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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOTOXICOLOGY
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 231-237出版社
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3109/1547691X.2013.826307
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AP-1; inducible nitric oxide synthase; mononuclear cells; neutrophils; NF-kappa B; nitric oxide; PI3K-Akt/PKB
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- Medical University of Bialystok, Poland [124-06502 F]
Neutrophils (PMN) play diverse regulatory and effector functions in the immune system through the release of reactive nitrogen species, including nitric oxide (NO). The enzyme responsible for NO synthesis in PMN is inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) that is regulated by various signaling pathways, e. g. PI3K-Akt/PKB, and transcription factors. N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a xenobiotic widespread in the human environment, affects immune cells. The study objective here was to examine the role of the PI3K-Akt/PKB pathway in induction of NO synthesis (with involvement of iNOS) in human PMN, as well as in autologous mononuclear cells (PBMC), exposed to NDMA. Isolated cells were incubated for 2 h with a sublethal dose of NDMA and then the expression of several select proteins in the cell cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions were determined by Western blot analyses. The results indicated that NDMA enhanced expression of iNOS, phospho-PI3K, and phospho-I kappa B alpha in the cytoplasmic fraction of the PMN and PBMC. The nuclear fraction of these cells also had a higher NF-kappa B expression. Moreover, in PMN, NDMA caused an increased expression of phospho-Akt (T308), phospho-Akt (S473), and phospho-IKKab in the cytoplasm, and c-Jun and FosB in the nuclear fraction. Blocking of PI3K caused a decrease in expression of all these proteins in NDMA-exposed PMN. However, inhibition of PI3K led to a drop in expression of iNOS, phospho-PI3K, and phospho-I kappa B alpha in the cytoplasm, and in NF-kappa B in the nuclear fraction, of PBMC. The results of these studies indicated to us that NDMA activates the PI3K-Akt/PKB pathway in human PMN and that this, in turn, contributes to the activation of transcription factors NF-kappa B, c-Jun, and FosB involved in NO production (through modulation of iNOS expression).
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