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Paini A, Leonard J, Joossens E, Bessems J, Desalegn A, Dorne J, Gosling J, Heringa M, Klaric M, Kliment T, Kramer N, Loizou G, Louisse J, Lumen A, Madden J, Patterson E, Proença S, Punt A, Setzer R, Suciu N, Troutman J, Yoon M, Worth A, Tan Y. Next generation physiologically based kinetic (NG-PBK) models in support of regulatory decision making. Comput Toxicol 2019; 9:61-72. [PMID: 31008414 PMCID: PMC6472623 DOI: 10.1016/j.comtox.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
The fields of toxicology and chemical risk assessment seek to reduce, and eventually replace, the use of animals for the prediction of toxicity in humans. In this context, physiologically based kinetic (PBK) modelling based on in vitro and in silico kinetic data has the potential to a play significant role in reducing animal testing, by providing a methodology capable of incorporating in vitro human data to facilitate the development of in vitro to in vivo extrapolation of hazard information. In the present article, we discuss the challenges in: 1) applying PBK modelling to support regulatory decision making under the toxicology and risk-assessment paradigm shift towards animal replacement; 2) constructing PBK models without in vivo animal kinetic data, while relying solely on in vitro or in silico methods for model parameterization; and 3) assessing the validity and credibility of PBK models built largely using non-animal data. The strengths, uncertainties, and limitations of PBK models developed using in vitro or in silico data are discussed in an effort to establish a higher degree of confidence in the application of such models in a regulatory context. The article summarises the outcome of an expert workshop hosted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) - European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM), on "Physiologically-Based Kinetic modelling in risk assessment - reaching a whole new level in regulatory decision-making" held in Ispra, Italy, in November 2016, along with results from an international survey conducted in 2017 and recently reported activities occurring within the PBK modelling field. The discussions presented herein highlight the potential applications of next generation (NG)-PBK modelling, based on new data streams.
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Affiliation(s)
- A. Paini
- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 100 ORAU Way, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- European Food Safety Authority, 1a, Via Carlo Magno, 1A, 43126 Parma PR, Italy
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- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- RIVM - The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80177, 3508TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Health and Safety Executive, Buxton, UK
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- Division of Toxicology, Wageningen University, Tuinlaan 5, 6703 HE Wageningen, The Netherlands
- RIKILT Wageningen University and Research, Akkermaalsbos 2, 6708 WB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Biochemical Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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- School of Pharmacy and Bimolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
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- School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GH, UK
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80177, 3508TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- RIKILT Wageningen University and Research, Akkermaalsbos 2, 6708 WB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- DiSTAS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
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- Central Product Safety, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- ScitoVation, 6 Davis Drive, PO Box 110566, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
- ToxStrategies, Research Triangle Park Office, 1249 Kildaire Farm Road 134, Cary, NC 27511, USA
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- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
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- School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GH, UK
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Shiwani MH, Gosling J. Variations in the quality of consent for open mesh repair of inguinal hernia. Hernia 2008; 13:73-6. [DOI: 10.1007/s10029-008-0431-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2008] [Accepted: 08/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Blease K, Mehrad B, Standiford TJ, Lukacs NW, Gosling J, Boring L, Charo IF, Kunkel SL, Hogaboam CM. Enhanced pulmonary allergic responses to Aspergillus in CCR2-/- mice. J Immunol 2000; 165:2603-11. [PMID: 10946288 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.5.2603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Allergic responses to Aspergillus species exacerbate asthma and cystic fibrosis. The natural defense against live Aspergillus fumigatus spores or conidia depends on the recruitment and activation of mononuclear and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, events that are dependent on chemotactic cytokines. In this study, we explored the relative contribution of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 receptor, CCR2, in the pulmonary response to A. fumigatus conidia. Following sensitization to soluble A. fumigatus Ags, mice lacking CCR2 due to targeted deletion were markedly more susceptible to the injurious effects of an intrapulmonary challenge with live conidia compared with mice that expressed CCR2 or CCR2+/+. CCR2-/- mice exhibited a major defect in the recruitment of polymorphonuclear cells, but these mice also had significantly more eosinophils and lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage samples. CCR2-/- mice also had significant increases in serum levels of total IgE and whole lung levels of IL-5, IL-13, eotaxin, and RANTES compared with CCR2+/+ mice. Airway inflammation, hyper-responsiveness to spasmogens, and subepithelial fibrosis were significantly enhanced in CCR2-/- mice compared with CCR2+/+ mice after the conidia challenge. Thus, these findings demonstrate that CCR2 plays an important role in the immune response against A. fumigatus, thereby limiting the allergic airway inflammatory and remodeling responses to this fungus.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Fungal/administration & dosage
- Antigens, Fungal/immunology
- Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/genetics
- Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/immunology
- Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/microbiology
- Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary/pathology
- Aspergillus fumigatus/immunology
