Cloning and Functional Expression of a Human Eosinophil CC Chemokine Receptor

Eosinophils undergo chemotaxis, degranulate, and exhibit Ca2+i changes in response to the human CC chemokines macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1α, regulated on activation, normal T expressed and secreted (RANTES), and monocyte chemoattractant protein-3 (MCP-3), but the receptors involved have not been defined. We have isolated a human cDNA encoding the first eosinophil-selective chemokine receptor, designated CC chemokine receptor 3 (CC CKR3). CC CKR3 is a seven-transmembrane domain G protein-coupled receptor most closely related to the previously reported monocyte- and neutrophil-selective receptor CC CKR1 (also known as the MIP-1α/RANTES receptor). When Ca2+i changes were monitored in stably transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells, MIP-1α and RANTES were both potent agonists for CC CKR3 and CC CKR1. However, MIP-1β was also an agonist for CC CKR3 but not CC CKR1; MCP-3 was an agonist for CC CKR1 but not CC CKR3. CC CKR3 may be one of the host factors responsible for selective recruitment of eosinophils to sites of inflammation. Eosinophils undergo chemotaxis, degranulate, and exhibit Ca2+i changes in response to the human CC chemokines macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1α, regulated on activation, normal T expressed and secreted (RANTES), and monocyte chemoattractant protein-3 (MCP-3), but the receptors involved have not been defined. We have isolated a human cDNA encoding the first eosinophil-selective chemokine receptor, designated CC chemokine receptor 3 (CC CKR3). CC CKR3 is a seven-transmembrane domain G protein-coupled receptor most closely related to the previously reported monocyte- and neutrophil-selective receptor CC CKR1 (also known as the MIP-1α/RANTES receptor). When Ca2+i changes were monitored in stably transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells, MIP-1α and RANTES were both potent agonists for CC CKR3 and CC CKR1. However, MIP-1β was also an agonist for CC CKR3 but not CC CKR1; MCP-3 was an agonist for CC CKR1 but not CC CKR3. CC CKR3 may be one of the host factors responsible for selective recruitment of eosinophils to sites of inflammation. The types of white blood cells that appear in inflammatory infiltrates can differ markedly depending in part on the identity of the inflammatory irritant and the duration of irritation. The host factors responsible for these differences are likely to be cell type-specific or selective chemoattractants and chemoattractant receptors. CC and CXC chemokines are two related families of relatively selective leukocyte chemoattractants. CC chemokines are all potent monocyte chemoattractants in vitro but differ in their capacity to activate neutrophils, lymphocytes, basophils, and eosinophils (reviewed in Ref. 1Baggiolini M. Dewald B. Moser B. Adv. Immunol. 1994; 55: 97-179Crossref PubMed Scopus (2270) Google Scholar). 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The receptors responsible for CC chemokine action on eosinophils have not been defined. By inspecting cross-desensitization patterns for chemokine-induced calcium transients, Dahinden et al. (4Dahinden C.A. Geiser T. Brunner T. von Tscharner V. Caput D. Ferrara P. Minty A. Baggiolini M. J. Exp. Med. 1994; 179: 751-758Crossref PubMed Scopus (316) Google Scholar) have proposed that eosinophils have specific receptors for RANTES and MCP-3 and a shared receptor for MIP-1α, RANTES, and MCP-3. Van Riper et al.(7Van Riper G. Nicholson D.W. Scheid M.P. Fischer P.A. Springer M.S. Rosen H. J. Immunol. 1994; 152: 4055-4063PubMed Google Scholar) have identified a shared functional binding site for MIP-1α and RANTES on HL-60 cell-derived eosinophil-like cells, but MCP-3 binding to this site has not yet been tested. Eotaxin competes for 125I-human RANTES binding to guinea pig eosinophils, suggesting a shared receptor(5Jose P.J. Griffiths-Johnson D.A. Collins P.D. Walsh D.T. Moqbel R. Totty N.F. Truong O. Hsuan J.J. Williams T.J. J. Exp. Med. 1994; 179: 881-886Crossref PubMed Scopus (769) Google Scholar). cDNAs for three human leukocyte CC chemokine receptors have been cloned, CC CKR1, CC CKR2A, and CC CKR2B (also known as MCP-1 receptors A and B), but their properties are not fully consistent with eosinophil responses to CC chemokines(8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 9Neote K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar, 10Nomura H. Nielsen B.W. Matsushima K. Int. Immunol. 1993; 5: 1239-1247Crossref PubMed Scopus (141) Google Scholar, 11Charo I.F. Myers S.J. Herman A. Franci C. Connolly A.J. Coughlin S.R. