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To identify novel mechanisms involved in combating intracellular infections, experiments were performed in mice with selective defects in the lymphotoxin (LT)\/LT\u03b2R pathway. When mice deficient in LT\u03b1 or LT\u03b2 were challenged intranasally with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, they showed a significant increase in bacterial loads in lungs and livers compared with wild-type mice, suggesting a role for LT\u03b1\u03b2 heterotrimers in resistance to infection. Indeed, mice deficient in the receptor for LT\u03b11\u03b22 heterotrimers (LT\u03b2R-knockout (KO) mice) also had significantly higher numbers of M. tuberculosis in infected lungs and exhibited widespread pulmonary necrosis already by day 35 after intranasal infection. Furthermore, LT\u03b2R-KO mice were dramatically more susceptible than wild-type mice to i.p. infection with Listeria monocytogenes. Compared with wild-type mice, LT\u03b2R-KO mice had similar transcript levels of TNF and IFN-\u03b3 and recruited similar numbers of CD3+ T cells inside granulomatous lesions in M. tuberculosis-infected lungs. Flow cytometry revealed that the LT\u03b2R is expressed on pulmonary macrophages obtained after digestion of M. tuberculosis-infected lungs. LT\u03b2R-KO mice showed delayed expression of inducible NO synthase protein in granuloma macrophages, implicating deficient macrophage activation as the most likely cause for enhanced susceptibility of these mice to intracellular infections. 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