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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 1, Pages 516-526Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000955
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- National Institutes of Health [HL0885940, HL56396, AI070503, HL069116]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL069116, P01HL088594, P50HL056396] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [U19AI070503] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Human blood eosinophils exhibit a hyperactive phenotype in response to chemotactic factors after cell priming with IL-5 family cytokines. Earlier work has identified ERK1/2 as molecular markers for IL-5 priming, and in this article, we show that IL-3, a member of the IL-5 family, also augments fMLP-stimulated ERK1/2 phosphorylation in primary eosinophils. Besides ERK1/2, we also observed an enhancement of chemotactic factor-induced Akt phosphorylation after IL-5 priming of human blood eosinophils. Administration of a peptide antagonist that targets the Src family member Lyn before cytokine (IL-5/IL-3) priming of blood eosinophils inhibited the synergistic increase of fMLP-induced activation of Ras, ERK1/2 and Akt, as well as the release of the proinflammatory factor leukotriene C-4. In this study, we also examined a human eosinophil-like cell line HL-60 clone-15 and observed that these cells exhibited significant surface expression of IL-3Rs and GM-CSFRs, as well as ERK1/2 phosphorylation in response to the addition of IL-5 family cytokines or the chemotactic factors fMLP, CCL5, and CCL11. Consistent with the surface profile of IL-5 family receptors, HL-60 clone-15 recapitulated the enhanced fMLP-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation observed in primary blood eosinophils after priming with IL-3/GM-CSF, and small interfering RNA-mediated knockdown of Lyn expression completely abolished the synergistic effects of IL-3 priming on fMLP-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation. Altogether, our data demonstrate a central role for Lyn in the mechanisms of IL-5 family priming and suggest that Lyn contributes to the upregulation of the Ras-ERK1/2 and PI3K-Akt cascades, as well as the increased leukotriene C4 release observed in response to fMLP in primed eosinophils. The Journal of Immunology, 2011, 186: 516-526.
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