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From the * Department of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Immunology, Central Research
Division, Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut 06340; and the § Theodor Kocher Institute, University of
Bern, CH-300-ern-9, Switzerland
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Abstract |
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Chemokines are essential mediators of normal leukocyte trafficking as well as of leukocyte recruitment during inflammation. We describe here a novel non-ELR CXC chemokine identified through sequence analysis of cDNAs derived from cytokine-activated primary human astrocytes. This novel chemokine, referred to as I-TAC (interferon-inducible T cell alpha
chemoattractant), is regulated by interferon (IFN) and has potent chemoattractant activity for
interleukin (IL)-2-activated T cells, but not for freshly isolated unstimulated T cells, neutrophils, or monocytes. I-TAC interacts selectively with CXCR3, which is the receptor for two
other IFN-inducible chemokines, the IFN--inducible 10-kD protein (IP-10) and IFN-
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induced human monokine (HuMig), but with a significantly higher affinity. In addition, higher potency and efficacy of I-TAC over IP-10 and HuMig is demonstrated by transient mobilization of intracellular calcium as well as chemotactic migration in both activated T cells and
transfected cell lines expressing CXCR3. Stimulation of astrocytes with IFN-
and IL-1 together results in an ~400,000-fold increase in I-TAC mRNA expression, whereas stimulating
monocytes with either of the cytokines alone or in combination results in only a 100-fold increase in the level of I-TAC transcript. Moderate expression is also observed in pancreas, lung,
thymus, and spleen. The high level of expression in IFN- and IL-1-stimulated astrocytes suggests that I-TAC could be a major chemoattractant for effector T cells involved in the pathophysiology of neuroinflammatory disorders, although I-TAC may also play a role in the migration of activated T cells during IFN-dominated immune responses.
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Introduction |
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Chemokines are a superfamily of cytokines important in inflammatory and immune responses due primarily to their chemotactic activities towards subsets of leukocytes (1). The superfamily is divided into four groups, CXC, CC, C, and CX3C, based on the number and arrangement of conserved cysteine motifs. The CXC, CC, and CX3C chemokines are distinguished by the presence of one, none, or three amino acids, respectively, between the first two cysteines. The CXC chemokines are primarily active on neutrophils, whereas the CC chemokines are active on monocytes and other leukocytes, including lymphocytes, eosinophils, and basophils. Fractalkine and its murine homolog, neurotactin, are the only known CX3C chemokines, and, unlike other chemokines, are displayed on the cell surface by means of a mucin-like stalk that connects the functional NH2-terminal domain with the COOH-terminal membrane-spanning domain (5, 6). The C chemokine group, distinguished by the absence of the second and fourth cysteines, has only one known member, lymphotactin (7). Both fractalkine and lymphotactin show predominant activity toward T cells.
The CXC subfamily is subdivided into ELR1 and non-ELR CXC chemokines based on the presence or absence
of this Glu-Leu-Arg tripeptide sequence adjacent to the
CXC motif. ELR-containing CXC chemokines include
IL-8; NAP (neutrophil-activating protein)-2; ENA (epithelial-derived neutrophil-activating protein)-78; and GRO
(growth-related protein)-, -
, and -
. The ELR motif is
essential for biological activity in that a mutation in any of
these amino acids dramatically affects receptor binding and
induction of leukocyte migration (10). The non-ELR
CXC chemokines include the IFN-
-inducible 10-kD protein (IP-10), the IFN-
-induced human monokine (HuMig), and stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1. IP-10 and
HuMig have a unique selectivity for T cells that have been
activated by IL-2, whereas SDF-1 has a broader range of activities on resting and activated memory T cells, monocytes,
and granulocytes (13). IP-10 has been shown to be expressed in delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions in the
skin, psoriatic plaques, tuberculoid leprosy, and certain tumors (17). Due to these observations, it has been suggested that local high concentrations of IFN upregulate IP-10 and HuMig, which then results in the recruitment of
activated/effector T cells, thereby initiating the effector
arm of T cell immunity (20).
Chemokines exert their biological activities through G
protein-coupled receptors on the surface of target cells. In
humans, four CXC chemokine receptors (CXCR1-4) and
eight CC chemokine receptors (CCR1-8) have been identified (21). The CXC chemokine receptors have been
shown to have the following ligand specificities: CXCR1
binds IL-8 (33); CXCR2 binds IL-8 and other ELR-containing CXC chemokines (34); CXCR3 binds IP-10 and HuMig (15); and CXCR4 binds SDF-1 (35, 36). CXCR3 is
selectively expressed in activated T cells and not in other
leukocyte subpopulations. This underscores the importance
of the selective recruitment of activated T cells by IP-10
and HuMig during inflammation (15, 20).
