Vol.1, No.2, 41-49 (2011) doi:10.4236/oji.2011.12005 C opyright © 2011 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ Open Journal of Immunology Dietary sugars inhibit biologic functions of the pattern recognition molecule, mannose-binding lectin Kazue Takahashi1, Wei-Chuan Chang1, Patience Moyo1, Mitchell R. White2, Parool Meelu3, Anamika Verma2, Gregory L. Stahl4, Kevan L. Hartshorn2, Vijay Yajnik3* 1Program of Developmental Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Bos- ton, USA; 2Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA; 3Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; *Corresponding Author: ktakahashi1@partners.org 4Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Institute of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Received 17 August 2011; revised 1 September 2011; accepted 9 September 2011. ABSTRACT Mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a mammalian le- ctin, is a pattern recognition molecule of the in- nate immune system and recognizes carbohy- drates that are exposed on pathogens. In this study, we observed that fructose down regulates MBL-mediated innate immune mechanisms ag- ainst both influenza A Virus (IAV) and Staphylo- coccus aureus. These mechanisms include the lectin complement pathway and coagulation en- zyme-like activities on both pathogens. Further- more, fructose also reduces MBL-mediated pha- gocytosis of S. aureus and IAV and MBL-medi- ated IAV infection to epithelial cells. In contrast, sucrose inhibits MBL-mediated immune mecha- nisms agai nst S. aureus but not IAV. Together, our studies show that dietary sugars, in particular fructose, negatively regulate the innate immu- nity against viral and bacterial pathogens. Keywords: Manno s e-Binding Lectin; Fructose; Influenza A Virus; Staphylococcus Aureus; Com- plement; Coagulation 1. INTRODUCTION The innate immune system represents the first line of host defense against pathogens. It is widely accepted that in the lumen of our intestines, the innate immune system is constantly interacting with the microbiota [1,2]. This interaction is tightly regulated and is essential for both immune tolerance and immunity against pathogens [3,4]. How our nutrition affects host-microbiome interactions remains unknown but an increase risk of infection is observed in patients with diabetes and obesity. These diseases have been linked to excess consumption of fructose and fatty foods [5,6]. Fructose, in the form of high fructose corn syrup, along with sucrose is the main dietary sugars in our diet [7]. How dietary sugars affect human disease is an important question that remains unanswered. A human study in 1973 showed that dietary sugar intake, but not starch intake, dramatically reduced bacterial phagocytosis [8]. Although the precise mecha- nisms of this observation have not been understood, these observations support the idea that dietary sugars influence immune functions. The innate immune system like the adaptive immune system utilizes both cellular and humoral pathways. Cellular defense includes epithelial cells and phagocytes, such as macrophages and neutrophils [9]. Cell surface receptors on innate immune cells together with soluble lectins recognize pathogens by specific pathogen-asso- ciated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and therefore termed pattern recognition molecules [10]. MBL, a serum pat- tern recognition molecule, is primarily synthesized in the liver and in small quantity by the small intestinal epithet- lial cells [11-14]. MBL was also identified as an opsonin critical for bacterial (and yeast) phagocytosis [15,16]. In addition, it is critical for defense against viruses as MBL is identical to inhibitor found in serum and caused cal- cium-dependent viral neutralization [17,18]. Thus, mo- lecular patterns from virus, bacteria and yeast are recog- nized by MBL. Pattern recognition by MBL results in activation of innate immune cascades. For example, MBL activates complement via the lectin pathway, which is mediated by MBL-associated serine protease (MASP) 1-3 [19,20]. MASPs are homologous to serum proteins C1r and C1s
