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Complement Activates the c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase/Stress-Activated Protein Kinase in Glomerular Epithelial Cells¹

Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

In the rat passive Heymann nephritis model of membranous nephropathy, complement C5b-9 induces sublethal glomerular epithelial cell (GEC) injury and proteinuria. C5b-9 activates cytosolic phospholipase A₂ (cPLA₂), and products of cPLA₂-mediated phospholipid hydrolysis modulate GEC injury and proteinuria. In the present study, we demonstrate that C5b-9 activates c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) in cultured rat GECs and that JNK activity is increased in glomeruli isolated from proteinuric rats with passive Heymann nephritis, as compared with control rats. Stable overexpression of cPLA₂ in GECs amplified complement-induced release of arachidonic acid (AA) and JNK activity, as compared with neo (control) GECs. Activation of JNK was not affected by indomethacin. Incubation of GECs with complement stimulated production of superoxide, and pretreatment with the antioxidants, N-acetylcysteine, glutathione, and -tocopherol as well as with diphenylene iodonium, an inhibitor of the NADPH oxidase, inhibited complement-induced JNK activation. Conversely, H₂O₂ activated JNK, whereas exogenously added AA stimulated both superoxide production and JNK activity. Overexpression of a dominant-inhibitory JNK mutant or treatment with diphenylene iodonium exacerbated complement-dependent GEC injury. Thus, activation of cPLA₂ and release of AA facilitate complement-induced JNK activation. AA may activate the NADPH oxidase, leading to production of reactive oxygen species, which in turn mediate the activation of JNK. The functional role of JNK activation is to limit or protect GECs from complement attack.

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