title: Staurosporine inhibits the respiratory burst and induces exocytosis in human neutrophils.
abstract: The protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine influenced in different ways the functions of human neutrophils. Staurosporine prevented the enhanced protein phosphorylation in phorbol ester- and N-formylmethyionyl-leucylphenylalanine (fMLP)-stimulated cells, and was a powerful inhibitor of the respiratory burst induced by phorbol myristate acetate [IC50 (concentration causing 50% inhibition) 17 nM] and the chemotactic peptides fMLP and C5a (IC50 24 nM). It did not alter, however, the superoxide production by cell-free preparations of NADPH oxidase. Staurosporine had no effect on agonist-dependent changes in cytosolic free Ca2+ and exocytosis of specific and azurophil granules, and showed only a slight inhibition of the release of vitamin B12-binding protein induced by phorbol myristate acetate (decreased by 40% at 200 nM). On the other hand, staurosporine also exhibited neutrophil-activating properties: it induced the release of gelatinase (from secretory vesicles) and vitamin-B12-binding protein (from specific granules). These effects were protracted, concentration-dependent, insensitive to Ca2+ depletion, and strongly enhanced by cytochalasin B. Staurosporine, however, did not induce the release of beta-glucuronidase or elastase (from azurophil granules). Except for the sensitivity to cytochalasin B, these properties suggest a similarity between the exocytosis-inducing actions of staurosporine and PMA. The results obtained with staurosporine provide further evidence that different signal-transduction processes are involved in neutrophil activation, and suggest that protein phosphorylation is required for the induction of the respiratory burst, but not for exocytosis.
authors.affiliation: Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dewald
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thelen
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Wymann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baggiolini
mesh_terms: D000470:Alkaloids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000634:Aminoquinolines; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood; D015936:Complement C5a / Q000494:pharmacology; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D005089:Exocytosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000494:pharmacology; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D019311:Staurosporine; D013481:Superoxides / Q000097:blood*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D000634:Aminoquinolines; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D013481:Superoxides; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D015936:Complement C5a; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D019311:Staurosporine; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; C035739:Quin2; D002118:Calcium