Allergen activates peripheral blood eosinophil nuclear factor-kappaB to generate granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor, tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-8

Clinical and Experimental Allergy : Journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
William R CowardM K Church

Abstract

Allergic inflammation is characterized by the influx and activation of eosinophils. Cytokines generated by both resident and infiltrating cells are responsible for the initiation and maintenance of this pathogenesis. This study focuses on allergen-induced activation of eosinophil NF-kappaB and generation of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), TNF-alpha, and IL-8. Peripheral blood eosinophils were enriched to >99.9% by Percoll gradient sedimentation and negative magnetic affinity chromatography. NF-kappaB activation by 10 microg/mL house dust mite (HDM) extract was demonstrated immunocytochemically using a monoclonal antibody against the active form of NF-kappaB (NF-kappaBa). The authenticity of NF-kappaB was confirmed by Western blot. Cytokine production was assessed both by immuno-staining of eosinophils and by assay of cytokines in the cell supernatant. Activation of peripheral blood eosinophils from atopic, but not non-atopic, donors induced activation of NF-kappaB, which peaked at 4 h and was accompanied by a decline in IkappaB-alpha. The activation of authentic NF-kappaB was confirmed in gel shift assays. Supershift assays showed p65 to be the major subunit of eosinophil NF-kappaB. Immunofluorescent ...Continue Reading

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