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Progranulin is a chemoattractant for microglia and stimulates their endocytic activity.


ABSTRACT: Mutations resulting in progranulin haploinsufficiency cause disease in patients with a subset of frontotemporal lobar degeneration; however, the biological functions of progranulin in the brain remain unknown. To address this subject, the present study initially assessed changes in gene expression and cytokine secretion in rat primary cortical neurons treated with progranulin. Molecular pathways enriched in the progranulin gene set included cell adhesion and cell motility pathways and pathways involved in growth and development. Secretion of cytokines and several chemokines linked to chemoattraction but not inflammation were also increased from progranulin-treated primary neurons. Therefore, whether progranulin is involved in recruitment of immune cells in the brain was investigated. Localized lentiviral expression of progranulin in C57BL/6 mice resulted in an increase of Iba1-positive microglia around the injection site. Moreover, progranulin alone was sufficient to promote migration of primary mouse microglia in vitro. Primary microglia and C4B8 cells demonstrated more endocytosis of amyloid ?1-42 when treated with progranulin. These data demonstrate that progranulin acts as a chemoattractant in the brain to recruit or activate microglia and can increase endocytosis of extracellular peptides such as amyloid ?.

SUBMITTER: Pickford F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3070582 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Progranulin is a chemoattractant for microglia and stimulates their endocytic activity.

Pickford Fiona F   Marcus Jacob J   Camargo Luiz Miguel LM   Xiao Qiurong Q   Graham Danielle D   Mo Jan-Rung JR   Burkhardt Matthew M   Kulkarni Vinayak V   Crispino Jamie J   Hering Heike H   Hutton Michael M  

The American journal of pathology 20101223 1


Mutations resulting in progranulin haploinsufficiency cause disease in patients with a subset of frontotemporal lobar degeneration; however, the biological functions of progranulin in the brain remain unknown. To address this subject, the present study initially assessed changes in gene expression and cytokine secretion in rat primary cortical neurons treated with progranulin. Molecular pathways enriched in the progranulin gene set included cell adhesion and cell motility pathways and pathways i  ...[more]

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