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Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, and the Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095; and
Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Injury Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07103
Recent reports highlighted the chemotactic activities of
antimicrobial peptide defensins whose structure, charge, and size
resemble chemokines. By assaying representative members of the four
known families of chemokines we explored the obverse: whether some
chemokines exert antimicrobial activity. In a radial diffusion assay,
only recombinant monokine induced by IFN-
(MIG/CXCL9),
IFN-
-inducible protein of 10 kDa (IP-10/CXCL10), and IFN-inducible T
cell
chemoattractant (I-TAC/CXCL11), members of the
IFN-
-inducible tripeptide motif Glu-Leu-Arg (ELR)- CXC
chemokines, were antimicrobial against Escherichia coli
and Listeria monocytogenes. Similar to human defensins,
antimicrobial activities of the chemokines were inhibited by 50 and 100
mM NaCl. The concentration of MIG/CXCL9 and IP-10/CXCL10 released from
IFN-
-stimulated PBMC in 24 h were, respectively, 35- and
28-fold higher than from unstimulated cells. Additionally, the amounts
of chemokines released per monocyte suggest that, in tissues with
mononuclear cell infiltration, IFN-
-inducible chemokines may reach
concentrations necessary for microbicidal activity. IFN-
-inducible
chemokines may directly inactivate microbes before attracting other
host defense cells to the area of infection.
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