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ 42 that activate the classical complement pathway although MASPs evolutionally predate C1r and C1s [21]. MBL/ MASP complex also initiates coagulation via throm- bin-like activity [22-24]. Human MBL gene has poly- morphisms, producing low and dysfunctional MBL, which have been associated with increased infection susceptibilities as reviewed [25]. Clinical observations in human MBL deficiency were confirmed in an animal model using MBL null mice. These mice have increased infection susceptibility against certain pathogens and reconstitution with exogenous MBL rescues the phenol- type [26-29]. IAV and S. aureus are common human pathogens that are recognized by innate immune molecules, including MBL [30]. IAV is an RNA virus whose surface is envel- oped with glycoproteins containing neuraminidase and hemagglutinin, which have glycosylation sites [31]. IAV infection could results in fatal complications, even in individuals who are appeared to be healthy [32,33]. S. aureus is a Gram positive bacteria present on mucosa and skin of healthy individuals [32,34,35]. Although normally innocuous, it may cause serious infections and can develop severe complications leading to much high- er morbidity and mortality [36]. This bacterial in- fection has increased problem with rapid emergence of methicil- lin-resistant S. aureus [37]. In addition, S. aureus can co-infect with influenza virus resulting in increased mortality during influenza epidemics [39]. In this study, we investigated the effects of dietary sugars and its effect on innate immunity against common human pathogens, IAV and S. aureus. We observed that fructose negatively regulate MBL-mediated innate im- mune functions against both IAV and S. aureus using well established in vitro experimental design that reca- pitulates environment present in the intestinal lumen and in blood. These findings represent an important ad- vancement in our understanding the complex interaction between diet and human health. 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1. Preparation of IAV and S. Aureus Both pathogens were prepared as previously described [28,40]. Briefly, IAV strain A/Philippine 82 (H3N2) was grown in the chorioallantoic fluid of chicken eggs and purified on a discontinuous sucrose gradient. Virus stocks were dialyzed against PBS and aliquots were stored at –80˚C. HA titers were determined by titration with human type O, Rh- red blood cells (RBCs) in PBS. Fluorescent foci counts (ffc) were determined by Madin- Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cell infection assay as previously described [41]. S. aureus was grown in Co- lumbia media with 2% NaCl and used at mid log phase and cfu was determined by culture on tryptic soy agar plates [28]. 2.2. MBL Binding Assay This assay was performed using previously described methods with a minor modification [27]. Briefly, 96 as- say plates were coated with mannan (1 g, Sigma, MO), IAV (1000 HA–1) or S. aureus (Reynolds CP-5+, 5 × 106 cfu) in 50 l of a bicarbonate buffer, pH 9.5 and blocked with BSA. The pates were added with indicated concentra- tions of recombinant human MBL (MBL, a gift from Enzon Pharmaceuticals. A concentration of stock was 1 mg/ml) in 50 μl and incubated at room temperature. Af- ter rinsing, bound MBL was detected by mouse anti- hMBL monoclonal Ab (3F8) [42] followed by alka- line-phosphatase conjugated anti-mouse Ab (Promega, WI) and pNTP substrate (Sigma, MO). Reaction was read at OD 415 nm using SpectraMax M5 (Molecular Devices, CA). For sugar inhibition experiments, indi- cated concentrations of sugars were mixed together with MBL at 1 μg/ml. Binding was expressed as OD415 reading. These assays were performed in triplicates and repeated at least twice. Representative data was shown. 2.3. Mouse Sera MBL knockout (KO) mouse sera were used to provide MASPs [22]. Mouse sera were stored in the –80˚C freezer. All animal experiments were performed under a protocol approved by the Subcommittee on Research Animal Care at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 2.4. Assays of the Lectin Complement Activity and Thrombin-Like Activity The lectin pathway assay was performed with a minor modification of previously described method [28]. 96 well plates were prepared as in the binding assay. After wash and blocking, wells were incubated with various concentration of MBL with or without 1% MBL KO sera and incubated at room temperature. After wash, the wells were incubated with human C4 (Sigma, MO) and incu- bated at 37˚C. After wash, the wells were incubated with rabbit anti-hC4c Ab (Dako, CA) followed by alkaline phosphatase-conjugated anti-rabbit Ab and then with pNTP. The plates were read at 415 nm and the results were expressed as U/ml. Pooled human sera with known MBL concentration (State Sera Institute, Denmark) was used to generate a standard curve on mannan-coated wells. Thrombin-like activity was performed as previously described [22]. Briefly, 384 wells were coated as in the binding assay. After wash, the wells were incubated with
