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Shavit E, Menascu S, Achiron A, Gurevich M. Age-related blood transcriptional regulators affect disease progression in pediatric multiple sclerosis. Neurobiol Dis 2023; 176:105953. [PMID: 36493973 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pediatric onset multiple sclerosis patients (POMS) are defined as multiple sclerosis with an onset before the age of 18 years. Compared to adult onset multiple sclerosis (AOMS), POMS has more severe disease activity at onset, but better recovery. Little is known about the molecular mechanism responsible for the differences in the clinical presentations. METHODS Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells samples were taken from 22 POMS patients (mean age 14.1 ± 2.4 years, 15 females, 7 male), and 16 AOMS patients, (mean age 30.8 ± 6.1 years,10 females, 6 males), and gene-expression were analyzed using Affymetrix Inc. HU-133-A2 microarrays. Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) that significantly distinguished between POMS and AOMS with pvalue <0.05 after false discovery rate correction were evaluated using Partek software. Twenty-one matched age and gender control was applied to clarify age-related changes. Clinical assessment was performed by analysis of expanded disability status scale (EDSS) and brain MRI lesion loads. Gene functional analysis was performed by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis software. RESULTS Compared to AOMS, POMS had higher EDSS (3.0 IQR 2.0-3.0 and 2.0 IQR 2.0-3.0, p = 0.005), volume of T1 (2.72 mm3, IQR 0.44-8.39 mm3 and 0.5 mm3 IQR 0-1.29 mm3 respectively, p = 0.04) and T2 (3.70 mm3, IQR 1.3-9.6 and 0.96 mm3, IQR 0.24-4.63 respectively, p = 0.02) brain MRI lesions. The POMS transcriptional profile was characterized by 551 DEGs, enriched by cell cycling, B lymphocyte signaling and senescent pathways (p < 0.02). Of these, 183 DEGs significantly correlated with T2 lesions volume. The POMS MRI correlated DEGs (n = 183) and their upstream regulators (n = 718) has overlapped with age related DEGs obtained from healthy subjects (n = 497). This evaluated common DEGs (n = 29) defined as POMS age-related regulators, suggesting to promote effect on disease severity. CONCLUSION Our finding of higher transcriptional levels of genes involved in cell cycle, cell migration and B cell proliferation that promoted by transcriptional level of age-associated genes and transcription factors allows better understanding of the more aggressive clinical course that defines the POMS.
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- Eitan Shavit
- Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel; St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, London, United Kingdom; Arrow project for medical research education, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Distinctive populations of CD4+T cells associated with vaccine efficacy. iScience 2022; 25:104934. [PMID: 36060075 PMCID: PMC9436750 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Memory T cells underpin vaccine-induced immunity but are not yet fully understood. To distinguish features of memory cells that confer protective immunity, we used single cell transcriptome analysis to compare antigen-specific CD4+T cells recalled to lungs of mice that received a protective or nonprotective subunit vaccine followed by challenge with a fungal pathogen. We unexpectedly found populations specific to protection that expressed a strong type I interferon response signature, whose distinctive transcriptional signature appeared unconventionally dependent on IFN-γ receptor. We also detected a unique population enriched in protection that highly expressed the gene for the natural killer cell marker NKG7. Lastly, we detected differences in TCR gene use and in Th1- and Th17-skewed responses after protective and nonprotective vaccine, respectively, reflecting heterogeneous Ifng- and Il17a-expressing populations. Our findings highlight key features of transcriptionally diverse and distinctive antigen-specific T cells associated with protective vaccine-induced immunity. Protective and nonprotective vaccines generate distinct T cells in fungal infection A strong type I interferon signal is seen among CD4 T cells in protective immunity Th1 bias is seen with protective immunity; Th17 bias with nonprotective immunity Nkg7-expressing CD4 T cells are enriched in protective immunity
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Seo W, Shimizu K, Kojo S, Okeke A, Kohwi-Shigematsu T, Fujii SI, Taniuchi I. Runx-mediated regulation of CCL5 via antagonizing two enhancers influences immune cell function and anti-tumor immunity. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1562. [PMID: 32218434 PMCID: PMC7099032 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15375-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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CCL5 is a unique chemokine with distinct stage and cell-type specificities for regulating inflammation, but how these specificities are achieved and how CCL5 modulates immune responses is not well understood. Here we identify two stage-specific enhancers: the proximal enhancer mediates the constitutive CCL5 expression during the steady state, while the distal enhancer located 1.35 Mb from the promoter induces CCL5 expression in activated cells. Both enhancers are antagonized by RUNX/CBFβ complexes, and SATB1 further mediates the long-distance interaction of the distal enhancer with the promoter. Deletion of the proximal enhancer decreases CCL5 expression and augments the cytotoxic activity of tissue-resident T and NK cells, which coincides with reduced melanoma metastasis in mouse models. By contrast, increased CCL5 expression resulting from RUNX3 mutation is associated with more tumor metastasis in the lung. Collectively, our results suggest that RUNX3-mediated CCL5 repression is critical for modulating anti-tumor immunity. CCL5 is an important chemokine for modulation of inflammatory responses, but how CCL5 expression is regulated is still unclear. Here the authors show that the CCL5 locus contains two enhancers, with the proximal enhancer being responsible for homeostatic expression and the distal enhancer enforcing inducibility, while both enhancers are modulated by RUNX3.
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- Wooseok Seo
- Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan. .,Department of Immunology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku Tsurumai-Cho 65, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Immunotherapy, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immunotherapy, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Transcriptional Regulation, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
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Zheng Z, Yang J, Jiang X, Liu Y, Zhang X, Li M, Zhang M, Fu M, Hu K, Wang H, Luo MH, Gong P, Hu Q. Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Nonstructural Protein NS5 Induces RANTES Expression Dependent on the RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Activity. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2018; 201:53-68. [PMID: 29760190 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1701507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is one of the flaviviruses that targets the CNS and causes encephalitis in humans. The mechanism of TBEV that causes CNS destruction remains unclear. It has been reported that RANTES-mediated migration of human blood monocytes and T lymphocytes is specifically induced in the brain of mice infected with TBEV, which causes ensuing neuroinflammation and may contribute to brain destruction. However, the viral components responsible for RANTES induction and the underlying mechanisms remain to be fully addressed. In this study, we demonstrate that the NS5, but not other viral proteins of TBEV, induces RANTES production in human glioblastoma cell lines and primary astrocytes. TBEV NS5 appears to activate the IFN regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3) signaling pathway in a manner dependent on RIG-I/MDA5, which leads to the nuclear translocation of IRF-3 to bind with RANTES promoter. Further studies reveal that the activity of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) but not the RNA cap methyltransferase is critical for TBEV NS5-induced RANTES expression, and this is likely due to RdRP-mediated synthesis of dsRNA. Additional data indicate that the residues at K359, D361, and D664 of TBEV NS5 are critical for RdRP activity and RANTES induction. Of note, NS5s from other flaviviruses, including Japanese encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, Zika virus, and dengue virus, can also induce RANTES expression, suggesting the significance of NS5-induced RANTES expression in flavivirus pathogenesis. Our findings provide a foundation for further understanding how flaviviruses cause neuroinflammation and a potential viral target for intervention.
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- Zifeng Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou 510623, China; and
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China;
- Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, London SW17 0RE, United Kingdom
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McCoy SS, Reed TJ, Berthier CC, Tsou PS, Liu J, Gudjonsson JE, Khanna D, Kahlenberg JM. Scleroderma keratinocytes promote fibroblast activation independent of transforming growth factor beta. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2017; 56:1970-1981. [PMID: 28968684 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kex280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Objectives SSc is a devastating disease that results in fibrosis of the skin and other organs. Fibroblasts are a key driver of the fibrotic process through deposition of extracellular matrix. The mechanisms by which fibroblasts are induced to become pro-fibrotic remain unclear. Thus, we examined the ability of SSc keratinocytes to promote fibroblast activation and the source of this effect. Methods Keratinocytes were isolated from skin biopsies of 9 lcSSc, 10 dcSSc and 13 control patients. Conditioned media was saved from the cultures. Normal fresh primary fibroblasts were exposed to healthy control and SSc keratinocyte conditioned media in the presence or absence of neutralizing antibodies for TGF-β. Gene expression was assessed by microarrays and real-time PCR. Immunocytochemistry was performed for α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), collagen type 1 (COL1A1) and CCL5 expression. Results SSc keratinocyte conditioned media promoted fibroblast activation, characterized by increased α-SMA and COL1A1 mRNA and protein expression. This effect was independent of TGF-β. Microarray analysis identified upregulation of nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) and downregulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPAR-γ) pathways in both SSc subtypes. Scleroderma keratinocytes exhibited increased expression of NF-κB-regulated cytokines and chemokines and lesional skin staining confirmed upregulation of CCL5 in basal keratinocytes. Conclusion Scleroderma keratinocytes promote the activation of fibroblasts in a TGF-β-independent manner and demonstrate an imbalance in NF-κB1 and PPAR-γ expression leading to increased cytokine and CCL5 production. Further study of keratinocyte mediators of fibrosis, including CCL5, may provide novel targets for skin fibrosis therapy.