Localized upregulation of chemokines by proinflammatory cytokines like TNF, IL-1, and IFN, and the subsequent infiltration of leukocytes, is extremely important in the development of both acute and chronic inflammatory responses including immediate- and delayed-type hypersensitivity responses. Chemokine expression has been detected in the T cell-mediated disease experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model for multiple sclerosis. Expression of IP-10 and two CC chemokines, MCP (monocyte chemoattractant protein)-1 and RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted), coincides with the onset of clinical EAE (37). Presumably, autoreactive T cells enter the central nervous system and secrete proinflammatory cytokines that cause local production of chemokines. These chemokines promote further infiltration of inflammatory cells, resulting in lesion formation and demyelination indicative of multiple sclerosis (40). The astrocyte has been identified as an important source of chemokine expression in EAE (37). Furthermore, astrocytoma cells stimulated with TNF produce IL-8, MCP-1, and IP-10 (41). To identify additional genes that might contribute to neuroinflammatory disease pathology, we sequenced cDNAs derived from proinflammatory cytokine-stimulated primary human astrocytes and performed bioinformatic analysis. In this study, we report a novel non-ELR CXC chemokine identified through this approach, and describe its expression, biological activity, and receptor usage.
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Materials and Methods |
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Reagents.
The recombinant chemokines IP-10 and HuMig were obtained from PeproTech, Inc. (Rocky Hill, NJ). Restriction enzymes and molecular biology reagents were from New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA), GIBCO BRL (Gaithersburg, MD), or Boehringer Mannheim (Indianapolis, IN). BSA and human collagen type IV were obtained from GIBCO BRL. RPMI 1640 medium was from BioWhittaker (Walkersville, MD). RNAs used in reverse transcriptase PCR analysis were either purchased (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA) or generated using Trizol reagent (GIBCO BRL) as specified by the manufacturer. Human primary monocytes were isolated and cultured as described previously (22); human microglial cell line SV-A3 (GFAPIdentification of I-TAC cDNA Sequence.
A cDNA library was constructed at Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) from polyA+ RNA isolated from human fetal astrocytes cultured in DMEM plus 10% FCS for up to 1 mo. A second cDNA library was constructed from polyA+ RNA isolated from similar cells that had been stimulated with TNF-Cloning of Full-length I-TAC cDNA.
Sequence information from the expressed sequence tag cluster NCY580854 (which contained the 5' end of a novel chemokine) was used to design the following internal primers for 3' RACE: 5'-GTGTGCTACAGTTGTTCAAGGC-3' and 5'-GGACGCTGTCTTTGCATAGGC-3'. 3' RACE products were generated using the 3' RACE System for Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (GIBCO BRL) according to manufacturer's instructions with stimulated astrocyte RNA as template. Amplification products were gel purified and subcloned into pCR2.1 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) for automated sequence analysis using an Applied Biosystems Sequencer (model 373; Applied Biosystems, Inc., Foster City, CA). Sequence data obtained from these clones was assembled with the original NCY580854 cluster sequences to generate an ~1,400 bp consensus sequence for I-TAC. The entire coding sequence was then PCR amplified using the following primers, designed to incorporate a Kozak sequence and restriction sites convenient for subcloning into pcDNA3 (Invitrogen): 5' primer: 5'-CGGGATCCGCCGACCATGAGTGTGAAGGGCATGGCTATAGC-3'; 3' primer: 5'-CCGCTCGAGCGGTCATTAAAAATTCTTTCTTTCAACTTTTTTGATTATAAGCC-3'. The PCR product was gel isolated, digested with BamHI and XhoI, ligated to pcDNA3, and used to transform Escherichia coli DH5Northern Analysis.
Human Multiple Tissue Northern Blots were purchased from Clontech and hybridized with a 224-bp fragment of I-TAC coding sequence labeled by random priming (Prime-It II; Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) in the presence of [32P]dCTP. Hybridization was carried out in Express-Hyb Solution (Clontech) under stringent conditions as specified by the manufacturer.Reverse Transcriptase PCR Analysis of I-TAC Expression.
