Production of vascular endothelial growth factor by murine macrophages : regulation by hypoxia, lactate, and the inducible nitric oxide synthase pathway

Murine thioglycolate-induced peritoneal macrophages (MPMs) and the murine RAW264.7 macrophage-like cell line (RAW cells) constitutively produce vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). VEGF production is increased under hypoxic conditions or after cell activation with interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) and endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS). In contrast, tumor necrosis factor-alpha is produced only by IFNgamma/LPS-activated cells. Lactate (25 mmol/L) does not increase VEGF production by these cells. However, hypoxia, lactate, and IFNgamma/LPS-activated MPMs express angiogenic activity, whereas normoxic, nonactivated MPMs do not. Lack of angiogenic activity is not due to an antiangiogenic factor(s) in the medium of these cells. Angiogenic activity produced by hypoxia and lactate-treated MPMs is neutralized by anti-VEGF antibody, which also neutralizes most of the angiogenic activity produced by IFNgamma/LPS-activated MPMs. The inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibitors Ng-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester (1.5 mmol/L) and aminoguanidine (1 mmol/L) block production of angiogenic activity by MPMs and RAW cells. In RAW cells, Ng-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester and AG block IFNgamma/LPS-activated, but not constitutive, VEGF production, whereas in MPMs, neither constitutive nor IFNgamma/LPS-activated VEGF synthesis is affected. Synthesis of tumor necrosis factor-alpha is also unaffected. In contrast to normoxic, nonactivated MPMs, inducible nitric oxide synthase-inhibited, IFNgamma/LPS-activated MPMs produce an antiangiogenic factor(s). We conclude that VEGF is a major contributor to macrophage-derived angiogenic activity, and that activation by hypoxia, lactate, or IFNgamma/LPS switches macrophage-derived VEGF from a nonangiogenic to an angiogenic state. This switch may involve a posttranslational modification of VEGF, possibly by the process of ADP-ribosylation. ADP-ribosylation by MPM cytosolic extracts or by cholera toxin switches rVEGF165 from an angiogenic to a nonangiogenic state. In IFNgamma/LPS-activated MPMs, the inducible nitric oxide synthase-dependent pathway also regulates the expression of an antiangiogenic factor(s) that antagonizes the bioactivity of VEGF and provides an additional regulatory pathway controlling the angiogenic phenotype of macrophages.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1998

Erschienen:

1998

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:153

Enthalten in:

The American journal of pathology - 153(1998), 2 vom: 08. Aug., Seite 587-98

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xiong, M [VerfasserIn]
Elson, G [VerfasserIn]
Legarda, D [VerfasserIn]
Leibovich, S J [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

33X04XA5AT
82115-62-6
Culture Media, Conditioned
EC 1.14.13.39
EC 2.4.2.30
Endothelial Growth Factors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Guanidines
Interferon-gamma
Journal Article
Lactic Acid
Lipopolysaccharides
Lymphokines
NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester
Nitric Oxide Synthase
Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II
Nitrites
Nos2 protein, mouse
Nos2 protein, rat
Pimagedine
Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases
RNA, Messenger
SCQ4EZQ113
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
V55S2QJN2X
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors

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Date Completed 25.08.1998

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM09648151X