Bone marrow stromal-B cell interactions in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-induced pro/pre-B cell apoptosis
Bone marrow stromal-B cell interactions in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-induced pro/pre-B cell apoptosis
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DOI:
10.1093/toxsci/kfg239
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发表时间:
2003-12-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Sherr, DH
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作者:
Allan, LL;Mann, KK;Sherr, DH
Environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and related halogenated hydrocarbons are immunotoxic in a variety of systems. In a model system of B lymphopoiesis, PAH exposure rapidly induces apoptosis in CD43(-) pre-13 and CD43(+) pro/pre-B cells. Apoptosis induction by 7,12-dimethylbenzo[a]anthracene (DMBA) is dependent upon AhR(+) bone marrow stromal cells and likely involves DMBA metabolism within the stromal cell. However, it is not known if PAH-treated stromal cells release free metabolites or soluble factors that may directly induce B cell death or if the effector death signal is delivered by stromal cell-B cell contact. Here, we demonstrate that, supernatants from DMBA-treated bone marrow stromal cells contain an activity capable of inducing apoptosis in pro/pre-B cells cocultured with stromal cells. This activity (1) is not produced when stromal cells are cotreated with DMBA and a-naphthoflavone (alpha-NF), an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and cytochrome P-450 inhibitor, (2) is greater than or equal to 50 kDa, (3) is trypsin and heat sensitive, and (4) is dependent on AhR(+) stromal cells, which in turn deliver the effector death signal to pro/pre-13 cells. The results (1) argue against a role for a soluble, stromal cell-derived cytokine as the effector of PAH-induced pro/pre-13 cell death, (2) exclude the possibility of a free metabolite acting directly on AhR-pro/pre-B cell targets, and (3) suggest the elaboration by stromal. cells of a relatively stable, DMBA metabolite-protein complex capable of acting on other stromal. cells at some distance. Collectively, these studies suggest that, while stromal cell products, e.g., metabolite-protein complexes, may affect the function of distant stromal cells, the effector death signal delivered by stromal cells to bone marrow B cells is mediated by cell-cell contact.