ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 03 April 2017 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00373 Activation of Adhesion GPCR EMR2/ ADGRE2 Induces Macrophage Differentiation and inflammatory Responses via Gα16/Akt/MAPK/ NF-κB Signaling Pathways Kuan-Yu I1, Yi-Shu Huang1†, Ching-Hsun Hu1, Wen-Yi Tseng2†, Chia-Hsin Cheng1, Martin Stacey3, Siamon Gordon1,4, Gin-Wen Chang1 and Hsi-Hsien Lin1,5,6* Edited by: 1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2 Division of Céline Cougoule, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Keelung, Keelung, Taiwan, 3 Faculty of Biological Centre national de la recherche Sciences, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 4 Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, scientifique (CNRS), France University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 5 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linkou, Taoyuan, Reviewed by: Taiwan, 6 Chang Gung Immunology Consortium, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan Frédéric Velard, Université de Reims Champagne- Ardenne, France EMR2/ADGRE2 is a human myeloid-restricted adhesion G protein-coupled receptor crit- Junjie Zhang, ically implicated in vibratory urticaria, a rare type of allergy caused by vibration-induced University of Southern California, USA mast cell activation. In addition, EMR2 is also highly expressed by monocyte/macro- *Correspondence: phages and has been linked to neutrophil migration and activation. Despite these findings, Hsi-Hsien Lin
[email protected] little is known of EMR2-mediated signaling and its role in myeloid biology. In this report, †Present address: we show that activation of EMR2 via a receptor-specific monoclonal antibody promotes Yi-Shu Huang and Wen-Yi Tseng, the differentiation of human THP-1 monocytic cell line and induces the expression of Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, pro-inflammatory mediators, including IL-8, TNF- , and MMP-9.