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Staurosporine inhibits the respiratory burst and induces exocytosis in human neutrophils.


ABSTRACT: The protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine influenced in different ways the functions of human neutrophils. Staurosporine prevented the enhanced protein phosphorylation in phorbol ester- and N-formylmethyionyl-leucylphenylalanine (fMLP)-stimulated cells, and was a powerful inhibitor of the respiratory burst induced by phorbol myristate acetate [IC50 (concentration causing 50% inhibition) 17 nM] and the chemotactic peptides fMLP and C5a (IC50 24 nM). It did not alter, however, the superoxide production by cell-free preparations of NADPH oxidase. Staurosporine had no effect on agonist-dependent changes in cytosolic free Ca2+ and exocytosis of specific and azurophil granules, and showed only a slight inhibition of the release of vitamin B12-binding protein induced by phorbol myristate acetate (decreased by 40% at 200 nM). On the other hand, staurosporine also exhibited neutrophil-activating properties: it induced the release of gelatinase (from secretory vesicles) and vitamin-B12-binding protein (from specific granules). These effects were protracted, concentration-dependent, insensitive to Ca2+ depletion, and strongly enhanced by cytochalasin B. Staurosporine, however, did not induce the release of beta-glucuronidase or elastase (from azurophil granules). Except for the sensitivity to cytochalasin B, these properties suggest a similarity between the exocytosis-inducing actions of staurosporine and PMA. The results obtained with staurosporine provide further evidence that different signal-transduction processes are involved in neutrophil activation, and suggest that protein phosphorylation is required for the induction of the respiratory burst, but not for exocytosis.

SUBMITTER: Dewald B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1133667 | biostudies-other | 1989 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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