Journal
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
Volume 214, Issue 8, Pages 692-702Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2008.12.001
Keywords
NADPH oxidase; Neutrophils; Nitric oxide donors; Phosphorylation; Protein kinases
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- Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland [2 PO5A 02 29]
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The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in activated neutrophils is catalyzed by NADPH oxidase, a multiproteins complex. Various protein kinases including protein kinase C (PKC) and mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are involved in NADPH oxidase phosphorylation and activation. The main step in the NADPH oxidase activation is phosphorylation of its cytosolic protein p47(phox). We found previously that nitric oxide (NO) donors such as metabolite of molsidomine-SIN-1 and diethylamine/NO significantly impaired the ROS production in activated human neutrophils. In this study, we investigated the effects of both NO donors on NADPH oxidase-linked signaling proteins in activated neutrophils. We found that NO donors decreased the phosphorylation of p47(phox) on tyrosine and serine/threonine residues and PKC on serine residues in neutrophils. Both NO donors did not affect the phosphorylation of MAPKs. NO donors partially but significantly lost their ability to reduce ROS production in the presence of PKC but not MAPKs inhibitors. We show that whereas NO donors have no effect on MAPKs activity, they do decrease PMA- and/or fMLP-induced phosphorylation of p47(phox) and PKC as well as PMA- and fMLP-induced ROS production. (C) 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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