Involvement of mannose receptor in cytokine interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor responses, but not in chemokine macrophage inflammatory protein 1beta (MIP-1beta), MIP-2, and KC responses, caused by attachment of Candida albicans to macrophages

The production of chemotactic cytokines (chemokines) and other cytokines by macrophages in response to fungal infection is thought to be critical during the course of candidiasis. However, the mechanism of cytokine synthesis by macrophages in response to fungi is not well understood. Therefore, the response of macrophages to Candida albicans was examined in terms of receptor-mediated chemokine and other cytokine mRNA induction. Attachment of C. albicans to murine thioglycollate-elicited peritoneal macrophages induced increased mRNA levels of the cytokines interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and the chemokines macrophage inflammatory protein 1beta (MIP-1beta), MIP-2, and KC (a member of the platelet factor 4 neutrophil chemoattractant family), as determined by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR. However, treatment of macrophages with alpha-methyl-D-mannoside significantly reduced the cytokine GM-CSF response to C. albicans but did not affect the chemokine MIP-2 response. Antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) to mannose receptor (MR) mRNA inhibited the expression and function of MR in macrophages as determined by Western blot analysis and 125I-labeled mannose-bovine serum albumin (BSA) binding, and also inhibited the elevation of cytokine IL-1beta, IL-6, and GM-CSF mRNA levels induced by C. albicans attachment. Elevation of chemokine MIP-1beta, MIP-2, and KC mRNA levels induced by C. albicans was not affected in macrophages whose MR expression was suppressed by antisense ODN treatment. Furthermore, IL-4 treatment of macrophages, which up-regulated MR expression as determined by Western blot analysis and fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled mannose-BSA uptake, enhanced the level of cytokine GM-CSF mRNA induced by C. albicans but not the level of the chemokine MIP-2 mRNA. These results indicate that selected cytokine responses of macrophages to C. albicans are mediated by MR, while some chemokine responses may be mediated by other receptors.

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