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. Openl y accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ 4343 various concentrations of MBL with or without 1% MBL KO sera. After wash, wells were incubated with rhoda- mine 110-thrombin substrate R22124 (Invitrogen, CA) in TBS-CaCl2 and read at 500 nm excitation/520 nm emission using the SpectraMax M5. The results were expressed as arbitrary units (AU). For sugar inhibition on mannan, indicated concentra- tions of various sugars were mixed with MBL 1 g/ml with or without MBL KO sera. Sugars tested were man- nan, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), D-fructose, and sucrose (all sugars are from Sigma, MO). For sugar in- hibition on IAV and S. aureus, sugars at final concentra- tion of 10 mg/ml was mixed with MBL 1 g/ml. Inhibi- tory activities were expressed by % inhibition that was calculated by the formula: [(Activity by MBL) – (Activ- ity by MBL + sugars)] × 100 ÷ (Activity by MBL). In the formula, MBL was replaced with “MBL + MBL KO sera” for the lectin complement pathway and throm- bin-like activity. These assays were performed in triplicates and re- peated at least twice and representative data was shown. 2.5. Uptake and Binding of IAV and S. Aureus by Phagocytes Assays were performed as previously described [28,43,44]. Briefly, resident peritoneal macrophages of C57B/6J (Jackson Laboratories, MI) mice were obtained by peritoneal lavage and re-suspended in HBSS. In the total 50 l reaction volume, 1 × 105 peritoneal macro- phages were mixed with FITC-labeled S. aureus (FITC- S. aureus) with MBL at 10 g/ml and with or without fructose or galactose at 10 mg/ml. The mixture was in- cubated on ice for 10 min and then further incu- bated for 20 min at 37˚C. Neutrophils from healthy volunteer donors were iso- lated to greater than 95% purity by using dextran pre- cipitation, followed by a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient sepa- ration for removal of non-nuclear cells and hypotonic lysis to eliminate contaminating erythrocytes [40]. In the total 100 l reaction volume, 5 × 105 neutrophils were pretreated at 37˚C for 30 min and then were further in- cubated for 1 h at 37˚C with FITC-IAV with MBL at 10 g/ml and with or without fructose or galactose at 10 mg/ml [44]. Flow cytometry assays were performed on a FAC- SCalibur™ (BD Biosciences) with and without addition of 0.04% trypan blue, which quenches extracellular flu- orescence, representing binding [28,44]. Results were analyzed using CELLQuest™ software. Results were expressed as % of MBL-mediated binding and uptake of FITC-S. aureus (mean fluorescent × % total) of triplicate samples. 2.6. IAV Neutralizing Activity Assay (Focus Assay) This assay was performed using MDCK cells as in 2.1. IAV was preincubated with MBL at 1 g/ml with or without fructose at 10 mg/ml. These mixtures were in- cubated with MDCK cells to determine IAV infection (ffc). The assay was repeated 5 times and all data were combined. 2.7. Statistical Anal ysis All data were analyzed by Student t-tests to “compare mean of each pair” using JMP software (SAS institute Inc., NC). P values less than 0.05 was considered to be significant. 3. RESULTS 3.1. Fructose and Sucrose Inhibit Biologic Functions of MBL: Studies on Mannan Mannan is an established MBL ligand derived from yeast and in the presence of MASPs, it can activate both complement and thrombin pathways [22]. In this study, we used MBL KO sera as a source for MASPs and re- combinant human MBL (Enzon Biochemicals). As sho- wn in Figures 1(A)-(B), MBL bound to mannan and activated the lectin complement pathway and throm- bin-like activity, in a dose dependent manner. We investigated effects of dietary sugars on MBL- mannan interaction and subsequent MBL-mediated bio- logic functions. Fructose inhibited MBL-mannan inter- action as determined by ELISA (Figure 2(A)). Fructose at 10 mg/ml inhibited the MBL-mannan binding by 82%, which was greater than observed by GlcNAc, 54% (data not shown). Furthermore, fructose inhibited the lectin complement pathway and thrombin-like activities in a dose dependent manner. Its inhibitory effect on biologic function was detectable even at lower concentrations of 0.4 mg/ml and 2 mg/ml (Figure 2) and comparable to that of mannan at a concentration of 10 mg/ml for both the lectin complement and thrombin-like activities (Fig- ures 2(B)-(C)). Sucrose also inhibited these activities in a dose de- pendent manner although it did not inhibit MBL-mannan binding (Figure 2). Compared to fructose, the inhibitory effect on the lectin complement pathway activity was significantly lower, which was only 53% inhibition at a concentration of 10 mg/ml (Figure 2(B)). In contrast, sucrose inhibition of thrombin-like activity was over all comparable to that of fructose and reached a plateau, 66% and 65% inhibition at 2 mg/ml and 10 mg/ml, re- spectively (Figure 2(C)).
