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. 1999 Oct-Dec;23(7-8):629-40.
doi: 10.1016/s0145-305x(99)00043-9.

Bioactivities of a tumour necrosis-like factor released by chicken macrophages

S Rautenschlein  1 , A Subramanian, J M Sharma
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Bioactivities of a tumour necrosis-like factor released by chicken macrophages

S Rautenschlein et al. Dev Comp Immunol. 1999 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

To test for tumour necrosis-like factor (TNF) of chickens, supernatants of a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated chicken macrophage cell line MQ-NCSU were analysed. A sequence of ion-exchange and gel-permeation chromatography was utilised to isolate TNF-like activity from the culture supernatant. The peak of TNF-like cytotoxic activity corresponded to the fractions with a molecular weight of 81 kDa or higher. Polyclonal anti-human TNF-alpha antiserum cross-reacted by Western blotting with a 17 kDa protein in the TNF-containing fraction under denaturing conditions. This result indicated that chicken TNF-like factor in the biologically active form may be a protein multimer of monomers of about 17 kDa. The molecular weight of these monomers is similar to the molecular weight of mammalian TNF-alpha. Chicken TNF-like factor stimulated macrophages by inducing morphological changes, enhancing Ia-expression, nitric oxide (NO) production and by synergising with interferon (IFN)-gamma in the induction of NO release from macrophages. The biological activities were not neutralised by anti-human TNF antiserum. These data suggest that LPS-stimulated chicken macrophages produced a functional homologue to mammalian TNF-alpha. This may be structurally quite different from the mammalian TNF molecule. Other factors may have been co-purified with the chicken TNF-like factor having overlapping functions and molecular weight. However, co-purification of chemokines and interleukin-1, major macrophage derived factors, with the chicken TNF-like factor can be excluded based on the purification strategies.

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