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Department of Microbiology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia;
TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, West Perth, Western Australia; and
Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Center, Nedlands, Western Australia
Endogenous proteolytic enzymes have been shown to be potential
sources of airway inflammation inducing proinflammatory cytokine
release from respiratory epithelial cells; however, whether any of the
exogenous proteases from important allergen sources such as the house
dust mite present in our environment behave in a similar fashion is
unclear. To this end, we have investigated whether the mite
cysteine and serine proteolytic allergens, Der p 1 and Der p 9,
respectively, induced cytokine production from primary human bronchial
epithelial cells and from the epithelial cell line BEAS-2B. Cells were
exposed to mite proteases, and cells or supernatants were assayed for
cytokine release, cytokine mRNA expression, and modulation of
intracellular calcium ion concentration. Both proteases induced
concentration- and time-dependent increases in the release of
granulocyte-macrophage (GM)-CSF, IL-6, and IL-8 as well as an increase
in the expression of IL-6 mRNA. Cytokine release and mRNA expression
were first observed at 8 h and 2 h after protease exposure,
respectively. The minimum concentration of each protease that was
required to stimulate GM-CSF, IL-6, and IL-8 release was
10 ng/ml.
Cytokine release was initiated by 1 to 2 h of protease exposure,
although maximum concentrations were detected only after a 24-h
incubation. IL-6, but not IL-8 and GM-CSF, was shown to be degraded by
both proteases at concentrations of >2 µg/ml. The proteases also
stimulated changes in the intracellular calcium ion concentration. All
mite protease-induced phenomena were inhibited using appropriate
protease inhibitors. These results suggest that the proteolytic
activity of an allergen may stimulate the release of proinflammatory
cytokines from human bronchial epithelium.
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