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- Sara S McCoy
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
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Molecular cloning and characterization of the promoter region of the porcine apolipoprotein E gene. Mol Biol Rep 2014; 41:3211-7. [PMID: 24464129 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3182-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Apolipoprotein E (APOE), a component of lipoproteins plays an important role in the transport and metabolism of cholesterol, and is associated with hyperlipoproteinemia and Alzheimer's disease. In order to further understand the characterization of APOE gene, the promoter of APOE gene of Landrace pigs was analyzed in the present study. The genomic structure and amino acid sequence in pigs were analyzed and found to share high similarity in those of human but low similarity in promoter region. Real-time PCR revealed the APOE gene expression pattern of pigs in diverse tissues. The highest expression level was observed in liver, relatively low expression in other tissues, especially in stomach and muscle. Furthermore, the promoter expressing in Hepa 1-6 was significantly better at driving luciferase expression compared with C2C12 cell. After analysis of porcine APOE gene promoter regions, potential transcription factor binding sites were predicted and two GC signals, a TATA box were indicated. Results of promoter activity analysis indicated that one of potential regulatory elements was located in the region -669 to -259, which was essential for a high expression of the APOE gene. Promoter mutation and deletion analysis further suggested that the C/EBPA binding site within the APOE promoter was responsible for the regulation of APOE transcription. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays also showed the binding site of the transcription factor C/EBPA. This study advances our knowledge of the promoter of the porcine APOE gene.
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CCL5 Expression in Panniculitic T-Cell Dyscrasias and Its Potential Role in Adipocyte Tropism. Am J Dermatopathol 2013. [DOI: 10.1097/dad.0b013e31826b4b1a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Wen D, Du X, Dong JZ, Ma CS. Rantes Gene Polymorphisms are Not Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Meta-Analysis. EUR J INFLAMM 2013. [DOI: 10.1177/1721727x1301100207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- D. Wen
- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China
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Fbw7γ-mediated degradation of KLF13 prevents RANTES expression in resting human but not murine T lymphocytes. Blood 2012; 120:1658-67. [PMID: 22797700 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-03-415968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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RANTES (CCL5) is a chemokine implicated in many human diseases. We previously showed that the transcription factor Kruppel-like factor 13 (KLF13) controls the late (3-5 days after activation) expression of RANTES in T lymphocytes and that KLF13 itself is translationally regulated through the 5'-untranslated region of its mRNA. Here, we show that KLF13 levels are further regulated by ubiquitination and degradation. KLF13 protein is undetectable in resting human T lymphocytes, but treatment with either proteosomal or lysosomal inhibitors increases KLF13 protein levels. Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β)-mediated phosphorylation of KLF13 triggers the ubiquitination of KLF13 by the E3 ligase Fbw7γ, resulting in KLF13 protein degradation. Knockdown of either Fbw7γ or GSK3β by small interfering RNA increases KLF13 expression in resting human T lymphocytes. In contrast, in murine T lymphocytes, KLF13 protein is abundant because of the absence of Fbw7γ. Treatment of unactivated human lymphocytes with lysosomal inhibitors stabilizes KLF13 protein, resulting in an increase of RANTES mRNA and protein. Taken together, these studies found that tightly regulated control of both synthesis and degradation allows rapid changes in the level of KLF13 in human T lymphocytes.
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Jenkins RW, Clarke CJ, Canals D, Snider AJ, Gault CR, Heffernan-Stroud L, Wu BX, Simbari F, Roddy P, Kitatani K, Obeid LM, Hannun YA. Regulation of CC ligand 5/RANTES by acid sphingomyelinase and acid ceramidase. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:13292-303. [PMID: 21335555 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.163378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Acid sphingomyelinase (aSMase) generates the bioactive lipid ceramide (Cer) from hydrolysis of sphingomyelin (SM). However, its precise roles in regulating specific sphingolipid-mediated biological processes remain ill defined. Interestingly, the aSMase gene gives rise to two distinct enzymes, lysosomal sphingomyelinase (L-SMase) and secretory sphingomyelinase (S-SMase) via alternative trafficking of a shared protein precursor. Previously, our laboratory identified Ser(508) as a crucial residue for the constitutive and regulated secretion of S-SMase in response to inflammatory cytokines, and demonstrated a role for S-SMase in formation of select cellular Cer species (Jenkins, R. W., Canals, D., Idkowiak-Baldys, J., Simbari, F., Roddy, P., Perry, D. M., Kitatani, K., Luberto, C., and Hannun, Y. A. (2010) J. Biol. Chem. 285, 35706-35718). In the present study using a chemokine/cytokine screen, we identified the chemokine CCL5 (formerly known as RANTES) as a candidate-specific downstream target for aSMase. Regulation of CCL5 by aSMase was subsequently validated using both loss-of-function and gain-of-function models indicating that aSMase is both necessary and sufficient for CCL5 production. Interestingly, cells deficient in acid ceramidase (aCDase) also exhibited defects in CCL5 induction, whereas cells deficient in sphingosine kinase-1 and -2 exhibited higher levels of CCL5, suggesting that sphingosine and not sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is responsible for the positive signal to CCL5. Consistent with this, co-expression of aSMase and aCDase was sufficient to strongly induce CCL5. Taken together, these data identify a novel role for aSMase (particularly S-SMase) in chemokine elaboration by pro-inflammatory cytokines and highlight a novel and shared function for aSMase and aCDase.
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- Russell W Jenkins
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
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Na YJ, Lee DH, Kim SC, Joo JK, Wang JW, Jin JO, Kwak JY, Lee KS. Effects of peritoneal fluid from endometriosis patients on the release of monocyte-specific chemokines by leukocytes. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2010; 283:1333-41. [DOI: 10.1007/s00404-010-1583-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2010] [Accepted: 06/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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O-linked N-acetylglucosaminylation of Sp1 inhibits the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 promoter. J Virol 2009; 83:3704-18. [PMID: 19193796 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01384-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression and replication are regulated by the promoter/enhancer located in the U3 region of the proviral 5' long terminal repeat (LTR). The binding of cellular transcription factors to specific regulatory sites in the 5' LTR is a key event in the replication cycle of HIV-1. Since transcriptional activity is regulated by the posttranslational modification of transcription factors with the monosaccharide O-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (O-GlcNAc), we evaluated whether increased O-GlcNAcylation affects HIV-1 transcription. In the present study we demonstrate that treatment of HIV-1-infected lymphocytes with the O-GlcNAcylation-enhancing agent glucosamine (GlcN) repressed viral transcription in a dose-dependent manner. Overexpression of O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT), the sole known enzyme catalyzing the addition of O-GlcNAc to proteins, specifically inhibited the activity of the HIV-1 LTR promoter in different T-cell lines and in primary CD4(+) T lymphocytes. Inhibition of HIV-1 LTR activity in infected T cells was most efficient (>95%) when OGT was recombinantly overexpressed prior to infection. O-GlcNAcylation of the transcription factor Sp1 and the presence of Sp1-binding sites in the LTR were found to be crucial for this inhibitory effect. From this study, we conclude that O-GlcNAcylation of Sp1 inhibits the activity of the HIV-1 LTR promoter. Modulation of Sp1 O-GlcNAcylation may play a role in the regulation of HIV-1 latency and activation and links viral replication to the glucose metabolism of the host cell. Hence, the establishment of a metabolic treatment might supplement the repertoire of antiretroviral therapies against AIDS.
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Kumar D, Hosse J, von Toerne C, Noessner E, Nelson PJ. JNK MAPK Pathway Regulates Constitutive Transcription of CCL5 by Human NK Cells through SP1. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2009; 182:1011-20. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.182.2.1011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Umezawa M, Sakata C, Tanaka N, Kudo S, Tabata M, Takeda K, Ihara T, Sugamata M. Cytokine and chemokine expression in a rat endometriosis is similar to that in human endometriosis. Cytokine 2008; 43:105-9. [PMID: 18595729 DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2008.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2008] [Revised: 04/02/2008] [Accepted: 04/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The pathogenesis of endometriosis, a gynecologic disorder associated with infertility, appears to involve immune responses. However, the details involved have not been clarified. In this study, we analyzed expression levels of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, eosinophil chemotactic protein, macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha, and regulated on activation normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) and CC chemokine receptor 1 in endometriotic lesions in a rat model in which endometrium is autotransplanted onto peritoneal tissue and found that they were remarkably increased, while those of IL-2, IL-4, and interferon-gamma were not. These results were obtained in a rat model induced by autologous, not allogeneic, transplantation of endometrial epithelium to the peritoneum. Expression of these factors is consistent with that of endometriosis in humans. Therefore, this model may be useful in the investigation of the pathogenesis and treatment of endometriosis.
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- Masakazu Umezawa
- Department of Pathology, Tochigi Institute of Clinical Pathology, Tochigi 329-0112, Japan.
