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P2Y6 receptor and immunoinflammation
Gui-Dong LIU, Jian-Qing DING, Qin XIAO, Sheng-Di CHEN
Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of
Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
Abstract: The immunocytes microglia in the central nervous system (CNS) were reported to play a crucial role in
neurodegeneration. As a member of P2 receptors family, purinoceptor P2Y6 has attracted much attention recently. Previous
studies showed that purinoceptor P2Y6 mainly contributed to microglia activation and their later phagocytosis in CNS, while
in immune system, it participated in the secretion of interleukin (IL)-8 from monocytes and macrocytes. So there raises a
question: whether purinoceptor P2Y6 also takes part in neuroinflammation? Thus, this review mainly concerns about the
properties and roles of purinoceptor P2Y6, including (1) structure of purinoceptor P2Y6; (2) distribution and properties of
purinoceptor P2Y6; (3) relationships between purinoceptor P2Y6 and microglia; (4) relationships between purinoceptor P2Y6
and immunoinflammation. It’s proposed that purinoceptor P2Y6 may play a role in neuroinflammation in CNS, although further
research is still required.
Key words: purinoceptor P2Y6; microglia; inflammation; immunology; neurodegeneration
1 Introduction
Extracellular nucleotides are ubiquitous molecules that
initiate and regulate a myriad of physiological effects via
membrane-bound purinoceptors. Nucleotide receptors are
normally divided into two categories: P1 receptors that bind
to adenosine in a concentration-dependent way and have
diverse biological functions through G-protein linked sec-
ond-messenger systems, and P2 purinoceptors that are fur-
ther divided into two families: ionotropic receptors (P2X) fam-
ily and metabotropic receptors (P2Y) family. P2X receptors (7
types: P2X1–P2X7) contain intrinsic pores that are opened
following ATP binding[1]. P2Y receptors (8 types: P2Y1, 2, 4,
6, 11, 12, 13 and 14) are activated by nucleotides and linked to
intracellular second-messenger systems through heteromeric
G-proteins. Nucleotides are released or leaked from non-ex-
citable cells as well as neurons under physiological or patho-
physiological conditions[2]. Under normal conditions, some
P2Y receptors, including P2Y2, P2Y4 and P2Y6 receptors,
participate actively in regulating the secretions of Cl-, Na+
and K+ and in maintaining the Ca2+ concentration[3]. However,
under inflammatory conditions, activations of P2Y receptors
can stimulate cell proliferation and play a role in immune cell
recruitment, proliferation and differentiation, thus enhance the
expressions and secretions of cytokines and proinflammatory
molecules, and increase the expressions of cell adhesion
molecules and promote the cell migration[4-7]. To learn more
about P2Y receptors, we choose purinoceptor P2Y6 as an
example and discuss recent research development on P2Y6.
2 Structure of purinoceptor P2Y6
Like other receptors of the P2Y family, purinoceptor P2Y6
has seven transmembrane domains (Fig.1). The N-terminal
region contains a single potential asparagine-linked glycosylation
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site, and the third intracellular loop and cytoplasmic C-termi-
nal have two recognition sites (Ser-235 and Thr-320) for phos-
phorylation by protein kinase C[8,9,13]. The human P2Y6 re-
ceptor gene is localized in chromosome 11q13.3-13.5[10]. cDNA
cloning of P2Y6 receptor is identified in three cDNA isoforms,
among which two isoforms have identical contiguous open
reading frames (ORFs) but differ in their 5’ untranslated
regions (5’ UTRs), originating probably from alternative
splicing, and the third isoform represents a pseudogene[11].
3 Distribution and properties of purinoceptor P2Y6
P2Y6 receptor is widely distributed in various tissues,
including placenta, spleen, thymus, small intestine, blood,
heart, blood vessels and brain[13,14]. On the cellular level, P2Y6
receptor is expressed in many kinds of cells, including intes-
tinal epithelial cells, T cells (affected T cells), monocytes,
microglia, vascular endothelia cells, cardiomyocytes, smooth
muscle cells[15,16] and neurons in the guinea pig enteric ner-
vous system[17]. Its mRNA expression has also been detected
in motor neurons[18] and spinal sensory neurons. Diphospho-
nucleotides such as UDP and UTP are ligands of P2Y6
receptor, and they are ordered according to the disparity in
potency as follows: UDP > TDP > IDP > GDP > ADP >> CDP
[19]. As a ligand of P2Y6 receptor, UDP is approximately 100-
fold more potent than UTP[14,20], whereas ADP, ATP and their
2-methylthio derivatives are almost inactive. The specific an-
tagonist for P2 receptors is MRS2578. Other three non-spe-
cific antagonists were ordered according to their activities as
in the follows: reactive blue> pyridoxal-phosphate-6-
azophenyl-2', 4'- disulphonicacid (PPADS) > suramin.