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ 44 Figure 1. Recombinant human MBL (MBL)- mediated functions and sugar inhibition aga- inst mannan. (A) Binding. (B) C4 deposition. (C) Thrombin-like activity. Based on these experiments, fructose IC50 for binding, the lectin complement pathway and thrombin-like activi- ties were 22 mM, 5.5 mM and 5.5 mM, respectively, while sucrose IC50 were > 11 mM, 2.8 mM and 2.6 mM. In contrast to these dietary sugars, dextran, which is a polyglucose and is similar to starch, did not inhibit binding and the lectin complement pathway activation of MBL on mannan even at 10 mg/ml (data not shown). 3.2. Fructose Inhibits Biologic Functions of MBL: Studies on IAV MBL bound to IAV in a dose dependent manner, con- firming that MBL recognizes IAV (Figure 3(A)) [45,46]. MBL-IAV binding was inhibited by 8% and 14% by mannan and fructose, respectively, while sucrose did not show inhibitory effect (Figure 3(B)). To compare the ef- fects of fructose, mannan was used as a positive control in IAV studies. Despite the low level inhibition of MBL-IAV binding, mannan significantly inhibited the Figure 2. (A)-(C) Sugar inhibition assays of binding, the lectin complement pathway, and thrombin-like activity, respectively. Data were expressed as mean ±SEM, which were smaller than sizes of symbols. *p < 0.0005. lectin complement activation and thrombin-like activi- ties, by 87% and 84% inhibition, respectively (Figures 3(C)-(D)). Accordingly, fructose (10 mg/ml) also sig- nificantly inhibited the lectin complement and throm- bin-like activities, by 88% and 75%, respectively (Fig- ures 3(C)-(D)). Sucrose also showed weak inhibition on thrombin-like activity but not on the lectin complement activation (Figure 3(D)). Thus, fructose but not sucrose inhibited MBL-mediated biologic functions, the lectin complement and thrombin-like activities, by 5-fold compared with binding inhibition. MBL, an opsonin up regulates phagocytosis of patho- gens. We reasoned that since fructose influences hu- moral arm of innate immunity, it may also disrupt cellu- lar arm as well. To study IAV uptake we designed two experiments. First, we observed that MBL-mediated uptake of FITC-IAV by human neutrophils was signifi- cantly inhibited by 37% in the presence of fructose at 10 mg/ml (Figure 3(E)). However, the MBL-mediated viral uptake was not inhibited by galactose, which is not an MBL ligand (Figure 3(E )) [47,50]. Second, fructose also
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. Openl y accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ 4545 Figure 3. MBL-mediated functions and sugar inhibition against IAV. (A) MBL-binding to IAV. Sugar inhibition of binding (B), C4 deposition (C), and thrombin-like activity (D). (E) Phagocytosis assays of FITC-IAV by human neutrophils. Fruct and Gal indicated fructose and galactose, respectively. (F) IAV neutralizing assay. Data were expressed as mean ± SEM, and represent p < 0.05, p < 0.001 and p < 0.0005, respectively. inhibited MBL’s IAV neutralization activity, which is determined by infectivity of IAV to epithelial cells (MDCK) as IAV infection increased when fructose was added (Figure 3(F)). Taken together, these results dem- onstrated that fructose down-regulated MBL-mediated viral phagocytosis and viral neutralization. 3.3. Fructose and Sucrose Inhibit Biologic Functions of MBL: Studies on S. Au- reus Similar to against IAV, MBL bound to S. aureus, in a dose dependent manner (Figure 4(A)). MBL-binding was minimally inhibited only 5% - 6% by either mannan (positive control ligand) or dietary sugars, fructose or su- crose (Figure 4(B)). Despite the negligible-level binding Figure 4. MBL-mediated functions and sugar inhibition against S. aureus. (A) MBL-binding to S. aureus. Sugar inhibi- tion assays of binding, (B) C4 deposition, (C) and throm- bin-like activity, (D) Binding, (E) and phagocytosis, (F) assay of FITC-S. aureus by macrophages. Fruct and Gal indicated fructose and galactose, respectively. Data were expressed as mean ± SEM, some of which were smaller than symbols. *represents p < 0.0005. inhibition, all sugars, even sucrose (all at 10 mg/ml) sig- nificantly inhibited the lectin complement activation and thrombin-likeactivities, in between the range of 39% - 66% and 24% - 36%, respectively (Figures 4(C)-(D)). Once again, compared with binding inhibition, these sugars’ inhibitory effects were 5 - 10 fold greater on the lectin complement activation and thrombin-like active- ties. Regarding FITC-S. aureus binding to Regarding FIT C-S. aureus binding to macrophages, it was signify- cantly inhibited by 60% in the presence of fructose (Figure 4(E)). Similarly, MBL-mediated phagocytosis of FITC-S. aureu s was significantly inhibited by 60% in the presence of fructose (Figure 4(F)). However, these activeties were not inhibited by galactose, which is not