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Huang B, Ahn YT, McPherson L, Clayberger C, Krensky AM. Interaction of PRP4 with Kruppel-like factor 13 regulates CCL5 transcription. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 178:7081-7. [PMID: 17513757 PMCID: PMC2674583 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.11.7081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Activation of resting T lymphocytes initiates differentiation into mature effector cells over 3-7 days. The chemokine CCL5 (RANTES) and its major transcriptional regulator, Krüppel-like factor 13 (KLF13), are expressed late (3-5 days) after activation in T lymphocytes. Using yeast two-hybrid screening of a human thymus cDNA library, PRP4, a serine/threonine protein kinase, was identified as a KLF13-binding protein. Specific interaction of KLF13 and PRP4 was confirmed by reciprocal coimmunoprecipitation. PRP4 is expressed in PHA-stimulated human T lymphocytes from days 1 and 7 with a peak at day 3. Using an in vitro kinase assay, it was found that PRP4 phosphorylates KLF13. Furthermore, although phosphorylation of KLF13 by PRP4 results in lower binding affinity to the A/B site of the CCL5 promoter, coexpression of PRP4 and KLF13 increases nuclear localization of KLF13 and CCL5 transcription. Finally, knock-down of PRP4 by small interfering RNA markedly decreases CCL5 expression in T lymphocytes. Thus, PRP4-mediated phosphorylation of KLF13 plays a role in the regulation of CCL5 expression in T lymphocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus/genetics
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus/immunology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- COS Cells
- Cell Cycle Proteins/biosynthesis
- Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics
- Cell Cycle Proteins/physiology
- Cells, Cultured
- Chemokine CCL5/biosynthesis
- Chemokine CCL5/genetics
- Chemokine CCL5/metabolism
- Chemokines, CC/biosynthesis
- Chemokines, CC/genetics
- Chemokines, CC/metabolism
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Humans
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/biosynthesis
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/genetics
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/physiology
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/physiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phosphorylation
- Protein Binding/genetics
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/biosynthesis
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism
- Repressor Proteins/biosynthesis
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Repressor Proteins/physiology
- Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear/biosynthesis
- Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear/genetics
- Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear/metabolism
- Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear/physiology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/enzymology
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/enzymology
- Thymus Gland/immunology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Alan M. Krensky, Division of Immunology and Transplantation Biology, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. E-mail address:
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Krensky AM, Ahn YT. Mechanisms of disease: regulation of RANTES (CCL5) in renal disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 3:164-70. [PMID: 17322928 PMCID: PMC2702760 DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2006] [Accepted: 12/06/2006] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chemokines (chemoattractant cytokines) are fundamental regulators of immune cell movement from the bloodstream into tissues. Regulating expression of chemokines might, therefore, alleviate inflammation in autoimmune diseases and transplant rejection, or augment immune responses in cancer and immunodeficiency. RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted [also known as CCL5]) is a model chemokine of relevance to a myriad of diseases. Regulation of RANTES expression is complex. In fibroblasts and monocytes, rel proteins alone suffice to induce transcription of RANTES. By contrast, expression of RANTES in T lymphocytes 3-5 days after activation requires the development of a molecular complex (enhancesome) including KLF13 (Krueppel-like factor 13), rel proteins p50 and p65, and scaffolding proteins. This complex recruits enzymes involved in acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation of chromatin, and ultimately in the expression of RANTES. In addition, KLF13-the lynchpin for recruitment of this molecular complex-is itself translationally regulated. Such complex regulation of biological systems has major implications for the rational design of drugs aimed at increasing or decreasing inflammatory responses in patients.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alan M Krensky
- Division of Immunology and Transplantation Biology in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Marçais A, Tomkowiak M, Walzer T, Coupet CA, Ravel-Chapuis A, Marvel J. Maintenance of CCL5 mRNA stores by post-effector and memory CD8 T cells is dependent on transcription and is coupled to increased mRNA stability. Eur J Immunol 2006; 36:2745-54. [PMID: 16983723 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200636259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Immunological memory is associated with the display of improved effector functions by cells of the adaptive immune system. The storage of untranslated mRNA coding for the CCL5 chemokine by CD8 memory cells is a new process supporting the immediate display of an effector function. Here, we show that, after induction during the primary response, high CCL5 mRNA levels are specifically preserved in CD8 T cells. We have investigated the mechanisms involved in the long-term maintenance of CCL5 mRNA levels by memory CD8 T cells. We demonstrate that the CCL5 mRNA half-life is increased in memory CD8 T cells and that these cells constitutively transcribe ccl5 gene. By inhibiting ccl5 transcription using IL-4, we demonstrate the essential role of transcription in the maintenance of CCL5 mRNA stores. Finally, we show that these stores are spontaneously reconstituted when the inhibitory signal is removed, indicating that the transcription of ccl5 is a default feature of memory CD8 T cells imprinted in their genetic program.
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Thomas LH, Wickremasinghe MIY, Friedland JS. IL-1 beta stimulates divergent upper and lower airway epithelial cell CCL5 secretion. Clin Immunol 2006; 122:229-38. [PMID: 17126080 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2006.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2006] [Revised: 10/06/2006] [Accepted: 10/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Direct infection of respiratory epithelium induces chemokine secretion and upregulates cytokine networks, which are central in regulating inflammation. IL-1beta may have a pivotal role in such networks. Differential control of chemokine secretion within specific airway regions, which have distinct roles in immunity, is not well characterized. We investigated IL-1beta-induced CXCL8 and CCL5 secretion from primary normal human bronchial and small airway epithelial cells, and the alveolar cell line A549. CXCL8 was secreted by all cells, but only lower airway cells secreted CCL5. IL-1beta induced nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB (p50, p65 and c-Rel subunits), NF-IL-6 and AP-1, each with distinct kinetics. This was associated with high level CCL5 promoter activation, via transcription factor binding to multiple regions, including NF-kappaB, AP-1 and NF-IL-6 sites. The IL-1-related cytokine IL-18 did not drive or modulate IL-1beta-induced CXCL8 or CCL5 secretion. In summary, IL-1beta, but not IL-18, induces transcription-dependent lower airway epithelial cell-specific CCL5 secretion. Differential chemokine secretion may have profound effects on local leukocyte influx within upper or lower airways exposed to airway infection or environmental stimuli, which might then require different anti-inflammatory strategies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lynette H Thomas
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College (Hammersmith Campus), Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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Ahn YT, Huang B, McPherson L, Clayberger C, Krensky AM. Dynamic interplay of transcriptional machinery and chromatin regulates "late" expression of the chemokine RANTES in T lymphocytes. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:253-66. [PMID: 17074812 PMCID: PMC1800668 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01071-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The chemokine RANTES (regulated upon activation normal T cell expressed and secreted) is expressed "late" (3 to 5 days) after activation in T lymphocytes. In order to understand the molecular events that accompany changes in gene expression, a detailed analysis of the interplay between transcriptional machinery and chromatin on the RANTES promoter over time was undertaken. Krüppel-like factor 13 (KLF13), a sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor, orchestrates the induction of RANTES expression in T lymphocytes by ordered recruitment of effector molecules, including Nemo-like kinase, p300/cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CBP), p300/CBP-associated factor, and Brahma-related gene 1, that initiate sequential changes in phosphorylation and acetylation of histones and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling near the TATA box of the RANTES promoter. These events recruit RNA polymerase II to the RANTES promoter and are responsible for late expression of RANTES in T lymphocytes. Therefore, KLF13 is a key regulator of late RANTES expression in T lymphocytes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yong-Tae Ahn
- Division of Immunology and Transplantation Biology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5164, USA
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Marçais A, Coupet CA, Walzer T, Tomkowiak M, Ghittoni R, Marvel J. Cell-autonomous CCL5 transcription by memory CD8 T cells is regulated by IL-4. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:4451-7. [PMID: 16982880 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.7.4451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Immunological memory is associated with the display of improved effector functions. The maintenance by CD8 memory cells of high levels of untranslated CCL5 mRNA allows these cells to immediately secrete this chemokine upon Ag stimulation. Untranslated mRNA storage is a newly described process supporting the immediate display of an effector function by memory lymphocytes. We have tested the capacity of different cytokines to regulate the memorization of CCL5 by memory CD8 T cells. We found that IL-4 treatment of murine CD8 T cells impairs immediate CCL5 secretion capacity by inhibiting CCL5 mRNA transcription through a STAT6-dependent pathway. The inhibition by IL-4 is reversible, as memory CD8 T cells reconstitute their CCL5 mRNA stores and reacquire their immediate CCL5 secretion capacity when IL-4 is withdrawn. This recovery is cell autonomous because it proceeds in culture medium in the absence of exogenous growth factors, suggesting that CCL5 expression by memory CD8 T cells is a default process. Overall, these results indicate that the expression of CCL5 is an intrinsic property acquired by memory CD8 T cells that is regulated by environmental factors.
