J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 25, 16336-16342, Sep, 1991

Arachidonate activation of the neutrophil NADPH-oxidase. Synergistic effects of protein phosphatase inhibitors compared with protein kinase activators

MJ Steinbeck, GG Hegg and MJ Karnovsky
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

Arachidonate activation of the NADPH-oxidase in intact neutrophils and in a cell-free O2- generation system was compared to synergistic activation in response to arachidonate and agents that effect protein phosphorylation. In intact neutrophils, suboptimal doses of retinal which increase protein phosphorylation, or 4B-phorbol 12-myristate 13- acetate (PMA) an activator of protein kinase C, induced minimal O2- release, but primed neutrophils to release enhanced amounts of O2- in response to 2.5 microM arachidonate. In contrast to retinal or PMA, okadaic acid, a specific inhibitor of serine/threonine protein phosphatases, did not induce any release of O2-, but significantly increased the maximal rate and duration of O2- release in response to arachidonate. In the cell-free system, only arachidonate induced O2- generation. Consistent with previous findings, activation of the cell- free system was dependent of the presence of light membranes, cytosol, NADPH, Mg2+, and 82 microM arachidonate. Pretreatment of neutrophils with suboptimal doses of PMA or retinal had little effect on the arachidonate-stimulated release of O2- in cell-free preparations of these cells. However, cytosol (but not light membranes) from PMA or retinal-primed neutrophils was more effective in completing resting membrane NADPH-oxidase activity when compared to cytosol from resting cells. The addition of protein kinase C inhibitors staurosporine and 1- (5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine decreased the effectiveness of PMA-primed cytosol to complete the cell-free system, but had little effect on cytosol obtained from cells primed with retinal. The addition of protein phosphatase inhibitors, p-nitrophenyl phosphate or okadaic acid to neutrophil cavitates increased 3-fold the release of O2- in cell-free preparations of these cells. Okadaic acid and p-nitrophenyl phosphate also increased the effectiveness of both cytosol and light membranes to complete the cell-free system when combined with cytosol or light membranes from resting neutrophils, respectively, indicating that both fractions are affected by the inhibition of protein phosphatase activity. These data indicate that increases in protein phosphorylation alone do not lead to the activation of the NADPH-oxidase, but in addition to the requirement of an anionic amphiphile, the release of O2- from intact neutrophils or in the cell-free system is increased by stimulus activation of protein kinase C or more impressively by inhibition of protein phosphatase activity.
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