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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 180, 期 6, 页码 4273-4282出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.6.4273
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [P0I HL55798] Funding Source: Medline
ATP-binding cassette transporter G1 (ABCGI) effluxes cholesterol from macrophages and plays an important role in pulmonary lipid homeostasis. We hypothesize that macrophages from Abcgl (-/-) mice have increased inflammatory activity, thereby promoting acceleration of pulmonary disease. We herein demonstrate increased numbers of inflammatory cytokines and infiltrating neutrophils, eosinophils, dendritic cells, T cells, and B cells into lungs of Abcg1(-/-) mice before the onset of severe lipidosis. We further investigated the role of macrophages in causing pulmonary disease by performing bone marrow transplantations using B6 and Abcg1 (-/-) bone marrow. We found that it was the macrophage, and not pneumocyte type II cells or other nonhernatopoietic cells in the lung, that appeared to be the primary cell type involved in the onset of both pulmonary lipidosis and inflammation in the Abcg1(-/-) mice. Additionally, our results demonstrate that Abcg1(-/-) macrophages had elevated proinflammatory cytokine production, increased apoptotic cell clearance, and were themselves more prone to apoptosis and necrosis. However, they were quickly repopulated by monocytes that were recruited to Abcg1(-/-) lungs. In conclusion, we have shown that ABCGI deletion in macrophages causes a striking inflammatory phenotype and initiates onset of pulmonary lipidosis in mice. Thus, our studies reveal a critical role for macrophage ABCGI in lung inflammation and homeostasis.
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