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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 145, 650-660, Copyright © 1994 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Human serum amyloid A genes are expressed in monocyte/macrophage cell lines

S Urieli-Shoval, RL Meek, RH Hanson, N Eriksen and EP Benditt
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.

Serum amyloid A (apoSAA) is a family of proteins found, mainly associated with high density lipoproteins, in the blood plasma of mammals and at least one avian species, the Pekin duck. These proteins are present in small amounts under normal circumstances, but their concentration is capable of rising 100- to 1,000-fold in situations involving tissue injury or infection. Like classic acute phase proteins they are produced in the liver; however, expression of one of the apoSAA genes is known to occur in activated macrophages of mice. We examined three human macrophage precursor cell lines (THP-1, U-937, and HL-60), before and after differentiation with phorbol 12-myristate 13- acetate or 1 alpha,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D3, for apoSAA messenger (m)- RNA expression and found that: 1) induction of steady-state apoSAA mRNA by lipopolysaccharide, interleukin-1, or interleukin-6 required the presence of the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone; 2) the three known active genes, apoSAA1, apoSAA2, and apoSAA4, were induced in THP- 1 cells, whereas the pseudogene apoSAA3 was not; 3) differentiated and undifferentiated THP-1 cells expressed apoSAA mRNA, but U-937 cells expressed apoSAA mRNA (low levels) only after phorbol 12-myristate 13- acetate differentiation and HL-60 cells did not express apoSAA mRNA whether differentiated or not; 4) apoSAA protein was detectable immunologically at a low level in lyophilized medium from induced THP-1 cells. Our findings are compatible with the hypotheses that 1) apoSAA gene expression in human monocytes/macrophages in vivo is differentiation dependent; 2) activated macrophages provide a local source of apoSAA at sites of tissue injury or inflammation; 3) apoSAA is induced in tissue macrophages by local stimuli, under conditions that may not evoke the systemic acute phase response.

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