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- Antoine Marçais
- Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 503, 21 avenue Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
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Siristatidis C, Nissotakis C, Chrelias C, Iacovidou H, Salamalekis E. Immunological factors and their role in the genesis and development of endometriosis
ARTICLE HAS BEEN RETRACTED. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2006; 32:162-70. [PMID: 16594919 DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2006.00373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The article presents an overview of immunological factors and their role in the genesis and development of endometriosis, with emphasis on inflammatory cytokines and growth and adhesion factors. Although retrograde menstruation is a common phenomenon among women of reproductive age, not all women with retrograde menstruation suffer the disease. Development of endometriosis seems to be a complex process, facilitated by several factors, including quantity and quality of endometrial cells in peritoneal fluid (PF), increased inflammatory activity in PF, increased endometrial-peritoneal adhesion and angiogenesis, reduced immune surveillance and clearance of endometrial cells, and increased production of autoantibodies against endometrial cells. Potential biomarkers like cytokines and autoantibodies, upregulated during development of endometriosis, seem useful in the development of a non-surgical diagnostic tool. In this review work, the immune role in endometriosis is examined through the role of immunological factors in the genesis and development of the disease. Furthermore, it could be concluded that, although endometriosis can be treated using hormonal suppression, there is a need today for non-hormonal drugs, probably to modulate immune function, in order to confront the disease and alleviate pain or infertility without inhibition of ovulation.
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- Charalambos Siristatidis
- Third Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece.
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Liu J, Guan X, Ma X. Interferon Regulatory Factor 1 Is an Essential and Direct Transcriptional Activator for Interferon γ-induced RANTES/CCl5 Expression in Macrophages. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:24347-55. [PMID: 15860458 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m500973200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF-1) is an important transcription factor in interferon gamma (IFNgamma)-mediated signaling in the development and function of NK cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes. RANTES (regulated on activation normal T cell expressed and secreted; CCL5) is a member of the CC chemokine family of proteins, which is strongly chemoattractant for several important immune cell types in host defense against infectious agents and cancer. However, the role of IFNgamma and IRF-1 in the regulation of RANTES gene expression and their operative mechanisms in macrophages have not been established. We report here that RANTES expression in IRF-1-null mice, primarily in macrophages, in response to carcinogenic stimulation in vivo and in vitro and to IFNgamma but not to lipopolysaccharide in vitro, was markedly decreased. As a result, RANTES-mediated chemoattraction of CCR5(+) target cells was also severely impaired. Adenovirus-mediated gene transduction of IRF-1 in primary macrophages resulted in enhanced RANTES expression. The IFNgamma and IRF1 response element was localized to a TTTTC motif at -147 to -143 of the mouse RANTES promoter, to which endogenous or recombinant IRF-1 can physically bind in vitro and in vivo. This study uncovers a novel IFNgamma-induced pathway in RANTES expression mediated by IRF-1 in macrophages and elucidates an important host defense mechanism against neoplastic transformation.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoviridae/genetics
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- CD4 Antigens/biosynthesis
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Movement
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Chemokine CCL5/metabolism
- Chemokines, CC/metabolism
- Chemotaxis
- Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Interferon Regulatory Factor-1
- Interferon-gamma/metabolism
- Lipopolysaccharides/chemistry
- Macrophages/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis
- Phosphoproteins/genetics
- Phosphoproteins/physiology
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Ribonucleases/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Time Factors
- Transcriptional Activation
- Transfection
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- Jianguo Liu
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Uchihara JN, Krensky AM, Matsuda T, Kawakami H, Okudaira T, Masuda M, Ohta T, Takasu N, Mori N. Transactivation of the CCL5/RANTES gene by Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1. Int J Cancer 2005; 114:747-55. [PMID: 15609310 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Chemokines and chemokine receptors mediate lymphocyte migration and tissue localization. To analyze CCL5 (RANTES) expression by EBV-infected cells, we examined the expression of CCL5 in BL cell lines. Among 4 BL cell lines, those infected with EBV selectively expressed the CCL5 gene and secreted CCL5. Four cell lines also expressed CCR5, a receptor for CCL5. EBV-encoded LMP-1, a pleiotropic protein that effects gene expression, cell transformation, growth and death, induces expression of CCL5 mRNA and secretion of CCL5 in the EBV-negative BL cell line BJAB and the embryonic kidney cell line 293T. HDACI-stimulated endogenous LMP-1 also induced CCL5 expression in an EBV-positive BL cell line. Analysis of the CCL5 promoter revealed that it is activated by both LMP-1 C-terminal activation domains, CTAR-1 and CTAR-2, which can activate NF-kappaB signaling. Coexpression of IkappaBalpha, IkappaBbeta, IKKalpha, IKKbeta, NIK and TRAF2 dominant-negative constructs, with LMP-1 inhibited the activation of the CCL5 promoter by LMP-1, suggesting that LMP-1 induces CCL5 via NF-kappaB signaling. The NF-kappaB binding sites, R(A/B), located at positions -71 to -43 relative to the putative transcription start site in the CCL5 promoter, were essential for the activation of CCL5 gene expression by LMP-1. These results indicate that the activation of the NF-kappaB pathway by LMP-1 is required for the activation of CCL5 expression.
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- Jun-Nosuke Uchihara
- Division of Molecular Virology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan
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BACKGROUND Typically, endometriosis is diagnosed surgically by laparoscopy. CA-125 is the principal serum marker used in the diagnosis and management of late-stage endometriosis. The search for a body fluid marker of early stage disease has included studies of serum, peritoneal fluid (PF), and/or tissue levels of secretory proteins, cell adhesion molecules, cytokines, tumor necrosis and vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs), chemokines, antiendometrial antibodies, autoantibodies to oxidized lipoproteins, aromatase P-450 expression, cytokeratins, and hormone receptors. We compared the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of these various types of substances in the non-surgical identification of patients with endometriosis. METHOD We reviewed the MEDLINE database for all publications on serum, peritoneal fluid and tissue markers of endometriosis. RESULTS Except for serum interleukin (IL)-6 and peritoneal fluid tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha levels, the diagnostic accuracy of other markers of endometriosis was either similar or worse than that of CA-125 (sensitivity 24-94%; specificity 83-93%). The diagnostic accuracy of IL-6 and TNF-alpha was 90-100% (sensitivity) and 67-89% (specificity). CONCLUSION CA-125 has limited diagnostic accuracy in the identification of early stage endometriosis and none of the other markers we reviewed dramatically outperformed CA-125 in this regard with the possible exception of serum IL-6 and peritoneal fluid TNF-alpha levels.
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- Mohamed A Bedaiwy
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A81, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Mori N, Krensky AM, Ohshima K, Tomita M, Matsuda T, Ohta T, Yamada Y, Tomonaga M, Ikeda S, Yamamoto N. Elevated expression of CCL5/RANTES in adult T-cell leukemia cells: possible transactivation of the CCL5 gene by human T-cell leukemia virus type I tax. Int J Cancer 2004; 111:548-57. [PMID: 15239133 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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HTLV-I is the etiologic agent of ATL and of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy. Infiltration of various tissues by circulating leukemic cells and HTLV-I-infected T cells is a characteristic of ATL and HTLV-I-associated inflammatory diseases. Chemokines play important roles in migration and tissue localization of various lymphocyte subsets. Here, we report the highly frequent expression of CCL5 (RANTES) in ATL and HTLV-I-infected T-cell lines. Among various human T-cell lines, those infected with HTLV-I selectively expressed the CCL5 gene and secreted CCL5. Furthermore, CCL5 was expressed by leukemic cells in peripheral blood and lymph nodes from patients with ATL. Inducible expression of HTLV-I transcriptional activator Tax in a human T-cell line Jurkat, up-regulated CCL5 mRNA and induced CCL5 secretion. Analysis of the CCL5 promoter revealed that this gene is activated by Tax, via the activation of NF-kappaB, whose responsive element, R(A/B), is located at positions -71 to -43 relative to the putative transcription start site. Aberrant expression of CCL5 by HTLV-I-infected T cells may impact on the pathophysiology of HTLV-I-associated diseases.
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- Naoki Mori
- Division of Molecular Virology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan.
