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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 107, 期 45, 页码 19438-19443出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007816107
关键词
inflammation; innate immunity; macrophage
资金
- Cancer Research Institute
- National Institutes of Health
An important mechanism by which IFN-gamma Primes macrophages for enhanced innate immune responses is abrogation of feedback inhibitory pathways. Accordingly, IFN-gamma abrogates endotoxin tolerance, a major negative feedback loop that silences expression of inflammatory cytokine genes in macrophages previously exposed to endotoxin/Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands. Mechanisms by which IFN-gamma inhibits endotoxin tolerance have not been elucidated. Here, we show that pretreatment with IFN-gamma prevented tolerization of primary human monocytes and restored TLR4-mediated induction of various proinflammatory cytokines, including IL-6 and TNF alpha. Surprisingly, IFN-gamma did not alter proximal TLR4 signaling defects in tolerized monocytes. Instead, IFN-gamma blocked tolerance-associated down-regulation of IL6 and TNF transcription, RNA polymerase II recruitment, and NF-kappa B and CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta transcription factor binding to the IL6 and TNF promoters in tolerized monocytes. The mechanism by which IFN-gamma restored IL6 expression was by facilitating TLR4-induced recruitment of chromatin remodeling machinery to the IL6 promoter and promoting IL6 locus accessibility in tolerized monocytes. Our results suggest that IFN-gamma overcomes endotoxin tolerance by facilitating TLR-induced chromatin remodeling to allow expression of proinflammatory genes. These results identify a mechanism by which IFN-gamma promotes activation of macrophages and highlight the importance of chromatin remodeling and transcriptional control in the regulation of inflammatory cytokine production in tolerant and activated macrophages.
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