TY - JOUR
T1 - Microarray analysis of activated mixed glial (microglia) and monocyte-derived macrophage gene expression
AU - Albright, Andrew V.
AU - González-Scarano, Francisco
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by a grant from the American Foundation for AIDS Research (to A.A.) and PHS grant nos. NS-27405 and 36573 (to F.G.-S.). We thank Don Baldwin, the Microarray Core Director, John Tobias of Bioinformatics Core, and Elisabetta Manduchi, Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory, Center for Bioinformatics, at the University of Pennsylvania for their guidance planning, performing, and analyzing the microarray data, and Wei Cao for technical support with the mixed glial cultures.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Since macrophage activation can now be studied at a global level using modern microarray and proteomic analyses, discovery of novel macrophage activation genes is inevitable and important for understanding HIV-associated dementia (HAD). We isolated two different types of primary human macrophages: microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) from brain tissue and whole blood, respectively. The microarray analysis of differentially regulated macrophage activation genes reported here supports our previous assertions that the mixed glia (MIX) cultured in starvation conditions (DMEM alone) are a non-activated, or "quiescent", tissue culture model for studying macrophage activation in the brain. Transcript levels from these quiescent cultures provided a background level of gene expression and allowed for the identification of upregulated macrophage activation genes in the MIX brain cultures upon treatment with an array of soluble activation factors: serum components, cytokines, and growth factors. We found that 914 genes in the MIX cultures and 734 genes in the MDM cultures had a greater than twofold increase in expression. We discovered 180 genes with expression that was increased more than twofold in both culture types. Microarray-specific statistical analyses were performed to complement fold change analysis: significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) and Partek Pro. In the MIX cultures, we detected over a 100-fold increase in IL-1β and TIMP1 transcription; Caspase 9, S100A8 and 9, MMP12, IL-8, monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP1), MRC-1, and IL-6 were also upregulated. Activation of starved MDM cultures resulted in fewer upregulated genes compared to MIX cultures. Genes upregulated in both MIX and MDM included CCL2 (MCP1), CCL7, CXCL5, TNFSF14, kinases, and phosphatases. These microarray data may provide leads for identifying previously unknown neurotoxins, disease biomarkers, and pathways responsible for the neuronal apoptosis observed in HAD and for the eventual identification of therapeutic targets and treatments.
AB - Since macrophage activation can now be studied at a global level using modern microarray and proteomic analyses, discovery of novel macrophage activation genes is inevitable and important for understanding HIV-associated dementia (HAD). We isolated two different types of primary human macrophages: microglia and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) from brain tissue and whole blood, respectively. The microarray analysis of differentially regulated macrophage activation genes reported here supports our previous assertions that the mixed glia (MIX) cultured in starvation conditions (DMEM alone) are a non-activated, or "quiescent", tissue culture model for studying macrophage activation in the brain. Transcript levels from these quiescent cultures provided a background level of gene expression and allowed for the identification of upregulated macrophage activation genes in the MIX brain cultures upon treatment with an array of soluble activation factors: serum components, cytokines, and growth factors. We found that 914 genes in the MIX cultures and 734 genes in the MDM cultures had a greater than twofold increase in expression. We discovered 180 genes with expression that was increased more than twofold in both culture types. Microarray-specific statistical analyses were performed to complement fold change analysis: significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) and Partek Pro. In the MIX cultures, we detected over a 100-fold increase in IL-1β and TIMP1 transcription; Caspase 9, S100A8 and 9, MMP12, IL-8, monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP1), MRC-1, and IL-6 were also upregulated. Activation of starved MDM cultures resulted in fewer upregulated genes compared to MIX cultures. Genes upregulated in both MIX and MDM included CCL2 (MCP1), CCL7, CXCL5, TNFSF14, kinases, and phosphatases. These microarray data may provide leads for identifying previously unknown neurotoxins, disease biomarkers, and pathways responsible for the neuronal apoptosis observed in HAD and for the eventual identification of therapeutic targets and treatments.
KW - Activation
KW - Brain
KW - Macrophage
KW - Microarray
KW - Microglia
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.09.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.09.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 15579277
AN - SCOPUS:9744255446
VL - 157
SP - 27
EP - 38
JO - Journal of Neuroimmunology
JF - Journal of Neuroimmunology
SN - 0165-5728
IS - 1-2 SPEC. ISS.
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