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Query: UNIPROT:P80098 (monocyte chemoattractant protein)
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Chemokines play a central role in immune and inflammatory responses. It has been observed recently that certain viruses have evolved molecular piracy and mimicry mechanisms by encoding and synthesizing proteins that interfere with the normal host defense response. One such viral protein, vMIP-II, encoded by human herpesvirus 8, has been identified with in vitro antagonistic activities against CC and CXC chemokine receptors. We report here that vMIP-II has additional antagonistic activity against CX3CR1, the receptor for fractalkine. To investigate the potential therapeutic effect of this broad-spectrum chemokine antagonist, we studied the antiinflammatory activity of vMIP-II in a rat model of experimental glomerulonephritis induced by an antiglomerular basement membrane antibody. vMIP-II potently inhibited monocyte chemoattractant protein 1-, macrophage inflammatory protein 1beta-, RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted)-, and fractalkine-induced chemotaxis of activated leukocytes isolated from nephritic glomeruli, significantly reduced leukocyte infiltration to the glomeruli, and markedly attenuated proteinuria. These results suggest that molecules encoded by some viruses may serve as useful templates for the development of antiinflammatory compounds.
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PMID:In vivo inhibition of CC and CX3C chemokine-induced leukocyte infiltration and attenuation of glomerulonephritis in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats by vMIP-II. 965 95

An intact chemotactic response is vital for leukocyte trafficking and host defense. Opiates are known to exert a number of immunomodulating effects in vitro and in vivo, and we sought to determine whether they were capable of inhibiting chemokine-induced directional migration of human leukocytes, and if so, to ascertain the mechanism involved. The endogenous opioid met-enkephalin induced monocyte chemotaxis in a pertussis toxin-sensitive manner. Met-enkephalin, as well as morphine, inhibited IL-8-induced chemotaxis of human neutrophils and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha, regulated upon activation, normal T expressed and secreted (RANTES), and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, but not MIP-1beta-induced chemotaxis of human monocytes. This inhibition of chemotaxis was mediated by delta and micro but not kappa G protein-coupled opiate receptors. Calcium flux induced by chemokines was unaffected by met-enkephalin pretreatment. Unlike other opiate-induced changes in leukocyte function, the inhibition of chemotaxis was not mediated by nitric oxide. Opiates induced phosphorylation of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2, but neither induced internalization of chemokine receptors nor perturbed chemokine binding. Thus, inhibition of chemokine-induced chemotaxis by opiates is due to heterologous desensitization through phosphorylation of chemokine receptors. This may contribute to the defects in host defense seen with opiate abuse and has important implications for immunomodulation induced by several endogenous neuropeptides which act through G protein-coupled receptors.
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PMID:Opiates transdeactivate chemokine receptors: delta and mu opiate receptor-mediated heterologous desensitization. 967 44

During inflammatory processes the infected macrophage is a rich source of chemokines which induce infiltration of leukocytes to the site of infection. We investigated the regulation of chemokine production by murine macrophages in response to infection with the intracellular bacterial pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes. As a source of quiescent macrophages, murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) cultured under serum-free conditions were used. With RT-PCR, we detected induction of RNA message for the chemokines macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-2, KC, MIP-1alpha, MIP-1beta, IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10 and RANTES in L. monocytogenes-infected macrophages. Accordingly, ELISA-detectable MIP-1alpha, MIP-2 and KC protein was induced by infection with L. monocytogenes. In contrast, L. monocytogenes infection of BMM alone failed to induce considerable expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 at the mRNA or protein level, but co-treatment with IFN-gamma was necessary. Release of infection-triggered MIP-2, MIP-1alpha and KC was negatively regulated by IFN-gamma. Similarly, IL-4 stimulated MCP-1 release by infected macrophages but reduced production of MIP-1alpha, MIP-2 and KC. IL-10 turned out to be a general deactivator in terms of macrophage chemokine production. IL-13 had no effect on MIP-1alpha, MIP-2 and KC production by infected BMM, but slightly reduced MCP-1 release. By using IFN-gamma and IL-4 gene deletion mutant mice, in vivo regulation of these chemokines by IL-4 and IFN-gamma in listeriosis was studied. In summary, our results show that chemokines are produced by macrophages infected with L. monocytogenes, and that chemokine release is differentially regulated by the macrophage modulators IFN-gamma, IL-4, IL-10 and IL-13.
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PMID:Differential chemokine response of murine macrophages stimulated with cytokines and infected with Listeria monocytogenes. 967 56