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1994; 91: 2752-2755Crossref PubMed Scopus (654) Google Scholar). MIP-1α and RANTES are effective agonists for CC CKR1; however, its RNA is scarce in eosinophils(8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 9Neote K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar, 12Combadiere C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). Much higher expression is found in neutrophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes(10Nomura H. Nielsen B.W. Matsushima K. Int. Immunol. 1993; 5: 1239-1247Crossref PubMed Scopus (141) Google Scholar, 12Combadiere C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). MCP-1 is an agonist for CC CKR2A and −2B, but it does not activate eosinophils(4Dahinden C.A. Geiser T. Brunner T. von Tscharner V. Caput D. Ferrara P. Minty A. Baggiolini M. J. Exp. Med. 1994; 179: 751-758Crossref PubMed Scopus (316) Google Scholar, 11Charo I.F. Myers S.J. Herman A. Franci C. Connolly A.J. Coughlin S.R. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1994; 91: 2752-2755Crossref PubMed Scopus (654) Google Scholar). Moreover, CC CKR2 RNA is expressed in monocytes but not in eosinophils(12Combadiere C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). Together with the CXC chemokine receptors, the CC chemokine receptors form a subgroup of the rhodopsin superfamily of seven-transmembrane domain receptors(13Murphy P.M. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 1994; 12: 593-633Crossref PubMed Scopus (1130) Google Scholar). Here we characterize the first eosinophil-selective member of this family. Construction of a λ gt11 cDNA library prepared from lipopolysaccharide-stimulated peripheral blood monocytes has been previously described(14Miki T. Matsui T. Heidaran M.A. Aaronson S.A. Gene (Amst.). 1989; 83: 137-146Crossref PubMed Scopus (54) Google Scholar). The library was screened by plaque hybridization with the full-length open reading frame (ORF) of CC CKR2B produced by polymerase chain reaction and labeled with γ-32PdCTP using a random primer labeling kit (Boehringer Mannheim). Plaque lifts were incubated in 106 cpm/probe/ml of hybridization buffer for 12 h and then were washed at 55°C in 5 × SSPE for 15 min. cDNA inserts of purified phage DNA were excised by SalI and SfiI double digestion, blunt ended with Pfu DNA polymerase, subcloned into the EcoRV site of pBluescript II SK (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA), and sequenced on both strands. cDNAs were then subcloned between the NheI and XhoI sites of the mammalian expression vector pREP9 (Invitrogen, San Diego, CA). Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells (107) grown to log phase in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium and 10% fetal bovine serum were electroporated with 20 μg of plasmid DNA, and G418-resistant colonies were picked and expanded. The p4 cDNA (8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar) encoding CC CKR1 was subcloned into the NotI and XhoI sites of pCEP4 (Invitrogen), and transfected HEK 293 cells were selected in 250 μg/ml hygromycin. Human genomic DNA was analyzed by restriction enzyme cleavage and Southern hybridization as described previously(8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar). Total RNA was prepared using an RNA isolation kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) from human peripheral blood neutrophils isolated by Hypaque-Ficoll differential centrifugation (>95% neutrophils), from human blood monocytes separated from lymphocytes by adherence to plastic for 18 h, and from human blood eosinophils isolated from a healthy individual with a >10-year history of stable hypereosinophilia (>99% eosinophils) as described previously (15Ahuja S.K. Shetty A. Tiffany H.L. Murphy P.M. J. Biol. Chem. 1994; 269: 26381-26389Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). RNA samples were analyzed by Northern blot hybridization exactly as described previously(15Ahuja S.K. Shetty A. Tiffany H.L. Murphy P.M. J. Biol. Chem. 1994; 269: 26381-26389Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). 106 transfected cells were incubated in duplicate with 0.1-0.5 nM125I-labeled RANTES, MCP-1, MIP-1α, or MIP-1β (specific activity, ~2200 Ci/mmol, DuPont NEN) and varying concentrations of unlabeled recombinant human chemokines (Peprotech, Rocky Hill, NJ) in 200 μl of binding medium (RPMI 1640 with 1 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and 25 mM HEPES, pH 7.4). After incubation for 2 h at 4°C, cells were pelleted through a 10% sucrose/phosphate-buffered saline cushion, and specific binding was determined by the difference in counts in the presence and absence of a 500-fold molar excess of unlabeled chemokine. Cells (107/ml) were incubated in Hanks' buffered saline solution with Ca2+ and Mg2+ supplemented with 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4 (HBSS) containing 2.5 μM Fura-2/AM (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) for 60 min at 37°C in the dark. Cells were washed twice with HBSS and resuspended at 2 × 106 cells/ml. Two ml were placed in a continuously stirred cuvette