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity/genetics
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity/immunology
- Cell Movement/immunology
- Chemokine CCL11
- Chemokine CCL2/agonists
- Chemokine CCL22
- Chemokine CCL5/biosynthesis
- Chemokine CCL7
- Chemokines, CC/biosynthesis
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Eosinophils/immunology
- Eosinophils/pathology
- Fibrosis
- Immunocompromised Host/genetics
- Immunoglobulin E/blood
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Interleukin-13/biosynthesis
- Interleukin-5/biosynthesis
- Lung/immunology
- Lung/metabolism
- Lung/microbiology
- Lung/pathology
- Macrophages, Alveolar/immunology
- Macrophages, Alveolar/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Monocyte Chemoattractant Proteins/agonists
- Neutrophils/immunology
- Neutrophils/pathology
- Receptors, CCR2
- Receptors, Chemokine/agonists
- Receptors, Chemokine/deficiency
- Receptors, Chemokine/genetics
- Spores, Fungal/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Time Factors
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Affiliation(s)
- K Blease
- Department of Pathology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Hogaboam CM, Bone-Larson CL, Steinhauser ML, Matsukawa A, Gosling J, Boring L, Charo IF, Simpson KJ, Lukacs NW, Kunkel SL. Exaggerated hepatic injury due to acetaminophen challenge in mice lacking C-C chemokine receptor 2. Am J Pathol 2000; 156:1245-52. [PMID: 10751350 PMCID: PMC1876888 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64995-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/13/1999] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 is one of the major C-C chemokines that has been implicated in liver injury. The C-C chemokine receptor, CCR2, has been identified as the primary receptor that mediates monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) responses in the mouse. Accordingly, the present study addressed the role of CCR2 in mice acutely challenged with acetaminophen (APAP). Mice genetically deficient in CCR2 (CCR2(-/-)) and their wild-type counterparts (CCR2(+/+)) were fasted for 10 hours before receiving an intraperitoneal injection of APAP (300 mg/kg). Liver and serum samples were removed from both groups of mice before and at 24 and 48 hours post APAP. Significantly elevated levels of MCP-1 were detected in liver samples from CCR2(+/+) and CCR2(-/-) mice at 24 hours post-APAP. Although CCR2(+/+) mice exhibited no liver injury at any time after receiving APAP, CCR2(-/-) mice exhibited marked evidence of necrotic and TUNEL-positive cells in the liver, particularly at 24 hours post-APAP. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analysis of liver homogenates from both groups of mice at the 24 hours time point revealed that liver tissue from CCR2(-/-) mice contained significantly greater amounts of immunoreactive IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha. The in vivo immunoneutralization of IFN-gamma or TNF-alpha significantly attenuated APAP-induced liver injury in CCR2(-/-) mice and increased hepatic IL-13 levels. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that CCR2 expression in the liver provides a hepatoprotective effect through its regulation of cytokine generation during APAP challenge.
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- C M Hogaboam
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602, USA.
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Gosling J, Dairaghi DJ, Wang Y, Hanley M, Talbot D, Miao Z, Schall TJ. Cutting edge: identification of a novel chemokine receptor that binds dendritic cell- and T cell-active chemokines including ELC, SLC, and TECK. J Immunol 2000; 164:2851-6. [PMID: 10706668 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.6.2851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Searching for new receptors of dendritic cell- and T cell-active chemokines, we used a combination of techniques to interrogate orphan chemokine receptors. We report here on human CCX CKR, previously represented only by noncontiguous expressed sequence tags homologous to bovine PPR1, a putative gustatory receptor. We employed a two-tiered process of ligand assignment, where immobilized chemokines constructed on stalks (stalkokines) were used as bait for adhesion of cells expressing CCX CKR. These cells adhered to stalkokines representing ELC, a chemokine previously thought to bind only CCR7. Adhesion was abolished in the presence of soluble ELC, SLC (CCR7 ligands), and TECK (a CCR9 ligand). Complete ligand profiles were further determined by radiolabeled ligand binding and competition with >80 chemokines. ELC, SLC, and TECK comprised high affinity ligands (IC50 <15 nM); lower affinity ligands include BLC and vMIP-II (IC50 <150 nM). With its high affinity for CC chemokines and homology to CC receptors, we provisionally designate this new receptor CCR10.
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- J Gosling
- Divisions of Discovery Biology and Molecular Pharmacology, ChemoCentryx, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA
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Foussat A, Coulomb-L'Hermine A, Gosling J, Krzysiek R, Durand-Gasselin I, Schall T, Balian A, Richard Y, Galanaud P, Emilie D. Fractalkine receptor expression by T lymphocyte subpopulations and in vivo production of fractalkine in human. Eur J Immunol 2000; 30:87-97. [PMID: 10602030 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200001)30:1<87::aid-immu87>3.0.co;2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Expression and function of the fractalkine receptor CX3CR1 by T lymphocyte subpopulations was evaluated in healthy individuals. In CD8(+) T lymphocytes, CX3CR1 was expressed by and functional in both CD45RO(-) and CD45RO(+) cells. In CD4(+) T lymphocytes, CX3CR1 was expressed mainly by CD45RO(+) cells, and almost exclusively by activated HLA-DR(+) T lymphocytes. This receptor was functional in CD45RO(+) cells, but not in CD45RO(-) cells. Expression of fractalkine was detected by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in endothelial cells of normal lung and thymus. In hyperplastic lymph nodes, fractalkine was expressed by endothelial cells of high endothelial venules and of subcapsular vessels, by follicular dendritic cells (FDC) and by some follicle lymphocytes. Fractalkine mRNA was constitutively present in the HK FDC-like cell line, and it was induced in vitro in B lymphocytes stimulated by an anti-micro or by a CD40 mAb. These findings indicate that fractalkine may contribute to the recruitment of effector T helper lymphocytes, either in peripheral tissues or in lymphoid organs. In these tissues, fractalkine and its receptor may favor contact within follicles between activated T helper lymphocytes, activated B lymphocytes and FDC, thus contributing to the maturation of the B lymphocyte response.