The major target organ of systemic infection with the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is the liver, to where inflammatory leukocytes are rapidly recruited. We determined by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction the early chemokine response in the liver after systemic infection of mice with listeriae, and in parallel compared chemokine release from macrophages and hepatocytic cells in vitro. Murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) grown in fetal calf serum-supplemented medium were used as macrophages and the TIB75 cell line as hepatocytic cells. Within 1-3 hours, gene expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1 alpha, MIP-2, KC, and interferon-gamma inducible protein-10 (IP-10) was upregulated in liver tissue of infected mice. BMM infected in vitro with L. monocytogenes showed a generalized chemokine response, and readily released MCP-1, MIP-1 alpha, MIP-2, and KC, as measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In contrast, the chemokine response of hepatocytic cells was more restricted, and infection induced MCP-1 and KC, but not MIP-2 and MIP-1 alpha. Interferon gamma enhanced chemokine release from hepatocytic cells, but unexpectedly had either no or a negative effect on chemokine secretion by BMM cultured in serum-supplemented medium. Listeriolysin (Hly)-negative avirulent listeriae as well as listeriae killed by heat or gentamycin initiated a similar chemokine response in BMM and hepatocytic cells as did wild-type L. monocytogenes. Stimulation of hepatocytic cells with the monokines, tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin (IL-)1 alpha, but not IL-6, augmented liberation of chemokines. Together, our data demonstrate an early hepatic chemokine response to L. monocytogenes in murine listeriosis. Probably, not only macrophages but also parenchymal cells participate in chemokine production.
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PMID:Macrophages and hepatocytic cells as chemokine producers in murine listeriosis. 971 70

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a betaherpesvirus, has developed several ways to evade the immune system, notably downregulation of cell surface expression of major histocompatibility complex class I heavy chains. Here we report that HCMV has devised another means to compromise immune surveillance mechanisms. Extracellular accumulation of both constitutively produced monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 and tumor necrosis factor-superinduced RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted) was downregulated in HCMV-infected fibroblasts in the absence of transcriptional repression or the expression of polyadenylated RNA for the cellular chemokine receptors CCR-1, CCR-3, and CCR-5. Competitive binding experiments demonstrated that HCMV-infected cells bind RANTES, MCP-1, macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1beta, and MCP-3, but not MCP-2, to the same receptor as does MIP-1alpha, which is not expressed in uninfected cells. HCMV encodes three proteins with homology to CC chemokine receptors: US27, US28, and UL33. Cells infected with HCMV mutants deleted of US28, or both US27 and US28 genes, failed to downregulate extracellular accumulation of either RANTES or MCP-1. In contrast, cells infected with a mutant deleted of US27 continues to bind and downregulate those chemokines. Depletion of chemokines from the culture medium was at least partially due to continuous internalization of extracellular chemokine, since exogenously added, biotinylated RANTES accumulated in HCMV-infected cells. Thus, HCMV can modify the chemokine environment of infected cells through intense sequestering of CC chemokines, mediated principally by expression of the US28-encoded chemokine receptor.
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PMID:Chemokine sequestration by viral chemoreceptors as a novel viral escape strategy: withdrawal of chemokines from the environment of cytomegalovirus-infected cells. 973 Aug 87

