Signals from the IL-1 receptor homolog, Toll, can activate an immune response in a Drosophila hemocyte cell line - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1995 Apr 6;209(1):111-6.

doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1995.1477.

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Signals from the IL-1 receptor homolog, Toll, can activate an immune response in a Drosophila hemocyte cell line

M Rosetto et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1995.

Abstract

The Toll gene encodes an interleukin 1 receptor-like protein that mediates dorsoventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo. The possible involvement of Toll or Toll-like proteins also in the Drosophila immune response was investigated by overexpressing Toll10B, a constitutively active mutant protein, in the Drosophila blood cell line mbn-2. Induction of the Cecropin A1 (CecA1) gene, coding for a bactericidal peptide, was used as an indicator for the immune response. Toll10B was found to increase CecA1 transcription, as detected with a cotransfected CecA1-lacZ reporter gene construct. This effect depends on the presence of a kappa B-like site in the CecA1 promoter. The endogenous Toll gene is expressed in mbn-2 cells, indicating that this gene may normally play a role in Drosophila blood cells.

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