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- Document 0855
- DOCN M9620855
- TI RAW264 macrophages stably transfected with an HIV-1 LTR reporter gene
- provide a sensitive bioassay for analysis of signalling pathways in
- macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharide, TNF-alpha or taxol.
- DT 9602
- AU Sweet MJ; Hume DA; Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University
- of; Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
- SO J Inflamm. 1995;45(2):126-35. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96050094
- AB Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) modulates expression of a variety of
- genes in macrophages, and additionally activates viral promoters
- including the HIV-1 LTR. The HIV-1 LTR driving the luciferase reporter
- gene was stably transfected into the murine macrophage cell line,
- RAW264. In stably transfected cells, luciferase activity was
- LPS-dependent. As little as 0.01 ng/ml LPS was sufficient to increase
- luciferase activity over basal levels with maximal stimulation resulting
- in a 10- to 20-fold response. The cells also responded to human and
- murine tumour necrosis factor (TNF alpha). Endogenous TNF alpha was not
- involved in LPS responses, since pretreatment with alpha-TNF alpha
- antibody did not affect activation. Induction of HIV-1 LTR activity by
- LPS occurred independently of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) sensitive
- protein kinase C (PKC), since depletion of PKC by prolonged exposure to
- PMA blocked TNF alpha and PMA responses but was not able to abolish LPS
- action on these cells. Taxol (5-20 micrograms/ml), a chemotherapeutic
- agent which mimics LPS action on macrophages, was also able to increase
- expression of the reporter gene driven by the HIV-1 LTR. However, lower
- doses of taxol that were not sufficient to trans-activate the LTR or to
- induce TNF alpha expression were cytotoxic to RAW264 cells suggesting
- that the cytotoxic and LPS-like activities of taxol were not linked.
- This cell line provides a convenient method for detecting LPS-like
- activity and is a useful tool for examining LPS and TNF alpha signalling
- pathways.
- DE Animal Cell Line Gene Expression Genes, Reporter Human HIV Long
- Terminal Repeat/*GENETICS HIV-1/*GENETICS
- Lipopolysaccharides/*PHARMACOLOGY Luciferase/GENETICS/METABOLISM
- Macrophages/*METABOLISM Mice Paclitaxel/*PHARMACOLOGY Protein Kinase
- C/METABOLISM Signal Transduction Tetradecanoylphorbol
- Acetate/PHARMACOLOGY Transfection Tumor Necrosis Factor/*PHARMACOLOGY
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