Asbestos induction of nuclear transcription factors and interleukin 8 gene regulation

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
P P Simeonova, M I Luster

Abstract

Proinflammatory cytokines and chemotactic peptides are strongly implicated as mediators of the pathophysiologic responses of asbestosis and other chronic inflammatory lung diseases. Recent studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that asbestos fibers stimulate lung epithelial cells to produce interleukin-8 (IL-8), the major neutrophil chemoattractant in the lung. The mechanisms by which asbestos regulates IL-8 expression were studied using the pulmonary type II-like epithelial cell line A549. Membrane permeable hydroxyl scavengers inhibited asbestos induced IL-8 expression. Using A549 cells transfected with the -546 IL-8 construct linked to a chloramphenicol acetyl transferase reporter gene, we have shown that these antioxidants directly inhibited asbestos-stimulated IL-8 promoter-dependent transcription. Asbestos fibers as well as reactive oxygen species generating systems hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase and hydrogen peroxide stimulated DNA binding activity to the regulatory elements in the IL-8 promoter, binding sites of nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB- and NF-IL-6-like transcription factors. Asbestos-inducible DNA binding activity was partially inhibited by tetramethylthiourea, a hydroxyl radical scavenger. IL-8 secretion was al...Continue Reading

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