期刊
BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1437, 期 -, 页码 115-126出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.11.049
关键词
Astrocyte; CCL2/CCR2; D6 decoy receptor; Inflammation; Multiple sclerosis
资金
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Northern Ireland
Chemoldnes are low relative molecular mass proteins, which have chemoattractant actions on many cell types. The chemokine, CCL2, has been shown to play a major role in the recruitment of monocytes in central nervous system (CNS) lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS). Since resident astrocytes constitute a major source of chemokine synthesis including CCL2, we were interested to assess the regulation of CCL2 by astrocytes. We showed that CCL2 bound to the cell surface of astrocytes and binding was not modulated by inflammatory conditions. However, CCR2 protein was not detected nor was activation of the classical CCR2 downstream signaling pathways. Recent studies have shown that non-signaling decoy chemoldne receptors bind and modulate the expression of chemokines at site of inflammation. Here, we show that the D6 chemoldne decoy receptor is constitutively expressed by primary human adult astrocytes at both mRNA and protein level. In addition, CCL3, which binds to D6, but not CCL19, which does not bind to D6, displaced CCL2 binding to astrocytes; indicating that CCL2 may bind to this cell type via the D6 receptor. Our results suggest that CCL2 binding to primary adult human astrocytes is CCR2-independent and is likely to be mediated via the D6 decoy chemokine receptor. Therefore we propose that astrocytes are implicated in both the establishment of chemoldne gradients for the migration of leukocytes into and within the CNS and in the regulation of CCL2 levels at inflammatory sites in the CNS. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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