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Macrolide antibiotics modulate ERK phosphorylation and IL-8 and GM-CSF production by human bronchial epithelial cells

¹Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and ²Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

Submitted 1 March 2005 ; accepted in final form 31 July 2005

Macrolide antibiotics decrease proinflammatory cytokine production in airway cells from subjects with chronic airway inflammation. However, in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, short-term azithromycin (AZM) therapy causes a transient early increase in the blood neutrophil oxidative burst followed by a decrease in inflammatory markers with longer administration. We studied the effects of clarithromycin (CAM) and AZM on proinflammatory cytokine production from normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) cells. CAM decreased IL-8 over the first 6 h and then significantly increased interleukin (IL)-8 at 12–72 h after exposure (P < 0.0001). AZM also increased IL-8 at 24 and 48 h, and CAM increased granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor at 48 h. In the presence of LPS, both CAM and AZM dose-dependently increased IL-8 secretion over 24 h, but after 5 days of exposure to 10 µg/ml CAM there is suppression of IL-8 (P < 0.001). PD-98059, an inhibitor of MAP kinase/ERK kinase, inhibited CAM-induced IL-8 (P < 0.0001) and GM-CSF (P < 0.01) release. The p38 MAP kinase inhibitor SB-203580 increased CAM-induced IL-8 release (P < 0.001), and the c-jun NH₂-terminal kinase inhibitor SP-600125 had no effect on IL-8. At 120 min and 6 h, CAM increased phospho-ERK1/2 (pERK) but not phospho-p38 or phospho-JNK. Over the first 90 min, CAM at 10 µg/ml inhibited pERK and then increased pERK in parallel with measured IL-8 secretion. After daily CAM exposure for 5 days, both IL-8 and pERK returned to baseline. The p38 MAP kinase inhibitor, SB-203580 increased ERK phosphorylation and IL-8 secretion. These results suggest that macrolide antibiotics can differentially modulate proinflammatory cytokine secretion in NHBE cells, in part through ERK.

macrolides; interleukin-8; extracellular signal-regulated mitogen-activated protein kinases; clarithromycin; anti-inflammatory agents and inflammation mediators

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