A Highly Selective CCR2 Chemokine Agonist Encoded by Human Herpesvirus 6
| Autor: | Peter Østrup Jensen, Claus Moser, Thue W. Schwartz, Jan Gerstoft, Hans R. Lüttichau, Ian Clark-Lewis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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CCR1
CCR2 Genes Viral Receptors CCR2 Herpesvirus 6 Human Molecular Sequence Data CHO Cells C-C chemokine receptor type 6 CCR8 Biochemistry Viral Proteins Chemokine receptor Cricetinae parasitic diseases Animals Amino Acid Sequence Molecular Biology Sequence Homology Amino Acid Chemistry Cell Biology Molecular biology Recombinant Proteins CXCL2 COS Cells XCL2 Receptors Chemokine Chemokines CCL21 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278:10928-10933 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| Popis: | The chemokine-like, secreted protein product of the U83 gene from human herpesvirus 6, here named vCCL4, was chemically synthesized to be characterized in a complete library of the 18 known human chemokine receptors expressed individually in stably transfected cell lines. vCCL4 was found to cause calcium mobilization as efficiently as the endogenous chemokine ligand CCL2 through the CCR2 receptor, whereas the virally encoded chemokine did not affect any of the other 17 human chemokine receptors tested. Mutual cross-desensitization between CCL2 and vCCL4 was demonstrated in the CCR2-transfected cells. The affinity of vCCL4 for the CCR2 receptor was 79 nm as determined in competition binding against radioactively labeled CCL2. In the murine pre-B lymphocyte cell line L1.2 stably transfected with the CCR2 receptor, vCCL4 acted as a relatively low potency but highly efficacious chemoattractant being equally or more efficacious in causing cell migration than CCL2 and CCL7 and considerably more efficacious than CCL8 and CCL13. It is concluded that human herpesvirus 6 encodes a highly selective and efficacious CCR2 agonist, which will attract CCR2 expressing cells, for example macrophages and monocytes, conceivably for the virus to infect and to establish latency in. It is suggested that vCCL4 during reactivation of the virus in for example monocyte-derived microglia could perhaps be involved in the pathogenesis of the CCR2-dependent disease, multiple sclerosis. |
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