title: TNF-alpha enhances cardiac myocyte NO production through MAP kinase-mediated NF-kappaB activation.
abstract: We have previously reported that interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) alone induced nitric oxide (NO) production by neonatal rat cardiac myocytes (CM). The effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) on inducible NO synthase (iNOS) were not characterized. Unlike IL-1beta, TNF-alpha alone failed to enhance NO production in CM. However, the addition of TNF-alpha to IL-1beta significantly enhanced iNOS mRNA expression, iNOS protein synthesis, and NO production (NO(-)(2)). TNF-alpha enhancement of IL-1beta-induced NO(-)(2) production was blocked by PD-98059, a selective mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase inhibitor, but not calphostin C (Cal C), a protein kinase C inhibitor. TNF-alpha-enhanced MAP kinase activity was associated with an increase in IL-1beta-stimulated NF-kappaB activity. PD-98059, but not Cal C, inhibited both TNF-alpha-enhanced MAP kinase and NF-kappaB activities. Thus TNF-alpha enhancement of IL-1beta-induced NO production is associated with MAP kinase-mediated activation of NF-kappaB.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown 26506-9157, West Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Finkel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004357:Drug Synergism; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism*; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000235:genetics; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D016328:NF-kappa B; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases