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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2001, p. 44-47, Vol. 45, No. 1
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.1.44-47.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Clarithromycin Inhibits NF-kappa B Activation in Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells and Pulmonary Epithelial Cells

Takashi Ichiyama,* Miki Nishikawa, Tomomi Yoshitomi, Shunji Hasegawa, Tomoyo Matsubara, Takashi Hayashi, and Susumu Furukawa

Department of Pediatrics, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan

Received 7 June 2000/Returned for modification 11 August 2000/Accepted 2 October 2000


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Macrolide antibiotics modulate the production of proinflammatory cytokines in vivo and in vitro. Transcription of the genes for these proinflammatory cytokines is regulated by nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B). We examined whether or not clarithromycin inhibits the activation of NF-kappa B induced by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha ) or staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) in human monocytic U-937 cells, a T-cell line (Jurkat), a pulmonary epithelial cell line (A549), and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). Flow cytometry revealed that clarithromycin suppresses NF-kappa B activation induced by TNF-alpha in U-937 and Jurkat cells in a concentration-related manner. Western blot analysis also demonstrated that clarithromycin inhibits NF-kappa B activation induced by TNF-alpha in U-937, Jurkat, and A549 cells and PBMC and by SEA in PBMC. Western blot analysis of cytoplasmic extracts of A549 cells revealed that this inhibition is not linked to preservation of expression of the Ikappa Balpha protein. The chloramphenicol acetyltransferase assay indicated that NF-kappa B-dependent reporter gene expression is suppressed in U-937 cells pretreated with clarithromycin. These findings are consistent with the idea that clarithromycin suppresses the production of proinflammatory cytokines via inhibition of NF-kappa B activation.


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Proinflammatory cytokines are important mediators in inflammation. Macrolide antibiotics exert anti-inflammatory effects through inhibition of the production of proinflammatory cytokines (25, 28, 35, 38, 40, 41). Clarithromycin is a 14-member lactone ring macrolide antibiotic which has been used for the treatment of infectious diseases. It is unclear how clarithromycin suppresses the production of proinflammatory cytokines, but it is not unreasonable to suspect that it inhibits the transcription of multiple cytokine genes.

Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) is a ubiquitous and important transcription factor for genes that encode proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha ) (7, 12, 17, 19, 26). The prototype of NF-kappa B is a heterodimer consisting of p50 and p65 bound by members of the Ikappa B family, including Ikappa Balpha , in the cytoplasm (2, 3). NF-kappa B activation requires degradation of the Ikappa B protein (10, 11). Phosphorylation of Ikappa Balpha by drugs, cytokines, bacterial products, and viruses rapidly leads to Ikappa B degradation and translocation of NF-kappa B to the nucleus (5, 16). Activation of NF-kappa B results in the binding of specific promoter elements and expression of mRNAs for proinflammatory cytokine genes (7, 12, 17, 19, 26). We tested the hypothesis that clarithromycin modulates inflammation by inhibiting NF-kappa B activation in experiments on human monocytic U-937 cells, a T-cell line (Jurkat), a pulmonary epithelial cell line (A549), and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated by TNF-alpha or staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA).


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Cell culture, isolation, and stimulation conditions. A549 cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection and maintained at 37°C under humidified 5% CO2 as a stationary culture. The cells were grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium containing 4.5 g of glucose/liter and supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 10 mM L-glutamine, and 100 U of penicillin and 100 µg of streptomycin/ml. The day before each experiment, cells were seeded into six-well tissue culture dishes (Costar, Cambridge, Mass.) at the density of 106 cells/well.

U-937 cells, a human monocytic leukemia cell line, and Jurkat cells, a human T-cell leukemia line, were maintained at 37°C under humidified 5% CO2 as stationary cultures. Both types of cells were grown in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% FBS and 100 U of penicillin and 100 µg of streptomycin/ml.

PBMC were obtained from heparinized blood by Histopaque 1077 (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.) gradient centrifugation, and the mononuclear cells were resuspended in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% FBS and 100 U of penicillin and 100 µg of streptomycin/ml.

Cells were exposed to 100 pM TNF-alpha (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, Minn.) or 10 µg of SEA (Sigma Chemical Co.)/ml with or without pretreatment with 3, 10, or 100 µg of clarithromycin (Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Tokyo, Japan)/ml 30 min before incubation at 37°C for various times.

