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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 137, Issue 4 1300-1304, Copyright © 1986 by American Association of Immunologists

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Amiloride inhibition of DNA synthesis and immunoglobulin production by activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells is independent of sodium/hydrogen antiport

DT Yamaguchi, R Sakai, L Bahn, EJ Cragoe Jr and SC Jordan

Activation of sodium/proton (Na+/H+) antiport activity has been shown to occur as an early event in mitogenesis. Because amiloride inhibits Na+/H+ antiport activity, it is hypothesized that mitogenesis may be inhibited by amiloride. In this work, we examined the effect of amiloride on DNA synthesis as measured by [3H]thymidine uptake and immunoglobulin (Ig) production as measured by an ELISA system in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM). Amiloride at 100 microM concentration inhibited irradiated Raji cell (*R)-activated and phytohemagglutinin-P (PHA-P)-stimulated DNA synthesis by 50 +/- 11% and 72 +/- 12%, respectively. IgG production was inhibited by 71% at 100 microM amiloride concentration in *R-activated PBM. This concentration of amiloride inhibited Na+/H+ antiport activity by 92%. Because amiloride is known to inhibit other pre-replicative cellular functions such as protein synthesis, we used an amiloride analogue, dimethylamiloride, which inhibited Na+/H+ antiport activity by 90% at a concentration of 1 microM without inhibition of PBM Ig or DNA synthesis. Furthermore, neither PHA-P nor *R-stimulated PBM demonstrated an intracellular alkalinization even after 6 hr of stimulation. Similarly, T cell-enriched or B cell-enriched populations did not show intracellular alkalinization after PHA-P or *R activation. Thus, it appears that Na+/H+ antiport activation is not an early event in PBM mitogenesis. The inhibition of mitogenesis by amiloride may be due to abrogation of premitotic events such as protein synthesis.


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