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- A Foussat
- INSERM U131 Institut Paris-Sud sur les Cytokines, Clamart, France
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An in depth study of 18 heterosexual couples investigated the quality of the marital and sexual relationships 1-7 years after the male partner had suffered a severe head injury. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed and the focus was on the perspective of the uninjured female partner. The female partners reported both marital and sexual satisfaction as lower following injury. They rated their current marital satisfaction as significantly less than their brain injured partners. The quantitative part of the study revealed major role changes experienced by the women, with many comparing their new role to that of a parent with total decision making responsibility. The incompatibility of this role with that of sexual partner was mentioned by many. A tendency for the males to express gratitude but not to communicate their feelings was described by many women. Most women were resigned to the expectation that there would be little change in the future and, for most, the only positive aspect of the relationship was a sense of commitment and continuing companionship. The implications of the findings for rehabilitation and couple therapy are discussed.
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- J Gosling
- Pain Management Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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Campbell EM, Charo IF, Kunkel SL, Strieter RM, Boring L, Gosling J, Lukacs NW. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 mediates cockroach allergen-induced bronchial hyperreactivity in normal but not CCR2-/- mice: the role of mast cells. J Immunol 1999; 163:2160-7. [PMID: 10438957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Bronchial eosinophil and mononuclear cell infiltrates are a hallmark of the asthmatic lung and are associated with the induction of reversible airway hyperreactivity. In these studies, we have found that monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), a CC (beta) chemokine, mediates airway hyperreactivity in normal and allergic mice. Using a murine model of cockroach Ag-induced allergic airway inflammation, we have demonstrated that anti-MCP-1 Abs inhibit changes in airway resistance and attenuate histamine release into the bronchoalveolar lavage, suggesting a role for MCP-1 in mast cell degranulation. In normal mice, instillation of MCP-1 induced prolonged airway hyperreactivity and histamine release. In addition, MCP-1 directly induced pulmonary mast cell degranulation in vitro. These latter effects would appear to be selective because no changes were observed when macrophage-inflammatory protein-1alpha, eotaxin, or MCP-3 were instilled into the airways of normal mice or when mast cells were treated in vitro. Airway hyperreactivity was mediated by MCP-1 through CCR2 because allergen-induced as well as direct MCP-1 instilled-induced changes in airway hyperreactivity were significantly attenuated in CCR2 -/- mice. The neutralization of MCP-1 in allergic animals and instillation of MCP-1 in normal animals was related to leukotriene C4 levels in the bronchoalveolar lavage and was directly induced in pulmonary mast cells by MCP-1. Thus, these data identify MCP-1 and CCR2 as potentially important therapeutic targets for the treatment of hyperreactive airway disease.
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MESH Headings
- Administration, Intranasal
- Airway Resistance/drug effects
- Airway Resistance/immunology
- Allergens/immunology
- Animals
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity/genetics
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity/immunology
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity/physiopathology
- Cells, Cultured
- Chemokine CCL2/administration & dosage
- Chemokine CCL2/pharmacology
- Cockroaches/immunology
- Female
- Histamine Release/immunology
- Immunization, Secondary
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Intubation, Intratracheal
- Leukotriene C4/biosynthesis
- Mast Cells/drug effects
- Mast Cells/immunology
- Mast Cells/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, CCR2
- Receptors, Chemokine/deficiency
- Receptors, Chemokine/genetics
- Receptors, Cytokine/deficiency
- Receptors, Cytokine/genetics
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Affiliation(s)
- E M Campbell
- Department of Pathology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
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Gosling J, Slaymaker S, Gu L, Tseng S, Zlot CH, Young SG, Rollins BJ, Charo IF. MCP-1 deficiency reduces susceptibility to atherosclerosis in mice that overexpress human apolipoprotein B. J Clin Invest 1999; 103:773-8. [PMID: 10079097 PMCID: PMC408147 DOI: 10.1172/jci5624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 505] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The earliest recognizable atherosclerotic lesions are fatty streaks composed of lipid-laden macrophages (foam cells). Circulating monocytes are the precursors of these foam cells, but the molecular mechanisms that govern macrophage trafficking through the vessel wall are poorly understood. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a member of the chemokine (chemotactic cytokine) family, is a potent monocyte agonist that is upregulated by oxidized lipids. Recent studies in hypercholesterolemic mice lacking apo E or the low-density lipoprotein receptor have suggested a role for MCP-1 in monocyte recruitment to early atherosclerotic lesions. To determine if MCP-1 is critically involved in atherogenesis in the setting of elevated physiological plasma cholesterol levels, we deleted the MCP-1 gene in transgenic mice expressing human apo B. Here we report that the absence of MCP-1 provides dramatic protection from macrophage recruitment and atherosclerotic lesion formation in apo B transgenic mice, without altering lipoprotein metabolism. Taken together with the results of earlier studies, these data provide compelling evidence that MCP-1 plays a critical role in the initiation of atherosclerosis.
