Abstract
Leukotriene B4(LTB4)1 is a potent chemoattractant that is primarily involved in inflammation, immune responses and host defence against infection2. LTB4 activates inflammatory cells by binding to its cell-surface receptor (BLTR)3. LTB4 can also bind and activate the intranuclear transcription factor PPARα, resulting in the activation of genes that terminate inflammatory processes4. Here we report the cloning of the complementary DNA encoding a cell-surface LTB4 receptor that is highly expressed in human leukocytes. Using a subtraction strategy, we isolated two cDNA clones (HL-1 and HL-5) from retinoic acid-differentiated HL-60 cells. These two clones contain identical open reading frames encoding a protein of 352 amino acids and predicted to contain seven membrane-spanning domains, but different 5′-untranslated regions. Membrane fractions of Cos-7 cells transfected with an expression construct containing the open reading frame of HL-5 showed specific LTB4 binding, with a Kd(0.154nM) comparable to that observed in retinoic acid-differentiated HL-60 cells. In CHO cells stably expressing this receptor, LTB4 induced increases in intracellular calcium, D-myo-inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate (InsP3) accumulation, and inhibition of adenylyl cyclase. Furthermore, CHO cells expressing exogenous BLTR showed marked chemotactic responses towards low concentrations of LTB4 in a pertussis-toxin-sensitive manner. Our findings, together with previous reports4,5, show that LTB4 is a unique lipid mediator that interacts with both cell-surface and nuclear receptors.
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We thank K. Kume, T. Igarashi, I. Waga, I. Ishii, M. Nakamura and M. Aihara for discussions, M. Ohara and D. Saffen for comments, and Y. Kobayashi and F. Sato for LTB4. This work was supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture and the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, and by grants from the Yamanouchi Foundation for Metabolic Disorders, the Human Life Science Foundation, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. T.Y. is a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Yokomizo, T., Izumi, T., Chang, K. et al. A G-protein-coupled receptor for leukotriene B4 that mediates chemotaxis. Nature 387, 620–624 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/42506
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