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Progesterone inhibits Toll-like receptor 4-mediated innate immune response in macrophages by suppressing NF-kappaB activation and enhancing SOCS1 expression.
Immunology Letters 2009 August 16
Although progesterone has been recognized as essential for the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy, this steroid hormone has been implicated to have a functional role in immune response, mainly at concentrations commensurate with pregnancy. However, the underlying mechanisms remain to be fully understood. Here we present the evidences that progesterone inhibited immune response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) through modulating Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling. Pretreatment with progesterone can significantly inhibit TLR4 and TLR9-triggered IL-6 and nitric oxide (NO) production in macrophages. Furthermore, we found that progesterone can significantly inhibit LPS-induced nitric oxide synthesis (iNOS), TLR4 expression and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation. Consistently, as a negative feedback inhibitor, the expression of suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS1) protein was up-regulated by progesterone in LPS-stimulated macrophages. These results support the concept that progesterone might inhibit innate immune response by suppressing NF-kappaB activation and enhancement of SOCS1 expression, providing a possible mechanistic explanation for the function of progesterone in regulating innate immune responses.
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