KMID : 0620920080400020167
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Experimental & Molecular Medicine 2008 Volume.40 No. 2 p.167 ~ p.175
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TNF-¥á-induced up-regulation of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 is regulated by a Rac-ROS-dependent cascade in human airway epithelial cells
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Kim Hyun-Ju
Seo Ji-Min Kim Jae-Hong Woo Chang-Hoon Hwang Jung-Sun Kim Eun-Young Kim Tae-Hee Cho Kyung-Jin Lee Sang-Soo
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Abstract
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Up-regulation of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in the lung airway epithelium is associated with the epithelium-leukocyte interaction, critical for the pathogenesis of various lung airway inflammatory diseases such as asthma. However, little is known about how ICAM-1 is up-regulated in human airway epithelial cells. In this study, we show that tumor TNF-¥á induces monocyte adhesion to A549 human lung airway epithelium and also up-regulation of ICAM-1 expression. These effects were significantly diminished by pre-treatment with diphenyliodonium (DPI), an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase-like flavoenzyme. In addition, the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was increased in response to TNF-¥á in A549 cells, suggesting a potential role of ROS in the TNF-¥á-induced signaling to ICAM-1 expression and monocyte adhesion to airway epithelium. Further, we found out that expression of RacN17, a dominant negative mutant of Rac1, suppressed TNF-¥á-induced ROS generation, ICAM-1 expression, and monocyte adhesion to airway epithelium. These findings suggest that Rac1 lies upstream of ROS generation in the TNF-¥á-induced signaling to ICAM-1 expression in airway epithelium. Finally, pretreatment with pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), an inhibitor of NF-¥êB, reduced TNF-¥á-induced ICAM-1 expression and both DPI and RacN17 significantly diminished NF-¥êB activation in response to TNF-¥á. Together, we propose that Rac1-ROS-linked cascade mediate TNF-¥á-induced ICAM-1 up-regulation in the airway epithelium via NF-¥êB-dependent manner.
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KEYWORD
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intercellular adhesion molecule-1, NF¥ê B, rac GTP-binding proteins, reactive oxygen species, respiratory mucosa, tumor necrosis factor-¥á
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