title: Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor: a macrophage product induced by and antagonistic to bacterial lipopolysaccharide.
abstract: To explore regulation of potentially lethal responses to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), we used differential display under LPS-free conditions to compare macrophage cell lines from two strains of mice congenic for a locus affecting LPS sensitivity. LPS-hyporesponsive cells, primary macrophages, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes transcribed secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI), a known epithelial cell-derived inhibitor of leukocyte serine proteases. Transfection of macrophages with SLPI suppressed LPS-induced activation of NF-kappa B and production of nitric oxide and TNF alpha. The ability of interferon-gamma (IFN gamma) to restore LPS responsiveness is a hallmark of the LPS-hyporesponsive phenotype. IFN gamma suppressed expression of SLPI and restored LPS responsiveness to SLPI-producing cells. Thus, SLPI is an LPS-induced IFN gamma-suppressible phagocyte product that serves to inhibit LPS responses.
authors.affiliation: Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York 10021, USA.
authors.forename: F Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Radzioch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ding
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005260:Female; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000494:pharmacology; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000378:metabolism; D009928:Organ Specificity; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D053491:Proteinase Inhibitory Proteins, Secretory; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology*; D053481:Secretory Leukocyte Peptidase Inhibitor; D015842:Serine Proteinase Inhibitors / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D053491:Proteinase Inhibitory Proteins, Secretory; D011506:Proteins; D053481:Secretory Leukocyte Peptidase Inhibitor; D015842:Serine Proteinase Inhibitors; C506815:Slpi protein, mouse; D007371:Interferon-gamma