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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 25, 17054-17060, June 23, 2006

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ADP-ribosyltransferase-specific Modification of Human Neutrophil Peptide-1^*

Gregorino Paone¹², Linda A. Stevens¹, Rodney L. Levine, Christelle Bourgeois³, Wendy K. Steagall, Bernadette R. Gochuico, and Joel Moss⁴

From the Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch and Laboratory of Biochemistry, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1590

Epithelial cells lining human airways and cells recruited to airways participate in the innate immune response in part by releasing human neutrophil peptides (HNP). Arginine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferases (ART) on the surface of these cells can catalyze the transfer of ADP-ribose from NAD to proteins. We reported that ART1, a mammalian ADP-ribosyltransferase, present in epithelial cells lining the human airway, modified HNP-1, altering its function. ADP-ribosylated HNP-1 was identified in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from patients with asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or a history of smoking (and having two common polymorphic forms of ART1 that differ in activity), but not in normal volunteers or patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Modified HNP-1 was not found in the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients or in leukocyte granules of normal volunteers. The finding of ADP-ribosyl-HNP-1 in BALF but not in leukocyte granules suggests that the modification occurred in the airway. Most of the HNP-1 in the BALF from individuals with a history of smoking was, in fact, mono- or di-ADP-ribosylated. ART1 synthesized in Escherichia coli, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored ART1 released with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C from transfected NMU cells, or ART1 expressed endogenously on C2C12 myotubes modified arginine 14 on HNP-1 with a secondary site on arginine 24. ADP-ribosylation of HNP-1 by ART1 was substantially greater than that by ART3, ART4, ART5, Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S, or cholera toxin A subunit. Mouse ART2, which is an NAD:arginine ADP-ribosyltransferase, was able to modify HNP-1, but to a lesser extent than ART1. Although HNP-1 was not modified to a significant degree by ART5, it inhibited ART5 as well as ART1 activities. Human -defensin-1 (HBD1) was a poor transferase substrate. Reduction of the cysteine-rich defensins enhanced their ability to serve as ADP-ribose acceptors. We conclude that ADP-ribosylation of HNP-1 appears to be primarily an activity of ART1 and occurs in inflammatory conditions and disease.

Received for publication, March 30, 2006

^* This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, NHLBI. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ Both authors contributed equally to this work.

² Present address: Don Gnocchi Foundation, Rome, Italy.

³ Present address: Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Medical University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria.

⁴ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 301-496-1597; Fax: 301-496-2363; E-mail: mossj{at}nhlbi.nih.gov.

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