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Endogenously Produced Nitric Oxide Increases Tumor Necrosis Factor- Production in Transfected Human U937 Cells
Liang Yan,
Shuibang Wang,
Steven P. Rafferty,
Robert A. Wesley, and
Robert L. Danner
From the Critical Care Medicine Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center; and Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Various functions of human phagocytes are modulated by nitric oxide (NO). We transfected the human U937 monoblastoid cell line with an expression vector containing human endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) or murine inducible NOS (iNOS) cDNA to study the regulatory role of NO without the nonspecific effects associated with exogenous NO sources. Western blot confirmed expression of eNOS or iNOS in respectively transfected cells, but not in naive or empty-vector transfected cells. Transfectants expressing iNOS, a calcium-independent enzyme, but not eNOS, a calcium-dependent enzyme, spontaneously produced NO (P < .001). The NO release from iNOS-transfected cells, as measured by nitrite and nitrate accumulation and by cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) increases in rat reporter cells, was inhibitable (P < .01 for both) with N -methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA), a NOS inhibitor. The eNOS transfectants were shown to contain functional enzyme by the conversion of L-arginine to L-citrulline in fractionated cells (P = .0001) and by exposing intact cells to calcium ionophore using the cGMP reporter cell assay (P = .0001). After differentiation with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), iNOS transfectants produced more tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) (124.9 ± 25.4 pg/5 × 105 cells per 24 hours) than did empty-vector transfected cells (21.9 ± 1.9 pg/5 × 105 cells per 24 hours; P = .02). This effect was inhibited by 500 µmol/L L-NMA (54.4 ± 3.1 pg/5 × 105 cells per 24 hours; P = .05). However, in the presence of high concentrations of lipopolysaccharide (1 µg/mL), which further increased NO production in iNOS transfected cells (P = .044), TNF- production was similar comparing PMA-differentiated iNOS and empty-vector transfectants (12.2 ± 0.8 and 13.1 ± 1.7 ng/5 × 105 cells per 24 hours, respectively; P = .5). The results show that under certain conditions endogenously produced NO can upregulate TNF- production in human phagocytes.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 3 (August 1), 1997:
pp. 1160-1167
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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