AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 260, Issue 4 296-L301, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha increases Mn-SOD expression: protection against oxidant injury

B. B. Warner, M. S. Burhans, J. C. Clark and J. R. Wispe
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267.

Antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, are important for protecting the lung against O2 injury. Manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) is a superoxide anion (O2-.) scavenger located in the mitochondria, a primary site of O2-. production during hyperoxia. We studied the effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF-alpha), a macrophage-derived cytokine, on Mn-SOD expression in human pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells. TNF-alpha significantly increased Mn-SOD activity and mRNA in a dose-and time-dependent manner. Mn-SOD activity was increased 3-fold and mRNA 20-fold after a 48-h incubation with TNF-alpha (25 ng/ml). To examine the mechanism of this increase, cells were incubated for 48 h with TNF-alpha (25 ng/ml) with or without cycloheximide (10 microns) or actinomycin D (10 micrograms/ml). Actinomycin D blocked the induction of Mn-SOD mRNA by TNF-alpha, but cycloheximide did not. These findings suggest that the effect of TNF-alpha requires gene transcription but not synthesis of new protein intermediates. To test the hypothesis that increased Mn-SOD protects against oxidative injury, pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells were incubated in TNF-alpha (25 ng/ml) for 48 h and then exposed to paraquat (PQ+), an intracellular O2-. generator. Cells pretreated with TNF-alpha had significantly improved survival in PQ+ compared with controls. At the LD50 (6 microns) for control cells, 95% of TNF-alpha-treated cells survived, 85% at the LD75 (10 microns), and 77% at the LD90 (14 microns). Our results suggest that the induction of Mn-SOD by TNF-alpha in pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells is pretranslationally mediated and that increasing Mn-SOD activity with TNF-alpha confers protection against O2 radicals.

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