Pulmonary-specific expression of tumor necrosis factor- alters surfactant lipid metabolism
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Carroll, James L. Jr., Diann M. McCoy, Stephen E. McGowan, Ronald G. Salome, Alan J. Ryan, and Rama K. Mallampalli. Pulmonary-specific expression of tumor necrosis factoralters surfactant lipid metabolism. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 282: L735–L742, 2002. First published September 28, 2001; 10.1152/ajplung.00120. 2001.—Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)is a major cytokine implicated in inducing acute and chronic lung injury, conditions associated with surfactant phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) deficiency. Acutely, TNFdecreases PtdCho synthesis but stimulates surfactant secretion. To investigate chronic effects of TNF, we investigated PtdCho metabolism in a murine transgenic model exhibiting lung-specific TNFoverexpression. Compared with controls, TNFtransgenic mice exhibited a discordant pattern of PtdCho metabolism, with a decrease in PtdCho and disaturated PtdCho (DSPtdCho) content in the lung, but increased levels in alveolar lavage. Transgenics had lower activities and increased immunoreactive levels of cytidylyltransferase (CCT), a key PtdCho biosynthetic enzyme. Ceramide, a CCT inhibitor, was elevated, and linoleic acid, a CCT activator, was decreased in transgenics. Radiolabeling studies revealed that alveolar reuptake of DSPtdCho was significantly decreased in transgenic mice. These observations suggest that chronic expression of TNFresults in a complex pattern of PtdCho metabolism where elevated lavage PtdCho may originate from alveolar inflammatory cells, decreased surfactant reuptake, or altered surfactant secretion. Reduced parenchymal PtdCho synthesis appears to be attributed to CCT enzyme that is physiologically inactivated by ceramide or by diminished availability of activating lipids.
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