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Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5089-5098, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Expression of CD14 by Hepatocytes: Upregulation by Cytokines during Endotoxemia

Shubing Liu,1,* Lajwanti S. Khemlani,2 Richard A. Shapiro,1 Mark L. Johnson,1 Kaihong Liu,1 David A. Geller,1 Simon C. Watkins,3 Sanna M. Goyert,2 and Timothy R. Billiar1

Department of Surgery1 and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology,3 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital-New York University, Manhasset, New York 110302

Received 15 October 1997/Returned for modification 5 December 1997/Accepted 6 August 1998

Studies were undertaken to examine hepatocyte CD14 expression during endotoxemia. Our results show that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment in vivo caused a marked upregulation in CD14 mRNA and protein levels in rat hepatocytes. Detectable increases in mRNA were seen as early as 1.5 h after LPS treatment; these increases peaked at 20-fold by 3 h and returned to baseline levels by 24 h. In situ hybridization localized the CD14 mRNA expression to hepatocytes both in vitro and in vivo. Increases in hepatic CD14 protein levels were detectable by 3 h and peaked at 12 h. Hepatocytes from LPS-treated animals expressed greater amounts of cell-associated CD14 protein, and more of the soluble CD14 was released by hepatocytes from LPS-treated rats in vitro. The increases in hepatocyte CD14 expression during endotoxemia occurred in parallel to increases of CD14 levels in plasma. To provide molecular identification of the hepatocyte CD14, we cloned the rat liver CD14 cDNA. The longest clone consists of a 1,591-bp insert containing a 1,116-bp open reading frame. The deduced amino acid sequence is 372 amino acids long, has 81.8 and 62.8% homology to the amino acid sequences of mouse and human CD14, respectively, and is identical to the rat macrophage CD14. The expressed CD14 protein from this clone was functional, as indicated by NF-kappa B activation in response to LPS and fluorescein isothiocyanate-LPS binding in CHO cells stably transfected with rat CD14. A nuclear run-on assay showed that CD14 transcription rates were significantly increased in hepatocytes from LPS-treated animals, indicating that the upregulation in CD14 mRNA levels observed in rat hepatocytes after LPS treatment is dependent, in part, on increased transcription. In vitro and in vivo experiments indicated that interleukin-1beta and/or tumor necrosis factor alpha  participate in the upregulation of CD14 mRNA levels in hepatocytes. Our data indicate that hepatocytes express CD14 and that hepatocyte CD14 mRNA and protein levels increase rapidly during endotoxemia. Our observations also support the idea that soluble CD14 is an acute-phase protein and that hepatocytes could be a source for soluble CD14 production.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, W1504 BST, Lothrop and Terrace Sts., Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Phone: (412) 624-6740. Fax: (412) 624-1172. E-mail: shubing{at}pitt.edu.

Infection and Immunity, November 1998, p. 5089-5098, Vol. 66, No. 11
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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