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  • Title: Mature human neutrophils constitutively express the transcription factor EGR-1.
    Author: Cullen EM, Brazil JC, O'Connor CM.
    Journal: Mol Immunol; 2010 May; 47(9):1701-9. PubMed ID: 20363028.
    Abstract:
    The immediate early response gene, Early Growth Response 1 (EGR-1) has emerged as a central regulator of early inflammatory and immune processes by rapidly regulating the transcription of a wide array of downstream effector genes. Neutrophils, which are among the first circulating leukocytes to respond to inflammatory signals, exhibit a broad set of transcriptional changes immediately upon exposure to inflammatory and pathogenic stimuli. Such transcriptional changes are likely to be controlled by early gene transcription factors such as EGR-1. We therefore examined the regulation and role of EGR-1 in mature human neutrophils exposed to the inflammatory stimuli fMLP and IL-8. We report that human neutrophils rapidly and transiently up-regulate EGR-1 mRNA upon stimulation with fMLP or IL-8. However in contrast to that seen in other cells, EGR-1 mRNA expression profiles were not predictive of protein expression. Instead, we show that human neutrophils constitutively express EGR-1 protein. The cellular content of EGR-1 did not change over time or upon neutrophil activation. Confocal microscopy revealed that EGR-1 was present in both the cytoplasm and nuclei of un-stimulated neutrophils and that activation did not change this subcellular localization or promote nuclear translocation. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we demonstrate that EGR-1 is associated with the promoter regions of the immune regulatory genes IL-1 beta, TGFbeta-1 and MIF in both resting and activated neutrophils with increased promoter association observed upon cell activation. This novel pattern of EGR-1 protein expression may underlie the ability of the neutrophil to respond rapidly to inflammatory stimuli.
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