The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 2 602-608, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Different patterns of arachidonate metabolism in autologous human blood monocytes and alveolar macrophages

MS Balter, GB Toews and M Peters-Golden
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

As peripheral blood monocytes (PBM) differentiate into tissue macrophages, they undergo a variety of functional changes. One such difference which has been described is an enhanced metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) via the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) pathway in alveolar macrophages (AM) as compared to PBM. In order to elucidate a possible mechanism for this difference, we compared the metabolism of endogenously released AA mobilized by agonists and of exogenously supplied fatty acid in adherent autologous PBM and AM obtained from six normal subjects. Exogenous AA was metabolized to larger amounts of both cyclooxygenase (CO) and 5-LO products by PBM as compared with AM. Although the two cell types released similar amounts of endogenous AA in response to ionophore A23187, marked differences in the pattern of its metabolism were observed. In PBM, a large proportion of released AA remained unmetabolized, and that which was metabolized was converted predominantly to CO products. In contrast, arachidonate released by AM was efficiently metabolized, predominantly via the 5-LO pathway. Similar results were obtained when cells were stimulated with the particulate zymosan, with PBM synthesizing mainly CO and AM, mainly 5- LO eicosanoids. In addition, culture of PBM for up to 5 days in an aerobic environment did not alter their response to A23187 stimulation. These results suggest that the lesser 5-LO metabolism by PBM than AM is not explained by lesser phospholipase or 5-LO activities, but rather a compartmentalization of the endogenous AA deacylated by phospholipase and the 5-LO enzyme in the PBM. The acquisition of the capacity to metabolize endogenous AA to large quantities of 5-LO products as mononuclear phagocytes differentiate in the lung may equip them with the ability to mount an inflammatory response in the alveolar space.

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