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  • Title: Detection of neutrophil-activating peptide NAP/IL-8 and NAP/IL-8 mRNA in human recombinant IL-1 alpha- and human recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha-stimulated human dermal fibroblasts. An immunocytochemical and fluorescent in situ hybridization study.
    Author: Mielke V, Bauman JG, Sticherling M, Ibs T, Zomershoe AG, Seligmann K, Henneicke HH, Schröder JM, Sterry W, Christophers E.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1990 Jan 01; 144(1):153-61. PubMed ID: 2404062.
    Abstract:
    A neutrophil-activating peptide (NAP)/IL-8 produced by LPS-stimulated human peripheral blood monocytes was biochemically purified and functionally characterized by different investigators. Work conducted in our laboratory showed that NAP/IL-8 as well as variants of this peptide are produced by a variety of cells (e.g., monocytes, T lymphocytes, endothelial cells) and that lesional psoriatic scales contain large amounts of biologically active NAP/IL-8. We now investigated human dermal fibroblasts for production of NAP/IL-8. The peptide was detected by immunocytochemistry by using the mAb 46E5. NAP/IL-8 mRNA was visualized by high resolutive fluorescent in situ hybridization with biotinylated antisense/sense RNA probes. Among the various stimuli used [human (h)rIL-1 alpha, hrTNF-alpha, hrIL-3, hr-granulocyte-macrophage-CSF, LPS, FMLP, and platelet-activating factor (PAF)] only hrIL-1 alpha (100 U/ml) and hrTNF-alpha (100 ng/ml) induced the transcription and translation of NAP/IL-8. In contrast to monocytes, LPS was without effect in cultured human dermal fibroblasts. Both NAP/IL-8 and NAP/IL-8 mRNA were found in the cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, but interestingly NAP/IL-8 mRNA was not restricted to the cytoplasm. In positive cells only two small bright spots were randomly distributed in the nucleus. Most likely these spots represent transcription sites where NAP/IL-8 mRNA is accumulated during gene expression. Our observations show that stimulation of dermal fibroblasts with the cytokines hrIL-1 alpha and hrTNF-alpha results in expression of IL-8.
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