Low-level arsenite treatment of porcine aortic endothelial cells (PAEC) stimulated superoxide accumulation that was attenuated by inhibitors of NAD(P)H oxidase. To demonstrate whether arsenite stimulated NADPH oxidase, intact PAEC were treated with arsenite for up to 2 h and membrane fractions were prepared to measure NADPH oxidase activity. Arsenite (5 microM) stimulated a twofold increase in activity by 1 h, which was inhibited by the oxidase inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium chloride. Direct treatment of isolated membranes with arsenite had no effect. Analysis of NADPH oxidase components revealed that p67(phox) localized exclusively to membranes of both control and treated cells. In contrast, cytosolic Rac1 translocated to the membrane fractions of cells treated with arsenite or angiotensin II but not with tumor necrosis factor. Immunodepletion of p67(phox) blocked oxidase activity stimulated by all three compounds. However, depleting Rac1 inhibited responses only to arsenite and angiotensin II. These data demonstrate that stimulus-specific activation of NADPH oxidase in endothelial cells was the source of reactive oxygen in endothelial cells after noncytotoxic arsenite exposure.
We previously observed that HL-60 cells treated with manganese (Mn) during differentiation displayed an enhanced oxidative burst. Since a Mn-dependent kinase has been identified and phosphorylation is involved in burst activation, the objective of this research was to identify proteins in retinoic acid-induced HL-60 cells whose phosphorylation after phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) stimulation was affected by Mn treatment. Cells received Mn during differentiation and were then harvested, labeled with [32]P-orthophosphate, and stimulated with PMA. Cytosolic proteins were separated by isoelectric focusing, SDS-PAGE, and two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis. Time studies showed that Mn treatment did not alter the rate of PMA activated phosphorylation. Isoelectric focusing revealed that PMA stimulation resulted in the appearance of three phosphoproteins at pI's of 6.8, 7.3, and 7.8. Size separation gels showed a 200% increase in phosphorylation of a 47 kD protein in Mn-treated cells after stimulation. The 2-D gels showed that the pI of this protein was 6.8. Therefore, Mn treatment resulted in greater phosphorylation of a 47 kD protein, pI 6.8, in phorbol ester-stimulated cells.
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