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Ras guanine nucleotide-releasing protein-4 (RasGRP4) involvement in experimental arthritis and colitis.


ABSTRACT: RasGRP4 (Ras guanine nucleotide-releasing protein-4) is an intracellular, calcium-regulated guanine nucleotide exchange factor and diacylglycerol/phorbol ester receptor expressed in mast cells (MCs) and their progenitors. To study the function of this signaling protein in inflammatory disorders, a homologous recombination approach was used to create a RasGRP4-null C57BL/6 mouse line. The resulting transgenic animals had normal numbers of MCs in their tissues that histochemically and morphologically resembled those in WT C57BL/6 mice. MCs could also be generated from RasGRP4-null mice by culturing their bone marrow cells in IL-3-enriched conditioned medium. Despite these data, the levels of the transcripts that encode the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1? and TNF-? were reduced in phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-treated MCs developed from RasGRP4-null mice. Although inflammation was not diminished in a Dermatophagoides farinae-dependent model of allergic airway disease, dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis was significantly reduced in RasGRP4-null mice relative to similarly treated WT mice. Furthermore, experimental arthritis could not be induced in RasGRP4-null mice that had received K/BxN mouse serum. The latter findings raise the possibility that the pharmacologic inactivation of this intracellular signaling protein might be an effective treatment for arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease.

SUBMITTER: Adachi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3370188 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ras guanine nucleotide-releasing protein-4 (RasGRP4) involvement in experimental arthritis and colitis.

Adachi Roberto R   Krilis Steven A SA   Nigrovic Peter A PA   Hamilton Matthew J MJ   Chung Kyungemee K   Thakurdas Shakeel M SM   Boyce Joshua A JA   Anderson Paul P   Stevens Richard L RL  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20120416 24


RasGRP4 (Ras guanine nucleotide-releasing protein-4) is an intracellular, calcium-regulated guanine nucleotide exchange factor and diacylglycerol/phorbol ester receptor expressed in mast cells (MCs) and their progenitors. To study the function of this signaling protein in inflammatory disorders, a homologous recombination approach was used to create a RasGRP4-null C57BL/6 mouse line. The resulting transgenic animals had normal numbers of MCs in their tissues that histochemically and morphologica  ...[more]

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