Modulation of superoxide generation in in vivo lipopolysaccharide- primed Kupffer cells by staurosporine, okadaic acid, manoalide, arachidonic acid, genistein and sodium orthovanadate

AM Mayer and JA Spitzer

Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans.

Continuous infusion of a nonlethal dose of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) into rats induced extravasation of mononuclear phagocytes into the liver and the priming of Kupffer cells for in vitro phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-stimulated superoxide anion (O2-) release. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the role of protein kinase C (PKC), protein serine-threonine phosphatase(s) 1 and 2a, protein tyrosine kinase(s) and phosphatase(s), phospholipase A2 (PLA2), arachidonic acid (AA) and its cyclooxygenase (CO) and 5- lipoxygenase (5-LO) metabolites in the modulation of PMA-stimulated O2- generation in in vivo LPS-primed rat Kupffer cells. The following inhibitors blocked PMA-stimulated O2- generation in the absence (-AA) or presence of AA (+AA) (50 microM): 1) staurosporine, a putative PKC inhibitor (150 nM, 95% inhibition without AA, 88% inhibition with AA); 2) okadaic acid, a protein serine-threonine phosphatase inhibitor (2 microM, 65% inhibition with or without AA); 3) the marine PLA2 inhibitor manoalide (1 microM, 97.5% inhibition without AA, 75% with AA). In addition, it was observed that exogenously added AA enhanced PMA-stimulated O2- generation in a time- and dose-dependent manner (5- 50 microM) and partially reversed the inhibitory effect of manoalide. The following inhibitors did not block PMA-stimulated O2- generation in the absence or presence of AA: 1) indomethacin, a CO inhibitor (1-100 microM) and WY-50,295M tromethamine, a novel 5-LO inhibitor (1-100 microM); 2) genistein, a protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor (1-100 microM); and 3) sodium orthovanadate (1-300 microM), a protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor. It was concluded that, in in vivo LPS-primed Kupffer cells, PMA-stimulated O2- generation is modulated by PKC, protein serine-threonine phosphatase(s), PLA2 and AA but not by protein tyrosine kinase(s) and phosphatase(s) and CO and 5-LO products. These findings could have implications on the design of novel therapeutic approaches for the modulation of enhanced O2- release by Kupffer cells in endotoxemia.

Volume 268, Issue 1, pp. 238-247, 01/01/1994
Copyright © 1994 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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