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Macrophage Differentiation and Polarization into an M2-Like Phenotype using a Human Monocyte-Like THP-1 Leukemia Cell Line
Published on: August 2, 2021
SPION primes THP1 derived M2 macrophages towards M1-like macrophages
Amit Laskar1, Jonas Eilertsen, Wei Li
1Experimental Pathology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping 58185, Sweden; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, Linköping 58185, Sweden.
Abstract:
Potentially, cellular iron regulates functional plasticity in macrophages yet; interaction of functionally polarized macrophages with iron-oxide nanoparticles has never been studied. We found that monocyte differentiation alters cellular ferritin and cathepsin L levels and induces functional polarization in macrophages. Iron in super paramagnetic iron-oxide nanoparticle (SPION) induces a phenotypic shift in THP1 derived M2 macrophages towards a high CD86+ and high TNF α+ macrophage subtype. This phenotypic shift was accompanied by up-regulated intracellular levels of ferritin and cathepsin L in M2 macrophages, which is a characteristic hallmark of M1 macrophages. Atherogenic oxysterols reduce phagocytic activity in macrophage subtypes, and thus these cells may escape detection by iron-oxide nanoparticles (INPs) in-vivo.
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