ArticleImmunology and cell biology2016
Human eosinophil activin A synthesis and mRNA stabilization are induced by the combination of IL-3 plus TNF.
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- Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Dependent Release of IL-1Mediators of inflammation · 2019Article
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- Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Changes Induced by Prolonged Activation of Human Eosinophils with IL-3.Journal of proteome research · 2018Article
- Research Progress on the Role and Mechanism of Action of Activin A in Brain Injury.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Review
- Mepolizumab Attenuates Airway Eosinophil Numbers, but Not Their Functional Phenotype, in Asthma.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2017Article
- IL-3 up-regulates and activates human eosinophil CD32 and αMβ2 integrin causing degranulation.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2017Article
- Protein Translation and Signaling in Human Eosinophils.Frontiers in medicine · 2017Review
- Essential Mechanisms of Differential Activation of Eosinophils by IL-3 Compared to GM-CSF and IL-5.Critical reviews in immunology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Eosinophils contribute to immune regulation and wound healing/fibrosis in various diseases, including asthma. Growing appreciation for the role of activin A in such processes led us to hypothesize that eosinophils are a source of this transforming growth factor-ß superfamily member. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) induces activin A by other cell types and is often present at the site of allergic inflammation along with the eosinophil-activating common ß (ßc) chain-signaling cytokines (interleukin (IL)-5, IL-3, granulocyte-macrophages colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)). Previously, we established that the combination of TNF plus a ßc chain-signaling cytokine synergistically induces eosinophil synthesis of the remodeling enzyme matrix metalloproteinase-9. Therefore, eosinophils were stimulated ex vivo by these cytokines and in vivo through an allergen-induced airway inflammatory response. In contrast to IL-5+TNF or GM-CSF+TNF, the combination of IL-3+TNF synergistically induced activin A synthesis and release by human blood eosinophils. IL-3+TNF enhanced activin A mRNA stability, which required sustained signaling of pathways downstream of p38 and extracellular signal-regulated kinase mitogen-activated protein kinases. In vivo, following segmental airway allergen challenge of subjects with mild allergic asthma, activin A mRNA was upregulated in airway eosinophils compared with circulating eosinophils, and ex vivo, circulating eosinophils tended to release more activin A in response to IL-3+TNF. These data provide evidence that eosinophils release activin A and that this function is enhanced when eosinophils are present in an allergen-induced inflammatory environment. Moreover, these data provide the first evidence for posttranscriptional control of activin A mRNA. We propose that an environment rich in IL-3+TNF will lead to eosinophil-derived activin A, which has an important role in regulating inflammation and/or fibrosis.
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