The Journal of Immunology, Vol 149, Issue 7 2459-2465, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Taxol increases steady-state levels of lipopolysaccharide-inducible genes and protein-tyrosine phosphorylation in murine macrophages

CL Manthey, ME Brandes, PY Perera and SN Vogel
Department of Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Taxol, a microtubule stabilizing agent, exhibits promise in the treatment of breast and ovarian tumors. Recently, this novel drug has been shown to activate murine macrophages to express TNF-alpha and to down-regulate TNF-alpha receptors, activities shared by bacterial LPS. Our study sought to determine if taxol could regulate gene expression in murine macrophages and to examine further the ability of taxol to generate an LPS-like signal. Toward this end, the ability of taxol to induce TNF-alpha mRNA and five other genes (IL-1 beta, IP-10, D3, D7, and D8) associated with LPS-activation of macrophages was examined by Northern blot analysis. Taxol alone (1-30 microM) induced murine C3H/OuJ macrophages to secrete bioactive TNF-alpha and express increased levels of each of the six genes under investigation. The magnitude and the kinetics of induction of each gene closely resembled that seen with Escherichia coli K235 LPS. Macrophages from LPS- hyporesponsive C3H/HeJ mice, however, failed to induce detectably any of the genes in response to taxol, despite being sensitive to the microtubule stabilizing effects of taxol as determined by immunofluorescence microscopy. The gene induction activity of taxol was in marked contrast to an alternative macrophage activator, heat killed Staphylococcus aureus, which induced a distinct gene profile in C3H/OuJ macrophages and which was equally active in C3H/OuJ and C3H/HeJ macrophages. These data are consistent with an ability of taxol to generate an LPS-like signal, possibly through a common signaling intermediate. As a first step toward identifying signal responses shared by taxol and LPS, we have shown that taxol, as shown previously for LPS, rapidly induces the tyrosine phosphorylation of a 41- and 42- kDa protein.

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