First strand cDNA was generated from total RNA via oligo dT primed reverse transcription. Real time quantitative PCR was performed using a sequence detection system (ABI Prism 7700; Perkin-Elmer Corp., Norwalk, CT) using TaqMan Fluorogenic oligonucleotide probes (Perkin-Elmer Corp.). Relative I-TAC levels were calculated by normalizing toChromosomal Localization.
A panel of human/rodent somatic cell-hybrid genomic DNAs (BIOS Laboratories, New Haven, CT) was amplified by PCR using I-TAC-specific primers (forward, 5'-CCTTGGCTGTGATATTGTGTGC-3' and reverse, 5'-CTGCCACTTTCACTGCTTTTACC-3'). PCR conditions were 30 cycles of denaturation at 94°C for 45 s, annealing at 58°C for 30 s, and extension at 68°C for 5 min using the Robocycler (Stratagene). PCR products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis and discordance analysis was performed as specified by the manufacturer.Chemical Synthesis of I-TAC.
The predicted mature I-TAC amino acid sequence was synthesized using automated Fmoc-based solid phase peptide chemistry on a Solid Phase Peptide Synthesizer (model 431A) using software version Synthassist 2.0 (both from Applied Biosystems, Inc.) retrofitted with deprotection monitoring. HBTU (benzotriazole-yl tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate) activation and single amino acid coupling cycles were used, except after sluggish deprotection steps, in which case the following residue was double coupled. Syntheses were started using 0.25 mmol preloaded Fmoc Lys (Boc) resin (Applied Biosystems, Inc.), 50% of the resin cake was removed midway through the synthesis, and the synthesis was completed. The final synthesis resin was cleaved and deprotected by treatment with a solution of 83% TFA (trifluoroacetic acid), 5% phenol, 5% water, and 2.5% ethandithiol for 1 h at 23°C. The mixture was filtered, the TFA filtrate was diluted into 50 ml of diethylether, and the precipitated crude peptide salt was collected by centrifugation. The peptide was purified by preparative reverse-phase HPLC (20 × 250 mm C18 column; Waters, Milford, MA) using a water/acetonitrile (0.1% TFA) gradient. Fractions were assayed by analytical HPLC (4.5 × 250 mm C18 column; Vydac, Hesparia, CA). Appropriate fractions were pooled (>85% purity) and the resulting solution was adjusted with folding buffer additives (final concentrations: 0.5 mM cysteine, 0.5 mM cystine, 10 mM methionine, 75 mM Hepes, pH 8.0, 0.05-0.5 mg/ml peptide). The folding reaction was essentially complete after 15 h at 4°C as indicated by shift to shorter retention time on analytical HPLC. The oxidized product was purified as above to >98% purity. Concentration was estimated by UV absorbance at 280 nm and confirmed by amino acid analysis (University of Michigan Protein Structure Facility, Ann Arbor, MI). The product was aliquoted, lyophilized, and stored atIsolation and Culture of Human T Lymphocytes.
PBMCs were isolated from heparinized human blood using Accuspin tubes (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO). Two different cell culture procedures were used. In the first method, blast cells were prepared by washing the mononuclear cells in RPMI medium, culturing for 3 d in RPMI medium with PHA (2 µg/ml; Murex, Dartford, England), and propagating in 50 U/ml IL-2 (Collaborative Biomedical Products, Bedford, MA). Cells were used 9-21 d after addition of IL-2. In the second cell preparation method, T cells were first separated from the mononuclear fraction using T cell purification columns (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) and then cultured in human IL-2 (400 U/ml) for 7 days in RPMI medium containing 10% FCS.Generation of Stable CXCR3 Transfectants.
The cDNA encoding CXCR3 was amplified from mRNA isolated from activated T cells with the following primers: forward primer, 5'-GCGAATTCAAGCACCAAAGCAGAGGGG-3' and reverse primer, 5'-GCTCTAGATGGGCGAAAGGGGAGCCCG-3'. The PCR product obtained was gel purified, digested with EcoRI and XbaI, and cloned into the EcoRI and XbaI sites of pcDNA3 (Invitrogen). The sequence was verified by automated sequence analysis as above. Human embryonic kidney (HEK)293 cells were transfected with the CXCR3 expression construct using lipofectamine as specified by the manufacturer (GIBCO BRL), and selection for G418 resistance (1 mg/ml, wt/vol) was initiated 24 h after transfection. After ~2 wk, G418-positive colonies were picked and further cloned to obtain clonal cell lines. Clonal cell lines were screened by their ability to mobilize intracellular calcium in response to IP-10. CXCR3 stable transfectants in a mouse pre-B cell line, 300-19, and in Jurkat cells have been described previously (15).Calcium Mobilization Assay.
