Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

TLR4 signalling via Piezo1 engages and enhances the macrophage mediated host response during bacterial infection

  • Jing Geng,
  • Yiran Shi,
  • Jinjia Zhang,
  • Bingying Yang,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Weihong Yuan,
  • Hao Zhao,
  • Junhong Li,
  • Funiu Qin,
  • Lixin Hong,
  • Changchuan Xie,
  • Xianming Deng,
  • Yujie Sun,
  • Congying Wu,
  • Lanfen Chen,
  • Dawang Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23683-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Innate immune cells respond to a number of environmental cues including TLR signalling. Here the authors implicate mechanical sensor Piezo1 in the TLR4 mediated host response to bacterial infection and implicate it in the enhancement of macrophage mediated host response.