Journal
JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 103, Issue 4, Pages 681-692Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/JLB.3A0617-261R
Keywords
anti-inflammatory; depression; inflammatory signaling; kynurenine; macrophage; monoaminergic; transcriptomics; tryptophan
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- Medical Research Council (UK) Immuno-Psychiatry Consortium
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
- Janssen
- BBSRC [BB/I001107/1, BBS/E/D/20211552, BBS/E/D/20211551, BBS/E/D/10002071, BBS/E/D/20211553] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G108/603, MR/N029488/1, MR/J002739/1, MR/L014815/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I001107/1, BBS/E/D/20211553, BBS/E/D/20211552, BBS/E/D/10002071, BBS/E/D/20211551] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G108/603, MR/N029488/1, MR/L014815/1, MR/J002739/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0616-10074, NF-SI-0513-10051] Funding Source: researchfish
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Several lines of evidence link macrophage activation and inflammation with (monoaminergic) nervous systems in the etiology of depression. IFN treatment is associated with depressive symptoms, whereas anti-TNF therapies elicit positive mood. This study describes the actions of 2 monoaminergic antidepressants (escitalopram, nortriptyline) and 3 anti-inflammatory drugs (indomethacin, prednisolone, and anti-TNF antibody) on the response of human monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) from 6 individuals to LPS or IFN-. Expression profiling revealed robust changes in the MDM transcriptome (3294 genes at P<0.001) following LPS challenge, whereas a more limited subset of genes (499) responded to IFN. Contrary to published reports, administered at nontoxic doses, neither monoaminergic antidepressant significantly modulated the transcriptional response to either inflammatory challenge. Each anti-inflammatory drug had a distinct impact on the expression of inflammatory cytokines and on the profile of inducible gene expressionnotably on the regulation of enzymes involved in metabolism of tryptophan. Inter alia, the effect of anti-TNF antibody confirmed a predicted autocrine stimulatory loop in human macrophages. The transcriptional changes were predictive of tryptophan availability and kynurenine synthesis, as analyzed by targeted metabolomic studies on cellular supernatants. We suggest that inflammatory processes in the brain or periphery could impact on depression by altering the availability of tryptophan for serotonin synthesis and/or by increasing production of neurotoxic kynurenine.
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