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Vol. 280, Issue 4, G572-G583, April 2001

The role of protein kinase C isozymes in TNF-alpha -induced cytotoxicity to a rat intestinal epithelial cell line

Q. Chang and B. L. Tepperman

Department of Physiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha can induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in a number of cell types and has been implicated in the regulation of many inflammatory processes. It has been suggested that protein kinase C (PKC) is one of the intracellular mediators of the actions of TNF-alpha . In the present study, the role of PKC isoforms in TNF-alpha -mediated cytotoxicity and apoptosis in intestinal cells was investigated using the rat epithelial cell line, IEC-18. Cells were incubated with TNF-alpha in the presence or absence of the transcription inhibitor actinomycin D (AMD). The extent of cell damage was enhanced when AMD was added to incubation medium, suggesting that new protein synthesis plays a role in the cytotoxic action of TNF. TNF-alpha also induced the translocation of PKC-alpha , -delta , and -epsilon from cytosol to the membrane fraction of the intestinal cells. Furthermore, the cytotoxic and apoptotic effects of TNF were reduced by pretreating the cells with the PKC-epsilon translocation inhibitor, PKC-epsilon V1-2. In contrast, although cells incubated with the phorbol ester phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) also displayed an increase in cell injury, the extent of cytotoxicity and apoptosis was not enhanced by AMD. Furthermore, PMA-induced cell damage was reduced by rottlerin, a PKC-delta inhibitor. Caspase-3, an enzyme implicated in the mediation of apoptosis, was activated in cells in response to either TNF-alpha or PMA stimulation, and its effects on this activity were reduced by selective inhibition of PKC-epsilon and -delta , respectively. Furthermore, inhibition of caspase-3 activity reduced apoptosis. These data suggest that activation of selective PKC isoforms mediate the effects of TNF-alpha on intestinal epithelial cell injury.

IEC-18 cells; apoptosis; caspase-3; isoform translocation; phorbol ester; tumor necrosis factor-alpha


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