Volume 272, Number 19,
Issue of May 9, 1997
pp. 12626-12633
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
Activation of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase by Interleukin-13
AN INHIBITORY SIGNAL FOR INDUCIBLE NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE
EXPRESSION IN EPITHELIAL CELL LINE HT-29
(Received for publication, September 9, 1996, and in revised form, January 30, 1997)
Karen
Wright
,
Stephen G.
Ward
,
George
Kolios
and
John
Westwick
From the Department of Pharmacology, Bath University, Claverton
Down, Bath, Avon BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
The human colonic epithelial cell line HT-29 can
be induced by a combination of the cytokines interleukin (IL)-1
,
tumor necrosis factor
, and interferon-
to express the inducible
form of nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS; Kolios, G., Brown, Z., Robson, R.,
Robertson, D. A. F., & Westwick, J. (1995) Br. J. Pharmacol.
116, 2866-2872). IL-13 is a potent inhibitor of cytokine-induced
iNOS mRNA expression and nitric oxide generation in HT-29 cells via
an unknown mechanism. We report here that in HT-29 cells, IL-13 induces
a concentration and time-dependent increase in the
formation of the lipid products of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns)
3-kinase, namely phosphatidylinositol (3,4)-bisphosphate and
phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate. IL-13 also induces a
parallel concentration and time-dependent increase in the
in vitro lipid kinase activity present in
immunoprecipitates of the p85 regulatory subunit of PtdIns 3-kinase. In
addition, we also demonstrate that IL-13 stimulates the tyrosine
phosphorylation of the adaptor molecule insulin receptor substrate 1, which may facilitate receptor coupling to PtdIns 3-kinase. Both the
increases in D-3 phosphatidylinositol lipids and the increased in
vitro lipid kinase activity of p85 immunoprecipitates were
inhibited by wortmannin and LY294002. Inhibition of the PtdIns 3-kinase activity was paralleled by a reversal of the ability of IL-13 to
inhibit iNOS mRNA expression and nitrite generation in HT-29 cells.
These data demonstrate that the activation of PtdIns 3-kinase by IL-13
is a key signal that is responsible for the inhibition of iNOS
transcription in activated epithelial cells.