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Modulation of Dendritic Cell Cytokine Production

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FACS-sorted mDCs (2×105/well) were incubated with 20 ng/ml TSLP (R&D Systems, 1398-TS-010/CF) (12 (link)), 100 μg/ml endotoxin-free curdlan (FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation) (24 (link)), 20 μg/ml (133 nM) anti-human Dectin-1 monoclonal antibody (anti-hDectin-1 mAb, clone 15E2) (18 (link)), 133 nM Pam3CSK4 (Invitrogen) or 133 nM anti-hDectin-1-Pam3CSK4 conjugate (described below) for indicated time. Cytokine concentration in the supernatants was measured by a bead-based multiplex immunoassay (Bio-Rad) according to manufacturer’s instruction. In cytokine blocking experiments, 10 μg/ml anti-IL-10 (BioLegend, 506813), anti-IL-10R (BioLegend, 308817), isotype control rat IgG2a (BioLegend, 400543), anti-TNFα (R&D Systems, MAB210-100) or isotype control mouse IgG1 (BioLegend, 400166) was added into culture 1h or 3h before stimulation. In some experiments, 1 μg/ml recombinant human TNFα (R&D Systems, 210-TA/CF) or IL-10 (PeproTech, 200-10) was added into culture. For inhibition assay, 10 μM STAT3 inhibitor Stattic (25 (link)) (Sigma-Aldrich, S7947-25MG), STA-21 (26 (link)) (Cayman Chemical, 14996) or Syk inhibitor R406 (24 (link), 27 (link)) (Invivogen, inh-r406) was used to inhibit kinase activity as indicated. DMSO was used as vehicle control at 0.1%.
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Transfection and Poly-ubiquitination Assay

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For polysaccharides (GAG or curdlan [β-glucan; C7821, Sigma]) or flagellin (tlrl-epstfla, Invivogen) transfection, BMDMs were incubated with 1 μg/mL of Pam3CSK4 (tlrl-pms, Invivogen) for 4 h, washed, and incubated for 1 h prior to transfection in HBSS/Modified (HyClone, SH30031.02). Then 20 μg/mL GAG, Ac-GAG, d-GAG or curdlan were resuspended in HCl 0.01 N or 2 μg/mL flagellin was resuspended in LAL water (Invivogen) and mixed with DOTAP (Roche, 11202375001) as per the manufacturer’s protocol (vol:vol ratio).
For poly(dA:dT) (tlrl-patn, Invivogen) transfection, the BMDMs were incubated with 1 μg/mL of Pam3CSK4 for 4 h, washed, and were incubated 1 h prior to transfection in Opti-MEM (31985–070, Thermo Fisher Scientific). One μg/mL of poly(dA:dT) was mixed with Xfect (631318, Takara) as per the manufacturer’s protocol. The BMDMs were stimulated with mixed solutions for 3 h before cell lysate collection.
For inhibition of the proteasome or salt treatment during GAG transfection, the medium was complemented 10 min prior to transfection with 30 μM of MG132 (M8699, Sigma Aldrich) or 200 mM of NaCl (BP358, Fisher).
To measure poly-ubiquitination, the cells were washed with PBS and harvested with RIPA buffer complemented with 10 μM of N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM).
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Transfection and Poly-ubiquitination Assay

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For polysaccharides (GAG or curdlan [β-glucan; C7821, Sigma]) or flagellin (tlrl-epstfla, Invivogen) transfection, BMDMs were incubated with 1 μg/mL of Pam3CSK4 (tlrl-pms, Invivogen) for 4 h, washed, and incubated for 1 h prior to transfection in HBSS/Modified (HyClone, SH30031.02). Then 20 μg/mL GAG, Ac-GAG, d-GAG or curdlan were resuspended in HCl 0.01 N or 2 μg/mL flagellin was resuspended in LAL water (Invivogen) and mixed with DOTAP (Roche, 11202375001) as per the manufacturer’s protocol (vol:vol ratio).
For poly(dA:dT) (tlrl-patn, Invivogen) transfection, the BMDMs were incubated with 1 μg/mL of Pam3CSK4 for 4 h, washed, and were incubated 1 h prior to transfection in Opti-MEM (31985–070, Thermo Fisher Scientific). One μg/mL of poly(dA:dT) was mixed with Xfect (631318, Takara) as per the manufacturer’s protocol. The BMDMs were stimulated with mixed solutions for 3 h before cell lysate collection.
For inhibition of the proteasome or salt treatment during GAG transfection, the medium was complemented 10 min prior to transfection with 30 μM of MG132 (M8699, Sigma Aldrich) or 200 mM of NaCl (BP358, Fisher).
To measure poly-ubiquitination, the cells were washed with PBS and harvested with RIPA buffer complemented with 10 μM of N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM).
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Isolation and Stimulation of Common Carp PBLs

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Common carp PBLs were prepared by density gradient centrifugation with Percoll (Sigma-Aldrich, Germany) according to a previous protocol (27 (link)). Briefly, for the isolation of PBLs, diluted blood was layered on top of 65% Percoll and centrifuged. After 25 min of centrifugation at 800 × g, the cells present on the interface of the gradient were collected and washed three times with PBS. The cells were resuspended in complete L-15 (Gibco, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco) and 1% penicillin-streptomycin (Gibco). Approximately 107 cells/well were seeded in 24-well plates with 500 μl of complete medium. After recovering overnight at 25°C, drug treatment was performed using poly(I:C) (a synthetic analogue of double-stranded RNA) (5 μg/ml, Sigma-Aldrich), LPS (a component of the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria) (10 µg/ml, Sigma-Aldrich), peptidoglycan (PGN) (the main PAMP of gram-positive bacteria) (10 μg/ml, Sigma-Aldrich), flagellin (a principal component of bacterial flagella) (10 ng/ml, Sigma-Aldrich), and Pam3CSK4 (a synthetic triacylated lipopeptide that can be recognized by TLR1/2) (10 ng/ml, Invitrogen, USA) at different time points (3, 6, 12, and 24 h) according to the previously described protocols (28 (link)). The cells in the control group were stimulated with the same amounts of PBS (denoted by 0 h).
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Heat-Killed Yersinia Macrophage Stimulation

