Tumor necrosis factor combines with IL-4 or IFN-gamma to selectively enhance endothelial cell adhesiveness for T cells. The contribution of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1-dependent and -independent binding mechanisms.

Abstract

The adhesion of lymphocytes to vascular endothelium is the first step in their passage from the blood into inflammatory tissues. By modulating endothelial cell (EC) adhesiveness for lymphocytes, cytokines may regulate lymphocyte accumulation and hence the nature and progression of inflammatory responses. IL-1, TNF, IFN-gamma, and IL-4 each increase EC adhesiveness for T cells when used alone in adhesion assays in vitro. As cytokines are more likely to act in combination at sites of inflammation in vivo, we have studied the stimulating effect of different combinations of cytokines on EC adhesiveness for T cells and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). Acting alone IL-1, TNF, IFN-gamma, and IL-4 each significantly enhanced EC adhesiveness for T cells (p less than 0.005), whereas only IL-1 (p less than 0.005) and TNF (p less than 0.005) but not IFN-gamma or IL-4 significantly enhanced adhesiveness for PMN. When EC were stimulated with optimal concentrations of TNF in combination with IL-4 or IFN-gamma, there was a significant further increase in adhesiveness for T cells (p less than 0.003), but not PMN, over that seen with TNF alone. The additive effect of TNF and IL-4 was more marked than that of TNF and IFN-gamma. Although approximately equal proportions of T cells and PMN bound to TNF-stimulated EC, nearly double the proportion of T cells compared with PMN bound EC preincubated with TNF and IL-4 together. A similar interaction with IL-4 or IFN-gamma was exhibited by lymphotoxin. mAb-inhibition studies indicated that the extra increase in binding caused by stimulating EC with TNF and IL-4 in combination was mediated by VCAM-1 whereas that caused by stimulating with TNF and IFN-gamma in combination was substantially mediated through leukocyte function-associated Ag-1- and VCAM-1-independent mechanisms. These observations suggest that whereas IL-1 and TNF alone are unselective in terms of leukocyte adhesion to EC, the combination of TNF (or LT) with IL-4 or IFN-gamma may be of key importance in determining the recruitment of a lymphocyte-predominant infiltrate in immune mediated inflammation, and in initiating the transition from acute to chronic inflammation.

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