TY - JOUR
T1 - Nitric oxide production during Vibrio cholerae infection
AU - Janoff, Edward N.
AU - Hayakawa, Hiroshi
AU - Taylor, David N.
AU - Fasching, Claudine E.
AU - Kenner, Julie R.
AU - Jaimes, Edgar
AU - Raij, Leopoldo
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Vibrio cholerae induces massive intestinal fluid secretion that continues for the life of the stimulated epithelial cells. Enhanced regional blood flow and peristalsis are required to adapt to this obligatory intestinal secretory challenge. Nitric oxide (NO) is a multifunctional molecule that modulates blood flow and peristalsis and possesses both cytotoxic and antibacterial activity. We demonstrate that, compared with those in asymptomatic control subjects, levels of stable NO metabolites (NO2/-/NO3) are significantly increased in sera from acutely ill Peruvian patients with natural cholera infection as well as from symptomatic volunteers from the United States infected experimentally with V. cholerae. In a rabbit ileal loop model in vivo, cholera toxin (CT) elicited fluid secretion and dose-dependent increases in levels of NO2/NO3/- in the fluid (P < 0.01). In contrast, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) elicited no such effects when applied to the intact mucosa. NO synthase (NOS) catalytic activity also increased in toxin-exposed tissues (P < 0.05), predominantly in epithelial cells. The CT-induced NOS activity was Ca2+ dependent and was not suppressed by dexamethasone. In conclusion, symptomatic V. cholerae infection induces NO production in humans. In the related animal model, CT, but not LPS, stimulated significant production of NO in association with increases in local Ca2+-dependent NOS activity in the tissues.
AB - Vibrio cholerae induces massive intestinal fluid secretion that continues for the life of the stimulated epithelial cells. Enhanced regional blood flow and peristalsis are required to adapt to this obligatory intestinal secretory challenge. Nitric oxide (NO) is a multifunctional molecule that modulates blood flow and peristalsis and possesses both cytotoxic and antibacterial activity. We demonstrate that, compared with those in asymptomatic control subjects, levels of stable NO metabolites (NO2/-/NO3) are significantly increased in sera from acutely ill Peruvian patients with natural cholera infection as well as from symptomatic volunteers from the United States infected experimentally with V. cholerae. In a rabbit ileal loop model in vivo, cholera toxin (CT) elicited fluid secretion and dose-dependent increases in levels of NO2/NO3/- in the fluid (P < 0.01). In contrast, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) elicited no such effects when applied to the intact mucosa. NO synthase (NOS) catalytic activity also increased in toxin-exposed tissues (P < 0.05), predominantly in epithelial cells. The CT-induced NOS activity was Ca2+ dependent and was not suppressed by dexamethasone. In conclusion, symptomatic V. cholerae infection induces NO production in humans. In the related animal model, CT, but not LPS, stimulated significant production of NO in association with increases in local Ca2+-dependent NOS activity in the tissues.
KW - Epithelial cells
KW - Innate intestinal immunity
KW - Mucosal response to infection
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpgi.1997.273.5.g1160
DO - 10.1152/ajpgi.1997.273.5.g1160
M3 - Article
C2 - 9374715
AN - SCOPUS:0030723398
SN - 0193-1857
VL - 273
SP - G1160-G1167
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
IS - 5 36-5
ER -