A prominent feature of Lyme disease is the perivascular accumulation of mononuclear leukocytes. Incubation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) cultured on amniotic tissue with either interleukin-1 (IL-1) or Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease, increased the rate at which human monocytes migrated across the endothelial monolayers. Very late antigen 4 (VLA-4) and CD11/CD18 integrins mediated migration of monocytes across HUVEC exposed to either B. burgdorferi or IL-1 in similar manners. Neutralizing antibodies to the chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) inhibited the migration of monocytes across unstimulated, IL-1-treated, or B. burgdorferi-stimulated HUVEC by 91% +/- 3%, 65% +/- 2%, or 25% +/- 22%, respectively. Stimulation of HUVEC with B. burgdorferi also promoted a 6-fold +/- 2-fold increase in the migration of human CD4(+) T lymphocytes. Although MCP-1 played only a limited role in the migration of monocytes across B. burgdorferi-treated HUVEC, migration of CD4(+) T lymphocytes across HUVEC exposed to spirochetes was highly dependent on this chemokine. The anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 reduced both migration of monocytes and endothelial production of MCP-1 in response to B. burgdorferi by approximately 50%, yet IL-10 inhibited neither migration nor secretion of MCP-1 when HUVEC were stimulated with IL-1. Our results suggest that activation of endothelium by B. burgdorferi may contribute to formation of the chronic inflammatory infiltrates associated with Lyme disease. The transendothelial migration of monocytes that is induced by B. burgdorferi is significantly less dependent on MCP-1 than is migration induced by IL-1. Selective inhibition by IL-10 further indicates that B. burgdorferi and IL-1 employ distinct mechanisms to activate endothelial cells.
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PMID:Borrelia burgdorferi and interleukin-1 promote the transendothelial migration of monocytes in vitro by different mechanisms. 974 92

The cytotoxic action of leukocytes may be a most probable cause of cardiac myocyte damage seen in chronic myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The migration and tissue infiltration of leukocytes is regulated by chemotactic cytokines. Recently, the presence of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) messenger RNA has been demonstrated in endomyocardial biopsy tissue obtained from patients with DCM. This chemokine could contribute to enhanced leukocyte recruitment and activation resulting in chronic damage of cardiomyocytes. Accordingly, we sought to determine whether the severity of left ventricular dysfunction in DCM is associated with quantitative alterations of MCP-1 messenger RNA and MCP-1 protein in endomyocardial biopsy tissue. A group of DCM patients with low to moderate impairment of left ventricular function (ejection fraction 45.3+/-2.3%, n=7) was compared to patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction 25.5+/-3.1%, n=7). MCP-1 messenger RNA expression was determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. MCP-1 protein and the presence of infiltrating inflammatory cells were detected by immunohistochemistry. DCM patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction showed a 2.35 fold higher MCP-1 messenger RNA expression when compared to DCM patients with less severe dysfunction (P=0.0229). Positive immunohistochemical staining for MCP-1 was found in all seven patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction and was particularly distinct within the cardiac interstitum. In five of seven patients with less severe systolic dysfunction, MCP-1 protein was found, but was less pronounced and distributed in patchy interstitial areas, close to intramyocardial vessels. Furthermore, there was a consistent trend toward a higher infiltration of inflammatory cells in DCM patients with lower ejection fraction. In conclusion, MCP-1 is dynamically regulated in DCM related deterioration of left ventricular function. This mechanism might contribute to myocyte damage via infiltrated and activated monocytes.
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PMID:Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) gene expression in dilated cardiomyopathy. 981 26

