Journal:

Article Title: Secretion of parasite-specific immunoglobulin G by purified blood B lymphocytes from immune individuals after in vitro stimulation with recombinant Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 19 antigen

doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00763.x

Figure Lengend Snippet: Cytokine-dependent in vitro secretion by immune blood B lymphocytes of total IgG (a) and parasite-specific IgG (b). The means±SD of ‘n’ (Table 1) individual cultures are shown. Both sγ+/sγ− and sγ− B-cell populations were cultured with or without MSP119 in the presence of anti-CD40 mAb and cytokines as indicated. Antibody levels are indicated as the ratios of OD values from a given set of culture conditions with or without MSP119 (see the Materials and Methods). The dotted line indicates negative or background values (OD ratio = 1).

Article Snippet: In vitro culture of B lymphocytes CD19 + B cells were adjusted to 10 6 cells/ml, and cultured in 48-well plates (Falcon; Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ), at a final volume of 0·5 ml of Iscove’s Dulbecco’s modified medium (Sigma, St Louis, MO) with 10% fetal calf serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT), and supplemented as previously described, 7 with or without antigen, mitogenic anti-CD40 mAb (clone ‘89’; 10 μg/ml; a gift from Dr J. Banchereau, Schering-Plough, Dardilly, France), and human recombinant cytokines: interleukin-2 (IL-2; a gift from Sanofi, Labège, France); IL-10 (a gift from Dr F. Brière, Schering-Plough, Dardilly, France); IL-6 (a gift from Dr F. Montero-Julian, Immunotech, Marseille, France); IL-1β (Peprotech, London, UK); and IL-4, obtained from Chinese hamster ovary-transfected cell cultures (a gift from Dr T. B. Nutman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD).

Techniques: In Vitro, Cell Culture

Journal:

Article Title: Secretion of parasite-specific immunoglobulin G by purified blood B lymphocytes from immune individuals after in vitro stimulation with recombinant Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 19 antigen

doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00763.x

Figure Lengend Snippet: IgG secretion by total (sγ+/sγ−) blood B cells from P. falciparum-immune individuals is increased by exposition to MSP119 in the absence of exogenous cytokines. Histograms represent the means±SD of cultures derived from seven individuals (sγ− B cells) and 15 individuals (sγ+/sγ− B cells). Dots represent single cultures in each group. Open histograms and filled symbols represent total IgG production, and filled histograms and open symbols represent parasite-specific IgG. Antibody levels are indicated as OD ratios.

Article Snippet: In vitro culture of B lymphocytes CD19 + B cells were adjusted to 10 6 cells/ml, and cultured in 48-well plates (Falcon; Becton-Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ), at a final volume of 0·5 ml of Iscove’s Dulbecco’s modified medium (Sigma, St Louis, MO) with 10% fetal calf serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT), and supplemented as previously described, 7 with or without antigen, mitogenic anti-CD40 mAb (clone ‘89’; 10 μg/ml; a gift from Dr J. Banchereau, Schering-Plough, Dardilly, France), and human recombinant cytokines: interleukin-2 (IL-2; a gift from Sanofi, Labège, France); IL-10 (a gift from Dr F. Brière, Schering-Plough, Dardilly, France); IL-6 (a gift from Dr F. Montero-Julian, Immunotech, Marseille, France); IL-1β (Peprotech, London, UK); and IL-4, obtained from Chinese hamster ovary-transfected cell cultures (a gift from Dr T. B. Nutman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD).

Techniques: Derivative Assay

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 2. C/EBP, NF-B p50, STAT3, c-Rel, and TBP bind the endogenous CRP promoter. Agarose gel of a ChIP assay performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6 for 0–15 h, as described in Materials and Methods. Abs to C/EBP, NF-B p50, STAT3, c-Rel, and TBP were used in the assays with primers flanking the CRP proximal promoter (118 to 115). The mock is a no Ab control. Input is a 1/10 dilution of total chromatin after sonication and preclearing. C/EBP, NF-B p50, and input are shown (top row). STAT3, c-Rel, and mock are shown in the middle, and TBP is shown in the bottom row. Results are representative of four experiments.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Control, Sonication

