Activated macrophages direct apoptosis and suppress mitosis of mesangial cells

Duffield, Jeremy S., Erwig, Lars-Peter, Wei, Xiao-Qing ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-8503, Liew, Foo Y., Rees, Andrew J. and Savill, John S. 2000. Activated macrophages direct apoptosis and suppress mitosis of mesangial cells. The Journal of Immunology 164 (4) , pp. 2110-2119.

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Abstract

During inflammation in the glomerulus, the complement of resident myofibroblast-like mesangial cells is regulated by mitosis and apoptosis, but the cellular mechanisms controlling the size of mesangial cell populations have remained obscure. Prompted by studies of development, we sought evidence that macrophages regulate mesangial cell number. Rat bone marrow-derived macrophages primed with IFN-γ then further activated in coculture with LPS or TNF-α elicited a 10-fold induction of rat mesangial cell apoptosis and complete suppression of mitosis, effects inhibitable by the NO synthase inhibitors l-monomethyl arginine and l-N6-(1-iminoethyl) lysine dihydrochloride. Complete dependence upon macrophage-derived NO was observed in comparable experiments employing activated bone marrow macrophages from wild-type and NO synthase 2−/− mice. Nevertheless, when mesangial cells were primed with IFN-γ plus TNF-α, increased induction by activated macrophages of mesangial apoptosis exhibited a NO-independent element. The use of gld/gld macrophages excluded a role for Fas ligand in this residual kill, despite increased expression of Fas and increased susceptibility to soluble Fas ligand exhibited by cytokine-primed mesangial cells. Finally, activated macrophages isolated from the glomeruli of rats with nephrotoxic nephritis also induced apoptosis and suppressed mitosis in mesangial cells by an l-monomethyl arginine-inhibitable mechanism. These data demonstrate that activated macrophages, via the release of NO and other mediators, regulate mesangial cell populations in vitro and may therefore control the mesangial cell complement at inflamed sites.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Dentistry
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology
Publisher:	American Association of Immunologists
ISSN:	0022-1767
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 09:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35668

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