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Staples, K.J.* ; Smallie, T.* ; Williams, L.M.* ; Foey, A.* ; Burke, B.* ; Foxwell, B.M.J.* ; Ziegler-Heitbrock, L.

IL-10 Induces IL-10 in Primary Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages via the Transcription Factor Stat3.

J. Immunol. 178, 4779-4785 (2007)
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L-10 is an important immunosuppressive cytokine that can down-regulate expression of other cytokines and has been shown to down-regulate itself. We show, in this study, that treatment of human monocyte-derived macrophages with IL-10 induces IL-10 mRNA in a dose- and time-dependent manner with an optimum induction at 100 ng/ml and at 6 h, whereas IL-10-induced IL-10 protein can be detected at 18 h. In the same cells, IL-10 can partially suppress IL-10 mRNA induced by LPS, but only down to the level of IL-10-induced IL-10. An adenoviral luciferase reporter construct driven by the –195 IL-10 promoter, which contains a Stat motif, was readily induced by both IL-10 and LPS. Mutation of this Stat motif ablated IL-10 activation of this promoter, but not the LPS activation. Finally, we show that overexpression of a dominant-negative Stat3 protein will prevent IL-10 induction, but not LPS induction, of IL-10 mRNA. These data show that IL-10 induces IL-10 in monocyte-derived macrophages in an autocrine manner via activation of the transcription factor Stat3.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 0022-1767
e-ISSN 1550-6606
Quellenangaben Volume: 178, Issue: , Pages: 4779-4785 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher American Association of Immunologists
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed