title: Anti-inflammatory effects of mutant forms of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor.
abstract: The secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) is found in a variety of secreted fluids in mammals and is a known inhibitor of serine proteases. Wild-type (WT) SLPI has recently been shown to block nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation in rat lungs and to interfere with the ensuing inflammatory response and recruitment of neutrophils after an intrapulmonary deposition of IgG immune complexes. In this study, WT SLPI and SLPI mutants with various degrees of protease-inhibitory capacity (for trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase) were evaluated for their ability to suppress the lung-vascular leak, neutrophil accumulation, and NF-kappaB activation in the lung inflammatory model. The SLPI mutant with Gly(72) (replacing Leu(72) ) lost its ability to block in vivo activation of NF-kappaB, as well as its ability to suppress the lung vascular leak and neutrophil recruitment. The Phe(72) and Gly(20) mutants were as effective as the WT SLPI in suppressing NF-kappaB activation and neutrophil recruitment. The Lys(72) mutant had the most suppressive effects of the lung vascular leak and for neutrophil recruitment into the lung. The in vivo suppressive effects of SLPI mutants on lung vascular permeability, neutrophil recruitment, and NF-kappaB activation appear to be most closely related to their trypsin-inhibiting activity. These data suggest that the suppressive effects of SLPI on the intrapulmonary activation of NF-kappaB and neutrophil recruitment into the lung may be linked to their antiprotease activity, directed, perhaps, at the intracellular proteases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602, USA.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mulligan
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Lentsch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huber-Lang
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sarma
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Ulich
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D000818:Animals; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex / Q000276:immunology; D002199:Capillary Permeability / Q000502:physiology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology; D008168:Lung / Q000098:blood supply / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D020556:Neutrophil Infiltration / Q000502:physiology; D053491:Proteinase Inhibitory Proteins, Secretory; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D020318:Rats, Long-Evans; D053481:Secretory Leukocyte Peptidase Inhibitor; D015842:Serine Proteinase Inhibitors / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D016328:NF-kappa B; D053491:Proteinase Inhibitory Proteins, Secretory; D011506:Proteins; D053481:Secretory Leukocyte Peptidase Inhibitor; D015842:Serine Proteinase Inhibitors; C506816:Slpi protein, rat