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  • Title: Inhibition of production of LTB4 and chemotactic agent from rat alveolar macrophages treated with t-butyl hydroperoxide is independent of ATP depletion.
    Author: Robison TW, Duncan DP, Coates TD, Forman HJ.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1990 Jun 28; 1045(1):9-16. PubMed ID: 2164422.
    Abstract:
    In rat alveolar macrophages treated with 100 microM t-butyl hydroperoxide (tBOOH), leukotriene B4 (LTB4) synthesis was significantly lower than the basal level while levels of cyclooxygenase pathway products were increased. LTB4, 5,6-dihydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5,6-DiHETEs), and 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE) production in macrophages was significantly stimulated by 2 microM A23187, but this was suppressed 40% by simultaneous addition of 10 microM tBOOH and completely abolished by 100 microM tBOOH. Basal and A23187-stimulated macrophage production of chemotactic agents were similarly suppressed by addition of tBOOH; this effect paralleled depression of cellular LTB4 synthesis. In contrast to the significant depression of A23187-stimulated formation of 5-lipoxygenase products by 10 microM tBOOH, cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) was unchanged. Macrophages pretreated with KCN led to a 42% decline in ATP levels; however, LTB4, 5,6-DiHETEs, and 5-HETE production in response to A23187 was not suppressed. The results indicate that inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase pathway products in macrophages treated with tBOOH did not occur by depletion of cellular ATP levels.
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