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Gene Inactivation Causes Both Impaired and Enhanced Gene Expression and Inverse Regulation of IL-12 p40 and p35 mRNAs in Macrophages1


* School of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland; and
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Center, Department of Medical Pharmacology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
The transcription factor C/EBP
is believed to play a fundamental
role in regulating activated macrophage functions. However, the
molecular mechanisms and the target genes involved have been, so far,
poorly characterized, partly due to the difficulty of reproducibly
obtaining homogeneous and abundant primary macrophage populations. In
this study, we describe the generation and characterization of
immortalized macrophage-like cell lines from C/EBP
-deficient and
wild-type mice. Using these cells, we were able to identify a number of
genes involved in activated macrophage functions whose induction was
affected in the C/EBP
-/- cells. IFN-
/LPS-dependent
induction of IL-6, IL-1
, TNF-
, inducible NO synthase, and
plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 mRNAs was variably impaired, while
IL-12 p40, RANTES and macrophage inflammatory protein-1
mRNAs were
up-regulated in the absence of C/EBP
. The differential mRNA
expression correlated with differential transcription levels of the
corresponding genes, and was in most cases confirmed in primary
macrophage populations. Moreover, in sharp contrast to the enhanced
induction of IL-12 p40 mRNA, C/EBP
-/- primary
macrophages derived from both the bone marrow and the peritoneal
cavity displayed totally defective expression of IL-12 p35 mRNA.
Therefore, the IL-12 p35 gene represents a novel
obligatory target for C/EBP
in macrophages and this may explain the
defective production of bioactive IL-12 and the impaired Th1 responses
of C/EBP
-deficient mice to Candida albicans infection
observed in previous work.
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