The Journal of Immunology, Vol 152, Issue 1 262-269, Copyright © 1994 by American Association of Immunologists

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Signal transduction mechanisms for leukotriene B4 induced hyperadhesiveness of endothelial cells for neutrophils

J Palmblad, R Lerner and SH Larsson
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Soder Hospital, Sweden.

We have previously demonstrated that leukotriene B4 (LTB4) induces in vitro a transient state of hyperadhesiveness in cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) for neutrophils (PMN). The magnitude of this response is intermediate of that conferred by thrombin and by platelet-activating factor (PAF). This report shows that the LTB4 response was neither related to HUVEC expression of PAF (because it could not be blocked by the PAF receptor antagonist WEB- 2086), nor to access to LTB4 receptors on neutrophils (as shown by LTB4 receptor desensitization experiments). However, it could be partly blocked by treating HUVEC with an LTB4 receptor antagonist (SC-41930). LTB4 evoked a rise of intracellular calcium concentrations, [Ca2+]i, in the HUVEC, and the hyperadhesive HUVEC response to LTB4 was abrogated by buffering of [Ca2+]i by Quin-2. The response was not inhibited by treating HUVEC with pertussis toxin before LTB4. Neutrophils showed no signs of activation when adhering to LTB4-treated HUVEC because they did not i) release lactoferrin, or ii) react with an increase of [Ca2+]i, and iii) they bound equally well to the stimulated endothelial cells after having been treated with pertussis toxin so that up- regulation of PMN adhesion to LTB4 was abolished. LTB4-treated HUVEC did not shed factors that modulated neutrophil adherence or chemotaxis. Thus, LTB4 promotes HUVEC hyperadhesiveness for PMN, and the transduction mechanism involves calcium ions, may depend on a surface receptor for LTB4, but does not involve pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins or PMN activation.

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