T cell blasts and CXCR3 transfectants described above were harvested in flux buffer (1× Hanks, 10 mM Hepes, 1.6mM CaCl2, pH 7.3), loaded with INDO-1-AM (20µg/ml) for 30 min at 37°C, and washed in flux buffer. Cells (0.25 × 106/ml flux buffer) were placed in a continuously stirred cuvette at 37°C in a Photon Technology Inc. (South Brunswick, NJ) fluorimager. Cells were stimulated with various chemokines and the calcium-related fluorescence changes were recorded. The intracellular concentration of Ca2+ was determined as described previously (22).In Vitro Chemotaxis Assay.
Lymphocyte and PHA blast chemotaxis to various chemokines was measured using a 48-well Boyden's chamber (Neuro Probe, Inc., Cabin John, MD). In brief, agonists were diluted in RPMI medium containing 0.1% BSA and added to the bottom wells of a 48-well chemotaxis chamber. Cells were resuspended in RPMI/BSA and 105 cells were added to the top wells of the chamber. A 5-µm PVP-free filter coated on the bottom with 10 µg/ml of human type IV collagen was used. Chambers were incubated for 60 min in a 5% CO2-humidified incubator at 37°C. After the incubation period, the filters were stained with Dif-Quik and the number of PBMCs migrating to the lower surface was counted in six randomly chosen high powered fields.I-TAC Binding to CXCR3 Transfectants.
I-TAC was 125I-iodinated using the Bolton and Hunter procedure as described previously (44). Binding assays were performed in triplicate in 200-µl volumes of binding buffer (50 mM Hepes, pH 7.4, 0.5% BSA, 1 mM CaCl2, and 5 mM MgCl2) in the presence of 0.27 nM of radiolabeled I-TAC and various concentrations of unlabeled chemokines at 4°C for 60 min. I-TAC bound to cells was separated from unbound by first diluting the samples in 10 vol of 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.4, and 0.5 M NaCl and then filtering on GF/C filters (presoaked 20 min in 0.3% polyethylenimine) using a vacuum aspirator. Filters were then washed twice with the same buffer, air-dried and counted on a Beckman gamma counter. Scatchard analysis was performed as described previously (22). ![]() |
Results |
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Through a collaboration with
Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a cDNA library was constructed from RNA isolated from primary human astrocytes stimulated for 12 h with IFN-, IL-1
, and TNF-
(200 U/ml each). Approximately 4,000 sequences were
generated at Incyte and screened to identify known and
novel sequences using the program BLAST (43). The sequence of a novel clone, NCY580854, was most closely
related to the non-ELR CXC chemokine, IP-10. This sequence was representative of a cluster of clones present at
0.35% in this stimulated astrocyte library. Full-length sequence of the cDNA corresponding to clone NCY580854
was obtained by 3'-RACE as described in Materials and
Methods. The consensus sequence of various overlapping
cDNAs corresponding to clone NCY580854 is shown in
Fig. 1. The sequence contains an open reading frame of 94 amino acids with a 3' untranslated region of ~1,000 bp. (Fig. 1). A rare polyadenylation signal (AATACA; reference 45) is present 10 bases upstream of the polyA+ track
(Fig. 1). Part of the sequence of clone NCY580854 is identical to the recently described
-R1 cDNA fragment (46),
except that the published
-R1 sequence has an insertion
of six bases (TCGAGC) at position 302, a single base deletion at positions 275, 277, and 283, a C
T change at position 335, a G
A change at position 353, and an A
T
change at position 410 (Fig. 1). A re-examination of the
-R1
sequence data revealed that the deletions and insertions are
not present in that cDNA and the base differences are most likely sequence polymorphisms (Ransohoff, R., personal
communication). Therefore, we conclude that NCY580854
and
-R1 are encoded by the same gene. Due to its IFN
inducibility and biological activity (see below), we have
named this novel chemokine I-TAC (IFN-inducible T cell
chemoattractant). Based on the hydrophobicity profile of
the coding sequence of NCY580854 and sequence comparisons with IP-10 and HuMig, we propose that signal
peptide cleavage occurs between Gly21 and Phe22 (Fig. 1).
