Functional significance of human vascular smooth muscle cell-derived interleukin 1 in paracrine and autocrine regulation pathways - PubMed (original) (raw)

Functional significance of human vascular smooth muscle cell-derived interleukin 1 in paracrine and autocrine regulation pathways

H Loppnow et al. Exp Cell Res. 1992 Feb.

Abstract

Interleukin 1 (IL1), a key mediator in the cytokine network, alters many pathophysiologically important functions of blood vessel wall cells. Vascular cells, such as endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells (SMC) can themselves transcribe IL1 genes, raising the possibility that IL1 regulates blood vessel wall functions by local autocrine or paracrine mechanisms. However, IL1 lacks a recognizable signal sequence and it is still unclear how vascular cells might release IL1 or if IL1 derived from vascular cells can actually produce autocrine or paracrine effects. We explored these issues in human vascular SMC, the most numerous cell type in arteries and veins, using cultured SMC and short term organoid cultures. SMC treated with lipopolysaccharide recombinant tumor necrosis factor (recTNF), or recIL1 itself ("activated SMC") elaborated thymocyte costimulatory activity, a biological activity traditionally ascribed to IL1. However, neutralization experiments with monospecific antibodies disclosed that the more recently recognized cytokine IL6 rather than IL1 accounted for most of the soluble thymocyte costimulatory activity released by activated SMC. Using the D10S assay that distinguishes IL1 from IL6 and TNF we found that the culture supernatant of activated SMC contained little or no IL1, but that the cytosol and surface of these cells did exhibit this activity. Antiserum to recIL1 alpha inhibited stimulation of D10S cells by surface-associated IL1 of activated SMC, while treatment with acid to elute receptor- or nonspecifically bound IL1 did not abrogate this D10S proliferation. Short term organoid cultures of both normal veins and human arteriosclerotic plaque also expressed tissue-associated IL1 activity upon stimulation with LPS but did not release significant soluble IL1 activity. To establish further the biological functions of cell-associated IL1, we incubated stimulated or unstimulated SMC that were fixed with paraformaldehyde and washed extensively (fixed SMC) with overlayered viable SMC of the same donor (responder SMC). Contact with fixed SMC that bore surface IL1 following TNF or IL1 stimulation evoked up to 20-fold higher IL6 release from responder SMC than did exposure to unstimulated SMC (57 vs 1052 ng/ml/day). Addition of anti-IL1 antibody inhibited the release of IL6 from the responder SMC. These results demonstrate that cytokine-activated SMC express biologically active IL1 on their cell surface and illustrate how these cells might actually participate in autocrine and paracrine signaling in the vessel wall. The requirement for direct intercellular contact for IL1 effects could facilitate local information exchange among vascular wall cells and/or infiltrating leukocytes and permit costimulation while limiting undue propagation of inflammatory stimuli.

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Functional significance of human vascular smooth muscle cell-derived interleukin 1 in paracrine and autocrine regulation pathways - PubMed (original) (raw)