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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Polarized Human THP-1 and Mouse RAW264.7 Macrophages.

Pengfei Li, Zhifang Hao, Jingyu Wu, Chen Ma, Yintai Xu, Jun Li, Rongxia Lan, Bojing Zhu, Pengyu Ren, Daidi Fan and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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112 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pengfei LiCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Zhifang HaoCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Jingyu WuCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Chen MaCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Yintai XuCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Jun LiCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Rongxia LanCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Bojing ZhuCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Pengyu RenDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Daidi FanShaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Shisheng SunCollege of Life Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Northwest University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macrophages can be polarized into classically activated macrophages (M1) and alternatively activated macrophages (M2) in the immune system, performing pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory functions, respectively. Human THP-1 and mouse RAW264.7 cell line models have been widely used in various macrophage-associated studies, while the similarities and differences in protein expression profiles between the two macrophage models are still largely unclear. In this study, the protein expression profiles of M1 and M2 phenotypes from both THP-1 and RAW264.7 macrophages were systematically investigated using mass spectrometry-based proteomics. By quantitatively analyzing more than 5,000 proteins among different types of macrophages (M0, M1 and M2) from both cell lines, we identified a list of proteins that were uniquely up-regulated in each macrophage type and further confirmed 43 proteins that were commonly up-regulated in M1 macrophages of both cell lines. These results revealed considerable divergences of each polarization type between THP-1 and RAW264.7 macrophages. Moreover, the mRNA and protein expression of CMPK2, RSAD2, DDX58, and DHX58 were strongly up-regulated in M1 macrophages for both macrophage models. These data can serve as important resources for further studies of macrophage-associated diseases in experimental pathology using human and mouse cell line models.

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AnimalsHumansMacrophage ActivationMacrophagesMiceProteomicsRAW 264.7 CellsTHP-1 Cellscell modelmacrophagemass spectrometrypolarizationproteomics

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