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Affiliation(s)
- J Gosling
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California 94141, USA
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Reid S, Ritchie A, Boring L, Gosling J, Cooper S, Hangoc G, Charo IF, Broxmeyer HE. Enhanced myeloid progenitor cell cycling and apoptosis in mice lacking the chemokine receptor, CCR2. Blood 1999; 93:1524-33. [PMID: 10029580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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Chemokines regulate hematopoiesis in part by influencing the proliferative status of myeloid progenitor cells (MPC). Human MCP-1/murine JE, a myelosuppressive chemokine, specifically binds C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2). Transgenic mice containing a targeted disruption in CCR2 that prevents expression of CCR2 mRNA and protein and have MPC that are insensitive to inhibition by MCP-1 and JE in vitro were assessed for potential abnormalities in growth of bone marrow (BM) and spleen MPC. MPC in both unseparated and c-kit+lin- populations of BM from CCR2-deficient (-/-) mice were in a greatly increased proliferation state compared with CCR2 littermate control (+/+) mice, an effect not apparent with progenitors from spleens of CCR2 (-/-) mice. Increased cycling status of CCR2 (-/-) BM MPC did not result in increased numbers of nucleated cells or MPC in BM or spleens of CCR2 (-/-) mice. Possible reasons for this apparent discrepancy were highlighted by flow cytometric analysis of c-kit+lin- BM cells and colony formation by MPC subjected to delayed addition of growth factors. The c-kit+lin- population of BM cells from CCR2 (-/-) mice had a significantly higher percentage of apoptotic cells than those from CCR2 (+/+) BM. However, elevated apoptosis was not associated with decreased numbers of c-kit+lin- cells. The increased percentage of apoptotic c-kit+lin- cells was due to elevated apoptosis within the c-kitdimlin-, but not the c-kitbrightlin-, subpopulations of cells. Consistent with enhanced apoptosis of phenotypically defined cells, MPC from CCR2 (-/-) BM and purified c-kit+lin- cells demonstrated decreased cell survival in vitro upon delayed addition of growth factors. The data suggest that signals received by CCR2 limit proliferation of progenitor cells in the BM, but also enhance survival of these cells.
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- S Reid
- Departments of Microbiology/Immunology and Medicine, and The Walther Oncology Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Boring L, Gosling J, Cleary M, Charo IF. Decreased lesion formation in CCR2-/- mice reveals a role for chemokines in the initiation of atherosclerosis. Nature 1998; 394:894-7. [PMID: 9732872 DOI: 10.1038/29788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1447] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chemokines are proinflammatory cytokines that function in leukocyte chemoattraction and activation and have recently been shown to block the HIV-1 infection of target cells through interactions with chemokine receptors. In addition to their function in viral disease, chemokines have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Expression of the CC chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is upregulated in human atherosclerotic plaques, in arteries of primates on a hypercholesterolaemic diet; and in vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells exposed to minimally modified lipids. To determine whether MCP-1 is causally related to the development of atherosclerosis, we generated mice that lack CCR2, the receptor for MCP-1 (ref. 7), and crossed them with apolipoprotein (apo) E-null mice which develop severe atherosclerosis. Here we show that the selective absence of CCR2 decreases lesion formation markedly in apoE-/- mice but has no effect on plasma lipid or lipoprotein concentrations. These data reveal a role for MCP-1 in the development of early atherosclerotic lesions and suggest that upregulation of this chemokine by minimally oxidized lipids is an important link between hyperlipidaemia and fatty streak formation.
