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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53706
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) differentiation and activation by cytokines.
Recent reports have suggested that the transcription factor STAT5 may
play a role in M
differentiation. In the experiments described here,
we assessed the expression of STAT5-related molecules in three M
cell lines, RAW 264.7, WEHI-3, and WEHI-3D+, which
represent different stages of M
maturation, and also in primary
peritoneal and bone marrow M
from BALB/c mice. The studies revealed
that the previously characterized STAT5a and STAT5b isoforms are
detectable at both the mRNA and protein levels in these M
populations. Additional STAT5-related proteins were detected by
immunoblot analysis and were preferentially expressed in both the
immature WEHI-3 cell population and the adherent bone marrow population
containing immature M
. These results identify new isoforms of STAT5
and demonstrate that distinct patterns of expression of STAT5-related
proteins are observed in M
at different stages of
maturation. | Introduction |
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and
other cytokines has been recognized for several years (1). This pathway
includes a network of latent cytoplasmic factors, which are termed STAT
proteins. STAT proteins are activated through specific phosphorylation
events following ligand-receptor interaction and ultimately function as
the transcriptional activators of target genes through the use of
specific DNA regulatory elements. Currently, at least seven mouse and
human STAT proteins have been identified. An analysis of hemopoietic
receptor signaling actions has indicated that the specificity of
cytokine signaling involves the recruitment of specific subsets of
kinases and STATs. Thus, characterization of the pathway components
involved in cytokine responses in specific cell types is critical for a
complete understanding of the transcriptional control of cytokine
stimulation.
Typically, STAT proteins activate target genes through the use of a DNA
element called the
-activated site. Recent reports have demonstrated
that the transcription factor STAT5, which was originally identified as
a ß-casein promoter-binding factor in sheep mammary gland tissue (2),
can interact with the
-activated site element to stimulate gene
transcription (3, 4, 5). The expression of several STAT5-related proteins
has been identified in myeloid cells, including the isoforms STAT5a and
STAT5b (3, 6) and a differentiation-induced factor (7, 8). These
results suggest that members of the STAT5 family may play a role in
myeloid cell differentiation and/or activation.
In the experiments described here, we assessed the expression of
STAT5-related molecules in three macrophage (M
)6 cell
lines, RAW 264.7, WEHI-3, and WEHI-3D+, which is cell line
derived from WEHI-3, as well as in primary peritoneal and bone marrow
(BM) M
. Studies by us and others have determined that the three cell
lines represent different stages of M
maturation (8, 9). While all
primary M
tissue populations are heterogenous, elicited peritoneal
M
largely are representative of mature tissue M
; BM populations
contain a heterogeneous mixture of M
populations that includes
immature cells. Our results with the cell lines demonstrate that the
previously characterized isoforms of STAT5a and STAT5b were detectable
at both the mRNA and protein levels in these M
populations. However,
the relative levels of expression of the STAT5a and STAT5b proteins
differed dramatically in the three cell populations, with the more
mature RAW 264.7 and WEHI-3D+ cell lines expressing the
higher molecular mass (or full-length) proteins and the less
mature WEHI-3 cells expressing the smaller isoforms (3, 6). Two
previously undescribed STAT5-related proteins were also detected in
these studies and were preferentially expressed in the immature WEHI-3
cell population. A similar analysis of adherent peritoneal and BM cells
that had been isolated from BALB/c mice revealed that the less mature
BM population also expressed the novel isoforms of STAT5. These results
identify new members of the STAT5 transcription factor family and
demonstrate that distinct patterns of expression of STAT5-related
proteins can be observed in M
at different stages of maturation.
| Materials and Methods |
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The murine M
cell lines RAW 264.7 and WEHI-3 were obtained
from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). The
WEHI-3D+ cells were a kind gift of Dr. Malcolm Moore
(Columbia University, New York, NY) (10). Cells were maintained and
activated as described previously (9). Primary M
were obtained from
the peritoneal cavity and BM of BALB/c mice. Peritoneal M
were
obtained after mice had been injected i.p. with 1.0 ml of a sterile
10% (w/v) solution of thioglycolate (Difco, Detroit, MI), as described
previously (11). Harvested cells were plated at a density of 12 to
14 x 106 cells/ml in complete medium in 100-mm tissue
culture plates (Costar, Cambridge, MA) and were allowed to adhere for
1 h at 37°C. Nonadherent cells were removed by vigorous washing
of the monolayer, and the remaining adherent M
were lysed as
described below. BM M
were obtained by flushing BALB/c femurs with
RPMI 1640 medium containing 5% FBS as described previously
(12). The marrow plugs were made into a single-cell suspension, gravity
sedimented for 5 min, and plated at a density of 1.0 x
106 cells/ml in 100-mm tissue culture dishes (Costar).
Following 2 h of adherence at 37°C, the nonadherent cells were
removed, and the remaining adherent M
were lysed as described below.
Reagents
STAT5-reactive proteins were detected using a pan-STAT5-reactive mAb that was generated in mice against amino acids 451649 of the sheep STAT5 molecule (Transduction Laboratories, Lexington, KY). This mAb was used at a dilution of 1:250 as recommended by the manufacturer. Polyclonal Ab to mouse ß-actin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) was used at 1:500. Horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-mouse IgG (Transduction Laboratories) and HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) were used as secondary Abs at dilutions of 1:5,000 and 1:10,000, respectively.
