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Interleukin-10 (IL-10) expression was significantly elevated upon stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) when the sialic acid-recognizing Ig-superfamily lectin Siglec-5 or -9 was overexpressed in RAW264 cells. During the course to clarify the mechanism for this activation, we found that IL-10 promoter proximal region up to −500 bp led to transactivation similar to that up to −1,500 bp. Among the transcription factors that activate the mouse IL-10 promoter so far reported, the level of C/EBPβ was increased in Siglec-9-expressing cells. Transient expression of the C/EBPβ major isoform LAP led to an increase in the expression of IL-10 in Siglec-9-expressing cells, but not in mock-transfected control RAW264 cells upon stimulation with LPS, as assessed by either a luciferase assay or the production of IL-10. Without LPS, the IL-10 promoter was activated by transiently expressed LAP in Siglec-9-expressing cells, however, the magnitude of transactivation was less than that with the LPS stimulation. The knockdown of C/EBPβ down-regulated the production of IL-10. Taken together, these results suggest that one of the reasons for the stimulation of IL-10 expression in Siglec-9-expressing cells may be an increase in intracellular C/EBPβ level.
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Shoji, T., Higuchi, H., Nishijima, Ki. et al. Effects of Siglec on the expression of IL-10 in the macrophage cell line RAW264. Cytotechnology 67, 633–639 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10616-014-9717-0
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