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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 166, 期 6, 页码 4059-4064出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.6.4059
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Leukotrienes (LTs) are considered important for antibacterial defense in the lung. Multidrug resistance protein 1 (mrp1) is a transmembrane protein responsible for the cellular extrusion of LTC4. To determine the role of mrp1 in host defense against pneumonia, mrp1(-/-) and wild-type mice were intranasally inoculated with Streptococcus pneumoniae. mrp1(-/-) mice displayed a diminished outgrowth of pneumococci in lungs and a strongly reduced mortality. These findings were related to an effect of mrp1 on LT metabolism, because survival was similar in mrp1(-/-) and wild-type mice treated with the 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein inhibitor MK-886. Although LTC4 levels remained low in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of mrp1(-/-) mice, LTB4 concentrations were higher than in wild-type mice. These elevated LTB4 concentrations were important for the relative protection of mrp1(-/-) mice, because the LTB4 antagonist LTB4-dimethyl amide abolished their survival advantage. In vitro experiments suggested that the intracellullar accumulation of LTC4 in mrp1(-/-) mice results in product inhibition of LTC4-synthase, diminishing substrate competition between LTA(4)-hydrolase (which yields LTB4) and LTC4-synthase for the available LTA(4). We conclude that mrp1(-/-) mice are resistant against pneumococcal pneumonia by a mechanism that involves increased release of LTB4, These results identify mrp1 as a novel target for adjunctive therapy in pneumonia.
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