Heat shock-induced cell death in murine microvascular endothelial cells depends on priming with tumor necrosis factor-α or interferon-γ

Patricia A. Abello, Timothy G. Buchman*

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Abstract

We previously reported that sequential exposure of cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and then to inducers of the heat shock response resulted in lethal injury by programmed cell death. In these present experiments, we evaluated the ability of other mediators of sepsis to prime endothelial cells for subsequent injury upon heat shock induction. We used SVEC4-10 microvascular endothelial cells, a cloned SV40-transformed cell line derived from LPS-resistant C3H/HeJ mice. When these endothelial cells were treated first with tumor necrosis factor-α followed by induction of the heat shock response with either heat or sodium arsenite (As), a standard chemical inducer of the heat shock response in vitro, a tumor necrosis factor dose-dependent cytotoxicity was observed, similar to that which we had seen previously in porcine endothelial cells primed with LPS. Subsequent experiments found that priming with interferon-γ produced a similar dose-dependent toxicity upon heat shock with either heat or As. The reducing agents dithiothreitol and n-acetylcysteine, which we have previously shown to inhibit heat shock-induced programmed cell death in LPS-primed porcine endothelial cells, were also effective in protecting against heat shock-induced death following cytokine-priming in this microvascular cell line, suggesting that the intracellular signaling pathways of these priming agents are somewhere convergent. These data suggest that both exogenous and endogenous mediators of inflammation can prime endothelial cells for subsequent Injury upon induction of the heat shock response, and are consistent with the emerging concept of redundancy in inflammatory signaling.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)320-323
Number of pages4
JournalShock
Volume2
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1994
Externally publishedYes

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