-associated molecular pattern to mediate related molecular signaling pathways to activate innate immunity. The process of MTB DNA activating innate immunity via PRR was reviewed in three aspects, and the research progress of the innate immune mechanism activated by PRR such as Toll-like receptor 9, cyclic GMP-AMP synthase and absent in melanoma 2-like receptors was emphatically discussed. At last, the application prospects of MTB DNA were discussed, to expand the development of MTB DNA-related vaccines and the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Key words: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, DNA, Receptors, pattern recognition, Immunity

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