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  • Title: Cytokine-inducible CD40 expression in human endothelial cells is mediated by interferon regulatory factor-1.
    Author: Wagner AH, Gebauer M, Pollok-Kopp B, Hecker M.
    Journal: Blood; 2002 Jan 15; 99(2):520-5. PubMed ID: 11781233.
    Abstract:
    Given the significance of CD40-CD40 ligand interactions in chronic inflammatory diseases including atherosclerosis, the transcriptional regulation of CD40 expression as a potential therapeutic target was investigated in human umbilical vein cultured endothelial cells. Exposure to interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) plus tumor necrosis factor-alpha resulted in a marked synergistic de novo expression of CD40, which, according to electrophoretic mobility shift analysis, was attributable to activation of the transcription factors nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 (STAT-1), and interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1). Subsequent time-course studies revealed that de novo synthesis of IRF-1 preceded that of CD40. Decoy oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) neutralization of STAT-1 or IRF-1, but not of NF-kappaB, inhibited cytokine-stimulated CD40 expression by 60% at both the mRNA and protein levels, and this effect was mimicked by antisense ODN blockade of IRF-1 synthesis. In contrast, CD40 expression in response to IFN-gamma stimulation was sensitive to neutralization of STAT-1 only. These findings suggest that depending on the cytokine composition, CD40 expression in human endothelial cells under proinflammatory conditions is governed by STAT-1 either directly or indirectly through de novo synthesis of IRF-1. Moreover, decoy ODN neutralization of these transcription factors may provide a novel therapeutic option for interfering with CD40-CD40 ligand-mediated inflammatory responses in vivo.
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