Journal
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
Volume 102, Issue 8, Pages 888-895Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.161307
Keywords
endothelial cells; cytokines; statins; Chlamydophila pneumoniae; histones
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Inflammatory activation of the endothelium by Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection has been implicated in the development of chronic vascular lesions and coronary heart disease by seroepidemiological and animal studies. We tested the hypothesis that C pneumoniae induced inflammatory gene expression is regulated by Rho-GTPase-related histone modifications. C pneumoniae infection induced the liberation of proinflammatory interleukin-6, interleukin-8, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 beta, granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor, and interferon-gamma by human endothelial cells. Cytokine secretion was reduced by simvastatin and the specific Rac1 inhibitor NSC23766 but was synergistically enhanced by inhibitors of histone deacetylases trichostatin A and suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid. Infection of endothelial cells with viable C pneumoniae, but not exposure to heat-inactivated C pneumoniae or infection with C trachomatis, induced acetylation of histone H4 and phosphorylation and acetylation of histone H3. Pretreatment of C pneumoniae-infected cells with simvastatin or NSC23766 reduced global histone modifications as well as specific modifications at the il8 gene promoter, as shown by chromatin immunoprecipitation. Reduced recruitment of nuclear factor kappa B p65/RelA as well as of RNA polymerase II was observed in statin-treated cells. Taken together, Rac1-mediated histone modifications seem to play an important role in C pneumoniae-induced cytokine production by human endothelial cells.
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