at 37°C in a fluorimeter (Photon Technology Inc., South Brunswick, NJ). Fluorescence was monitored at λex1 = 340 nm, λex2 = 380 nm, and λem = 510 nm. The data were recorded as the relative ratio of fluorescence excited at 340 and 380 nm. Data were collected every 200 ms. Out of 6 positive human monocyte cDNA clones that cross-hybridized with a CC CKR2B ORF probe at low stringency, 2 were for CC CKR1, 1 was for CC CKR2B, 2 were for novel putative chemokine receptors, and 1 was for a cDNA unrelated to chemokine receptors. Here we detail the properties of one of the two novel putative chemokine receptors, which we have designated CC CKR3. The CC CKR3 cDNA is 1.6 kb in length. The ORF encodes a predicted protein of 355 amino acids that is identical in length and 63% identical in sequence with CC CKR1. CC CKR3 has 51% identity with CC CKR2B (Fig. 1) but only 31% identity with the CXC chemokine receptors and IL-8 receptors A and B(8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 9Neote K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar, 10Nomura H. Nielsen B.W. Matsushima K. Int. Immunol. 1993; 5: 1239-1247Crossref PubMed Scopus (141) Google Scholar, 11Charo I.F. Myers S.J. Herman A. Franci C. Connolly A.J. Coughlin S.R. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1994; 91: 2752-2755Crossref PubMed Scopus (654) Google Scholar, 16Holmes W.E. Lee J. Kuang W.-J. Rice G.C. Wood W.I. Science. 1991; 253: 1278-1280Crossref PubMed Scopus (917) Google Scholar, 17Murphy P.M. Tiffany H.L. Science. 1991; 253: 1280-1283Crossref PubMed Scopus (766) Google Scholar). The amino acid positions that differ between CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 are found mostly in the putative extracellular domains and adjacent portions of the transmembrane domains (Fig. 1); the predicted intracellular C-terminal segments are also divergent but have a high content of serine residues that may be sites for receptor phosphorylation as they are in rhodopsin and the β2-adrenergic receptor(18Lefkowitz R.J. Cell. 1993; 74: 409-411Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (404) Google Scholar). Like CC CKR1 and all other known chemokine receptors, the CC CKR3 sequence is acidic in the N-terminal segment before the first putative transmembrane domain, containing a net charge of −4. The second extracellular loop is also highly acidic (net charge of −5), whereas for CC CKR1 the corresponding region has a net charge of +3. Like all other known chemokine receptors, CC CKR3 has conserved cysteine residues in the N-terminal segment and the third predicted extracellular loop that could form a disulfide bond (1Baggiolini M. Dewald B. Moser B. Adv. Immunol. 1994; 55: 97-179Crossref PubMed Scopus (2270) Google Scholar). These cysteines are less frequently found in other G protein-coupled receptors(19Probst W.B. Snyder L.A. Schuster D.I. Brosius J. Sealfon S.C. DNA Cell Biol. 1992; 11: 1-20Crossref PubMed Scopus (685) Google Scholar). Unlike other chemokine receptors, CC CKR3 lacks a consensus sequence for N-linked glycosylation. The proline in a proline-cysteine motif conserved in the N-terminal segment of other chemokine receptors is leucine in CC CKR3. Hybridization of the CC CKR3 cDNA to total human genomic DNA digested with PstI, EcoRI, and HindIII revealed one strongly hybridizing band in each case (Fig. 2A), suggesting that it is the product of a small, The HindIII band was also in genomic DNA low with a CC CKR1 cDNA probe to to CC CKR3 K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google and P. M. Two of CC CKR3 were in human peripheral eosinophils (Fig. The is 1.6 in length to the CC CKR3 cDNA that we A is also were in neutrophil and monocyte samples only When the blot was with CC CKR1 a was of a in neutrophil and monocyte and in the eosinophil C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). CC CKR1 has also been in peripheral lymphocytes and cells (8Gao J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 10Nomura H. Nielsen B.W. Matsushima K. Int. Immunol. 1993; 5: 1239-1247Crossref PubMed Scopus (141) Google Scholar) and in in and but in in and C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). We have not been to CC CKR3 in these When the blot was with the CC CKR2B a was only in the monocyte C. Ahuja S.K. Murphy P.M. DNA Cell Biol. 1995; (in press)PubMed Google Scholar). CC CKR1, and are expressed in a cell type-specific in human peripheral blood MIP-1α, RANTES, and MCP-3 are the only known human CC chemokines that activate eosinophils, they were the best agonists for CC Y. Dorschner A. Mallet A.I. Christophers E. Schroder J.-M. J. Exp. Med. 1992; 176: 587-594Crossref PubMed Scopus (651) Google Scholar, 3Rot A. Krieger M. Brunner T. Bischoff S.C. Schall T.J. Dahinden C.A. J. Exp. Med. 1992; 176: 1489-1497Crossref PubMed Scopus (595) Google Scholar, 4Dahinden C.A. Geiser T. Brunner T. von Tscharner V. Caput D. Ferrara P. Minty A. Baggiolini M. J. Exp. 