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- L Boring
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California 94141, USA
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Boring L, Gosling J, Chensue SW, Kunkel SL, Farese RV, Broxmeyer HE, Charo IF. Impaired monocyte migration and reduced type 1 (Th1) cytokine responses in C-C chemokine receptor 2 knockout mice. J Clin Invest 1997; 100:2552-61. [PMID: 9366570 PMCID: PMC508456 DOI: 10.1172/jci119798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 817] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a potent agonist for mononuclear leukocytes and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and granulomatous lung disease. To determine the role of MCP-1 and related family members in vivo, we used homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells to generate mice with a targeted disruption of C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2), the receptor for MCP-1. CCR2-/- mice were born at the expected Mendelian ratios and developed normally. In response to thioglycollate, the recruitment of peritoneal macrophages decreased selectively. In in vitro chemotaxis assays, CCR2-/- leukocytes failed to migrate in response to MCP-1. Granulomatous lung disease was induced in presensitized mice by embolization with beads coupled to purified protein derivative (PPD) of Mycobacterium bovis. As compared with wild-type littermates, CCR2-/- mice had a decrease in granuloma size accompanied by a dramatic decrease in the level of interferon gamma in the draining lymph nodes. Production of interferon gamma was also decreased in PPD-sensitized splenocytes from CCR2-/- mice and in naive splenocytes activated by concanavalin A. We conclude that CCR2-/- mice have significant defects in both delayed-type hypersensitivity responses and production of Th1-type cytokines. These data suggest an important and unexpected role for CCR2 activation in modulating the immune response, as well as in recruiting monocytes/macrophages to sites of inflammation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Bone Marrow Cells/cytology
- Chemokine CCL2/pharmacology
- Chemokines/pharmacology
- Chemotaxis, Leukocyte/genetics
- Chemotaxis, Leukocyte/physiology
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Granuloma, Respiratory Tract/immunology
- Granuloma, Respiratory Tract/microbiology
- Granuloma, Respiratory Tract/physiopathology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/drug effects
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/physiology
- Humans
- Lung Diseases/immunology
- Lung Diseases/physiopathology
- Lymph Nodes/immunology
- Macrophages, Alveolar/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Monocytes/physiology
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Receptors, CCR2
- Receptors, CCR5/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Chemokine/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Chemokine/deficiency
- Receptors, Chemokine/physiology
- Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tuberculin
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Affiliation(s)
- L Boring
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94141-9100, USA
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Gosling J, Monteclaro FS, Atchison RE, Arai H, Tsou CL, Goldsmith MA, Charo IF. Molecular uncoupling of C-C chemokine receptor 5-induced chemotaxis and signal transduction from HIV-1 coreceptor activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:5061-6. [PMID: 9144190 PMCID: PMC24631 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.10.5061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) plays a crucial role in facilitating the entry of macrophage-tropic strains of the HIV-1 into cells, but the mechanism of this phenomenon is completely unknown. To explore the role of CCR5-derived signal transduction in viral entry, we introduced mutations into two cytoplasmic domains of CCR5 involved in receptor-mediated function. Truncation of the terminal carboxyl-tail to eight amino acids or mutation of the highly conserved aspartate-arginine-tyrosine, or DRY, sequence in the second cytoplasmic loop of CCR5 effectively blocked chemokine-dependent activation of classic second messengers, intracellular calcium fluxes, and the cellular response of chemotaxis. In contrast, none of the mutations altered the ability of CCR5 to act as an HIV-1 coreceptor. We conclude that the initiation of signal transduction, the prototypic function of G protein coupled receptors, is not required for CCR5 to act as a coreceptor for HIV-1 entry into cells.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Calcium
- Cell Line
- Chemokine CCL4
- Chemokine CCL5/metabolism
- Chemokine CCL5/pharmacology
- Chemotaxis/drug effects
- Chemotaxis/physiology
- Cloning, Molecular
- HIV-1/physiology
- Humans
- Kidney
- Kinetics
- Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins/metabolism
- Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins/pharmacology
- Models, Structural
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Receptors, CCR5
- Receptors, Cytokine/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Cytokine/chemistry
- Receptors, Cytokine/physiology
- Receptors, HIV/biosynthesis
- Receptors, HIV/chemistry
- Receptors, HIV/physiology
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology
- Second Messenger Systems
- Sequence Deletion
- Signal Transduction
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Affiliation(s)
- J Gosling
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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Morineau G, Gosling J, Patricot MC, Soliman H, Boudou P, al Halnak A, Le Brun G, Brérault JL, Julien R, Villette JM, Fiet J. Convenient chromatographic prepurification step before measurement of urinary cortisol by radioimmunoassay. Clin Chem 1997; 43:786-93. [PMID: 9166232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We applied various prepurification protocols (extraction with different solvents, liquid/solid separation on bonded silica media, Celite, and Sephadex LH20 chromatography) with a range of commercially available RIA kits to measure cortisol in urine samples. We then compared the results with the concentrations measured by a HPLC method validated with reference to isotope dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. We conclude that chromatography on a commercial, prepacked diol minicolumn (Waters Sep-Pak Vac RC) in combination with dichloromethane extraction is a convenient and very effective purification step before RIA of urinary cortisol in patients not receiving corticoid medication. We tested numerous steroids for interference and found that free polar cortisol derivatives (hydroxylated or hydrogenated) could only partially account for the overestimations routinely encountered when free urinary cortisol concentrations are measured by direct RIA.