The predicted mature polypeptide is 72 amino acids in
length, contains 4 conserved cysteines typical of chemokines, and does not contain an ELR motif. Like other
chemokines, it is highly basic with an isoelectric point of
10.79. I-TAC has greater similarity (~40%) to the non-ELR CXC chemokines, IP-10 and HuMig, than to any
other known chemokines. The alignment and phylogenetic
relationship of I-TAC to other CXC chemokines is shown
in Fig. 2, A and B.
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The chromosome location of I-TAC was determined by PCR amplification of human/rodent somatic cell-hybrid genomic DNAs with primers designed to flank the predicted position of intron 1 (based on alignment of I-TAC cDNA with the known gene structure of IL-8; reference 47). These primers amplified a genomic product of ~700 bp, whereas the cDNA product is 105 bp (data not shown). No product was detected in either hamster or mouse genomic DNA controls. The PCR analysis of the somatic cell-hybrid genomic DNA panel using these primers yielded products only in hybrids containing human chromosome 4 (data not shown). Thus, the gene encoding I-TAC maps to chromosome 4 as do other CXC chemokines, with the exception of SDF-1.
Expression of I-TAC mRNA.To determine the tissue distribution of I-TAC mRNA, we performed Northern blot hybridization using the I-TAC cDNA as probe. The highest levels of I-TAC mRNA were detected in peripheral blood leukocytes, pancreas, and liver, followed by thymus, spleen, and lung (Fig. 3). Lower levels were detected in placenta, prostate, and small intestine. The size of the I-TAC mRNA is ~1.4 kb, the same size as the full length cDNA sequence in Fig. 1. However, a transcript of ~4.5 kb was also detected in pancreas, peripheral blood leukocytes, and spleen (Fig. 3). Interestingly, a heterogeneous range of transcripts from ~1.3 to 6 kb was detected in liver and small intestine, which cannot be explained by RNA degradation, since discreet bands were detected in these lanes using other genes as probes (data not shown). These bands may represent alternatively spliced I-TAC transcripts, or cross-hybridizing mRNAs, although we have not investigated this further.
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To investigate the regulation of I-TAC mRNA by IFN,
we used real time quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR
(48). -actin mRNA was simultaneously amplified and the
levels of I-TAC PCR product were normalized to the levels of
-actin PCR product. The lowest level of I-TAC
PCR product detected within the samples analyzed was arbitrarily set at one and corresponds to the mRNA detected
in cultured unstimulated astrocytes (Table 1). IFN-
upregulated I-TAC mRNA in all cell types examined. The
greatest induction, 14,000-fold, was observed in astrocytes.
Furthermore, IL-1 synergized with IFN-
to give an
~400,000 fold increase of I-TAC mRNA in astrocytes.
This synergy was not observed in monocytes. In monocytes, IFN-
induction of I-TAC mRNA was similar to
IFN-
induction. Finally, IFN induction resulted in a significantly higher I-TAC mRNA level in astrocytes compared with the basal level detected in pancreas, lung, or
liver (Table 1). These results demonstrate a tremendous
upregulation of I-TAC mRNA in astrocytes stimulated
with IFN-
together with IL-1, and further confirm the
previous report that the
-R1 gene encoding I-TAC is
regulated by IFN (46).
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Since I-TAC shares the greatest sequence similarity with IP-10 and HuMig, we predicted that it would have similar biological activities and evoke similar responses in T cells. To test this hypothesis, we chemically synthesized the predicted mature I-TAC polypeptide and used the purified material to perform chemotaxis assays on PHA-stimulated peripheral blood T cells cultured in the presence of IL-2 for 8-15 d. I-TAC induced a potent chemotactic response in activated T cells that peaked at 10 nM and decreased at higher concentrations in a typical bell-shaped chemotactic response curve (Fig. 4). I-TAC was equipotent to IP-10, but the efficacy was much higher, i.e., twice as many cells migrated in response to 10 nM I-TAC than to 10 nM IP-10 (Fig. 4). No response was observed with freshly isolated, untreated T cells, monocytes, or granulocytes (data not shown), indicating that, like IP-10 and HuMig, I-TAC is selective for activated T cells (13).
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We then determined if I-TAC caused changes in intracellular calcium levels in activated T cells, as is typical for chemokine-induced signaling in leukocytes. I-TAC caused a rapid and transient increase in intracellular calcium level in a dose-dependent manner with peak activity at 10 nM (Fig. 5 A). I-TAC was considerably more potent (EC50: ~6 nM) than IP-10 and HuMig (EC50: ~20 and ~30 nM, respectively). In addition, the I-TAC response was more robust: up to 800 nM calcium was mobilized by I-TAC compared with 200 and 400 nM by HuMig and IP-10, respectively (Fig. 5 B). No change in intracellular calcium level was detected in neutrophils, eosinophils, or monocytes, consistent with the lack of chemotaxis in these cells (data not shown). These results confirmed the activity and specificity observed in the chemotaxis assay and in addition showed that I-TAC is more potent and efficacious than either IP-10 or HuMig.
