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© by The Society for Leukocyte Biology
Journal of Leukocyte Biology, doi:10.1189/jlb.0107036

Received for publication January 18, 2007.
Revised January 18, 2007.
Accepted for publication February 12, 2007.

Article

PU.1 and ICSBP control constitutive and IFN--regulated Tlr9 gene expression in mouse macrophages

Kate Schroder ^*, Monika Lichtinger , Katharine M. Irvine ^*, Kristian Brion ^*, Angela Trieu ^*, Ian L. Ross ^*, Timothy Ravasi , Katryn J. Stacey ^*, Michael Rehli , David A. Hume ^*, and Matthew J. Sweet ^*||@

*Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and ^||School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Australia; Abt. für Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie, Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, Germany; and Scripps NeuroAIDS Preclinical Studies Centre and Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

^@ To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: M.Sweet{at}imb.uq.edu.au.

	Abstract

Macrophages are activated by unmethylated CpG-containing DNA (CpG DNA) via TLR9. IFN- and LPS can synergize with CpG DNA to enhance proinflammatory responses in murine macrophages. Here, we show that LPS and IFN- up-regulated Tlr9 mRNA in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM). The ability of LPS and IFN- to induce Tlr9 mRNA expression in BMM was dependent on the presence of the growth factor, CSF-1, which is constitutively present in vivo. However, there were clear differences in mechanisms of Tlr9 mRNA induction. LPS stimulation rapidly removed the CSF-1 receptor (CSF-1R) from the cell surface, thereby blocking CSF-1-mediated transcriptional repression and indirectly inducing Tlr9 mRNA expression. By contrast, IFN- activated the Tlr9 promoter directly and only marginally affected cell surface CSF-1R expression. An 100-bp proximal promoter of the murine Tlr9 gene was sufficient to confer basal and IFN--inducible expression in RAW264.7 cells. A composite IFN regulatory factor (IRF)/PU.1 site upon the major transcription start site was identified. Mutation of the binding sites for PU.1 or IRF impaired basal promoter activity, but only the IRF-binding site was required for IFN- induction. The mRNA expression of the IRF family member IFN consensus-binding protein [(ICSBP)/IRF8] was coregulated with Tlr9 in macrophages, and constitutive and IFN--inducible Tlr9 mRNA expression was reduced in ICSBP-deficient BMM. This study therefore characterizes the regulation of mouse Tlr9 expression and defines a molecular mechanism by which IFN- amplifies mouse macrophage responses to CpG DNA.

Key Words: colony-stimulating factor-1 • inflammation • lipopolysaccharide • interferon • IRF8 • Toll-like receptor