AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 4 286-L295, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Rat alveolar epithelial cells concomitantly express plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and urokinase

T. J. Gross, R. H. Simon, C. J. Kelly and R. G. Sitrin
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0360.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that intra-alveolar plasminogen activation is instrumental in many aspects of inflammatory lung injury and subsequent tissue repair. Rat alveolar epithelial cells produce large quantities of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) in vitro, and uPA expression is modulated in association with cellular differentiation and exposure to inflammatory mediators. We now report that these cells also secrete heat-stable PA inhibitory activity having the characteristics of PA inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1). In particular, immunoreactive PAI-1 was demonstrable in conditioned media, cell lysates, and extracellular matrix from epithelial cell cultures. As alveolar epithelial cells differentiated in vitro, secreted PA inhibitor activity increased significantly from 104 +/- PAI U/ml (n = 5, mean +/- SE) on day 2 to 442 +/- 150 on day 7 in parallel with increases in secreted and matrix-associated immunoreactive PAI-1. PAI-1 mRNA expression decreased over this same period suggesting posttranscriptional regulation. The levels of both newly synthesized antigen and PAI-1 mRNA were increased by exposure to lipopolysaccharide and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Thus, by the coexpression of uPA and PAI-1, the alveolar epithelium may actively regulate the generation of plasmin in both the normal and injured alveolus.

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