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To examine receptor use by I-TAC, we used calcium mobilization as a read-out and performed cross-desensitization experiments using activated T cells. Although homologous desensitization was seen with all three chemokines (data not shown), an interesting pattern of cross-desensitization was observed (Fig. 6). First, IP-10 at 1,000 nM and HuMig at 500 nM completely cross-desensitized each other, indicating that they interact with one receptor, most likely CXCR3 (15). 50 nM I-TAC desensitized the response to 1,000 nM IP-10 and 500 nM HuMig, indicating that I-TAC most likely interacts with the IP-10/HuMig receptor. However, neither IP-10 at 1,000 nM nor HuMig at 500 nM completely desensitized the response to 50 nM I-TAC (Fig. 6). These results suggest two possibilities. The first is that I-TAC interacts with multiple receptors, at least one of which does not bind IP-10 or HuMig. Alternatively, it is possible that all three chemokines interact with one receptor, but I-TAC interacts with at least one site or conformational form bound by neither IP-10 nor HuMig.
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Cross-desensitization experiments suggested that IP-10, HuMig, and I-TAC can all interact with the same receptor. Since an IP-10/HuMig receptor (CXCR3) has been identified, we tested the ability of I-TAC to interact with CXCR3. I-TAC caused a potent chemotactic response in 300-19 transfectants stably expressing CXCR3. The response peaked at 10 nM and decreased at higher concentrations in a typical chemotactic response (Fig. 7). No response to I-TAC was observed in parental 300-19 cells. I-TAC was both more potent (maximum migration at 10 nM for I-TAC versus ~100 nM for IP-10 and HuMig) and more efficacious (twice as many cells migrated in response to 10 nM I-TAC) than IP-10 or HuMig (Fig. 7). To further examine the interaction with CXCR3, the change in the level of intracellular calcium in 300-19 CXCR3 transfectants was monitored after challenge with various chemokines. I-TAC caused a dose-dependent response that peaked at 10 nM (Fig. 8), while no change in intracellular calcium was observed in parental 300-19 cells (data not shown). In comparison to IP-10 or HuMig, I-TAC mobilized twice as much calcium, ~2,000 nM compared with ~1,000 nM for IP-10 and HuMig. The EC50 of I-TAC was ~1 nM compared with ~10 nM for IP-10 and ~50 nM for HuMig (Fig. 8). The results of Ca2+ cross-desensitization experiments using the 300-19 CXCR3 transfectants are shown in Fig. 9. Similar to what was observed on T cells, a relatively low concentration of I-TAC (50 nM) completely desensitized the response to either 1,000 nM IP-10 or 500 nM HuMig, although IP-10 or HuMig at these elevated concentrations caused only a partial desensitization of I-TAC responses (Fig. 9). The failure of IP-10 or HuMig to completely desensitize I-TAC responses in cloned CXCR3 transfectants is consistent with the hypothesis that I-TAC binds multiple sites or conformational forms of this receptor. Regardless, these results indicate that I-TAC is a highly potent and efficacious ligand for CXCR3.
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To demonstrate that I-TAC binds to CXCR3, and to measure its affinity compared with IP-10 and HuMig, we performed binding assays. No I-TAC binding was observed over background on the 300-19 transfectants, presumably due to low receptor expression (data not shown). However, radiolabeled I-TAC bound specifically to HEK293 transfectants stably expressing CXCR3 (5976 ± 90 cpm) and not to parental HEK293 cells (1551 ± 48 cpm). The binding to the HEK293 transfectants was displaceable with increasing concentrations of unlabeled I-TAC (Fig. 10). Scatchard analysis revealed two sites, a high affinity site of 0.3 nM and a low affinity site of 36 nM (Fig. 10, n = 3 experiments). When unlabeled IP-10 or HuMig was used to displace radiolabeled I-TAC, the dose-response curve shifted to the right. The IC50 for I-TAC was ~1 nm, whereas IP-10 and HuMig IC50 values were ~70 and ~300 nM, respectively. Direct binding of labeled IP-10 or HuMig to CXCR3 was not detectable above background binding (data not shown). Taken together, these data suggest that IP-10 and HuMig have a low affinity for CXCR3 expressed in HEK293 cells. Since I-TAC has a significantly higher affinity for CXCR3, as well as higher potency and efficacy than IP-10 or HuMig, we conclude that I-TAC is the dominant ligand for this receptor.