4 P2Y6 receptor and microglia
Expressing many types of P2 purinoceptors, microglia
are known as resident macrophages in the central nervous
system (CNS). ATP and other nucleotides work as warning
molecules especially through activating microglia under
pathophysiological conditions. Microglia may play a key role
in chemotaxis, phagocytosis and neuroinflammation through
nucleotide-evoked activations of P2X4, P2Y12 and P2Y6
receptors. Microglia are well known as sensors of most of
the brain-damaging events and are very crucial in the
progress of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as
Parkinson disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Microglia will be activated as
a response to injury, resulting in their interactions with im-
mune cells. Then activated microglia migrate to the sites of
injury, releasing proinflammatory mediators and finally en-
gulfing the damaged cells and cell debris, the process of
which is known as phagocytosis. Koizumi and his colleagues
reported that it was the P2Y6 receptor that mediated the ph-
agocytosis of microglia, and they also proposed that UTP
released from damaged cells might trigger phagocytosis
Figure. 1 The P2Y receptors family belong to G-protein-coupled receptors (adapted from Fields RD, Nat Rev Neurosci 2006)[12].
163Gui-Dong LIU, et al. P2Y6 receptor and immunoinflammation
through P2Y6 receptor[21]. In other words, the investigations
in the role of P2Y6 receptor in mediating microglia phagocy-
tosis could help develop therapeutic agents to interfere with
microglia activation in diseases.
5 P2Y6 receptor and immunoinflammation
The presence of P2Y6 transcripts in human spleen, thy-
mus and blood leukocytes suggests a possible role of P2Y6
receptor in the immune system. As a selective P2Y6 agonist,
UDP can stimulate the release of interleukin (IL)-8 from hu-
man THP-1 monocytes and intestinal epithelial cells, whereas
other nucleotides are relatively inactive[22,23]. Other inflam-
matory stimuli, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), inter-
feron (IFN)-γ and LPS can also stimulate IL-8 release from
monocytes, intestinal epithelial cells and monocyte-derived
dendritic cells via P2Y6 receptor through an ERK1/2-depen-
dent way[22-25]. Extracellular nucleotides can also regulate re-
lease of chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 20 (CCL20) from hu-
man primary airway epithelial cells, monocytes and mono-
cyte-derived dendritic cells through P2Y6 receptor[25]. These
findings indicate a novel role of P2Y6 receptor in innate im-
mune defenses. P2Y6 knockout mice are viable and their
growth or fertility is indistinguishable from that of the wild-
type mice. However, P2Y6 knockout macrophages fail to show
enhanced release of either interleukin (IL)-6 or macrophage-
inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2) in response to LPS stimulation,
while they exhibit enhanced release of TNF-α. What’s more,
the endothelial dependent relaxation of the aorta by UDP,
and the contractile effect of UDP on the aorta observed in
the block of endothelial nitric-oxide synthase, were also ab-
sent in P2Y6-null mice[26].
6 Conclusion
From these observations, we conclude that P2Y6 recep-
tor plays an important role in immunoinflammation in periph-
eral system, mainly by modulating the production and secre-
tion of IL-8 in monocytes and macrophages. We also pro-
pose that P2Y6 receptor may be involved in neuroinflammation
in neurodegenerative diseases. The role of P2Y6 receptor in
CNS especially in microglia-associated processes still needs
further investigation. Uracil nucleotide-sensitive P2Y recep-
tor subtypes may become future targets for treatment of
neurodegenerative diseases, vascular diseases and inflam-
matory diseases.
Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the
Key Scientific Research Innovation Program of Shanghai
Municipal Education Commission, China (No.082260).
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P2Y6 受体与免疫炎症
刘桂冬,丁健青,肖勤,陈生弟
上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院神经科,上海交通大学医学院神经病学研究所,上海 200025
摘要:小胶质细胞是中枢神经系统中的一种免疫活性细胞,在神经退行性疾病的发生发展中起着重要作用,近年
已经引起基础研究者的高度重视。嘌呤能受体P2Y6是P2受体家族中的一员,近年来也引起了科学界的关注。有
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明,P2Y6受体在中枢神经系统中介导小胶质细胞的活化及其吞噬作用,在免疫系统中参与单核巨噬细胞分
泌释放细胞因子IL-8。在中枢神经系统中P2Y6受体是否也参与了炎症因子的产生呢?本文就以下四个方面对P2Y6受
体做一综述:(1)P2Y6受体的结构;(2)P2Y6受体的分布及特性;(3)P2Y6受体与小胶质细胞的关系;(4)P2Y6受体与免
疫炎症的关系。推测P2Y6受体可能在中枢神经系统的免疫炎症反应中起重要作用,仍需进一步的研究去证实。
关键词:P2Y6受体;小胶质细胞;炎症;免疫;神经退行性疾病