Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Is Up-Regulated in Human Epithelial Cells by IL-1β, but Not by TNF-α
- 15 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists
- Vol. 171 (12), 6630-6639
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.171.12.6630
Abstract
Synthesis of the antimicrobial protein neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) increases dramatically in bronchial epithelial cells and alveolear type II pneumocytes during lung inflammation. IL-1β induces a >10-fold up-regulation of NGAL expression in the type II pneumocyte-derived cell line A549 cells, whereas TNF-α, IL-6, and LPS had no effect. Similar IL-1β selectivity was demonstrated in primary bronchial epithelial cells and epidermal keratinocytes and for an NGAL promoter fragment transfected into A549 cells. By deletion and substitution analysis of the NGAL promoter, a 40-bp region containing an NF-κB consensus site was found to control the IL-1β-specific up-regulation. Involvement of the NF-κB site was demonstrated by site-directed mutagenesis, by transfection with a dominant-negative inhibitor of the NF-κB pathway, and by EMSA. TNF-α activation of NF-κB, in contrast, did not increase NGAL synthesis, even though induced binding of NF-κB to the NGAL promoter was observed in vitro. IL-1β specificity was not contained within the NF-κB site of the NGAL promoter, as determined by exchanging the NGAL promoter′s NF-κB-binding sequence with that of the IL-8 promoter or with the NF-κB consensus sequence and by testing the NF-κB-binding sequence of the NGAL promoter against the heterologous SV40 promoter. Selectivity for the IL-1 pathway was substantiated by demonstrating that NGAL promoter activity could be induced by LPS stimulation of A549 cells transiently expressing Toll-like receptor 4, which use the same intracellular signaling pathway as the IL-1R. Together, this demonstrates a selective up-regulation of NGAL by the IL-1 pathway.Keywords
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