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/OJI/ 46 an MBL ligand (Figures 4(E)-(F)) [47,50]. Taken to- gether, these data demonstrated that fructose negatively regulated MBL-mediated anti-bacterial cellular functions. 4. DISCUSSION Binding of pattern recognition molecules to pathogens is a crucial step to initiate a variety of subsequent sig- naling cascades in innate immunity, the first line of host defense mechanisms. These mechanisms include the lectin complement pathway activation and thrombin-like activities [48,49]. The results of the current study dem- onstrate that MBL initiates these activities on common human pathogens. A highly significant and clinically relevant finding from this study is striking inhibitory effects by fructose and some extent by sucrose on these innate immune functions, as we summarize our findings in Figure 5(a). Using functional in vitro assays, we demonstrate that both fructose and sucrose are MBL recognition mole- cules, and are similar to other MBL recognition mole- cules, namely, D-mannose and GlcNAc [47,50,51]. Our findings support recent report that fructose-lysine bound to MBL and formed complexes with MASP [52]. These two dietary sugars show differential kinetics in inhibi- tion of MBL-ligand binding, suggesting that there may be specific molecular residues that govern these interac- tions. The importance of dietary sugar interaction with MBL is underscored by our studies on two common pa- thogens. Using both viral and bacterial pathogen binding to MBL, we demonstrate that dietary sugars, specifically fructose has a dramatic negative consequence. Mannan, fructose and sucrose had similar low level, inhibition of MBL binding to immobilized pathogens. However, the biologic pathways, activation of the lectin complement pathway and coagulation, downstream of MBL are sig- nificantly down regulated, particularly in presence of sucrose and fructose. Using an established bacterial and viral phagocytosis assay we show that fructose neutral- izes pathogen entry into phagocytes, such as macro- phages and neutrophils, the primary cell defense in in- nate immunity. Differential effects of two dietary sugars were also observed on MBL biologic function. We note that su- crose has minimal influence on MBL-IAV (viral) inter- actions (Figure 5(a)). This is in contrast to MBL-S. aureus (bacterial) and MBL-mannan (fungal) interac- tions (Figure 5(a)). It is possible that diet high in su- crose may not affect viral innate immunity but could influence both anti-fungal and anti-bacterial host defense. MBL functions as an opsonin, which is a key function of MBL-mediated anti-bacterial defense mechanism [28,53, 54]. As expected, fructose reduced MBL-mediated pha- gocytosis of IAV and S. aureus, suggesting that fructose reduces not only MBL-mediated humoral functions (ac- tivation of complement and coagulation) but also MBL-mediated cellular response. Our previous study has demonstrated that the latter is required to reduce bacterial growth against S. aureus [28]. On the contrary, dextran, which is poly-glucose and is a similar to starch, did not inhibit MBL-associated functions, such as bind- ing and the lectin complement activation. Our finding may partly explain the study in 1973, showing that bac- terial phagocytosis by phagocytes isolated from healthy volunteers was dramatically reduced by intake of dietary sugars, including fructose, but was unaffected by starch intake [8]. Our results also suggest that dietary sugars, in par- ticular fructose has negative effect on innate immunity in a dose dependent manner. Therefore, it is conceivable that dietary sugars at low concentrations may not have any pathological consequence. It has been observed that in fructose fed rat, fructose concentration in the hepatic portal vein reaches to 0.4 mg/ml, which significantly inhibited