PMID- 30099064 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180904 LR - 20180904 IS - 1879-3169 (Electronic) IS - 0378-4274 (Linking) VI - 296 DP - 2018 Oct 15 TI - Aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation by benzo(a)pyrene inhibits proliferation of myeloid precursor cells and alters the differentiation state as well as the functional phenotype of murine bone marrow-derived macrophages. PG - 106-113 LID - S0378-4274(18)31537-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.07.050 [doi] AB - Intensive research during the past decade has highlighted the impact of the regulatory function of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in immunity. In this study, we focused on the influence of AhR activation on the differentiation of murine bone marrow-derived myeloid precursor cells into mature macrophages. Our results show that the activation of AhR by subtoxic doses of the AhR ligand benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) impaired the proliferation of bone marrow cells (BMCs) whereas the proportion of resulting adherent cells was not affected. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the number of mature bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMMs) was significantly decreased by AhR activation. However, expression of the murine macrophage marker F4/80, the major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) and the Fcgamma receptor I (FcgammaRI/CD64) were upregulated on BaP-exposed BMMs in an AhR-dependent manner. Analysis of cytokine secretion after BMM activation with heat-killed (hk) salmonellae showed that BaP exposure resulted in suppressed secretion of interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6 and the chemokine CXC motif ligand 1 (CXCL1). In contrast, the release of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and IL-10 was increased following BaP exposure. In addition, the production of antimicrobial nitric oxide (NO) was increased AhR-dependently. Bacterial stimulation of BaP exposed BMMs also induced the expression of MHC-II and CD64, while the expression of F4/80 was dramatically decreased. In summary, this study demonstrates for the first time that sustained exposure over 6 days of bone marrow-derived myeloid precursors to subtoxic doses of BaP critically interferes with differentiation and activation of BMMs. We could convincingly show that AhR-induced gene regulation is crucial for homeostasis of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines during macrophage activation. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Riemschneider, Sina AU - Riemschneider S AD - Department of Therapy Validation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: sina.riemschneider@izi.fraunhofer.de. FAU - Kohlschmidt, Janine AU - Kohlschmidt J AD - Department of Therapy Validation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: janine.kohlschmidt@izi.fraunhofer.de. FAU - Fueldner, Christiane AU - Fueldner C AD - Department of Therapy Validation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: christiane.fueldner@zv.uni-leipzig.de. FAU - Esser, Charlotte AU - Esser C AD - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, 40225, Dusseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: charlotte.esser@uni-duesseldorf.de. FAU - Hauschildt, Sunna AU - Hauschildt S AD - Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: shaus@rz.uni-leipzig.de. FAU - Lehmann, Jorg AU - Lehmann J AD - Department of Therapy Validation, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: joerg.lehmann@izi.fraunhofer.de. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180809 PL - Netherlands TA - Toxicol Lett JT - Toxicology letters JID - 7709027 RN - 0 (Antigens, Differentiation) RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon) RN - 0 (monocyte-macrophage differentiation antigen) RN - 31C4KY9ESH (Nitric Oxide) RN - 3417WMA06D (Benzo(a)pyrene) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antigens, Differentiation/metabolism MH - Benzo(a)pyrene/*pharmacology MH - Biomarkers/metabolism MH - Bone Marrow Cells/*drug effects MH - Cell Differentiation/*drug effects MH - Cell Proliferation/*drug effects MH - Cytokines/metabolism MH - Genes, MHC Class II/drug effects MH - Macrophages/*drug effects MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Myeloid Progenitor Cells/*drug effects MH - Nitric Oxide/metabolism MH - Phenotype MH - Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/*agonists OTO - NOTNLM OT - Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) OT - Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) OT - Differentiation OT - Macrophage EDAT- 2018/08/14 06:00 MHDA- 2018/09/05 06:00 CRDT- 2018/08/13 06:00 PHST- 2018/03/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/07/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/07/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/08/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/09/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/08/13 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0378-4274(18)31537-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.07.050 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Toxicol Lett. 2018 Oct 15;296:106-113. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.07.050. Epub 2018 Aug 9.