Immunoblot analysis
Cell lysates were prepared using a standard Nonidet P-40 lysis buffer containing 1 µg/ml leupeptin, 1 µg/ml aprotinin, and 10 µg/ml pepstatin A (all from Sigma) as protease inhibitors or were directly lysed and boiled in SDS sample buffer. Subsequently, proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred electrophoretically to nitrocellulose membranes (Micron Separations, Westborough, MA), and analyzed by immunoblot assay. Bound Ab was detected by autoradiography of chemiluminescent signals using the Lumi-glo system according to the manufacturers instructions (Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories, Gaithersburg, MD). m.w. determinations were performed using SigmaGel for Windows 95 (version 1.05, Jandel Scientific, San Rafael, CA) and were calibrated to the migration of biotinylated m.w. standards (Bio-Rad).
RT-PCR analysis
Total RNA was harvested from stimulated cells using RNA STAT-60 (Tel-Test, Friendswood, TX) according to the manufacturers instructions. To ensure that the preparation was free of genomic DNA, the RNA was treated with RNase-free DNase I (Sigma) and repurified with RNA STAT-60 before RT-PCR amplification, as described previously (9). RT-PCR was performed as described previously (9) using an MJ Research thermocycler (Watertown, MA); primers were annealed at 55°C and subjected to 30 rounds of amplification. PCR-amplified products were separated by electrophoresis in a 4% acrylamide gel in 1x TBE (Tris-borate EDTA; 0.09 M Tris-borate, 2 mM EDTA, pH 8.0) and visualized by ethidium bromide staining. The glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase primers were purchased from Clontech Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA). The STAT5a and STAT5b primers were designed in our laboratory using Oligo 4.0 software for Macintosh (National Biosciences, Plymouth, MN). The primer sequences used for STAT5a were: sense: 5'-CTT GCG AAA GCA GTT GAC GGA-3'; antisense: 5'-GGA CAG GGA GCT TCT AGC GGA-3'. The primer sequences used for STAT5b were: sense: 5'-CCC TGT GAG CCC GCA ACT GCG-3'; antisense: 5'-TGA CTG TGC GTG AGG GAT CCA-3'.
The primers listed above for STAT5a amplify the region between nucleotides 2152 and 2473, generating a PCR product of 321 bp; the primers for STAT5b amplify the region between nucleotides 2156 and 2456, generating a 300-bp product. The regions amplified are at the C terminus of both STAT5a and STAT5b and flank the tyrosine phosphorylation sites. The size difference of the PCR products was determined using SigmaGel for Windows 95 (version 1.05) and were calibrated with a 20-bp DNA standard (Bio-Rad).
| Results |
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cell lines expressed STAT5a and STAT5b proteins (Fig. 1
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The presence of the mRNA products of the STAT5a and STAT5b genes
was assessed in both RAW 264.7 and WEHI-3 cells using primers specific
for STAT5a and STAT5b. RT-PCR analysis of mRNA that had been prepared
from RAW 264.7 and WEHI-3 cells revealed an amplification of the
appropriate fragment for both genes (Fig. 2
). Careful sizing of the fragments that
had been amplified using the STAT5a primers revealed that the band that
had been amplified using mRNA from the RAW 264.7 cells was
3 bp
larger than the band obtained using WEHI-3 mRNA (Fig. 2
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that had been isolated by adherence from elicited peritoneal and
BM cell populations. Adherent peritoneal cells expressed the STAT5
isoform pattern of RAW 264.7 cells, with a strong expression of the p96
and p94 components (Fig. 4
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| Discussion |
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The work described here reveals that the STAT5 family contains at least
two previously unidentified isoforms, p63 and p61, that appear to be
preferentially expressed in immature M
. Additional experiments will
be required to determine the origin of these isoforms and to assess
their potential role in M
activities. Recent studies by Azam et al.
provide evidence that the truncated p80/p77 isoforms of STAT5 are
generated by the action of a STAT5-cleaving protease, with the
expression of the protease limited to specific populations of
IL-3-responsive cells (14). Experiments are in progress in our
laboratory to determine whether the p63/p61 isoforms detected here
represent further truncations of the larger STAT5 isoforms. Regardless
of the mechanism of isoform production, however, the preferential
expression of certain STAT5 isoforms in immature M
is consistent
with the hypothesis that the isoform-specific activity of this
transcription factor family contributes to M
differentiation. The
observations reported here set the stage for a thorough testing of this
hypothesis with respect to all members of the STAT5 family.
| Footnotes |
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2 These authors made an equal contribution to this work. ![]()
3 Current address: Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. ![]()
4 Current address: Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Building 4, Room B1-12, Bethesda, MD 20892. ![]()
5 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Donna M. Paulnock, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1532. E-mail address: ![]()
6 Abbreviations used in this paper: M
, macrophage(s); BM, bone marrow; HRP, horseradish peroxidase. ![]()
Received for publication March 11, 1998. Accepted for publication June 19, 1998.
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