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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 278: L51-L58, 2000;
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Vol. 278, Issue 1, L51-L58, January 2000

Regulation of SLPI and elafin release from bronchial epithelial cells by neutrophil defensins

Sandra van Wetering1, Abraham C. van der Linden1, Marianne A. J. A. van Sterkenburg1, Willem I. de Boer1, Astrid L. A. Kuijpers2, Joost Schalkwijk2, and Pieter S. Hiemstra1

1 Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden; and 2 Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Secretory leukocyte proteinase inhibitor (SLPI) is a serine proteinase inhibitor that is produced locally in the lung by cells of the submucosal bronchial glands and by nonciliated epithelial cells. Its main function appears to be the inhibition of neutrophil elastase (NE). Recently, NE was found to enhance SLPI mRNA levels while decreasing SLPI protein release in airway epithelial cells. Furthermore, glucocorticoids were shown to increase both constitutive and NE-induced SLPI mRNA levels. In addition to NE, stimulated neutrophils also release alpha -defensins. Defensins are small, antimicrobial polypeptides that are found in high concentrations in purulent secretions of patients with chronic airway inflammation. Like NE, defensins induce interleukin-8 production in airway epithelial cells. This induction is sensitive to inhibition by the glucocorticoid dexamethasone and is prevented in the presence of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of defensins on the production of SLPI and the related NE inhibitor elafin/SKALP in primary bronchial epithelial cells (PBECs). Defensins significantly increase SLPI protein release by PBECs in a time- and dose-dependent fashion without affecting SLPI mRNA synthesis. In the presence of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor, the defensin-induced SLPI protein release is further enhanced, but no effect was observed on SLPI mRNA levels. Dexamethasone did not affect SLPI protein release from control or defensin-treated PBECs. In addition, we observed a constitutive release of elafin/SKALP by PBECs, but this was not affected by defensins. The present results suggest a role for defensins in the dynamic regulation of the antiproteinase screen in the lung at sites of inflammation.

secretory leukocyte proteinase inhibitor; inflammation; proteinase inhibitors


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