An initial signal of activation of rat peritoneal mast cells stimulated by Datura stramonium agglutinin: a confocal fluorescence microscopic analysis of intracellular calcium ion and cytoskeletal assembly

Prostaglandin D2 generation by rat peritoneal mast cells stimulated with Datura stramonium agglutinin and its inhibition by haptenic sugar and wheat germ agglutinin

The production of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) by rat peritoneal mast cells incubated with N-acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc) oligomer-specific Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA) for 10 min in the presence of 0.3 mM Ca2+ was examined. Previously, our group reported that the incubation of rat mast cells with DSA (5 - 100 microg/ml) under similar conditions resulted in a calcium influx and histamine release via a pertussis toxin-sensitive G-protein pathway of the mast cells, and the histamine release was inhibited by haptenic sugar chitooligosaccharides or GlcNAc-specific lectin wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) (K. Matsuda et al., Jpn J Pharmacol 66, 195 - 204 (1994)). DSA (5 - 100 microg/ml) dose-dependently stimulated the mast cells to generate PGD2. Chitooligosaccharides (1% w/v) and WGA (100 microg/ml) inhibited the production of PGD2 induced by 100 microg/ml of DSA, suggesting that the effect of DSA is sugar-specific. A prostaglandin G/H synthase inhibitor NS-398 (N-[cyclohexyloxy-4-nitrophenyl] methanesulfonamide) (10 microM) inhibited the formation of PGD2 induced by DSA (20 microg/ml). These results suggest that the binding of DSA to the corresponding sugar residues on the mast cell surface mediates the signaling of the prostaglandin G/H synthase pathway.

D-galactose-specific sea urchin lectin sugar-specifically inhibited histamine release induced by datura stramonium agglutinin: differences between sugar-specific effects of sea urchin lectin and those of D-galactose- or L-fucose-specific plant lectins

A new sea urchin lectin from Toxopneustes pileolus, is D(+)galactose (Gal)-, D(+)fucose (Fuc)-specific. Incubation of rat peritoneal mast cells with the lectin in the presence of 0.3 mM CaCl2 for 10 min significantly and dose-dependently inhibited the histamine release induced by N-acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc)-specific Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA), an activator of the Gi-protein-dependent pathway in mast cells. This inhibition by the sea urchin lectin was sugar-specifically reversed in the presence of D(+)Gal or D(+)Fuc but not L(-)Fuc. The sea urchin lectin had no effect on the histamine release induced by compound 48/80, slightly inhibited the histamine release induced by substance P and mastoparan, and slightly enhanced the histamine release induced by melittin, but these effects were not dose-dependent. Compound 48/80, substance P, mastoparan and melittin are mast cell activators without sugar residues. It is suggested that the lectin binds to D(+)Gal residues of DSA to interfere with mast cell activation induced by DSA, a glycoprotein with arabinose and Gal residues. The effects of plant lectins with affinity to D(+)Gal, N-acetyl galactosamine and/or sialic acid and L(-)Fuc on the histamine release induced by DSA, compound 48/80 and substance P were also examined.

Histamine release from mast cells of EAE rats by Gi protein-dependent and IgE-dependent pathways

We investigated both Gi protein-dependent and IgE-dependent pathways that control release of histamine by PMCs derived from EAE or Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) immunized rats. The number and histamine content of MCs per rat were the same between normal and EAE rats. Activation of Gi pathway by substance P (SP), DSA, 48/80, and mastoparan resulted in a dose-dependent increase in release of histamine by PMCs in normal, EAE-, and CFA-immunized rats. In EAE and CFA rats, however, the induction was decreased by 10-20% compared to normal rats. The histamine release induced by MP was decreased at a concentration of 3 microM, but not at 10 microM in severe active EAE rats. Activation of the IgE pathway by MAM and concanavalin A (Con A) in the presence of phosphatidylserine led to dose-dependent histamine release in normal rats, and a 10-25% lower level of induction was observed in EAE rats. In CFA rats, the induction of histamine release was equivalent to normal rats. There was an increase in intracellular calcium stores following activation of both pathways in normal rats, whereas depletion of calcium stores by ryanodine reduced the level of induction by 48/80 and MP by 9-11% in normal rats. In EAE rats, 48/80, Con A, and MAM induced a smaller increase, but SP and MP induced larger or similar increases in calcium stores compared to normal rats. It was unlikely that the calcium stores of the PMCs from EAE rats were depleted, because MP stimulated calcium movement subsequent to the release of histamine. These results suggested that the Gi pathway may not be correlated to clinical manifestation of EAE, but cold be involved in the inflammatory process, and that the IgE pathway is better associated with clinical symptoms of EAE and may be more directly related to disease outcome.

Characterization of redox activity in resting and activated mast cells by reduction and reoxidation of lipophilic nitroxides

1. We measured redox systems in resting and activated rat peritoneal mast cells under anoxia by using the redox metabolism of free doxyl stearic acid (5DS) and phosphatidylcholine with two 5DS molecules esterified to the glycerol (di5DSPC). 2. In the absence of oxygen, 5DS and di5DSPC were reduced to the corresponding hydroxylamines by resting mast cells, with apparent first-order kinetics of 0.085 and 0.078/min, respectively. 3. The activation of mast cells induced by compound 48/80 and bradykinin did not affect the rates of reduction of the nitroxides, and therefore the activation appeared not to be closely coupled to the redox system of these cells; this finding implies that ischemia is unlikely to affect histamine release from mast cells. 4. The oxidation of the nitroxides by the mast cells was very fast and may be nonenzymatic. 5. We concluded that nitroxides can be useful probes of redox metabolism in the mast cells but, because the characteristics of the cellular reduction-reoxidation systems differed from that of other cells, the use of this approach in other cells will require careful characterization of the redox metabolism of nitroxides in those cells.

Benzalkonium chloride inhibited the histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells induced by bradykinin and GlcNAc oligomer-specific lectin Datura stramonium agglutinin, but heparin did not

1. Benzalkonium chloride (BAC) inhibited the histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells induced by synthetic cationic polymers (compound 48/80 and PEI6), bradykinin, des-Arg1-bradykinin and des-Arg9-bradykinin and Datura stramonium agglutinin (DSA). 2. The anionic polymers heparin, de-N-sulfated heparin, poly-aspartic acid and poly-glutamic acid dose dependently inhibited the histamine release induced by cationic polymers, suggesting counteraction between anions and cations. 3. Inhibition by heparin was diminished but that of BAC remained after removal of extracellular heparin and BAC. 4. Mast cell activation by bradykinin and DSA was not inhibited by anionic polymers, suggesting that both bradykinin and DSA recognize membrane sites as receptors.