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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 164, Issue 4, Pages 2070-2076Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.4.2070
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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a chemokine that is expressed by a variety of tissue cells in response to inflammatory stimuli, such as IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma. A major function of MCP-1 is the recruitment and activation of monocytes and T lymphocytes, Overexpression of MCP-1 has been implicated in a number of diseases, including glomerulonephritis and rheumatoid arthritis, indicating that the modulation of MCP-1 activity and/or expression is a desired therapeutic strategy, In the present study, our aim was to test whether the MCP-1 expression could be inhibited at the transcriptional level using triple helix-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs), We designed a TFO targeted to the SP-1 binding site in the human MCP-1 gene promoter. Gel mobility shift assays demonstrated that the phosphodiester TFO formed a sequence-specific tripler with its dsDNA target with an EC50 of similar to 1.9 x 10(-7) M, The corresponding phosphorothioated oligonucleotide was also effective in this assay with an 8-fold higher EC50 value. Binding of the TFO to the target DNA prevented the binding of rSP-1 and of nuclear proteins in vitro. The TFO could also partially inhibit endogenous MCP-1 gene expression in cultured human embryonic kidney cells. Treatment of TNF-alpha-stimulated human embryonic kidney 293 cells with the TFO inhibited the secretion of MCP-1 in a dose-dependent manner (up to 45% at 5 mu M oligonucleotide), The inhibition of MCP secretion was caused at the level of gene transcription, because MCP-1 mRNA levels in oligonucleotide-treated cells were also decreased by similar to 40%, The Journal of Immunology, 2000, 164: 2070-2076.
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