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Mori N, Krensky AM, Geleziunas R, Wada A, Hirayama T, Sasakawa C, Yamamoto N. Helicobacter pylori induces RANTES through activation of NF-kappa B. Infect Immun 2003; 71:3748-56. [PMID: 12819056 PMCID: PMC162018 DOI: 10.1128/iai.71.7.3748-3756.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Helicobacter pylori-infected gastric mucosa displays a conspicuous infiltration of mononuclear cells and neutrophils. RANTES (short for "regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted") is a chemoattractant cytokine (chemokine) important in the infiltration of T lymphocytes and monocytes. RANTES may therefore contribute to the cellular infiltrate in the H. pylori-infected gastric mucosa. The aim of this study was to analyze the molecular mechanism responsible for H. pylori-mediated RANTES expression. We observed that gastric epithelial cells produced RANTES upon coculture with H. pylori. In addition, H. pylori induced RANTES mRNA expression and an increase in luciferase activity in cells which were transfected with a luciferase reporter construct derived from the RANTES promoter, in gastric epithelial cells, indicating that the induction of RANTES production occurred at the transcriptional level. Induction of RANTES was dependent on an intact cag pathogenicity island. Activation of the RANTES promoter by H. pylori occurred through the action of NF-kappa B. Transfection of kinase-deficient mutants of I kappa B kinase (IKK) and NF-kappa B-inducing kinase (NIK) inhibited H. pylori-mediated RANTES activation. In contrast, tumor necrosis factor alpha- or interleukin-1/Toll-like receptor signaling molecules-such as mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase 1, MyD88, and interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-did not play a role in RANTES activation by H. pylori. Collectively, H. pylori induced NF-kappa B activation through an intracellular signaling pathway that involved IKK and NIK, leading to RANTES gene transcription. RANTES induction by H. pylori may play an important role in gastric inflammation.
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- Naoki Mori
- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan.
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Werner T, Fessele S, Maier H, Nelson PJ. Computer modeling of promoter organization as a tool to study transcriptional coregulation. FASEB J 2003; 17:1228-37. [PMID: 12832287 DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-0955rev] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Understanding how the regulation of gene networks is orchestrated is an important challenge for characterizing complex biological processes. Gene transcription is regulated in part by nuclear factors that recognize short DNA sequence motifs, called transcription factor binding sites, in most cases located upstream of the gene coding sequence in promoter and enhancer regions. Genes expressed in the same tissue under similar conditions often share a common organization of at least some of these regulatory binding elements. In this way the organization of promoter motifs represents a "footprint" of the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms at work in a specific biologic context and thus provides information about signal and tissue specific control of expression. Analysis of promoters for organizational features as demonstrated here provides a crucial link between the static nucleotide sequence of the genome and the dynamic aspects of gene regulation and expression.
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- Thomas Werner
- GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany
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Walzer T, Marçais A, Saltel F, Bella C, Jurdic P, Marvel J. Cutting edge: immediate RANTES secretion by resting memory CD8 T cells following antigenic stimulation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:1615-9. [PMID: 12574321 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.4.1615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The efficiency of CD8 memory response relies partially on the modification of cellular functional capacities. To identify effector functions that can be modified following priming, we have compared the chemokines produced by naive and memory CD8 T cells. Our results show that in contrast to naive cells, resting memory CD8 T cells contain high levels of RANTES mRNA. As a result, they have the capacity to rapidly secrete RANTES upon ex vivo antigenic stimulation. In contrast to that of IFN-gamma, RANTES secretion is mainly due to the translation of the pre-existing mRNA.
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- Thierry Walzer
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 503, Centre d'Etude et de Recherche en Virologie et Immunologie, 21 avenue Tony Garnier, 69365 Lyon CEDEX 07, France
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Casola A, Henderson A, Liu T, Garofalo RP, Brasier AR. Regulation of RANTES promoter activation in alveolar epithelial cells after cytokine stimulation. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2002; 283:L1280-90. [PMID: 12388374 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00162.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed, and presumably secreted (RANTES) is a member of the CC chemokine family of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases characterized by lung eosinophilia and inflammation, strongly produced by stimulated airway epithelial cells. Because such cytokines as tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) have been shown to enhance RANTES induction in airway epithelial cells and RANTES gene expression appears to be differentially regulated depending on the cell type and the stimulus applied, in this study we have elucidated mechanisms that operate to control RANTES induction on exposure to TNF-alpha and/or IFN-gamma. Our results indicate that TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma synergistically induce RANTES protein secretion and mRNA expression. RANTES transcription is activated only after stimulation with TNF-alpha, but not IFN-gamma, which affects RANTES mRNA stabilization. Promoter deletion and mutagenesis experiments indicate that the nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB site is the most important cis-regulatory element controlling TNF-induced RANTES transcription, although NF-interleukin-6 binding site, cAMP responsive element (CRE), and interferon-stimulated responsive element (ISRE) also play a significant role. TNF-alpha stimulation induces nuclear translocation of interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-3, which in viral infection binds the RANTES ISRE and is necessary for activation of RANTES transcription. However, TNF-induced IRF-3 translocation does not result in IRF-3 binding to the RANTES ISRE. Although viral infection can activate an ISRE-driven promoter, TNF cannot, indicating that RANTES gene enhancers are controlled in a stimulus-specific fashion. Identification of molecular mechanisms involved in RANTES gene expression is fundamental for developing strategies to modulate lung inflammatory responses.
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- Antonella Casola
- Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, and Internal Medicine and Sealy Center for Molecular Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA.
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Schubert LA, Cron RQ, Cleary AM, Brunner M, Song A, Lu LS, Jullien P, Krensky AM, Lewis DB. A T cell-specific enhancer of the human CD40 ligand gene. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:7386-95. [PMID: 11751888 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110350200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We observed that the human CD40 ligand (CD40L) gene 5'-flanking region conferred weak promoter activity in activated CD4 T cells, suggesting that additional regions are required for optimal CD40L gene transcription. We therefore examined a 3'-flanking segment of the CD40L gene, which contained a putative NF-kappaB/Rel cis-element, for its ability to enhance CD40L promoter function. This segment augmented CD40L promoter activity in an orientation-independent manner in CD4 T-lineage cells but not in human B cell or monocyte cell lines. Mapping of CD4 T-lineage cell nuclei identified a DNase I-hypersensitive site in the flanking region near the NF-kappaB/Rel sequence, suggesting a transcriptional regulatory role. This was further supported by truncation analysis and site-directed mutagenesis, which indicated that the CD40L 3'-flanking NF-kappaB/Rel cis-element was critical for enhancer function. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that the cis-element preferentially bound the p50 form of the NF-kappaB1 gene contained in human T cell nuclear protein extracts. This binding also appeared to occur in vivo in CD4 T cells based on chromatin immunoprecipitation assays using NF-kappaB p50-specific antiserum. Together, these results suggest that the CD40L gene 3'-flanking region acts as a T cell-specific classical transcriptional enhancer by a NF-kappaB p50-dependent mechanism.
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MESH Headings
- B-Lymphocytes
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Binding, Competitive
- CD4 Antigens/biosynthesis
- CD40 Ligand/metabolism
- Cell Line
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Deoxyribonuclease I/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Genes, Reporter
- Humans
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Jurkat Cells
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Monocytes/metabolism
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- NF-kappa B/chemistry
- NF-kappa B/metabolism
- NF-kappa B p50 Subunit
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Precipitin Tests
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Binding
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-rel/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Lisa A Schubert
- Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Fessele S, Maier H, Zischek C, Nelson PJ, Werner T. Regulatory context is a crucial part of gene function. Trends Genet 2002; 18:60-3. [PMID: 11818130 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9525(02)02591-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Information about the time and place of gene transcription, which until recently was only possible by extensive experimental analysis, can now be predicted through in silico analysis. Using the human RANTES/CCL5 promoter, we show that organizational features of promoters derived from promoter sequences contain information about the spatial and temporal 'functional context' of expression.
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- Sabine Fessele
- Medizinische Poliklinik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schillerstr. 42, D-80336, Munich, Germany
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Casola A, Garofalo RP, Haeberle H, Elliott TF, Lin R, Jamaluddin M, Brasier AR. Multiple cis regulatory elements control RANTES promoter activity in alveolar epithelial cells infected with respiratory syncytial virus. J Virol 2001; 75:6428-39. [PMID: 11413310 PMCID: PMC114366 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.14.6428-6439.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2001] [Accepted: 04/19/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) produces intense pulmonary inflammation, in part through its ability to induce chemokine synthesis in infected airway epithelial cells. RANTES (regulated upon activation, normally T-cell expressed and presumably secreted) is a CC chemokine which recruits and activates monocytes, lymphocytes, and eosinophils, all cell types present in the lung inflammatory infiltrate induced by RSV infection. In this study, we analyzed the mechanism of RSV-induced RANTES promoter activation in human type II alveolar epithelial cells (A549 cells). Promoter deletion and mutagenesis experiments indicate that RSV requires the presence of five different cis regulatory elements, located in the promoter fragment spanning from -220 to +55 nucleotides, corresponding to NF-kappaB, C/EBP, Jun/CREB/ATF, and interferon regulatory factor (IRF) binding sites. Although site mutations of the NF-kappaB, C/EBP, and CREB/AP-1 like sites reduce RSV-induced RANTES gene transcription to 50% or less, only mutations affecting IRF binding completely abolish RANTES inducibility. Supershift and microaffinity isolation assays were used to identify the different transcription factor family members whose DNA binding activity was RSV inducible. Expression of dominant negative mutants of these transcription factors further established their central role in virus-induced RANTES promoter activation. Our finding that the presence of multiple cis regulatory elements is required for full activation of the RANTES promoter in RSV-infected alveolar epithelial cells supports the enhanceosome model for RANTES gene transcription, which is absolutely dependent on binding of IRF transcription factors. The identification of regulatory mechanisms of RANTES gene expression is fundamental for rational design of inhibitors of RSV-induced lung inflammation.
