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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 192, Issue 1, Pages 427-436Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301722
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- Science Foundation Ireland [08/IN.1/B1843]
- Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology [07/CE/B1368]
- Marie Curie International Reintegration grant program
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [08/IN.1/B1843] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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LPS tolerance is an essential immune-homeostatic response to repeated exposure to LPS that prevents excessive inflammatory responses. LPS tolerance induces a state of altered responsiveness in macrophages, resulting in repression of proinflammatory gene expression and increased expression of factors that mediate the resolution of inflammation. In this study, we analyzed the transcriptional plasticity of macrophages following LPS tolerance using genome-wide transcriptional profiling. We demonstrate that LPS tolerance is a transient state and that the expression of proinflammatory genes is restored to levels comparable to the acute response to LPS. However, following recovery from LPS tolerance a number of genes remained locked in a tolerizable state, including IL-33, CD86, IL-10, and NFIL3. Furthermore, we identified of a number of genes uniquely induced following recovery from LPS tolerance. Thus, macrophages adopt a unique transcriptional profile following recovery from LPS tolerance and have a distinct expression pattern of regulators of Ag presentation, antiviral responses, and transcription factors. Our data suggest that recovery from LPS tolerance leads to a hybrid macrophage activation state that is proinflammatory and microbicidal in nature but that possesses a regulatory anti-inflammatory profile distinct from that of LPS-tolerant and LPS-activated macrophages.
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