A ROLE FOR IL-18 IN HUMAN NEUTROPHIL APOPTOSIS
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Shock
- Vol. 30 (6), 628-633
- https://doi.org/10.1097/shk.0b013e31817c0c69
Abstract
Decreased neutrophil apoptosis is associated with persistent inflammation, the severity of which correlates with serum IL-18 levels. IL-18 receptors as well as Toll-like receptors, including Toll-like receptor 4, a receptor for LPS, possess a highly conserved intracellular domain called "Toll-IL-1R domain" and activate overlapping signaling pathways. Here, we show that IL-18 modulates neutrophil apoptosis and compare its mechanism of action with LPS. We found that both IL-18 and LPS decreased neutrophil apoptosis in a similar dose- and time-dependent fashion. However, pretreatment with the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 increased apoptosis more effectively in IL-18- than in LPS-stimulated cells, whereas the ERK inhibitor PD98059 had the same effect in both. In contrast, the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor SB203580 had no influence on apoptosis at all. Neutrophils constitutively expressed mRNA for IL-18 receptor β, but little or no receptor α, both of which increased during coculture with either IL-18 or LPS in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Of the Bcl-2 family, antiapoptotic A1/Bfl-1 tended to increase on IL-18 and LPS stimulation, but was further increased despite increased apoptosis in the presence of MAPK inhibitors. Thus, human neutrophils can express mRNA for IL-18 receptors α and β, and IL-18, like LPS, inhibits neutrophil apoptosis by activating PI3K and ERK pathways but not p38MAPK. However, PI3K may play more important role(s) in IL-18- than in LPS-induced inhibition of apoptosis. Mitogen-activated protein kinases seem to mediate antiapoptotic signals through factors other than Bcl-2 gene family expression.Keywords
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