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- A Casola
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Health Research Center, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0366, USA.
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Tung WS, Lee JK, Thompson RW. Simultaneous analysis of 1176 gene products in normal human aorta and abdominal aortic aneurysms using a membrane-based complementary DNA expression array. J Vasc Surg 2001; 34:143-50. [PMID: 11436088 DOI: 10.1067/mva.2001.113310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND A number of changes in gene expression have been described in abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), but the spectrum of molecular alterations in this disease is unknown. The purpose of this study was to characterize the expression of approximately 1000 gene products in human AAA tissue and to compare the profile of genes expressed in AAAs with that observed in normal aorta. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total RNA was isolated from abdominal aortic wall tissues (4 AAAs and 4 normal aortas), and array-specific [(32)P]-labeled complementary DNA (cDNA) probes were created with reverse transcription. The cDNA probes were hybridized with nylon membranes containing an array of 1176 cDNA clones (AtlasArray Human 1.2 I; Clontech, Palo Alto, Calif), and autoradiographs were scanned to identify the patterns of gene expression characteristic of each tissue type. Densitometric analysis was used to standardize the expression of individual genes to a panel of housekeeping controls, and differential gene expression was defined by a signal ratio of at least 2:1. RESULTS One hundred forty-five (12.3%) of the 1176 genes were consistently expressed in aortic tissue. Thymosin beta-4 was the most abundant of 101 transcripts detected in both AAAs and normal aorta, whereas 44 genes exhibited differential patterns of expression (39 predominant in AAAs and 5 in normal aorta). Densitometric analysis confirmed differences in expression for 20 of these gene products between AAAs and normal aorta, with the greatest increases seen for myeloid cell nuclear differentiation antigen (31-fold), cathepsin H (30-fold), platelet-derived growth factor-A (23-fold), apolipoprotein E (13-fold), gelatinase B/matrix metalloproteinase-9 (12-fold), and interleukin-8 (11-fold). The only gene products substantially decreased in AAAs were myosin light chain kinase (39-fold) and beta-1 integrin (twofold). AAA tissues thereby exhibited a distinct pattern of gene expression reflecting chronic inflammation, extracellular matrix degradation, atherosclerosis, and smooth muscle cell depletion. CONCLUSIONS cDNA expression arrays provide a powerful new approach to help identify the molecular mechanisms responsible for aneurysmal degeneration. Further studies will be needed to elucidate the functional and pathophysiologic significance of the individual genes that exhibit altered levels of expression in AAA tissue.
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- W S Tung
- Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, MO 63110, USA
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Hornung D, Klingel K, Dohrn K, Kandolf R, Wallwiener D, Taylor RN. Regulated on activation, normal T-cell-expressed and -secreted mRNA expression in normal endometrium and endometriotic implants: assessment of autocrine/paracrine regulation by in situ hybridization. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2001; 158:1949-54. [PMID: 11395370 PMCID: PMC1891998 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64664-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chemoattraction of macrophages and T cells into the normal endometrium and inflammatory sites within endometriotic foci is mediated by chemokine gene expression. mRNA transcripts encoding regulated on activation, normal T-cell-expressed and -secreted (RANTES), a monocyte and T-cell chemokine, were demonstrated in the stroma of normal endometrium and endometriotic implants using in situ mRNA hybridization. Epithelial glands failed to express RANTES mRNA. In histological serial sections, we observed CD68-positive macrophages in the stroma of endometriotic implants adjacent to regions with prominent RANTES mRNA hybridization. In adjacent sections, monoclonal antibodies against tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha showed this cytokine to be localized to stromal and epithelial compartments of the endometriotic implant with weak staining in unaffected ovarian tissue. Subconfluent monolayers of endometriotic stromal cells were tested for RANTES gene expression in situ, but we could only detect RANTES mRNA in isolated stromal cells after treatment with TNF-alpha. No RANTES mRNA was observed in unstimulated stromal cells or TNF-alpha stimulated or unstimulated epithelial cells. The data are consistent with a model in which proinflammatory cytokines (eg, TNF-alpha) induce RANTES gene expression limited to specific cells within endometrial and endometriotic stroma. Production of this chemokine, in turn, stimulates recruitment of CD68-positive macrophages into these tissues.
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- D Hornung
- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular Pathology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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Fessele S, Boehlk S, Mojaat A, Miyamoto NG, Werner T, Nelson EL, Schlondorff D, Nelson PJ. Molecular and in silico characterization of a promoter module and C/EBP element that mediate LPS-induced RANTES/CCL5 expression in monocytic cells. FASEB J 2001; 15:577-9. [PMID: 11259372 DOI: 10.1096/fj.00-0459fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The chemokine RANTES/CCL5 is a proinflammatory agent produced by a variety of tissues in response to specific stimuli. In human monocytes, RANTES/CCL5 transcription is up-regulated rapidly and transiently in response to LPS. We describe here two regions that help control LPS-driven transcription from the human RANTES/CCL5 promoter in monocytic cells. These sites were analyzed by using DNase I footprinting, transient transfection assays, site-directed mutagenesis, and EMSA. RANTES site E (R(E), -125/-99) constitutively binds C/EBP proteins in monocytic Mono Mac 6 cells. Mutation of region R(E) led to a significant (40%-50%) reduction in LPS-induced promoter reporter activity. Region R(AB) is composed of tandem kB-like elements R(A) and R(B) (-73/-34). These sites working in concert act as an LPS-responsive promoter module. R(A) constitutively binds Sp1, and Rel p50/p65 following LPS stimulation. Either factor can mediate transcriptional effects at R(A). Induced Rel p50/p50 binding to site R(B) is required for LPS regulation of RANTES/CCL5 transcription. A series of computer models based on the RANTES/CCL5 promoter were generated to represent the organization of these functional elements. The models could identify LPS-regulated promoters in human, other vertebrate, and viral sequences in various databases.
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- S Fessele
- Medizinische Poliklinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
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OBJECTIVE To provide a review of the humoral and cellular immunology of endometriosis and to discuss the rationale for future approaches to diagnosis and treatment. DESIGN Literature survey. RESULT(S) Defective immunosurveillance in women who are destined to develop endometriosis may allow for the survival of ectopic endometrial tissue. The evidence includes endometrial cell resistance to apoptosis, perhaps through the secretion of proteins that interfere with implant recognition and/or FasL expression by stromal cells, inducing apoptosis of Fas-bearing immune cells. Although the immune response may be defective, aspects of it clearly are enhanced in endometriosis, as is seen by the generalized polyclonal B-cell autoimmune activation and secretion of immune proteins. Several cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors (including vascular growth factors) are increased in women with endometriosis. CONCLUSION(S) A complex network of locally produced cytokines modulate the growth and inflammatory behavior of ectopic endometrial implants. Proinflammatory proteins from endometriotic lesions and associated immune cells contribute to the enhanced inflammatory reaction associated with endometriosis that subserves the survival of these lesions instead of leading to their demise.
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- D I Lebovic
- Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Sotsios Y, Blair PJ, Westwick J, Ward SG. Disparate effects of phorbol esters, CD3 and the costimulatory receptors CD2 and CD28 on RANTES secretion by human T lymphocytes. Immunology 2000; 101:30-7. [PMID: 11012750 PMCID: PMC2327056 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2000.00072.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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This study has examined the stimuli required for secretion of regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed, presumed secreted (RANTES) from T lymphocytes and found that stimuli such as phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), which are unable to support T-cell proliferation and interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, are nevertheless able to elicit strong secretion of RANTES. Conversely, stimuli such as CD2 and CD28 ligation, which are able to support T-cell proliferation, are unable to elicit RANTES secretion. Coligation of CD3 and CD28 drives T-cell proliferation to a similar degree as CD2 and CD28 coligation, yet also supports modest RANTES secretion. Furthermore, CD28 ligation enhances the secretion of RANTES stimulated by PMA and this costimulatory effect is abrogated by the phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin. Our data also indicate that the observed effects of PMA on RANTES secretion are probably due to activation of protein kinase C (PKC) isoenzymes, since RANTES secretion was unaffected by the non-PKC activating 4alpha-phorbol ester, whilst the general PKC inhibitor Ro-32-0432 inhibits PMA-stimulated RANTES secretion. Moreover, the effect of PMA appears to be chemokine-specific because PMA was unable to increase secretion of the related CC chemokine MIP-1alpha. Under stimulation conditions where increases in [Ca2+]i occur (e.g. PMA plus ionomycin or CD3 plus CD28 ligation) RANTES secretion can be severely reduced compared with the levels observed in response to the phorbol ester PMA. Hence, whilst PKC-dependent pathways are sufficient for strong RANTES secretion, a calcium-dependent factor is activated which negatively regulates RANTES secretion. This correlates well with the observation that ligation of cytolytic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) (expression of which has been reported to be dependent on a sustained calcium signal), inhibits RANTES secretion induced by CD3/CD28, but has no effect on PMA-stimulated RANTES secretion.
