Macrophage-released neutrophil chemotactic factor (MNCF) induces PMN-neutrophil migration through lectin-like activity

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Abstract
We have previously reported that rat peritoneal macrophages stimulated with LPS release a factor (MNCF) which induces neutrophil migration that is not blocked by glucocorticoids. The supernatant of macrophage monolayers stimulated with LPS was submitted to affinity chromatography on immobilized sugar columns. We observed that thed-gal binding fraction retained MNCF activity. This fraction, consisting of four protein components, was submitted to chromatography on Superdex 75, yielding a homogeneous preparation of the active component. MNCF has a MW of 54 KDa (gel filtration and SDS-PAGE) and pIin vitro migration assay. The present results reinforce our previous suggestion that MNCF may correspond to a novel monokine which induces neutrophil migration through a direct mechanism involving thed-gal binding site of the molecule.