Rossi A G, Redman J F, Jacobson D P, O'Flaherty J T
Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC 27103.
J Lipid Mediat. 1991 Sep-Oct;4(2):165-74.
5(S)-hydroxy-eicosatetraenoate (5(S)-HETE) enhanced the ability of platelet-activating factor (PAF) to stimulate neutrophil inositol phospholipid turnover, Ca2+ transients, superoxide anion generation, and degranulation. It did not alter responses to leukotriene B4, N-formyl-methionylleucylphenylalanine, or ionomycin. Moreover, 5(R)- and 15(S)-HETE had little effect on PAF. 5(S)-HETE thus acted stereospecifically and stimulus-selectively to potentiate early occurring transductional events as well as later occurring functional responses to PAF. The HETE may influence the actions of PAF by up-regulating PAF receptors and/or these receptors' linkages with the G-protein/phospholipase C axis.