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- Y Sotsios
- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Bath University, Bath, UK and T Cell Function Section, NIDDK-Navy Transplantation and Autoimmunity Branch, Naval Medical Research Center, Bethesda MD, USA
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Lee AH, Hong JH, Seo YS. Tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interferon-gamma synergistically activate the RANTES promoter through nuclear factor kappaB and interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF-1) transcription factors. Biochem J 2000; 350 Pt 1:131-8. [PMID: 10926836 PMCID: PMC1221234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Inflammatory cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) synergistically activate expression of the RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T-cell expressed and secreted) gene, which plays a crucial role in the chemoattraction of leukocytes during the inflammatory response. To understand at the molecular level the mechanism by which the two cytokines activate RANTES gene expression, we determined the requirement of cis-acting elements in the RANTES promoter and trans-acting factors. The murine RANTES promoter contained one putative interferon regulatory factor, IRF, and three putative nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) binding sites. Specific destruction of the IRF binding site and one of the three NF-kappaB binding sites abolished the inducibility of promoter activity by IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha, respectively. In contrast, mutation of the other two putative NF-kappaB binding sites did not affect RANTES promoter activity significantly. In addition, the RANTES promoter was stimulated by co-transfection of plasmids that expressed either p65, an NF-kappaB family protein, or the IRF-1 transcription factor. RANTES promoters with mutations in the NF-kappaB or IRF binding sites were not stimulated by p65 or IRF-1 expression, respectively. In electrophoretic mobility-shift and immunologic assays, we showed that IRF-1 was induced after cells were treated with IFN-gamma and that NF-kappaB was activated by TNF-alpha treatment. These results demonstrate that both NF-kappaB and IRF-1 transcription factors mediate the induction of RANTES expression via their cognate cis-acting elements when cells are stimulated by TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma.
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- A H Lee
- National Creative Research Initiative Center for Cell Cycle Control, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 300 Chunchun-Dong, Changan-Ku, Suwon-Si, Kyunggi-Do, 440-746, South Korea
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Miyamoto NG, Medberry PS, Hesselgesser J, Boehlk S, Nelson PJ, Krensky AM, Perez HD. Interleukin-1beta induction of the chemokine RANTES promoter in the human astrocytoma line CH235 requires both constitutive and inducible transcription factors. J Neuroimmunol 2000; 105:78-90. [PMID: 10713367 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(00)00195-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The chemokine RANTES is an important mediator of inflammatory processes. In this report, we describe the DNA sequence and transcription factor requirements for interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) induction of the RANTES promoter in the human astrocytoma line CH235. RANTES promoter sequences between -278 and +55 are sufficient for IL-1beta-inducibility. In vitro DNA binding assays demonstrate constitutive binding of Sp1, HMG, Ets domain, and bZIP family members to their cognate sites in the RANTES promoter, whereas NF-kappaB and IRF-1 bind in an IL-1beta-inducible manner. IL-1beta-inducibility of the RANTES promoter requires both constitutive and inducible transcription factors. The formation of a higher order nucleoprotein complex, or 'enhanceosome', may be critical for IL-1beta induction of the RANTES promoter.
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- N G Miyamoto
- Department of Immunology, Berlex Biosciences, 15049 San Pablo Avenue, P.O. Box 4099, Richmond, CA 94804, USA.
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Génin P, Algarté M, Roof P, Lin R, Hiscott J. Regulation of RANTES chemokine gene expression requires cooperativity between NF-kappa B and IFN-regulatory factor transcription factors. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:5352-61. [PMID: 10799898 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.10.5352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Virus infection of host cells activates a set of cellular genes, including cytokines, IFNs, and chemokines, involved in antiviral defense and immune activation. Previous studies demonstrated that virus-induced transcriptional activation of a member of the human CC-chemokine RANTES required activation of the latent transcription factors IFN-regulatory factor (IRF)-3 and NF-kappa B via posttranslational phosphorylation. In the present study, we further characterized the regulatory control of RANTES transcription during virus infection using in vivo genomic footprinting analyses. IRF-3, the related IRF-7, and NF-kappa B are identified as important in vivo binding factors required for the cooperative induction of RANTES transcription after virus infection. Using fibroblastic or myeloid cells, we demonstrate that the kinetics and strength of RANTES virus-induced transcription are highly dependent on the preexistence of IRFs and NF-kappa B. Use of dominant negative mutants of either I kappa B-alpha or IRF-3 demonstrate that disruption of either pathway dramatically abolishes the ability of the other to bind and activate RANTES expression. Furthermore, coexpression of IRF-3, IRF-7, and p65/p50 leads to synergistic activation of RANTES promoter transcription. These studies reveal a model of virus-mediated RANTES promoter activation that involves cooperative synergism between IRF-3/IRF-7 and NF-kappa B factors.
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- P Génin
- Terry Fox Molecular Oncology Group, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Departments of Microbiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Bautista AP. Impact of alcohol on the ability of Kupffer cells to produce chemokines and its role in alcoholic liver disease. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2000; 15:349-56. [PMID: 10824877 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1746.2000.02174.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Chemokines are implicated in the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease in humans and in experimental models of alcohol intoxication. The major sources of these chemokines are Kupffer cells which represent more than 80% of tissue macrophages in the body. Kupffer cells are highly responsive to the effects of ethanol, endotoxin and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 glycoprotein120. These agents, either independently or in combination, may exacerbate the production of chemokines. Chemokines are agents that are highly chemotactic to mononuclear cells and granulocytes. The levels of these chemokines in sera and tissue are elevated in patients with alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis, diseased livers, viral hepatitis, and in experimental models of chronic alcohol intoxication. Alcohol-induced influx of endotoxin from the gut into the portal circulation is suggested to play an important role in the activation of Kupffer cells which leads to enhanced chemokine release. The up-regulation of chemokines during alcohol consumption is selective. During the early phase of alcoholic liver disease, C-X-C or alpha-chemokines predominate. This is also associated with neutrophilic infiltration of the liver. In the later stage, up-regulation of C-C or beta-chemokine production and migration of mononuclear cells into the liver are observed, and this may lead to liver cirrhosis. Selective up-regulation of chemokine synthesis and release may involve differential modulation of the transcription factors required for chemokine gene expression. Increased cytokine release following alcohol consumption may also regulate chemokine secretion in Kupffer cells via paracrine and autocrine mechanisms and vice versa. In addition, infection with HIV-1 may further compromise the liver to more damage. During HIV-1 infection, a pre-existing liver disease superimposed on chronic alcohol consumption may also exacerbate HIV-1 replication and lymphocytic infiltration in the liver, because of the ability of HIV-1 gp120 to stimulate chemokine production by Kupffer cells and stimulate migration of inflammatory leucocytes in the liver.
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- A P Bautista
- Department of Physiology and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-Sponsored Alcohol Research Center, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112, USA.
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Bukara M, Bautista AP. Acute alcohol intoxication and gadolinium chloride attenuate endotoxin-induced release of CC chemokines in the rat. Alcohol 2000; 20:193-203. [PMID: 10719799 DOI: 10.1016/s0741-8329(99)00100-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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This work tests the hypotheses that Kupffer cells are a major source of CC-chemokines (MIP-1alpha, MCP-1, RANTES) during acute endotoxemia and that acute ethanol intoxication modulates Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 1 mg/Kg, i.v.)-induced chemokine release in the rat. LPS stimulated the release of CC-chemokines into the circulation, hepatic sequestration of leukocytes and liver injury. LPS-induced serum chemokines peaked at 1-3 h and could not be detected at 24-h posttreatment. Splenectomy significantly suppressed LPS-induced RANTES release, but not MIP-1alpha and MCP-1. Kupffer cell depletion by gadolinium chloride or acute ethanol intoxication significantly attenuated LPS-induced CC-chemokine release and hepatic injury. Hepatic sequestration of leukocytes during endotoxemia was also suppressed by acute ethanol. LPS downregulated the expression of MIP-1alpha and MCP-1 mRNAs and upregulated RANTES mRNA in Kupffer cells at 3-h post endotoxin. The expression of mRNAs was further suppressed in ethanol plus the LPS-treated group. Ethanol also suppressed the LPS-mediated priming of Kupffer cells for enhanced CC-chemokine release in vitro. Ethanol alone significantly upregulated the expression of CC-chemokine mRNA, and primed the Kupffer cells for enhanced RANTES release. CC-chemokine release and mRNA expression in hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells were not significantly altered by ethanol, except for MCP-1 release. These data show that acute ethanol may be beneficial in tissue injury during acute endotoxemia.
