CD40
促炎细胞因子
生物
细胞生物学
分子生物学
免疫学
炎症
生物化学
体外
细胞毒性T细胞
作者
Sreenivas Laxmanan,Dipak Datta,Christopher Geehan,David M. Briscoe,Soumitro Pal
出处
期刊:Journal of The American Society of Nephrology
日期:2005-07-21
卷期号:16 (9): 2714-2723
被引量:31
标识
DOI:10.1681/asn.2005010045
摘要
Infiltration of immune cells into the renal interstitium is characteristic of chronic inflammatory kidney diseases. CD4+ T cells and platelets express CD40 ligand (CD40L) and are reported to mediate proinflammatory events in renal proximal tubular epithelial cells (RPTEC) via interaction with CD40. In other cell types, CD40 signals can also induce protective genes. Here, human RPTEC were treated with sCD40L to ligate CD40, and a significant increase in the generation of proinflammatory reactive oxygen species was found; however, CD40-activated cells did not undergo apoptosis. This suggests that CD40 signals may simultaneously induce antiapoptotic genes for cytoprotection of RPTEC. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expressed in RPTEC serves as a protective gene, but it is not known whether it is regulated by CD40. Next, RPTEC were transiently transfected with a full-length HO-1 promoter-luciferase construct and were treated with sCD40L. CD40 ligation was found to significantly increase HO-1 promoter activity. By electrophoretic mobility shift assay, it was confirmed that CD40 signaling induced the transcriptional activation of HO-1 through the binding of NF-kappaB to its promoter. By Western blot analysis, a marked increase in HO-1 protein expression following CD40 ligation was also found. These observations are of clinical significance because it was found that CD40 and HO-1 are induced in expression in vivo in inflamed rejecting kidney biopsies and co-expressed in renal tubules. Therefore, ligation of CD40 in RPTEC promotes both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory processes. Regulating the balance between these two events may be of importance in the prevention of tubular injury associated with renal disease.
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