Astrocytes constitute a part of the blood-brain barrier. Chemokine expression by astrocytes may contribute to leucocyte infiltration within the central nervous system (CNS) during inflammation. To investigate factor(s) regulating chemokine expression by astrocytes, we studied the induction of beta-chemokine mRNA expression in adult rat astrocytes. Astrocyte-derived monocyte chemoattractant protein- (MCP-1), RANTES, macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha and MIP-1beta mRNA were induced by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) induced MCP-1, RANTES and MIP-1beta mRNA expression, and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced MCP-1, MIP-1alpha and MIP-1beta mRNA expression in astrocytes. LPS-induced MCP-1, MIP-1alpha and MIP-1beta mRNA expression by astrocytes was antagonized by transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 and interleukin (IL)-10. TGF-beta1 and IL-10 also down-regulated MCP-1 and RANTES mRNA expression induced by TNF-alpha. IL-10, but not TGF-beta1, inhibited MIP-1beta mRNA expression induced by TNF-alpha. The results of this in vitro study suggest that beta-chemokine mRNA expression by adult rat astrocytes can be induced by LPS or proinflammatory cytokines, while regulatory cytokines, such as TGF-beta1 and IL-10, down-regulate astrocyte-derived beta-family chemokine mRNA expression induced by LPS, IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha. Further study of CNS chemokines will enhance our understanding of leucocyte recruitment to the CNS and suggest therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders.
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PMID:Regulation of beta-chemokine mRNA expression in adult rat astrocytes by lipopolysaccharide, proinflammatory and immunoregulatory cytokines. 982 59

Recent studies support the concept that pulmonary granulomatous inflammation directed by interferon (IFN)-gamma, interleukin (IL)-12, and nitric oxide usually resolves in the absence of fibrosis. To determine whether nitric oxide participates in modulating the fibrotic response during the development of pulmonary granulomas in response to purified protein derivative (PPD), mice presensitized to PPD received daily intraperitoneal injections of N(G)-nitro-D-arginine-methyl ester (D-NAME), N(G)-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester (L-NAME), or aminoguanidine after delivery of PPD-coated beads to the lungs. Eight days later, morphometric analysis of lung granulomas revealed that L-NAME-treated mice when challenged with PPD in vitro for 36 hours had the largest pulmonary granulomas and the greatest collagen deposition among the treated groups. In addition, equivalent numbers of dispersed lung cells from L-NAME- and aminoguanidine-treated mice produced significantly higher levels of IL-4, monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, and macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha and significantly lower levels of eotaxin compared with D-NAME-treated mice. Cultures of dispersed lung cells from L-NAME-treated mice also produced significantly more IL-10 and less IL-12 compared with similar numbers of dispersed lung cells from D-NAME-treated mice. Cultures of isolated lung fibroblasts from L-NAME-treated mice expressed higher levels of C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2) and CCR3 mRNA and contained less MCP-1 and eotaxin protein than a similar number of fibroblasts from D-NAME-treated mice. Thus, nitric oxide appears to regulate the deposition of extracellular matrix in lung granulomas through the modulation of the cytokine and chemokine profile of these lesions. Alterations in the cytokine, chemokine, and procollagen profile of this lesion may be a direct effect of nitric oxide on the pulmonary fibroblast and provide an important signal for regulating fibroblast activity during the evolution of chronic lung disease.
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PMID:Collagen deposition in a non-fibrotic lung granuloma model after nitric oxide inhibition. 984 76

The pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), accompanied by infiltration of macrophages and T lymphocytes into the central nervous system (CNS). The migration of these cells into the CNS parenchyma may be partly regulated by chemokines. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the cellular localization of the potent monocyte- and T-cell-attracting chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 by immunohistochemistry on postmortem brain tissue from MS and normal control cases. Brain tissue samples of six MS patients and four patients without a history of brain disease were neuropathologically classified according to characteristic (immuno)histochemical staining patterns. Frozen tissue sections of active demyelinating MS lesions, chronic active demyelinating MS lesions, and normal control brain were immunohistochemically stained with a monoclonal antibody directed against MCP-1. In active demyelinating MS lesions as well as in chronic active MS lesions, reactive hypertrophic astrocytes were strongly immunoreactive for MCP-1, whereas perivascular and parenchymal foamy macrophages did not express MCP-1 protein. These results suggest a significant role for the beta-chemokine MCP-1, synthesized in vivo by reactive hypertrophic astrocytes, in the recruitment and activation of myelin-degrading macrophages and thereby contributing to the evolution of MS lesions.
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PMID:Expression of MCP-1 by reactive astrocytes in demyelinating multiple sclerosis lesions. 991 17


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