Endotoxin induction of hepatic metallothionein is mediated through cytokines
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Endotoxin induction of hepatic metallothionein is mediated through cytokines
Abstract
Metallothionein (MT), a low molecular-weight, cysteine-rich, metal-binding protein, is induced by many environmental factors and a variety of stimuli. Bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) injection is experimentally used to produce acute stress and is an effective inducer of hepatic MT. However, the mechanism of LPS induction of MT is not known. In the present studies, we used two substrains of mice, differing in their production of cytokines after LPS administration, to test the hypothesis that MT induction by LPS is mediated through cytokines. Normal (C3Heb/FeJ) and low cytokine-producing (C3H/HeJ) mice were given various doses of LPS, interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), or tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and hepatic MT was determined 24 hr later by the Cd/hemoglobin assay. The low-cytokine-producing mice were much less responsive to the induction of MT by LPS (50 vs 150 micrograms MT/g liver after 1.0 mg LPS/kg, ip) than the normal mice, but were equally responsive to the induction of MT by IL-1 (0.03-1.0 microgram/mouse). IL-6 (0.5-5.0 micrograms/mouse), and TNF (0.005-0.5 microgram/mouse). All the cytokines produced a dose-dependent increase of hepatic MT levels in these two murine substrains (up to five- to sevenfold over controls). In conclusion, these data suggest that LPS induction of MT may be mediated through cytokines.
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