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 3. C/EBP binds the endogenous CRP promoter in response to cytokines. Real-time PCR of ChIP assays performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6. Zero time values were determined in each case. Subsequently three time courses were followed 30 min–6 h (n 3 assays) (a), 8–16 h (n 4) (b), and 12–36 h (n 4) (c). Abs were used in the assays with primers flanking the CRP proximal promoter (118 to 115), as described in Fig. 2. Data show C/EBP occupancy expressed as fold change after subtraction of mock and normalization to input signal (see Materials and Methods). Results are an average of three to four ex- periments, each done in duplicate. Error bar represents SD. Statistical sig- nificance of each time point compared with basal levels was determined by a one-way ANOVA and is defined. , p 0.5.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 4. p50 occupancy of the CRP promoter changes modestly in the presence of cytokines. Real-time PCR of ChIP assays performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6. Zero time values were determined in each case. Subsequently three time courses were followed 30 min–6 h (n 3 assays) (a), 8–16 h (n 4) (b), and 12–36 h (n 4) (c). Abs were used in the assays with primers flanking the CRP proximal pro- moter (118 to 115), as described in Fig. 2. Data show NF-B p50 occupancy expressed as fold change after subtraction of mock and nor- malization to input signal (see Materials and Methods). Results are an average of three to four experiments, each done in duplicate. Error bar represents SD. Statistical significance of each time point compared with basal levels was determined by a one-way ANOVA at p 0.5, but the experiment had insufficient statistical power to reliably calculate p values.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 5. STAT3 occupancy of the CRP promoter rises modestly in response to cytokines. Real-time PCR of ChIP assays performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6. Zero time values were deter- mined in each case. Subsequently three time courses were followed 30 min–6 h (n 3 assays) (a), 8–16 h (n 4) (b), and 12–36 h (n 4) (c). Abs were used in the assays with primers flanking the CRP proximal pro- moter (118 to 115), as described in Fig. 2. Data show STAT3 occu- pancy expressed as fold change after subtraction of mock and normaliza- tion to input signal (see Materials and Methods). Results are an average of three to four experiments, each done in duplicate. Error bar represents the SD. Statistical significance of each time point compared with basal levels was determined by a one-way ANOVA is defined. , p 0.5.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 6. c-Rel and TBP occupy the CRP promoter in parallel. Real-time PCR of ChIP assays performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6. Zero time values were determined in each case. Subsequently three time courses were followed 30 min–6 h (n 3 assays) (a), 8–16 h (n 4) (b), and 12–36 h (n 4) (c). Abs were used in the assays with primers flanking the CRP proximal promoter (118 to 115), as described in Fig. 2. Data show c-Rel (solid line, Œ) and TBP (dashed line, f) occupancy expressed as fold change after subtraction of mock and normalization to input signal (see Materials and Methods). a–c, Average of three to four experiments, each done in duplicate. Error bar represents SD. d and e, Profiles from individual ChIP experiments of c-Rel and TBP promoter occupancy. Statistical significance of each time point compared with basal levels was determined by a one-way ANOVA. , p 0.5 is defined for c-Rel and , p 0.5 is indicated for TBP.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 7. CRP mRNA accumulates in response to cytokines. a, Rep- resentative agarose gel of RT-PCR performed on Hep3B cells treated with cytokines IL-1 and IL-6 for the indicated times (hours). CRP mRNA levels are shown at top and -actin mRNA levels are shown at bottom. b, Average quantification of band intensity measured using ImageQuant of CRP mRNA normalized to -actin mRNA (n 4 measurements). Error bar represents SD.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction

Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Article Title: Binding of C/EBPbeta to the C-reactive protein (CRP) promoter in Hep3B cells is associated with transcription of CRP mRNA.

doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.4.2420

Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 8. Composite graph of transcription factor occupancy on the CRP promoter and CRP mRNA ac- cumulation in response to cytokines. Common time points for transcription factor occupancy from the 12– 36-h data and CRP mRNA accumulation from the 3–24-h data (12, 18, and 24 h) were plotted together. The left y-axis is the fold change above mock for the transcription factor promoter occupancy. The right y- axis is average normalized band intensity for CRP mRNA accumulation. CRP mRNA (dotted dashed gray line F), C/EBP (black line ), STAT3 (light gray line ‚), p50 (light gray line E), c-Rel (short dashed line Œ), and TBP (black dashed line f) are shown.

Article Snippet: Human recombinant cytokines IL-6 (206-IL) and IL-1 (201-LB) were purchased from R&D Systems.

Techniques:

Journal: Mediators of Inflammation

Article Title: The First Trimester Gravid Serum Regulates Procalcitonin Expression in Human Macrophages Skewing Their Phenotype In Vitro

doi: 10.1155/2014/248963

Figure Lengend Snippet: M1 polarized macrophages significantly upregulate the expression of PCT compared to both M0 and M2 macrophages under stimulation with LPS. (a) PMBCs were differentiated in culture for 7 days and polarized O/N with LPS (100 ng/mL) and IFN γ (500 U/mL) or IL-4 (20 ng/mL) and IL-10 (50 ng/mL) for the M1/M2 polarization. mRNA expression levels of CD80 and IL-1 β (M1 markers) and CD206 and IL-10 (M2 markers) were measured by qPCR and normalized to those of the human housekeeping gene 18S. (b) RNA obtained from M0, M1, and M2 macrophages were quantified for PCT and 18S expression by qPCR. The relative amount of mRNA for PCT was normalized with reference to 18S value. Results were expressed as AUs, in which 1 AU represents the value obtained with untreated macrophages used as a positive control. Bars represent the mean ± S.E.M. of at least 3 independent experiments. * P < 0.05 and ** P < 0.01 (Mann-Whitney test).

Article Snippet: The human cytokines IL-4 and IFN γ were purchased from ImmunoTools GmbH (Friesoythe, Germany) and IL-10 from PeproTech EC Ltd. (DBA Italia S.r.l, Milan, Italy).

Techniques: Expressing, Positive Control, MANN-WHITNEY