The Journal of Immunology, Vol 146, Issue 3 975-980, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Kinetics of N-formyl peptide receptor up-regulation during stimulation in human neutrophils

J Norgauer, M Eberle, SP Fay, HD Lemke and LA Sklar
Division of Cytometry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131.

The kinetics of receptor up-regulation was examined in isolated neutrophils and in whole blood by flow cytometry during cell activation. Stimulation of neutrophils prepared without exposure to LPS with chemoattractants induced fast up-regulation of N-formyl peptide receptors and C receptor type 3 (CR3). Biphasic N-formyl peptide binding curves were detected for saturating concentrations of N-formyl peptide at 37 degrees C. The bulk of the rapid binding during the first 30 to 60 s is attributed to already expressed binding sites whereas the slow binding over the next 3 to 4 min represents a time course of receptor up-regulation. Support for this interpretation comes from conditions under which the number of binding sites and the progress of the binding curves were affected. Cells treated with LPS, which caused expression of internal N-formyl peptide receptors, exhibited rapid, monophasic binding curves with increased total binding. In LPS- untreated, calcium-depleted cells, N-formyl peptide receptor up- regulation was inhibited and rapid, monophasic binding to a smaller total number of expressed sites was observed. Cytochalasin B enhanced the total number of available N-formyl peptide receptors in LPS- untreated but not LPS-treated cells. In both cases binding was rapid and monophasic suggesting that receptors were either fully or rapidly up-regulated. Although not studied in real-time, C receptor type 3 up- regulation was similar to N-formyl peptide receptor up-regulation in response to LPS, or stimulation by N-formyl peptide, C product C5a, leukotriene B4, and platelet-activating factor in isolated cells and in whole blood. After stimulation with formyl peptide, LPS, or C product 5a, the release of vitamin B12-binding protein paralleled up-regulation of receptors. These data indicate that untreated cells up-regulate N- formyl peptide receptors during cell response at a rate of approximately 10,000/min in a calcium-dependent manner whereas LPS- treated cells already express the bulk of their receptors. In cytochalasin B-treated, degranulating cells 30,000 to 50,000 receptors were up-regulated within a minute.

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