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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 10, Pages 6276-6286Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.10.6276
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We previously demonstrated that extracellular ATP stimulated macrophage death and mycobacterial killing within :Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-infected human macrophages. ATP increases the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration in macrophages by mobilizing intracellular Ca2+ via G protein-coupled P2Y receptors, or promoting the influx of extracellular Ca2+ via P2X purinoceptors. The relative contribution of these receptors and Ca2+ sources to ATP-stimulated macrophage death and mycobacterial killing was investigated. We demonstrate that 1) ATP mobilizes Ca2+ in UTP-desensitized macrophages (in Ca2+-free medium) and 2) UTP but not ATP fails to deplete the intracellular Ca2+ store, suggesting that the pharmacological properties of ATP and UTP differ, and that a Ca2+-mobilizing P2Y purinoceptor in addition to the P2Y(2) subtype is expressed on human macrophages. ATP and the Ca2+ ionophore, ionomycin, promoted macrophage death and BCG killing, but ionomycin-mediated macrophage death was inhibited whereas BCG killing was largely retained in Ca2+-free medium. Pretreatment of cells with thapsigargin (which depletes inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate-mobilizable intracellular stores) or 1,2-bis-(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N, N, N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester (an intracellular Ca2+ chelator) failed to inhibit ATP-stimulated macrophage death but blocked mycobacterial killing. Using the acidotropic molecular probe, 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyl dipropylamine, it was revealed that ATP stimulation promoted the acidification of BCG-containing phagosomes within human macrophages, and this effect was similarly dependent upon Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores. We conclude that the cytotoxic and bactericidal effects of ATP can be uncoupled and that BCG killing is not the inevitable consequence of death of the host macrophage.
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