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  • Title: Mechanistic differences between migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and IFN-gamma for macrophage activation. MIF and IFN-gamma synergize with lipid A to mediate migration inhibition but only IFN-gamma induces production of TNF-alpha and nitric oxide.
    Author: Herriott MJ, Jiang H, Stewart CA, Fast DJ, Leu RW.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1993 May 15; 150(10):4524-31. PubMed ID: 7683323.
    Abstract:
    Previously we found that murine macrophage migration inhibition (MMI) was mediated by IFN-gamma-priming and lipid A triggering. With the recent availability of human recombinant migration inhibitory factor (MIF), which is distinctly different from IFN-gamma and other cytokines, we have now attempted to explore possible mechanistic differences between IFN-gamma and MIF to mediate MMI. Neither MIF not IFN-gamma were active alone, but effectively primed murine inflammatory macrophages for subsequent triggering by lipid A to mediate MMI. A specific neutralizing antibody for rMIF abrogated MMI mediated only by MIF and not by IFN-gamma-primed macrophages. Distinct differences were also found between the mechanisms by which MIF and IFN-gamma synergized with lipid A for activation in that IFN-gamma-primed and lipid A triggered macrophages produced TNF and nitric oxide (NO), whereas MIF-primed cells did not. Macrophages primed with IFN-gamma and triggered by rTNF were inhibited in their migration, whereas MIF failed to synergize with rTNF for MMI. An inhibitor of NO production NG-monomethyl-L-arginine inhibited MMI mediated by higher activating concentrations of lipid A and by IFN-gamma-primed and lipid A triggered macrophages, but had no effect on MIF-primed cells in concert with lipid A for increased expression of both TNF-alpha mRNA and NO synthase mRNA. Taken together, our results indicate that both MIF and IFN-gamma prime macrophages to synergize with lipid A to mediate MMI but by different mechanisms. The activation process by IFN-gamma to mediate migration inhibition appears to resemble requirements for rendering macrophages tumor cytotoxic in the production of TNF for autocrine-mediated NO generation by primed macrophages. In contrast, MIF-mediated MMI was independent of requirements for either TNF or NO production.
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