The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 7 2384-2392, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Binding of human C-reactive protein to mouse macrophages is mediated by distinct receptors

K Zahedi, JM Tebo, J Siripont, GF Klimo and RF Mortensen
Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.

Human C-reactive protein (CRP) is known to activate mouse macrophages (M phi) to a tumoricidal state and to serve as an opsonin for M phi. Therefore, cell surface receptors for CRP on mouse M phi were characterized and their relationship to the IgG FcR determined. The specific binding of 125I-CRP to resident or elicited mouse M phi was saturable, reversible, and involved both a high and a low affinity receptor population. Binding of CRP to the mouse M phi cell lines PU5 1.8 and J774 was nearly identical to that observed with peritoneal M phi. The high affinity receptor population had a calculated K of 10 nM and a receptor density of approximately 10(5) sites per cell. Mouse Ig of the IgG2a, IgG2b, or IgG1 isotypes inhibited binding of 125I-CRP to PU5 1.8 cells at concentrations five-fold greater than that of the homologous ligand. In the converse experiment, unlabeled CRP failed to inhibit specific binding of 125I-labeled IgG2a, IgG2b or IgG1. Isolation of CRP binding proteins from surface iodinated PU5 1.8 cells by ligand-affinity chromatography or chemical cross-linking yielded a major protein band of 57 to 60 kDa which appeared to be distinct from the IgG1/IgG2b FcR (FcR-II) membrane proteins. Removal of radiolabeled IgG2b/IgG1 binding membrane proteins by affinity chromatography did not remove CRP-binding proteins. The rat mAb 2.4G2 which inhibits binding of radiolabeled mouse IgG2b, did not inhibit the binding of CRP. A rat polyclonal antiserum to CRP-binding membrane proteins of PU5 1.8 cells inhibited 125I-CRP binding, but not 125IgG2b binding. The rat polyclonal antibody reacted with two 57 to 60 kDa membrane proteins from PU5 1.8 cells that appear to be of a similar size on Western blots. The 125I-CRP was internalized via endosomes and intact CRP subunits could be detected intracellularly. The findings suggest that binding of CRP occurs through a receptor that is distinct from the IgG FcRs, but that CRP-R activity may be influenced by an association with an IgG FcR.

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