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However, CC CC cells also to MCP-3 but not to MIP-1β at (Fig. CC CKR1 is the first known MCP-3 receptor to be The of CC CKR1 to CC CKR3 is to the of IL-8 receptor A to IL-8 receptor in that both are of receptors with highly related and an but of agonists to CC or CXC W.E. Lee J. Kuang W.-J. Rice G.C. Wood W.I. Science. 1991; 253: 1278-1280Crossref PubMed Scopus (917) Google Scholar, 17Murphy P.M. Tiffany H.L. Science. 1991; 253: 1280-1283Crossref PubMed Scopus (766) Google Scholar). However, IL-8 receptors A and are both expressed at high in the cell the S.K. Shetty A. Tiffany H.L. Murphy P.M. J. Biol. Chem. 1994; 269: 26381-26389Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). After activation, chemokine receptors have to with the agonist and other M. Dewald B. Moser B. Adv. Immunol. 1994; 55: 97-179Crossref PubMed Scopus (2270) Google Scholar, 4Dahinden C.A. Geiser T. Brunner T. von Tscharner V. Caput D. Ferrara P. Minty A. Baggiolini M. J. Exp. 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Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar) (Fig. MIP-1α the CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 RANTES responses the eosinophil RANTES RANTES the eosinophil MIP-1α response the CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 MIP-1α MIP-1β is a potent agonist for CC CKR3 but not for and monocyte responses to MIP-1α and RANTES also differ from found for the receptors. neutrophils, responses to MIP-1α and RANTES can be yet the of the neutrophil RANTES response is that of the neutrophil MIP-1α response at whereas for CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 they are J.-L. Kuhns D.B. Tiffany H.L. McDermott D. Li X. Francke U. Murphy P.M. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: 1421-1427Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 9Neote K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar) 2 (Fig. RANTES both the CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 MIP-1α response in transfected cells but not the monocyte MIP-1α response K. DiGregorio D. Mak J.Y. Horuk R. Schall T.J. Cell. 1993; 72: 415-425Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (700) Google Scholar, D.W. J.J. J. Exp. Med. 1993; 177: PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). The factors that for these differences are not but could for novel CC chemokine receptors. cell type-specific factors could that agonist and properties for the receptors that are is for that does not Ca2+i changes in response to IL-8 in HEK 293 cells transfected with IL-8 receptor whereas IL-8 neutrophil responses to which are to be by IL-8 receptor B. C. von Tscharner V. Baggiolini M. J. Biol. Chem. 1991; Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar, M. J. Immunol. 1993; Google Scholar). MIP-1α, RANTES, and MIP-1β are agonists for CC they to we have not yet been to specific binding of and to CC HEK 293 cells using as as on 2 transfected We have used the to specific binding of to CC HEK 293 cells (Fig. that MIP-1α, and RANTES activate CC CKR3 low binding is that CC CKR3 is selective for as yet CC chemokine as P.J. Griffiths-Johnson D.A. Collins P.D. Walsh D.T. Moqbel R. Totty N.F. Truong O. Hsuan J.J. Williams T.J. J. Exp. Med. 1994; 179: 881-886Crossref PubMed Scopus (769) Google Scholar). Human eotaxin has not been identified The high binding of and to a shared site reported for eosinophils is most likely to a receptor from CC CC CKR1. The and strongly that normal human monocytes and eosinophils to MIP-1α and RANTES two MIP-1α/RANTES receptors, CC CKR1 and CC CKR3. The relative RNA that CC CKR1 but not in monocytes, and CC CKR3 but not in RNA for both CC CKR1 and CC CKR3 is expressed in neutrophils, but the functional is these cells not or to MIP-1α and RANTES S.R. M. S. K. Schall T.J. J. Immunol. 1993; Google Scholar). CC CKR1 may also be responsible in part for the responses of monocytes and eosinophils to C.A. Geiser T. Brunner T. von Tscharner V. Caput D. Ferrara P. Minty A. Baggiolini M. J. Exp. Med. 1994; 179: 751-758Crossref PubMed Scopus (316) Google Scholar, J. P. G. J. Exp. Med. 1992; 176: PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). RNA for CC CKR1 is in neutrophils, we that MCP-3 can Ca2+i changes in neutrophils, this has not been The functional for eosinophils of the response of CC CKR3 to MIP-1β is at the RNA patterns of the CC chemokine receptors are a functional be to fully the of these receptors for chemotaxis, and other responses by specific types of inflammatory responses in on the data reported it is to that CC CKR3 may be an host eosinophil at sites or other types of eosinophils are in The for the CC CKR3 is A designated has been identified that to be the to J.-L. Murphy P.M. J. Biol. Chem. 1995; (in Scholar). We S. for purified eosinophils and H. Lee Tiffany for