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Discussion |
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We have identified a novel non-ELR CXC chemokine,
termed I-TAC, through sequencing of cDNAs derived
from stimulated astrocytes. The cDNA encoding I-TAC is
identical to -R1, a recently described gene that is differentially regulated by INF-
(46). I-TAC shares greatest sequence similarity with the chemokines IP-10 and HuMig and we provide evidence that I-TAC binds to the IP-10/
HuMig receptor, CXCR3. However, I-TAC has a much
higher affinity for CXCR3 than have either IP-10 or HuMig, as demonstrated by displaceable binding. Scatchard
analysis revealed two sites for I-TAC, one high affinity and
one low affinity. No direct binding was detected on transfectants or activated T cells with radiolabeled IP-10 or HuMig, possibly due to lower affinity for CXCR3. The importance of these interactions in vivo is not clear. IP-10, for
example, has been shown to interact with proteoglycans, as
may also be possible for HuMig and I-TAC. The influence
of these associations on receptor binding and activation is
not yet fully understood (49).
I-TAC is more potent and efficacious than either IP-10
or HuMig in its ability to mobilize intracellular calcium and
as a chemotactic factor (rank order potency I-TAC > HuMig IP-10). However, calcium desensitization experiments revealed an interesting phenomenon. In both activated T cells and transfected cell lines expressing CXCR3,
I-TAC completely blocked the response to a subsequent challenge with IP-10 or HuMig, consistent with their
binding to the same receptor. Unexpectedly, the reverse
was not true. Even a high concentration of IP-10 or HuMig could not completely desensitize I-TAC responses.
Since these results are seen with the cloned CXCR3, it appears that these three chemokines may interact differently with the receptor. It is conceivable that the receptor may
exist in different conformations, or have multiple binding
sites, and that I-TAC interacts with conformations or sites
which cannot interact with IP-10 and HuMig. Nevertheless, our results show that I-TAC is the dominant ligand for
CXCR3 due to higher affinity, potency, and efficacy when
compared with IP-10 and HuMig. It is important to note
that dominant and weak ligands for CCR2 have also been
reported. MCP-1 is considerably more potent than MCP-3 in the mobilization of intracellular calcium, making it the
dominant ligand. In addition, saturating levels of MCP-3
do not completely desensitize MCP-1 responses (50).
The existence of dominant and weak ligands may have implications for the roles of multiple chemokines at inflammatory sites. For example, weaker ligands captured on endothelial cells may initiate firm adhesion of leukocytes, then more dominant ligands produced at inflammatory loci direct leukocyte recruitment. Such a "hierarchy" of chemoattractants has been demonstrated in vitro where different chemotactic factors, acting via multiple receptors, "navigate" leukocytes in different directions (51). Our studies would suggest that this phenomenon could also occur by chemokines acting at the same receptor.
In agreement with studies describing the regulation of CXCR3, I-TAC has potent chemotactic activity for IL-2-stimulated T cells and is not active on resting and naive T cells. As such, I-TAC may not play a role in T cell trafficking under normal conditions, but may have its greatest effect during immune response to foreign antigens, where IL-2 has been generated. Antigen recognition by unstimulated naive/memory T cells in secondary lymphoid organs leads to T cell activation, IL-2 production, and clonal expansion of antigen-selective T cells (52, 53). I-TAC released at the site of initial insult may then recruit these effector T cells. This scenario is consistent with the upregulation of I-TAC by acute phase proteins, such as IL-1 and the IFNs, which would be expected to be present at high concentrations at sites of inflammation.
Recently, several chemokines having specificity for T
cells have been described, including dendritic cell CC
chemokine 1/PARC (pulmonary and activation-regulated
chemokine), TARC (thymus and ARC), and MIP (macrophage inflammatory protein)-3a/LARC (liver and ARC)
(28, 54). I-TAC demonstrated significantly greater potency than any of these three chemokines for IL-2-activated T cells (Gladue, R.P., and T.J. Paradis, unpublished
data). The only chemokine more potent than I-TAC was
SDF-1, which interacts with CXCR4 (35, 36, Gladue,
R.P., et al., unpublished data). Unlike I-TAC, SDF-1
is
active on naive as well as activated T cells, monocytes, and
granulocytes. It has an important role in development, as
evidenced by the prenatal death that occurs in SDF-1
knock-out mice, most likely due to a defect in the development of the cardiac ventricular septal, as well as defects
in B-cell lymphopoiesis and bone-marrow myelopoiesis
(57). I-TAC differs from SDF-1
in its unique selectivity
for effector T cells and this underscores the importance of
I-TAC in T cell-mediated diseases.
