Gottfried, Eva and Faust, Stefan and Fritsche, Jana and Kunz-Schughart, Leoni A. and Andreesen, Reinhard and Miyake, Kensuke and Kreutz, Marina (2003) Identification of genes expressed in tumor-associated macrophages. IMMUNOBIOLOGY, 207 (5). pp. 351-359. ISSN 0171-2985
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Most malignant tumors contain so-called tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) as a major component of their leukocytic infiltrate. To investigate the impact of the tumor microenvironment on activation and differentiation of macrophages, we established a 3-dimensional model system by culturing human monocytes within multicellular tumor spheroids. After 7 days, monocyte-derived TAM were isolated and analyzed for phenotypic alterations as compared to macrophages cultured without tumor cell contact. We found the known macrophage differentiation marker Carboxypeptidase M to be suppressed while CD14, HLA-DR, and CD16 were up-regulated. Using Differential Display, we identified several genes that were differentially expressed between TAM and control macrophages. Prolidase, a peptidase known to influence the chemoattraction of neutrophils and macrophage activity, was down-regulated in TAM. In contrast, the Toll-like receptor family-related molecules MD-1 and RP105 were up-regulated by tumor cell contact, both at the RNA and protein level. From our data we conclude that TAM represent a distict macrophage population characterized by low expression of differentiation-associated macrophage antigens but also by a constitutive state of activation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COLLAGEN-LIKE POLYPEPTIDES; UROTHELIAL CELL-LINES; HUMAN-MONOCYTES; MOLECULAR-CLONING; HUMAN RP105; B-CELLS; ACTIVATION; MD-1; DIFFERENTIATION; MATURATION; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin III (Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie) Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2021 12:52 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2021 12:52 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/39465 |
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