title: Regulation of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (CD54) gene expression.
abstract: Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1, CD54) is an inducible cell adhesion glycoprotein of the immunoglobulin supergene family expressed on the surface of a wide variety of cell types. ICAM-1 interactions with the beta2 integrins CD11a/CD18 (LFA-1) and CD11b/CD18 (MAC-1) on the surface of leukocytes are important for their transendothelial migration to sites of inflammation and their function as costimulatory molecules for T cell activation. ICAM-1 is constitutively expressed on the cell surface and is up-regulated in response to a variety of inflammatory mediators, including proinflammatory cytokines, hormones, cellular stresses, and virus infection. These stimuli increase ICAM-1 expression primarily through activation of ICAM-1 gene transcription. During the past decade much has been learned about the cell type- and stimulus-specific transcription of ICAM-1. The architecture of the ICAM-1 promoter is complex, containing a large number of binding sites for inducible transcription factors, the most important of which is nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB). NF-kappaB acts in concert with other transcription factors and co-activators via specific protein-protein interactions, which facilitate the assembly of distinct stereospecific transcription complexes on the ICAM-1 promoter. These transcription complexes presumably mediate the induction of ICAM-1 expression in different cell types and in response to different stimuli. In this review, we summarize our current understanding of ICAM-1 gene regulation with a particular emphasis on the transcription factors and signal transduction pathways critical for the cell type- and stimulus-specific activation of ICAM-1 gene transcription.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. kroebuck@rush.edu
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Roebuck
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finnegan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D018799:Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1