title: Profiling of differentially expressed chemotactic-related genes in MCP-1 treated macrophage cell line using human cDNA arrays.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the global gene expression of chemotactic genes in macrophage line U937 treated with human monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) through the use of ExpreeChipHO2 cDNA array.
  
  
  METHODS
  Total RNA was extracted from MCP-1 treated macrophage line U937 and normal U937 cells, reversely transcribed to cDNA, and then screened in parallel with HO2 human cDNA array chip. The scanned result was additionally validated using RT-PCR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The result of cDNA array showed that one chemotactic-related gene was up-regulated more than two-fold (RANTES) and seven chemotactic-related genes were down-regulated more than two-fold (CCR1, CCR5, ccl16, GRObeta, GROgamma, IL-8 and granulocyte chemotactic protein 2) in MCP-1 treated U937 cells at mRNA level. RT-PCR analysis of four of these differentially expressed genes gave results consistent with cDNA array findings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MCP-1 could influence some chemokine and receptor expressions in macrophages in vitro. MCP-1 mainly down-regulates the expression of chemotactic genes influencing neutrophilic granulocyte expression (GRObeta, GROgamma, IL-8 and granulocyte chemotactic protein 2), and the mRNA level of CCR5, which plays a critical role in many disorders and illnesses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Guang-Xing
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Bian
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Dong-Mei
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Bao-Yu
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D018932:Chemokine CCL2 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002633:Chemotaxis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000276:immunology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000502:physiology; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020298:U937 Cells
chemical_list: D018932:Chemokine CCL2