MBL-mediated biologic functions in our study [55]. Consumption of these dietary sugars, more so for fructose, has skyrocketed in recent years and has been linked to a recent increase in metabolic disease, includ- ing diabetes and obesity [5-7]. It is also know that dia- betic patients have increased susceptibility to infection [6], which has been attributed to a poor circulation in these patients. Our findings would suggest that those dietary sugars might also be responsible by directly re- ducing innate immune functions as blood fructose levels reportedly increase after fructose consumption in diabe- tes [56]. Therefore, one can speculate that intake of high levels of dietary sugar may induce a similar situation to MBL deficiency, which has been associated with infec- tion susceptibility [25]. Coagulation, which is mediated by thrombin, is not generally thought to be microbicidal, nevertheless it is a primitive innate immune host defense mechanism, par- ticularly in invertebrates that do not have phagocytes. For example, tachylectins in horseshoe crab clots lipopoly- saccharide and -glucan (PAMPs of Gram negative bacteria and fungi, respectively), providing innate immune pro- tection [57]. Clotting may also contain pathogen inva- sion locally, thereby preventing systemic dissemination of pathogen. Our recent study demonstrates that MBL KO mice, which are susceptible to IAV and S. aureus infection, have reduced clotting ability [22]. One can speculate that elevated fructose in diabetic patients may reduce local coagulation, in allowing easy pathogen es- cape into the host. We propose that dietary sugars, in particular high dose of fructose weakens the innate im- mune protection, which is initiated by pattern recogni- tion molecules, including MBL (Figure 5(b)). It is also conceivable that pattern recognition molecules may play
K. Takahashi et al. / Open Journal of Immunology 1 (2011) 41-49 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. http://www.scirp. org/journal/OJI/ 4747 Figure 5. (a) The summary of the findings from this investigation are presented in a table form showing the differential effects of sugar on MBL-pathogen interaction. Note: LC, the lectin complement pathway; Coag, coagulation. Level of inhibition is presented as follows: –no effect; +/–marginal; + low; ++ in- termediate; and +++ high. ND indicates not done. (b) The potential mechanism for the observed inhibi- tion of innate immune mechanisms by fructose, which down regulates MBL-mediated anti-microbicidal activities, including activation of complement, coagulation and phagocytosis. Fructose can be replaced with sucrose, depending on its concentration and pathogen. roles in maintaining healthy commensal microbiota by fending off pathogenic bacteria [58,59]. In turn, the healthy microbiota would stimulate and strengthen the innate immune defense mechanisms. Diet can also affect defense mechanisms. Diet can also affect microbiota composition in mice underscoring the tight link between diet and metabolism of intestinal bacteria [60]. Thus, elucidating the relationships between diet, microbiota and innate immune system will be central to our under- standing of human health REFERENCES [1] Edelman, S.M. and Kasper, D.L. (2008) Symbiotic commensal bacteria direct maturation of the host immune system. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 24, 720- 724. doi:10.1097/MOG.0b013e32830c4355 [2] Viswanathan, V.K. and Hecht, G. (2000) Innate immunity and the gut. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 16, 546-551. doi:10.1097/00001574-200011000-00015 [3] Chaplin, D.D. (2010) Overview of the immune response. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 125, S3- S23. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2009.12.980 [4] LaRosa, D.F., Rahman, A.H. and Turka, L.A. (2007) The innate immune system in allograft rejection and tolerance. The Journal of Immunology, 178, 7503-7509. 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Enzon pharmaceuticals for providing MBL. The study was in part, supported by UO1 AI074503, R21 AI077081 and 1U24AI092660. No. author has conflict of interest. [5] Halford, J.C. (2004) Clinical pharmacotherapy for obe- sity: current drugs and those in advanced development. Current Drug Targets, 5, 637-646. Openly accessible at
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