Human Gene Set: GSE20484_MCSG_VS_CXCL4_MONOCYTE_DERIVED_MACROPHAGE_UP


Standard name GSE20484_MCSG_VS_CXCL4_MONOCYTE_DERIVED_MACROPHAGE_UP
Systematic name M7384
Brief description Genes up-regulated in monocyte derived macrophages: CSF1 [GeneID=1435] versus PF4 [GeneID=5196].
Full description or abstract Human blood monocytes were differentiated over six days with either 100 ng/ml M-CSF or 1 umol/l CXCL4 In atherosclerotic arteries, blood monocytes differentiate to macrophages in the presence of growth factors like macrophage colony-stimulation factor (MCSF) and chemokines like platelet factor 4 (CXCL4). To compare the gene expression signature of CXCL4-induced macrophages with MCSF-induced macrophages or macrophages polarized with IFN-?/LPS (M1) or IL-4 (M2), we cultured primary human peripheral blood monocytes for six days. mRNA expression was measured by Affymetrix gene chips and differences were analyzed by Local Pooled Error test, Profile of Complex Functionality and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. 375 genes were differentially expressed between MCSF- and CXCL4-induced macrophages, 206 of them overexpressed in CXCL4 macrophages coding for genes implicated in the inflammatory/immune response, antigen processing/presentation, and lipid metabolism. CXCL4-induced macrophages overexpressed some M1 and M2 genes and the corresponding cytokines at the protein level, however, their transcriptome clustered with neither M1 nor M2 transcriptomes. They almost completely lost the ability to phagocytose zymosan beads. Genes linked to atherosclerosis were not consistently up- or downregulated. Scavenger receptors showed lower and cholesterol efflux transporters higher expression in CXCL4- than MCSF-induced macrophages, resulting in lower LDL content. We conclude that CXCL4 induces a unique macrophage transcriptome distinct from known macrophage types, defining a new macrophage differentiation that we propose to call M4.
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Source publication Pubmed 20335529   Authors: Gleissner CA,Shaked I,Little KM,Ley K
Exact source GSE20484_2502_200_UP
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Contributed by Jernej Godec (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
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