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Maitotoxin, a novel activator of mediator release from human basophils, induces large increases in cytosolic calcium resulting in histamine, but not leukotriene C4, release

M Columbo, M Taglialatela, JA Warner, DW MacGlashan , T Yasumoto, L Annunziato and G Marone

Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Naples Federico II, Second School of Medicine, Italy.

Maitotoxin (MTX) is a potent marine toxin which stimulates several Ca(++)-dependent processes presumably through an increase in Ca++ permeability. We have examined the effect of MTX on the release of chemical mediators from human basophils and its mechanism of action. MTX (1-20 ng/ml) induced histamine release (37-100%) from both mixed leukocyte preparations and purified basophils. Histamine release activated by MTX was slow (t 1/2 approximately equal to 15 min), temperature and Ca++ dependent (optimal at 37 degrees C and 1-2.5 mM Ca++). Sr++ ion could substitute for Ca++ in the secretory process. Digital video microscopy analysis of purified (> 70%) basophils revealed that MTX (1-20 ng/ml) induced a slow and marked increase of cytosolic Ca++ levels that was temporally coincident with histamine release. MTX (1-20 ng/ml) stimulated the release of sulfidopeptide leukotriene C4 from mixed leukocyte preparations (approximately equal to 0.5% basophils). However, purified basophils (77 +/- 7%) showed no sulfidopeptide leukotriene C4 release even in the presence of large histamine secretion (84 +/- 14%). Two organic Ca(++)-channel entry blockers, verapamil and diltiazem (1-30 microM) inhibited the release of histamine induced by MTX, whereas the dihydropyridine nifedipine (0.1-10 microM) caused only minimal inhibition. These results suggest that MTX represents a novel stimulus useful to study the role of Ca++ in human basophil mediator release.

Volume 263, Issue 3, pp. 979-986, 12/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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