RRC ID 61508
著者 Katsumata K, Ikeda H, Sato M, Ishizu A, Kawarada Y, Kato H, Wakisaka A, Koike T, Yoshiki T.
タイトル Cytokine regulation of env gene expression of human endogenous retrovirus-R in human vascular endothelial cells.
ジャーナル Clin Immunol
Abstract To determine whether human endogenous retroviruses are implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory vascular diseases of unknown etiology, we examined mRNA expression of a human endogenous retrovirus, HERV-R, which has a long open reading frame in the env region, in cultured human vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells stimulated in the presence of various cytokines. mRNA of HERV-R was always evident in these cells but not in fibroblastic cells. Levels of expression in vascular endothelial cells were significantly regulated by treatment with tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin (IL)-1alpha, and IL-1beta as up-regulators and interferon-gamma as a down-regulator. These observations are interpreted to mean that HERV-R expression may be up- or down-regulated at sites of inflammation in vessels in vivo and hence may play a pathogenetic role in inflammatory vascular diseases in humans, perhaps similar to endogenous retroviruses in mouse models of polyarteritis nodosa in humans.
巻・号 93(1)
ページ 75-80
公開日 1999-10-1
DOI 10.1006/clim.1999.4762
PII S1521-6616(99)94762-9
PMID 10497013
MeSH Cells, Cultured Cytokines / pharmacology* Endothelium, Vascular / cytology* Endothelium, Vascular / metabolism Gene Expression Regulation / drug effects Genes, env / genetics* Humans Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / cytology RNA, Messenger / metabolism Retroviridae / genetics* Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
IF 3.368
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 NB1RGB(RCB0222) HUC-F(RCB0153)