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For preparation of Heat-Killed Yersinia, wild type Y. pseudotuberculosis strains were grown overnight at 26° in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth. Overnight cultures were heat killed at 60° for 30–60 min and aliquots were frozen at −80° until use.
Macrophages were stimulated with HKY (MOI = 50), LPS (Sigma, 0.1 µg/mL or 1 µg/mL) and Pam3CSK4 (Invitrogen, 2 µg/mL), poly(I∶C) (InvivoGen, 50 µg/mL) for the desired time points. Cells were washed 3× with PBS and lysed in 2× SDS Laemmli sample buffer.
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Staphylococcus aureus Growth and Mammalian Cell Stimulation

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Overnight cultures of S. aureus 61010305, S. aureus MSSA476, and S. aureus MSSA476ΔtirS (depending on experimental plan) were diluted 1:100 in Brain-heart infusion broth (BHI, Sigma Aldrich, Germany) and incubated at 37°C under shaking condition. Bacterial growth was monitored by optical density at 600 nm (OD600). The bacteria were pelleted, washed in PBS, and diluted to the appropriate CFU/ml in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Sigma Aldrich, Germany) supplemented with 10% (v/v) heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Invitrogen, USA).
The mammalian cells were stimulated for the indicated time periods by addition of appropriate number of S. aureus cells/well in DMEM media, 100 ng/ml synthetic triacylated lipoprotein Pam3CSK4 (Invitrogen, USA) or 30 ng/ml human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) (Bionordika, Norway). When indicated, the mammalian cells were incubated with 2 µg/well staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 3 (SSL3) [28 (link)] for 1 hour at 37°C before stimulation with the TLR2 ligand Pam3CSK4.
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Quantitative PCR analysis of inflammatory markers

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The following primers were used for quantitative PCR (Eurofins MWG Operon): Actb (5′-ctaaggccaaccgtgaaaag, 5′-accagaggcatacagggaca). Tnf (5′-tcttctcattcctgcttgtgg 5′-ggtctgggccatagaactga), Il6 (5′-gctaccaaactggatataatcagga, 5′-ccaggtagctatggtactccagaa), Il12 (5′-ccatcagcagatcattctagacaa, 5′-cgccattatgattcagagactg), and Bmx (5′-gagcagcttcgcttcacc, 5′-gatttactctccatattgtcgtcca). The following compounds were used: CC-292(23 (link)) and Compound1. The following antibodies were used: Trem2(24 (link)), pY-100 (Cell Signaling Technologies, 9411), Mapk1/3 (Cell Signaling Technologies, 4695), pMapk1/3 (Cell Signaling Technologies, 4377), PT66 (Sigma, P3300), 4G10 (Millipore, 05-321), Tec (Millipore, 05-551), Bmx (BD Biosciences, 610792), Btk (BD Biosciences, 558528), and IRDye (LI-COR, 800CW and 680RD). The following additives and TLR agonists were used: Lipopolysaccharide (List Biological Labs, 434), CpG DNA (Invitrogen, tlrl-1826), Pam3CSK4 (Invitrogen, tlrl-pms), Gardiquimod (Invitrogen, tlrl-gdgs) and Polymyxin B (Sigma, P4932).
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Immune Activation Pathways Modulation

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LPS was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich; Pam2CSK4, Pam3CSK4, poly(A:U),
and poly(I:C) from Invitrogen; mouse IFN-γ from PeproTech; MRT68601,
bosutinib, dasatinib, and ponatinib from Tocris; losmapimod from Biorbyt;
and nilotinib, imatinib, NG-25, and the other compounds from Table S1 were provided by LifeArc. All compounds
are >95% pure by HPLC analysis.
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Cytokine Production by Macrophages

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Thioglycolate-elicited macrophages were stimulated with NAGase (0.5, 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 μg/mL) for 48 h in the cytokine production assay. Pam3CSK4 (1 μg/mL), LPS (1 μg/mL), and IFN-γ (1.5 ng/mL) (Invitrogen, San Diego, CA, USA) were used as positive controls. IL-6, IL-12p40, TNF-α, and IL-10 levels in the supernatant of peritoneal macrophage cultures from BALB/c and C57BL6 mice were measured by the capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with antibody pairs purchased from BD Biosciences (Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA). The ELISA procedure was performed according to the manufacturer’s protocol. The quantity of cytokines was determined from a standard curve, using murine recombinants IL-12p40, IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-10.
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Gentamicin-based Listerial Infection Assay

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BMDMs pretreated for 16 h with 100 ng/ml Pam3CSK4 (Invitrogen) were infected with L. monocytogenes at an MOI of 1. At 30 min postinfection, the medium was replaced with media containing 50 µg/ml gentamicin. At 6 h postinfection, supernatants were removed and measured for lactate dehydrogenase activity as previously described (67 (link)) using a BioTek Synergy HT spectrophotometer.
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