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Affiliation(s)
- G Morineau
- Laboratoire de Biologie Hormonale, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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Wong LM, Myers SJ, Tsou CL, Gosling J, Arai H, Charo IF. Organization and differential expression of the human monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 receptor gene. Evidence for the role of the carboxyl-terminal tail in receptor trafficking. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:1038-45. [PMID: 8995400 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.2.1038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Two forms of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 receptors (the type A monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) receptor CCR-2A and the type B MCP-1 receptor (CCR-2B) have been recently cloned and found to differ only in their terminal carboxyl tails. Here, we report that the two isoforms are alternatively spliced variants of a single MCP-1 receptor gene. Sequencing of the gene revealed that the 47-amino acid carboxyl tail of CCR2B was located in the same exon as the seven transmembrane domains of the receptor, and the 61-amino acid tail of CCR2A was in a downstream exon. Examination of freshly isolated human monocytes by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction revealed that CCR2B was the predominant isoform and that message levels of both CCR2A and CCR2B decreased as the monocytes differentiated into macrophages. In stably transfected cell lines, CCR2B trafficked well to the cell surface, but CCR2A was found predominantly in the cytoplasm. Equilibrium binding studies revealed that those CCR2A receptors that successfully trafficked to the cell surface bound MCP-1 with high affinity (Kd = 310 pM), similar to CCR2B. In signaling studies, both CCR2A and CCR2B mediated agonist-dependent calcium mobilization, as well as inhibition of adenylyl cyclase. Creation of chimeras between CCR2A and the human thrombin receptor revealed that the cytoplasmic retention of CCR2A was due to its terminal carboxyl tail. Progressive truncation of the carboxyl tail indicated that a cytoplasmic retention signal(s) was located between residues 316 and 349. These data indicate that the alternatively spliced form of the human MCP-1 receptor (CCR2A) binds MCP-1 with high affinity and is a functional receptor and that expression at the cell surface is controlled by amino acid sequences located in the terminal carboxyl tail.
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- L M Wong
- Daiichi Research Center, University of California, San Francisco 94141-9100, USA
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Franci C, Gosling J, Tsou CL, Coughlin SR, Charo IF. Phosphorylation by a G protein-coupled kinase inhibits signaling and promotes internalization of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 receptor. Critical role of carboxyl-tail serines/threonines in receptor function. J Immunol 1996; 157:5606-12. [PMID: 8955213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a member of the chemokine family of chemotactic cytokines and signals via activation of a G protein-coupled seven-transmembrane domain receptor to mediate chemotaxis. Monocyte activation is limited by desensitization and internalization of the MCP-1R, but these mechanisms are not well understood. In this study, we show that the type B MCP-1R (MCP-1RB/CCR2B) is rapidly phosphorylated and internalized in response to nanomolar concentrations of MCP-1. Co-expression of CCR2B in Xenopus oocytes with beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 2 (beta ark2), but not beta ark1 or rhodopsin kinase, specifically blocked receptor activation by MCP-1. Mutation of serine (Ser) and threonine (Thr) residues in the terminal carboxyl-tail of the receptor, which are potential targets of beta ark-mediated phosphorylation, prevented inhibition of receptor activation by beta ark2 in microinjected oocytes. Finally, a construct in which multiple Ser and Thr residues in the carboxyl-tail were changed to alanine significantly prolonged the agonist-dependent intracellular calcium flux and inhibited receptor internalization in transfected human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293 cells. These studies demonstrate that phosphorylation of Ser and Thr residues in the carboxyl-tail of CCR2B mediates receptor desensitization and internalization and may serve to limit the chemotactic response of leukocytes to MCP-1 and related chemokines.
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- C Franci
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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Franci C, Gosling J, Tsou CL, Coughlin SR, Charo IF. Phosphorylation by a G protein-coupled kinase inhibits signaling and promotes internalization of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 receptor. Critical role of carboxyl-tail serines/threonines in receptor function. The Journal of Immunology 1996. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.157.12.5606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a member of the chemokine family of chemotactic cytokines and signals via activation of a G protein-coupled seven-transmembrane domain receptor to mediate chemotaxis. Monocyte activation is limited by desensitization and internalization of the MCP-1R, but these mechanisms are not well understood. In this study, we show that the type B MCP-1R (MCP-1RB/CCR2B) is rapidly phosphorylated and internalized in response to nanomolar concentrations of MCP-1. Co-expression of CCR2B in Xenopus oocytes with beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 2 (beta ark2), but not beta ark1 or rhodopsin kinase, specifically blocked receptor activation by MCP-1. Mutation of serine (Ser) and threonine (Thr) residues in the terminal carboxyl-tail of the receptor, which are potential targets of beta ark-mediated phosphorylation, prevented inhibition of receptor activation by beta ark2 in microinjected oocytes. Finally, a construct in which multiple Ser and Thr residues in the carboxyl-tail were changed to alanine significantly prolonged the agonist-dependent intracellular calcium flux and inhibited receptor internalization in transfected human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293 cells. These studies demonstrate that phosphorylation of Ser and Thr residues in the carboxyl-tail of CCR2B mediates receptor desensitization and internalization and may serve to limit the chemotactic response of leukocytes to MCP-1 and related chemokines.
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- C Franci
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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Atchison RE, Gosling J, Monteclaro FS, Franci C, Digilio L, Charo IF, Goldsmith MA. Multiple extracellular elements of CCR5 and HIV-1 entry: dissociation from response to chemokines. Science 1996; 274:1924-6. [PMID: 8943208 DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5294.1924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The human beta-chemokine receptor CCR5 is an important cofactor for entry of human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1). The murine form of CCR5, despite its 82 percent identity to the human form, was not functional as an HIV-1 coreceptor. HIV-1 entry function could be reconstituted by fusion of various individual elements derived from the extracellular region of human CCR5 onto murine CCR5. Analysis of chimeras containing elements from human CCR5 and human CCR2B suggested that a complex structure rather than single contact sites is responsible for facilitation of viral entry. Further, certain chimeras lacking the domains necessary to signal in response to their natural chemokine ligands retained vigorous HIV-1 coreceptor activity.
