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Inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-induced signal transduction in endotoxin-tolerized mouse macrophages: dysregulation of cytokine, chemokine, and toll-like receptor 2 and 4 gene expression.

In this study, the effect of in vitro endotoxin tolerance on LPS-induced mitogen-activated protein kinase activation, transcription factor induction, and cytokine, chemokine, and Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and 4 gene expression, as well as the involvement of TNF and IL-1 signaling pathways in tolerance, were examined. Pretreatment of mouse macrophages with LPS inhibited phosphorylation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinases, c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases, and p38 kinase; degradation of I-kappaBalpha (inhibitory protein that dissociates from NF-kappaB) and I-kappaBbeta; and activation of the transcription factors NF-kappaB and AP-1 in response to subsequent LPS stimulation. These changes were accompanied by suppression of LPS-induced expression of mRNA for GM-CSF, IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10, KC, JE/monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, macrophage-inflammatory protein-1beta, and macrophage-inflammatory protein-2, with concurrent inhibition of chemokine secretion. In contrast to control cells, endotoxin-tolerant macrophages exhibited an increased basal level of TLR2 mRNA, and failed to increase levels of TLR2 mRNA or to down-regulate TLR4 gene expression upon restimulation with LPS. As judged by transcription factor activation, LPS and IL-1 were found to induce a state of cross-tolerance against each other, while no such reciprocal effect was seen for LPS and TNF-alpha. In addition, macrophages from TNFR I/II double knockout mice were LPS tolerizable, and blocking of endogenous TNF-alpha with TNFR-Fc fusion protein did not affect the capacity of LPS to tolerize macrophages. These data extend our understanding of LPS-signaling mechanisms that are inhibited in endotoxin-tolerized macrophages and suggest that endotoxin tolerance might result from impaired expression and/or functions of common signaling intermediates involved in LPS and IL-1 signaling.[1]

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