The p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Mediates Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells Upon Intracellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Ligation
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- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 166 (11), 6877-6884
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.166.11.6877
Abstract
Changes in the cytoskeleton of endothelial cells (ECs) play important roles in mediating neutrophil migration during inflammation. Previous studies demonstrated that neutrophil adherence to TNF-α-treated pulmonary microvascular ECs induced cytoskeletal remodeling in ECs that required ICAM-1 ligation and oxidant production and was mimicked by cross-linking ICAM-1. In this study, we examined the role of ICAM-1-induced signaling pathways in mediating actin cytoskeletal remodeling. Cross-linking ICAM-1 induced alterations in ICAM-1 distribution, as well as the filamentous actin rearrangements and stiffening of ECs shown previously. ICAM-1 cross-linking induced phosphorylation of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) that was inhibited by allopurinol and also induced an increase in the activity of the p38 MAPK that was inhibited by SB203580. However, SB203580 had no effect on oxidant production in ECs or ICAM-1 clustering. ICAM-1 cross-linking also induced phosphorylation of heat shock protein 27, an actin-binding protein that may be involved in filamentous actin polymerization. The time course of heat shock protein 27 phosphorylation paralleled that of p38 MAPK phosphorylation and was completely inhibited by SB203580. In addition, SB203580 blocked the EC stiffening response induced by either neutrophil adherence or ICAM-1 cross-linking. Moreover, pretreatment of ECs with SB203580 reduced neutrophil migration toward EC junctions. Taken together, these data demonstrate that activation of p38 MAPK, mediated by xanthine oxidase-generated oxidant production, is required for cytoskeletal remodeling in ECs induced by ICAM-1 cross-linking or neutrophil adherence. These cytoskeletal changes in ECs may in turn modulate neutrophil migration toward EC junctions.Keywords
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