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Inducible Expression and Regulation of the ₁-Acid Glycoprotein Gene by Alveolar Macrophages: Prostaglandin E₂ and Cyclic AMP Act as New Positive Stimuli¹

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 408, Faculté Xavier Bichat, Paris, France

We have reported that ₁-acid glycoprotein (AGP) gene expression was induced in lung tissue and in alveolar type II cells during pulmonary inflammatory processes, suggesting that local production of this immunomodulatory protein might contribute to the modulation of inflammation within the alveolar space. Because AGP may also be secreted by other cell types in the alveolus, we have investigated the expression and the regulation of the AGP gene in human and rat alveolar macrophages. Spontaneous AGP secretion by alveolar macrophages was increased 4-fold in patients with interstitial lung involvement compared with that in controls. In the rat, immunoprecipitation of [³⁵S]methionine-labeled cell lysates showed that alveolar macrophages synthesize and secrete AGP. IL-1ß had no effect by itself, but potentiated the dexamethasone-induced increase in AGP production. RNase protection assay demonstrated that AGP mRNA, undetectable in unstimulated cells, was induced by dexamethasone. Conditioned medium from LPS-stimulated macrophages as well as IL-1ß had no effect by themselves, but potentiated the dexamethasone-induced increase in AGP mRNA levels. In addition to cytokines, PGE₂ as well as dibutyryl cAMP increased AGP mRNA levels in the presence of dexamethasone. When AGP expression in other cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage was examined, weak and no AGP production by human blood monocytes and by rat peritoneal macrophages, respectively, were observed. Our data showed that 1) AGP expression is inducible specifically in alveolar macrophages in vivo and in vitro; and 2) PGE₂ and cAMP act as new positive stimuli for AGP gene expression.

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