Abstract
Human monocytes are multifaceted cells with a wide range of immunoregulatory functions and distinct secretory products. This manuscript reports on initial attempts to identify specific early macromolecular synthetic events associated with various types of human monocyte activation by observing the patterns of RNA synthesis displayed by human monocytes that are exposed to well characterized activating stimuli. It was found that muramyl dipeptide (MDP), an activator of monocyte-derived fibroblast growth factor (MD-FGF) release from monocytes, also stimulates a reproducible increase in human monocyte total 3H-uridine incorporation and cytoplasmic messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis at 4 h following activation. In contrast, polyriboinosinic acid:polyribocytidilic acid (poly I:C), an excellent stimulator of monocyte alpha interferon (IFN alpha) release, did not cause a change in either 3H-uridine incorporation or cytoplasmic mRNA production at any of the time points tested. Poly I:C was also found to be a poor stimulator of MD-FGF release. Conversely, MDP did not stimulate any detectable IFN release from human monocytes. The discrepancy between the patterns of macromolecular synthesis observed in human monocytes activated to secrete MD-FGF as compared with IFN indicates that divergent postactivation control mechanisms may be operative at the RNA level in the monocyte following activation of these two distinct functions.
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