The functional relationship of I-TAC to IP-10 and HuMig is not clear. Like IP-10, I-TAC is expressed in normal tissues including thymus, spleen, and pancreas, where it may be involved in the trafficking of activated/effector T cells. In addition, IP-10, HuMig, and I-TAC may also play similar roles in inflammation. IP-10 has been shown to be expressed in delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions in the skin, psoriatic plaques, tuberculoid leprosy, and certain tumors (17), where it may be important for the recruitment of effector T cells. It is tempting to speculate that I-TAC might also be expressed in these disease states.
In contrast to the low level of I-TAC expression in normal tissues, I-TAC is dramatically upregulated by IFN, and
IL-1 synergizes to further increase expression. This, in addition to I-TAC's selective activity on T cells, suggests a
role for I-TAC in T cell-mediated inflammatory diseases.
These would most likely be diseases associated with a Th1-type cytokine profile, where abundant IFN- and IL-1 would be produced. Examples include autoimmune diseases, delayed-type hypersensitivity responses, certain viral
diseases, and transplant rejection (58). However, the marked
upregulation of I-TAC in astrocytes and microglial cells
upon stimulation by IL-1 and IFN raises the possibility that
I-TAC has a central role in the pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory diseases such as meningitis, encephalitis, and
multiple sclerosis.
The role of IL-1 in EAE, an animal model for multiple
sclerosis, has been demonstrated, in that an IL-1 receptor
antagonist has shown beneficial effects (59). Furthermore,
acquisition of a Th1-type cytokine profile is required for
EAE disease progression, highlighting the importance of
IL-2 and IFN- (52, 53). Since IL-2 has been shown to
upregulate CXCR3 (15), and IFN-
synergizes with IL-1
to produce I-TAC, it is tempting to speculate that the following sequence of events might cause pathology in multiple sclerosis. Autoreactive T cells that have entered the
central nervous system initiate the generation of a localized
Th1-type cytokine environment, which leads to the production of I-TAC by astrocytes and microglia. This causes
an amplification loop that results in increased infiltration of
autoreactive and bystander effector T cells. Eventually, a
nonspecific inflammatory response is triggered that may cause
lesion formation and demyelination indicative of multiple
sclerosis disease pathology.
In conclusion, we have identified and characterized I-TAC,
a novel non-ELR CXC chemokine highly expressed in
cytokine-stimulated astrocytes. I-TAC has potent chemotactic activity on activated T cells and is a higher affinity
ligand for CXCR3 than is IP-10 or HuMig. The unique
regulation of I-TAC by IL-1 and IFN-, and its high level
production by astrocytes and microglia, suggests an important role for this chemokine in central nervous system diseases which involve T cell recruitment.
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Address correspondence to Dr. Kuldeep Neote, Department of Molecular Science, Central Research Division, Pfizer Inc., Eastern Point Rd., Groton, CT 06340. Phone: 860-441-4081; Fax: 860-441-5719; E-mail: neoteks{at}pfizer.com
Received for publication 25 November 1997 and in revised form 31 March 1998.
We thank Suzanne P. Williams, Yevette C. Clancy, Melissa T. Cronan, and Lisa S. Hayes for DNA sequencing support; and Michael Fogliano, David P. Dean, and Lynn M. Hames for bioinformatic analysis. We also thank Robin T. Nelson for providing RNAs from leukocytes and hematopoietic cell lines, and Robert B. Nelson for SV-A3 cells. We acknowledge Douglas A. Fisher and John B. Cheng for critical comments on the manuscript. The authors are grateful to Sue Hu and Chun Chao of the Minnesota Medical Research Institute for providing primary human fetal astrocytes.
Abbreviations used in this paper
EAE, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis;
ELR, Glu-Leu-Arg;
HEK, human embryonic kidney;
HuMig, IFN--induced human monokine;
IP-10, IFN-
-inducible 10-kD protein;
I-TAC, IFN-inducible T cell alpha chemoattractant;
MCP, monocyte chemotactic protein;
SDF, stromal cell-derived factor.
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