The Journal of Immunology, Vol 146, Issue 5 1437-1445, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Tissue factor expression in endothelial cell/monocyte cocultures stimulated by lipopolysaccharide and/or aggregated IgG. Mechanisms of cell:cell communication

BL Wharram, K Fitting, SL Kunkel, DG Remick, SE Merritt and RC Wiggins
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0364.

A human umbilical vein endothelial cell (EC)/monocyte (MC) coculture system was used to dissect cell:cell interactions associated with production of procoagulant activity (PCA) in response to two common stimuli of intravascular coagulation in vivo (LPS and immune complexes). We found that the presence of MC at a ratio of 1 MC:10 EC increased the sensitivity of EC to LPS by 4 logs and the maximal response approximately 20-fold. Aggregated IgG alone did not stimulate the system, but in the presence of small amounts of LPS (1 to 10 ng/ml) aggregated IgG was a powerful stimulus. More than 90% of the PCA was tissue factor as shown by clotting studies and mRNA analysis. PCA was not produced by either cell alone under the conditions of study, but was produced in large amounts when the EC and MC were cocultured. The supernatant from the coculture stimulated virgin EC, but not MC, to synthesize tissue factor. The major factor in the supernatant was IL-1 beta as shown by measuring IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, and TNF-alpha in supernatants and by blocking the production of PCA by preincubation of supernatants with anti-cytokine antibodies. Small amounts of TNF-alpha were present in the supernatant but anti-TNF-alpha did not inhibit PCA production. Studies using recombinant cytokines established that IL-1 beta was the most potent of the cytokines tested, that cytokines potentiated each other, and that the results could be explained in quantitative terms by the amounts of IL-1 beta measured. These data emphasize that cell:cell interactions are likely to modulate procoagulant events in vivo in the presence of both LPS and immune complexes, and that IL-1 beta may be an important cytokine in these events.

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