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ArticleJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2011

Zinc finger protein tristetraprolin interacts with CCL3 mRNA and regulates tissue inflammation.

Ju-Gyeong Kang, Marcelo J Amar, Alan T Remaley, Jaeyul Kwon, Perry J Blackshear, Ping-yuan Wang, Paul M Hwang

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Article in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ju-Gyeong KangCenter for Molecular Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Marcelo J Amar
Alan T Remaley
Jaeyul Kwon
Perry J Blackshear
Ping-yuan Wang
Paul M Hwang
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · US

Funding

TTP and related proteins in the regulation of gene expressionZIAES090080 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BLACKSHEAR, PERRY J · 2009 to 2025
$52.6M
Genetic insights into atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseasesZIAHL006050 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI HWANG, PAUL M. · 2010 to 2020
$4.3M
Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Lymphocyte Development and FunctionZIAAI001060 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI LETO, THOMAS · 2009 to 2024
$3.3M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HL006050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zinc finger protein tristetraprolin (TTP) modulates macrophage inflammatory activity by destabilizing cytokine mRNAs. In this study, through a screen of TTP-bound mRNAs in activated human macrophages, we have identified CCL3 mRNA as the most abundantly bound TTP target mRNA and have characterized this interaction via conserved AU-rich elements. Compared to the wild-type cells, TTP(-/-) macrophages produced higher levels of LPS-induced CCL3. In addition, the plasma level of CCL3 in TTP(-/-) mice was markedly higher than that in wild-type mice. To determine the in vivo significance of TTP-regulated CCL3, we generated CCL3(-/-)TTP(-/-) double-knockout mice. Along with decreased proinflammatory cytokines in their paw joints, there were significant functional and histologic improvements in the inflammatory arthritis of TTP(-/-) mice when CCL3 was absent, although cachexia, reflecting systemic inflammation, was notably unaffected. Furthermore, the marked exacerbation of aortic plaque formation caused by TTP deficiency in the APOE(-/-) mouse model of atherosclerosis was also rescued by disrupting CCL3. Taken together, our data indicate that the interaction between TTP and CCL3 mRNA plays an important role in modulating localized inflammatory processes in tissues that are dissociated from the systemic manifestations of chronic inflammation.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthritis, ExperimentalBase SequenceChemokine CCL3FemaleHumansImmunoprecipitationInflammationMacrophagesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMolecular Sequence DataReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerChemokine CCL3RNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingTristetraprolin

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PMID21784977
PMCPMC3159726
OpenAlexW2138584373

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