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CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 499-502Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.088
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chitotriosidase; cytokines; human monocyte/macrophages; immune response
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Human chitotriosidase is a chitinolytic enzyme and mainly produced by activated macrophages. Recently, we observed that prolactin, which is structurally related to several cytokines and is involved in regulating monocyte/macrophage functions, upregulates chitotriosidase gene expression in human macrophages, suggesting that chitotriosidase is not only a biochemical marker of macrophage activation in lysosomal diseases and hematological disorders, but also may reflect induction of an immunological response. To confirm this hypothesis we evaluated by quantitative real-time PCR the mRNA chitotriosidase levels in human monocytes/macrophages following treatment with pro-inflammatory stimuli such as interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, lipopolysaccharide, and interleukin-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine. Stimulation of macrophages with interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha and lipopolysaccharide resulted in increased levels of chitotriosidase mRNA, as well as chitotriosidase activity, whereas interleukin-10 decreased chitotriosidase synthesis. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the production of chitotriosidase by macrophages could have biological relevance in the immune response.
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