Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA.
Vascul Pharmacol. 2010 May-Jun;52(5-6):207-13. doi: 10.1016/j.vph.2009.12.010. Epub 2010 Jan 13.
Listeriosis can lead to potentially lethal pulmonary complications in newborns and immune compromised patients, characterized by extensive permeability edema. Listeriolysin (LLO), the main virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes, induces a dose-dependent hyperpermeability in monolayers of human lung microvascular endothelial cells in vitro. The permeability increasing activity of LLO, which is accompanied by an increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, RhoA activation and myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation, can be completely inhibited by the protein kinase C (PKC) alpha/beta inhibitor GO6976, indicating a crucial role for PKC in the induction of barrier dysfunction. The TNF-derived TIP peptide, which mimics the lectin-like domain of the cytokine, blunts LLO-induced hyperpermeability in vitro, upon inhibiting LLO-induced protein kinase C-alpha activation, ROS generation and MLC phosphorylation and upon restoring the RhoA/Rac 1 balance. These results indicate that the lectin-like domain of TNF has a potential therapeutic value in protecting from LLO-induced pulmonary endothelial hyperpermeability.
李斯特菌病可导致新生儿和免疫功能低下患者出现潜在致命性的肺部并发症,其特征为广泛通透性水肿。李斯特菌溶血素(LLO)是单核细胞增生李斯特菌的主要毒力因子,可在体外诱导人肺微血管内皮细胞单层的剂量依赖性高通透性。LLO 的通透性增加活性伴随着活性氧(ROS)生成、RhoA 激活和肌球蛋白轻链(MLC)磷酸化的增加,可被蛋白激酶 C(PKC)α/β抑制剂 GO6976 完全抑制,表明 PKC 在诱导屏障功能障碍中起关键作用。源自 TNF 的 TIP 肽模拟细胞因子的凝集素样结构域,在体外抑制 LLO 诱导的通透性增加,抑制 LLO 诱导的蛋白激酶 C-α激活、ROS 生成和 MLC 磷酸化,并恢复 RhoA/Rac1 平衡。这些结果表明 TNF 的凝集素样结构域在保护李斯特菌诱导的肺内皮通透性增加方面具有潜在的治疗价值。