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A sensitive, specific, reproducible, robust, and cost-effective customized cDNA array system based on established nylon membrane technology has been developed for convenient multisample expression profiling for several hundred genes of choice. The genes represented are easily adjusted (depending on the availability of corresponding cDNAs) and the method is accordingly readily applicable to a wide variety of systems. Here we have focused on the expression profiles for interferon-alpha2a, the most widely used interferon for the treatment of viral hepatitis and malignancies, in primary cells (peripheral blood mononuclear cells, T cells, and dendritic cells) and cell lines (Kit255, HT1080, HepG2, and HuH7). Of 150 genes studied, only six were consistently induced in all cell types and donors, whereas 74 genes were induced in at least one cell type. IRF-7 was identified as the only gene exclusively induced in the hematopoietic cells. No gene was exclusively induced in the nonhematopoietic cell lines. In T cells 12, and in dendritic cells, 25 genes were induced in all donors whereas 45 and 42 genes, respectively, were induced in at least one donor. The data suggest that signaling through IFN-alpha2 can be substantially modulated to yield significant cell-type and donor-specific qualitative and quantitative differences in gene expression in response to this cytokine under highly standardized conditions.
Author(s): Schlaak JF, Hilkens CM, Costa-Pereira AP, Strobl B, Aberger F, Frischauf AM, Kerr IM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry
Year: 2002
Volume: 277
Issue: 51
Pages: 49428-49437
Print publication date: 16/10/2002
ISSN (print): 0021-9258
ISSN (electronic): 1083-351X
Publisher: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M205571200
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M205571200
Notes: 0021-9258 Journal Article
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