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- R E Atchison
- Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Post Office Box 419100, San Francisco, CA 94141-9100, USA.
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Raport CJ, Gosling J, Schweickart VL, Gray PW, Charo IF. Molecular cloning and functional characterization of a novel human CC chemokine receptor (CCR5) for RANTES, MIP-1beta, and MIP-1alpha. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:17161-6. [PMID: 8663314 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.29.17161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 351] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Chemokines affect leukocyte chemotactic and activation activities through specific G protein-coupled receptors. In an effort to map the closely linked CC chemokine receptor genes, we identified a novel chemokine receptor encoded 18 kilobase pairs downstream of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) receptor (CCR2) gene on human chromosome 3p21. The deduced amino acid sequence of this novel receptor, designated CCR5, is most similar to CCR2B, sharing 71% identical residues. Transfected cells expressing the receptor bind RANTES (regulated on activation normal T cell expressed), MIP-1beta, and MIP-1alpha with high affinity and generate inositol phosphates in response to these chemokines. This same combination of chemokines has recently been shown to potently inhibit human immunodeficiency virus replication in human peripheral blood leukocytes (Cocchi, F., DeVico, A. L., Garzino-Demo, A., Arya, S. K., Gallo, R. C., and Lusso, P.(1995) Science 270, 1811-1815). CCR5 is expressed in lymphoid organs such as thymus and spleen, as well as in peripheral blood leukocytes, including macrophages and T cells, and is the first example of a human chemokine receptor that signals in response to MIP-1beta.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Chemokine CCL3
- Chemokine CCL4
- Chemokine CCL5/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- Female
- Gene Library
- Growth Inhibitors/metabolism
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Monokines/metabolism
- Multigene Family
- Organ Specificity
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, CCR5
- Receptors, Cytokine/chemistry
- Receptors, Cytokine/genetics
- Receptors, Cytokine/metabolism
- Restriction Mapping
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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- C J Raport
- ICOS Corporation, Bothell, Washington 98021, USA
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Boring L, Gosling J, Monteclaro FS, Lusis AJ, Tsou CL, Charo IF. Molecular cloning and functional expression of murine JE (monocyte chemoattractant protein 1) and murine macrophage inflammatory protein 1alpha receptors: evidence for two closely linked C-C chemokine receptors on chromosome 9. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:7551-8. [PMID: 8631787 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.13.7551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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We have isolated cDNA clones that encode two closely related, murine C-C chemokine receptors. Both receptors are members of the G-protein-coupled, seven-transmembrane domain family of receptors and are most closely related to the human monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 receptor. Expression of each of the receptors was detected in murine monocyte/macrophage cell lines, but not in nonhematopoietic lines. Expression of these receptors in Xenopus oocytes revealed that one receptor signaled in response to low nanomolar concentrations of murine JE, whereas the second receptor was activated by murine macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP) 1alpha and the human chemokines MIP-1beta and RANTES. Binding studies revealed high affinity binding of radiolabeled mJE to the mJE receptor and murine MIP-1alpha to the second receptor. Chromosomal localization indicated that the two receptor genes were clustered within 80 kilobases of each other on mouse chromosome 9. Creation of receptor chimeras suggested that the amino terminus was critically involved in mediating signal transduction and ligand specificity of the mJE receptor, but not the mMIP-1alpha receptor. The identification and cloning of two functional murine chemokine receptors provides important new tools for investigating the roles of these potent cytokines in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Calcium/metabolism
- Cell Line
- Chemokine CCL2/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Library
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Kidney
- Kinetics
- Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors/metabolism
- Mice/genetics
- Mice, Inbred C57BL/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muridae/genetics
- Oocytes/physiology
- Receptors, CCR2
- Receptors, Chemokine
- Receptors, Cytokine/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Cytokine/genetics
- Receptors, Cytokine/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Signal Transduction
- Transfection
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- L Boring
- Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California 94141-9100, USA
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A report on a team of hospital and community nurses who have formulated a policy and set up an advisory service on wound care.
