| Literature DB >> 11380684 |
H Umehara1, S Goda, T Imai, Y Nagano, Y Minami, Y Tanaka, T Okazaki, E T Bloom, N Domae.
Abstract
A newly identified CX3C-chemokine, fractalkine, expressed on activated endothelial cells plays an important role in leucocyte adhesion and migration. Co-immobilized fractalkine with fibronectin or intercellular adhesion molecule-1 enhanced adhesion of THP-1 cells, which express the fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1), compared with that observed for each alone. That adherence was fractalkine-dependent and was confirmed in blocking studies. However, soluble fractalkine induced little chemotaxis in THP-1 cells in comparison to monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), which induced a strong chemotactic response. Moreover, the membrane form of fractalkine expressed on ECV304 cells reduced MCP-1 mediated chemotaxis of THP-1 cells. These results indicate that fractalkine may function as an adhesion molecule between monocytes and endothelial cells rather than as a chemotactic factor.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11380684 DOI： 10.1046/j.1440-1711.2001.01004.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunol Cell Biol ISSN： 0818-9641 Impact factor: 5.126