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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 2, Pages 114-125Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2011.02555.x
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- Norwegian Cancer Society
- Strategic Research Program at Helse Bergen, Norway
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Interaction between the immune system and cancer allows for the use of biological response modifiers, e. g. OK-432, in cancer therapy. OK-432, penicillin-killed Streptococcus pyogenes, is used in treating carcinomas, but also lymphangiomas. We have studied the role of monocytes (MOs) in the immune response to OK-432 by examining IL-6 and tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha secretion after in vitro MO stimulation with OK-432, to some extent in comparison with lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LTA stimulation of whole blood gave IL-6 but not TNF-alpha secretion, as previously shown with OK-432 stimulation, whereas both cytokines were secreted following LPS stimulation. Addition of the MAPK kinase (MAPKK) MEK inhibitor U0126 inhibited IL-6/TNF-alpha secretion in a dose-dependent manner. Flow cytometry and to some extent Western blot (Wb) analyses showed that MAPK ERK, located downstream of MEK1/2, is predominantly phosphorylated at isolation from peripheral blood. Addition of the p38 MAP kinase inhibitor SB202190 decreased MO IL-6/TNF-alpha production upon OK-432 stimulation in a dose-dependent manner. Addition of the MAPK JNK inhibitor SP600125 did not systematically change the MO IL-6/TNF-alpha OK-432 response. Flow cytometry showed that when stimulating the MOs before isolation from blood, LPS yielded ERK phosphorylation and LPS/LTA p38 phosphorylation, whereas OK-432 had no effects on phosphorylation levels. In conclusion, we have shown that OK-432 resembles TLR2 more than TLR4 stimulation of MOs and depends on MAPKK MEK and MAPK p38, but not on JNK phosphorylation. The MEK and p38 MO OK-432 stimulation dependence is possibly related to the differentiation of cells of the MO lineage.
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