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- Y Franks
- Clinical nurse specialist, plastic and maxillo-facial surgery
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- Clinical nurse specialist surgery, Queen Mary's University Hospital, Roehampton, London
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Gosling J. Mental handicap nursing. Speaking out. Nurs Times 1992; 88:63-4. [PMID: 1542631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Different regions of the prostate gland, namely prostatic capsule, peripheral prostate and central prostate (subdivided into proximal (near the bladder neck), distal (near the verumontanum) and midway between these areas) were obtained from 32 obstructed (stable obstructed, n = 8; unstable obstructed, n = 13; acute retention, n = 11) and five control patients. The innervation of these tissues was studied both histochemically to localise acetylcholinesterase activity and immunohistochemically for dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, 5-hydroxytryptamine, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, neuropeptide Y, leu- and met-enkephalin, calcitonin gene-related peptide, substance P and somatostatin. In control patients the greatest density of nerves was found in the proximal central prostate, followed by the anterior capsule and distal central prostate, with the least density in the peripheral prostate. The greatest density of nerves were acetylcholinesterase positive and immunoreactive to neuropeptide Y followed (in decreasing order) by nerves immunoreactive to: vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and dopamine beta-hydroxylase; leu-enkephalin and 5-hydroxytryptamine; calcitonin gene-related peptide; met-enkephalin; substance P; somatostatin. In addition a group of periacinar 5-hydroxytryptamine-immunoreactive cells and ganglia containing acetylcholinesterase, dopamine beta-hydroxylase and all of the peptides studied except somatostatin were identified. In the prostate gland from obstructed patients there was a significant reduction in the density of acetylcholinesterase-positive nerves (p less than 0.001) when compared with the controls. A similar trend was found for dopamine beta-hydroxylase, 5-hydroxytryptamine and all of the putative neuropeptides in most areas of the prostate, the most notable exceptions being in the peripheral prostate, with an increase in dopamine beta-hydroxylase- and leu-enkephalin-immunoreactive nerves in all three groups of obstructed patients an an increase in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide- and calcitonin gene-related peptide-immunoreactive nerves in those presenting in urinary retention. The functional significance of these findings is discussed.
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- C R Chapple
- Department of Urology, Middlex Hospital, London, England
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Quirke J, Hanrahan J, Gosling J. The Effect of oestradiol benzoate on the duration of oestrus and release of LH in ovariectomized Galway ewe lambs and adult ewes. Anim Reprod Sci 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0378-4320(87)90117-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Fourteen patients with progressive autonomic failure and multiple system atrophy have been investigated by urodynamic, electromyographic and neurohistochemical means and the results compared with a series of age-matched controls. Three fundamental abnormalities of lower urinary tract function have been identified: (1) Involuntary detrusor contractions in response to bladder filling. It is suggested that these may be the result of a loss of inhibitory influences from the corpus striatum and substantia nigra. (2) Loss of the ability to initiate a voluntary micturition reflex. This may reflect the degeneration of neurons in pontine and medullary nuclei and in the sacral intermediolateral columns. In addition, these studies have demonstrated a significant reduction in the density of acetylcholinesterase-containing nerves in bladder muscle. (3) Profound urethral dysfunction. This appears to be partly due to a loss of proximal urethral sphincter tone, which causes bladder neck incompetence. In addition, the function of the striated component of the urethral sphincter is impaired. Individual motor units recorded from this muscle were clearly abnormal when compared with controls and suggested that reinnervation had occurred. We suggest that this is the result of degeneration of a specific group of sacral anterior horn cells known as Onuf's nucleus. The evidence that these particular motor units are affected, while others are spared, poses fundamental questions about the nature of selective vulnerability in degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
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Thomas S, Horder D, Bush R, Gosling J. An orange a day keeps the scurvy away. Health Visit 1984; 57:82-83. [PMID: 6559787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Gosling J. Behaviour therapy: when a foe becomes a friend. Nurs Mirror 1980; 151:28-31. [PMID: 6905102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Gosling J. The structure of the bladder and urethra in relation to function. Urol Clin North Am 1979; 6:31-8. [PMID: 432999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The calving rate to artificial insemination following administration of progesterone or prostaglandin was influenced by ovarian activity at the start of the treatment. Significantly more heifers inseminated on a fixed time basis after a 12-day progesterone treatment calved compared to synchronised or control heifers inseminated at a detected oestrus. Administration of 10 mg oestrogen intravaginally by gelatin capsule attached to the progesterone-containing coil or injection of 5 mg oestrogen and 200 mg progesterone at the start of the 12-day progesterone treatment did not influence the oestrous response of calving rate. The accuracy of detection of non-pregnant heifers by oestrous detection, measurement of progesterone in blood 21 days after AI or rectal examination varied from 90 to 93 per cent. However, both oestrous detection and the progesterone test identified significantly fewer non-pregnant heifers. Rectal examination as a method of diagnosing pregnant heifers was significantly more accurate than either of the above.
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Sreenan J, Gosling J, Terqui M, Thimonier J. Diagnosis of twin-pregnancy and subsequent calving results following bilateral egg transfer in beef heifers. Theriogenology 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/0093-691x(78)90071-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Constantinou CE, Silvert MA, Gosling J. Pacemaker system in the control of ureteral peristaltic rate in the multicalyceal kidney of the pig. Invest Urol 1977; 14:440-1. [PMID: 870443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Temporal and distributive properties of ureteral peristaltic contractions in the anesthetized pig have been examined. Interperistaltic time intervals have been recorded, and their frequency during different urine flow rates has been compared. The results show that ureteral peristalsis is increased at high urine flow rates to a maximum of approximately 0.06 Hz. It is further shown from the interperistaltic histograms that ureteral contractions are not clustered into a discreet multimodal spectrum. This represents the first evidence that the multicalyceal kidney has a system of pacemakers of differing fundamental frequencies, tending toward synchronism as urine flow increases.
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