Abstract
Current concepts concerning the main functional phenotypes of mononuclear phagocytes are systematized, molecular mechanisms of their formation are considered, and the functional polarization concept of macrophages is critically analyzed. Mechanisms of macrophage priming activation mediated by pattern recognition receptors TLR, NLR, RLR, and CLR are described, and the features of each phenotype acquired via various pattern recognition receptors are emphasized. It is concluded that there is a huge variety of proinflammatory phenotypes from highly to poorly polarized ones. Thus the widespread notion of “classical activation” of macrophage concerns just a particular case of proinflammatory phenotype formation.
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Abbreviations
- AIM2:
-
absent in melanoma 2
- ASC:
-
CARD domain containing apoptosis-associated speck-like protein
- CARD:
-
caspase activating and recruiting domain
- CLR:
-
C-type lectin receptors
- CTLL:
-
C-type lectin-like receptors
- DAI:
-
DNA-dependent activator of IFN-regulatory factors
- DAMP:
-
danger/damage-associated molecular patterns
- DISC:
-
death-inducing signaling complex
- ERK:
-
extracellular signal-regulated kinases
- FADD:
-
Fas-associated protein with death domain
- HIN200:
-
hematopoietic IFN-inducible nuclear protein with 200-amino-acid repeat
- HMGB1:
-
high mobility group box 1 protein
- IFI16:
-
γ-interferon-inducible protein 16
- IFN:
-
interferon
- IL:
-
interleukin
- iNOS:
-
inducible NO synthase
- IPS1:
-
stimulator 1 of IFN-β promoter
- IRAK1:
-
IL-1 receptor-associated kinase 1
- IRF:
-
IFN regulatory factor
- ISRE:
-
IFN-stimulated response elements
- ITAM:
-
immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif
- JNK:
-
Jun N-terminal protein kinase
- LBP:
-
LPS-binding protein
- LPS:
-
lipopolysaccharide
- LRR:
-
leucine-rich repeat domain
- MAPK:
-
mitogen-activated protein kinases
- MD2:
-
myeloid differentiation protein-2
- MDA5:
-
melanoma differentiation associated gene 5
- Mph:
-
macrophage
- NK:
-
natural killer
- NLR:
-
nucleotide oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors
- PAMP:
-
pathogen-associated molecular patterns
- PRR:
-
pattern recognition receptors
- RIP1:
-
receptor-interacting protein 1
- RLR:
-
retinoic acid-inducible gene-I-like receptors
- STAT:
-
signal transducer and transcription activator
- STING:
-
stimulator of interferon genes
- TAB1:
-
TAK1-binding protein
- TAK1:
-
TGF-β activated kinase 1
- TGF:
-
transforming growth factor
- TIR:
-
Toll/IL-1R domain
- TIRAP:
-
Toll receptor IL-1R domain-containing adaptor protein
- TLR:
-
toll-like receptors
- TNF:
-
tumor necrosis factor
- TRADD:
-
TNFR1-associated death domain
- TRAF:
-
TNF-receptor-associated factor
- TRAM:
-
TRIFrelated adaptor molecule
- TRIF:
-
TIR-domain-containing adaptor-inducing IFN-β
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Schwartz, Y.S., Svistelnik, A.V. Functional phenotypes of macrophages and the M1-M2 polarization concept. Part I. Proinflammatory phenotype. Biochemistry Moscow 77, 246–260 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297912030030
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