The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Torrey Pines Biolabs
  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search | Table of Contents

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF, 203K)
Right arrow PPT slides of all figures
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new content in the JEM
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Sutterwala, F. S.
Right arrow Articles by Mosser, D. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Sutterwala, F. S.
Right arrow Articles by Mosser, D. M.
Right arrowPubmed/NCBI databases
*Compound via MeSH
*Substance via MeSH
Hazardous Substances DB
*CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
*CALCIUM, ELEMENTAL
Social Bookmarking
 Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Facebook   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?
© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007/1997/6/1977/ $5.00
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 185, Number 11, June 2, 1997 1977-1985


Articles

Selective Suppression of Interleukin-12 Induction after Macrophage Receptor Ligation

Fayyaz S. Sutterwala*, Gary J. Noel{ddagger}, Raphael Clynes§, and David M. Mosser*

From the * Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140; the {ddagger} Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College, New York,10021; and the § Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, 10021

Interleukin (IL)-12 is a monocyte- and macrophage-derived cytokine that plays a crucial role in both the innate and the acquired immune response. In this study, we examined the effects that ligating specific macrophage receptors had on the induction of IL-12 by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We report that ligation of the macrophage Fc{gamma}, complement, or scavenger receptors inhibited the induction of IL-12 by LPS. Both mRNA synthesis and protein secretion were diminished to near-undetectable levels following receptor ligation. Suppression was specific to IL-12 since IL-10 and tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} (TNF-{alpha}) production were not inhibited by ligating macrophage receptors. The results of several different experimental approaches suggest that IL-12 downregulation was due to extracellular calcium influxes that resulted from receptor ligation. First, preventing extracellular calcium influxes, by performing the assays in EGTA, abrogated Fc{gamma}R-mediated IL-12(p40) mRNA suppression. Second, exposure of macrophages to the calcium ionophores, ionomycin or A23187, mimicked receptor ligation and inhibited IL-12(p40) mRNA induction by LPS. Finally, bone marrow–derived macrophages from FcR {gamma} chain–deficient mice, which fail to flux calcium after receptor ligation, failed to inhibit IL-12(p40) mRNA induction. These results indicate that the calcium influxes that occur as a result of receptor ligation are responsible for inhibiting the induction of IL-12 by LPS. Hence, the ligation of phagocytic receptors on macrophages can lead to a dramatic decrease in IL-12 induction. This downregulation may be a way of limiting proinflammatory responses of macrophages to extracellular pathogens, or suppressing the development of cell-mediated immunity to intracellular pathogens.


Address correspondence to Dr. David M. Mosser, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140. Phone: (215) 707-8262; FAX: (215) 707-7788; E-mail: dmmosser{at}astro.ocis.temple.edu

F.S. Sutterwala was supported by the MD/PhD program at the Temple University School of Medicine. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant AI24313 (D.M. Mosser).

1Abbreviations used in this paper: BMM{varphi}, bone marrow–derived macrophages; E-C3bi, complement-opsonized erythrocytes; E-IgG, IgG-opsonized erythrocytes; E-ML-BSA, maleylated-BSA–coated erythrocytes; HI, heatinactivated; HPRT, hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase; mBSA, maleylated-BSA.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Facebook Facebook   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:



  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search
TABLE OF CONTENTS