AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 6 1103-L1111, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Pneumocystis carinii induces ICAM-1 expression in lung epithelial cells through a TNF-alpha-mediated mechanism

M. L. Yu and A. H. Limper
Department of Pulmonary, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.

Inflammatory cell recruitment contributes to respiratory impairment during Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. We evaluated expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), a key participant in leukocyte accumulation, in rats with P. carinii pneumonia. Immunostaining for ICAM-1 was most marked on bronchiolar epithelium but was also evident on type II pneumocytes, endothelium, and macrophages. Lung from normal and dexamethasone-treated uninfected animals exhibited markedly less ICAM-1. We hypothesized that P. carinii promoted ICAM-1 expression in epithelium through tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) release from macrophages or that P. carinii directly stimulated ICAM-1 expression. Alveolar macrophages were incubated with P. carinii, and the medium was added to A549 epithelial cells. Treatment of macrophages with P. carinii enhanced A549 ICAM-1, which was inhibited with antibody to TNF-alpha. To determine whether P. carinii alone also stimulated ICAM-1, A549 cells were cultured with P. carinii, also augmenting ICAM-1. Of note, A549 ICAM-1 expression from P. carinii alone was less than with P. carinii-exposed macrophages. Thus ICAM-1 is enhanced in lung epithelium during P. carinii infection, in part, through TNF-alpha-mediated mechanisms.

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