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Open Access
01-12-2012 | Poster presentation
Conditional inactivation of the ectodomain shedding of pro-TNFα in monocytes prevents lethality from LPS-induced septic shock
Authors:
Keisuke Horiuchi, Tokuhiro Kimura, Yasunori Okada, Kazuhiro Chiba, Carl P Blobel, Yoshiaki Toyama
Published in:
Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
TNFα is synthesized as a membrane-bound precursor and proteolytically released from cells. Soluble TNFα is the primary mediator of pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and endotoxin shock. Although several different enzymes have been implicated in this proteolytic activity, recent studies lean toward the TNFα converting enzyme (TACE/ADAM17) as the most relevant TNFαsheddase in vivo. In the present study, we asked whether the inactivation TACE could yield a protection from lipopolysaccharide(LPS)-induced septic shockin mice. …