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- M Bukara
- Department of Physiology and NIAAA-Sponsored Alcohol Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Ceniter, New Orleans 70112, USA
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Liu H, Chao D, Nakayama EE, Taguchi H, Goto M, Xin X, Takamatsu JK, Saito H, Ishikawa Y, Akaza T, Juji T, Takebe Y, Ohishi T, Fukutake K, Maruyama Y, Yashiki S, Sonoda S, Nakamura T, Nagai Y, Iwamoto A, Shioda T. Polymorphism in RANTES chemokine promoter affects HIV-1 disease progression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:4581-5. [PMID: 10200305 PMCID: PMC16375 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.8.4581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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RANTES (regulated on activation normal T cell expressed and secreted) is one of the natural ligands for the chemokine receptor CCR5 and potently suppresses in vitro replication of the R5 strains of HIV-1, which use CCR5 as a coreceptor. Previous studies showed that peripheral blood mononuclear cells or CD4(+) lymphocytes obtained from different individuals had wide variations in their ability to secrete RANTES. These findings prompted us to analyze the upstream noncoding region of the RANTES gene, which contains cis-acting elements involved in RANTES promoter activity, in 272 HIV-1-infected and 193 non-HIV-1-infected individuals in Japan. Our results showed that there were two polymorphic positions, one of which was associated with reduced CD4(+) lymphocyte depletion rates during untreated periods in HIV-1-infected individuals. This mutation, RANTES-28G, occurred at an allele frequency of approximately 17% in the non-HIV-1-infected Japanese population and exerted no influence on the incidence of HIV-1 infection. Functional analyses of RANTES promoter activity indicated that the RANTES-28G mutation increases transcription of the RANTES gene. Taken together, these data suggest that the RANTES-28G mutation increases RANTES expression in HIV-1-infected individuals and thus delays the progression of the HIV-1 disease.
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- H Liu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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Hiura TS, Kempiak SJ, Nel AE. Activation of the human RANTES gene promoter in a macrophage cell line by lipopolysaccharide is dependent on stress-activated protein kinases and the IkappaB kinase cascade: implications for exacerbation of allergic inflammation by environmental pollutants. Clin Immunol 1999; 90:287-301. [PMID: 10075858 DOI: 10.1006/clim.1998.4659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Macrophages are targeted by environmental pollutants and play a role in allergic inflammation. We explored the molecular basis for induction of RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T-cells expressed and secreted) mRNA by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and the redox-active quinone, tert-butylhydroxyquinone (tBHQ). We demonstrate that transcriptional activation of the human RANTES promoter by LPS is dependent on specific AP-1 and NF-kappaB response elements, which are regulated by c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and NF-kappaB kinase cascades, respectively. The transcriptional activation of the TRE3/4 site is mediated through the transcriptional activation of c-Jun by JNK. A c-Jun mutant which lacks a transcriptional activation domain interfered in the activation of the RANTES promoter. Similarly, kinase-inactive NF-kappaB inducing kinase interfered in the activation of the RANTES promoter. While activation of the RANTES promoter could also be blocked by the downstream kinase-inactive IkappaB kinases, only IKKalpha appears to be LPS-inducible. tBHQ also exerted subtle effects on the human RANTES promoter and induced mRNA expression in parallel with generating NF-kappaB shift complexes.
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- T S Hiura
- Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Song A, Chen YF, Thamatrakoln K, Storm TA, Krensky AM. RFLAT-1: a new zinc finger transcription factor that activates RANTES gene expression in T lymphocytes. Immunity 1999; 10:93-103. [PMID: 10023774 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80010-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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RANTES (Regulated upon Activation, Normal T cell Expressed and Secreted) is a chemoattractant cytokine (chemokine) important in the generation of inflammatory infiltrate and human immunodeficiency virus entry into immune cells. RANTES is expressed late (3-5 days) after activation in T lymphocytes. Using expression cloning, we identified the first "late" T lymphocyte associated transcription factor and named it "RANTES Factor of Late Activated T Lymphocytes-1" (RFLAT-1). RFLAT-1 is a novel, phosphorylated, zinc finger transcription factor that is expressed in T cells 3 days after activation, coincident with RANTES expression. While Rel proteins play the dominant role in RANTES gene expression in fibroblasts, RFLAT-1 is a strong transactivator for RANTES in T cells.
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- A Song
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5208, USA
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The chemokines are a complex superfamily of small, secreted proteins that were initially characterized through their chemotactic effects on a variety of leucocytes. The superfamily is divided into families based on structural and genetic considerations and have been termed the CXC, CC, C and CX3C families. Chemokines from these families have a key role in the recruitment and function of T lymphocytes. Moreover, T lymphocytes have also been identified as a source of a number of chemokines. T lymphocytes also express most of the known CXC and CC chemokine receptors to an extent that depends on their state of activation/differentiation and/or the activating stimuli. The expression of two chemokine receptors, namely CXCR4 and CCR5, together with the regulated production of their respective ligands, appears to be extremely important in determining sensitivity of T cells to HIV-1 infection. The intracellular events which mediate the effects of chemokines, particularly those elicited by the CC chemokine RANTES, include activation of both G-protein- and protein tyrosine kinase-coupled signalling pathways. The present review describes our current understanding of the structure and expression of chemokines and their receptors, the effects of chemokines on T-cell function(s), the intracellular signalling pathways activated by chemokines and the role of certain chemokines and chemokine receptors in determining sensitivity to HIV-1 infection.
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- S G Ward
- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
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Thomas LH, Friedland JS, Sharland M, Becker S. Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Induced RANTES Production from Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells Is Dependent on Nuclear Factor-κB Nuclear Binding and Is Inhibited by Adenovirus-Mediated Expression of Inhibitor of κBα. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.2.1007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is an important cause of lower respiratory tract illness, the severity of which may be partly due to cellular recruitment. RSV infection activates chemokine secretion from airway epithelial cells by largely unknown mechanisms. We investigated the regulation of RSV-induced activation of the chemokine RANTES in the bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B and primary normal human tracheobronchial epithelial cultures. RANTES protein and mRNA were detected at 24 h and up until 72 h from cultures of BEAS-2B infected with replicating virus, but not with UV-inactivated RSV. RSV infection of BEAS-2B or normal human tracheobronchial epithelial cells stimulated NF-κB translocation to the nucleus and binding to the RANTES-specific κB-binding sequences within 2 h, with levels peaking at 24 h. Supershift assays indicated that binding was due to p50/p65 heterodimers. BEAS-2B cells were transfected with a replication-deficient adenoviral vector, expressing a mutated, nondegradable form of IκBα. IκBα overexpression specifically blocked NF-κB translocation and inhibited mRNA accumulation and secretion of RANTES induced by RSV or TNF-α plus IFN-γ. Adenoviral transfection did not interfere with RSV replication or significantly induce apoptosis. Further, a control adenovirus, expressing the β-galactosidase gene, did not alter cellular functions. Thus, NF-κB nuclear translocation is a critical step in RSV induction of RANTES secretion. Elucidating the mechanisms of cellular activation by RSV and targeting specific areas may lead to novel therapeutic approaches in the treatment of RSV.
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- L. H. Thomas
- *Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College School of Medicine (Hammersmith Campus), and
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- *Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College School of Medicine (Hammersmith Campus), and
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- †Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom; and
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- ‡Environmental Protection Agency, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Shibuta K, Begum NA, Mori M, Shimoda K, Akiyoshi T, Barnard GF. Reduced expression of the CXC chemokine hIRH/SDF-1alpha mRNA in hepatoma and digestive tract cancer. Int J Cancer 1997; 73:656-62. [PMID: 9398042 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19971127)73:5<656::aid-ijc8>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We isolated human intercrine reduced in hepatomas (hIRH) as a mRNA whose expression was reduced in differential displays from human hepatocellular carcinoma. hIRH is equivalent to the alpha-chemokine SDF-1alpha/PBSF. We have previously demonstrated on Northern blot analysis that although hIRH mRNA expression is common in human normal tissues, it is absent from pre-malignant colonic adenomas and from 27 human malignant cell lines. However, there are no reports on the mRNA status of hIRH in other human cancers. The present study was designed to investigate semi-quantitatively the expression of hIRH/SDF-1alpha mRNA in hepatocellular carcinoma and digestive tract cancers by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The expression of hIRH/SDF-1alpha in the majority of cancer tissues analyzed was markedly reduced compared with that in adjacent non-cancer tissue. RT-PCR was more sensitive than Northern blots in the detection of hIRH mRNA. The average (mean +/- SE) tumor/normal (T/N) ratio determined by RT-PCR was 0.40 +/- 0.07 in 10 pairs of hepatoma, 0.38 +/- 0.09 in 14 pairs of colon cancers, 0.43 +/- 0.07 in 10 pairs of esophageal cancers and 0.70 +/- 0.09 in 26 pairs of gastric cancers. As a control, the mean G3PDH T/N ratio was 1.16 +/- 0.06. The distribution of T/N ratios was significantly different between gastric cancer and the other cancers, but there was no correlation between hIRH/SDF-1alpha expression and clinicopathological characteristics in gastric cancer. Our findings demonstrate that hIRH/SDF-1alpha expression is reduced in the majority of gastrointestinal tumors.
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- K Shibuta
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655-0310, USA
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- P J Nelson
- Department of Internal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
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