Flow cytometric analysis. Flow cytometric analysis was performed by a modification of the previously published procedure (31). U-937 and Jurkat cells were permeabilized in 4% paraformaldehyde in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.2, containing 0.1% saponin and 10 mM HEPES. The cells were then labeled with a mouse anti-NF-kappa B (nucleus-localized signal) antibody (immunoglobulin G3 [IgG3]; Boehringer GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) or a nonspecific mouse IgG3 antibody (Chemicon, Temecula, Calif.). The cells were then labeled with a fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated rat anti-mouse IgG3 monoclonal antibody (Pharmingen, San Diego, Calif.). After being washed, the cells were fixed with 1% paraformaldehyde in PBS and then stored at 4°C until flow-cytometric analysis. These experiments were repeated at least eight times.

Western blot analysis. Nuclear extracts were harvested from U-937, Jurkat, and A549 cells and PBMC using a previously published procedure (15). The protein concentrations of the nuclear extracts were determined using Bio-Rad (Hercules, Calif.) protein concentration reagent. Nuclear extracts were stored at -80°C. To determine the Ikappa Balpha levels, postnuclear (cytoplasmic) extracts were also stored at -80°C. Samples containing 10 µg of protein were separated in a denaturing 10% polyacrylamide gel and then transferred to a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane. After three washings in TBST (40 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.6], 300 mM NaCl, 0.5% Tween 20), the membranes were incubated in a 1:1,000 dilution of rabbit polyclonal anti-NF-kappa B-p65 antibodies or anti-Ikappa Balpha antibodies (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, Calif.) in TBST containing 5% nonfat dry milk at room temperature for 1 h. After three washings in TBST, the membranes were incubated in a 1:2,500 dilution of horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (Bio-Rad) for 1 h at room temperature. Immunoreactive proteins were detected using enhanced chemiluminescence (Amersham, Arlington Heights, Ill.) and analyzed by autoradiography. All experiments were repeated three times.

Plasmids, transfection, and CAT assay. The plasmids containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene with a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) with two NF-kappa B binding sites were kindly supplied by R. B. Gaynor of the Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Tex.). Characterization of the plasmids was described previously (36). U-937 cells were transfected with HIV-1 LTR CAT reporter plasmids using lipofection (FuGENE; Boehringer Mannheim, Indianapolis, Ind.). After 48 h of incubation, clarithromycin was added. Thirty minutes later, the cells were exposed to TNF-alpha for 2 h and then collected. The concentrations of CAT in cell extracts were determined with a sandwich-type enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit (Boehringer Mannheim). The CAT activities of samples were normalized to beta -galactosidase activity (8). All experiments were repeated four times.

Statistical analysis. The differences in the results between groups were analyzed by means of the Mann-Whitney U test.


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Flow cytometry of U-937 and Jurkat cells incubated with TNF-alpha for 30 min demonstrated that clarithromycin inhibited NF-kappa B activation in a concentration-related manner (Fig. 1). Western blot analysis of nuclear extracts of U-937, Jurkat, and A549 cells stimulated with TNF-alpha for 2 h revealed that pretreatment with clarithromycin decreased the expression of NF-kappa B p65 in a concentration-related manner (Fig. 2). Western blot analysis of nuclear extracts of PBMC stimulated with TNF-alpha or SEA for 2 h demonstrated that pretreatment with clarithromycin also decreased the expression of NF-kappa B p65 in a concentration-related fashion (Fig. 3).


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  		FIG. 1.   Representative flow-cytometric analysis demonstrating that pretreatment with clarithromycin significantly inhibited NF-kappa B activation induced by TNF-alpha in U-937 (A) and Jurkat cells (B) in a concentration-related manner. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01.


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  		FIG. 2.   Representative Western blot of nuclear extracts of U-937, Jurkat, and A549 cells revealing that pretreatment with clarithromycin inhibited NF-kappa B activation induced by TNF-alpha in a concentration-dependent manner.


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  		FIG. 3.   Representative Western blot of nuclear extracts of PBMC demonstrating that pretreatment with clarithromycin inhibited NF-kappa B activation induced by TNF-alpha or SEA in a concentration-dependent fashion.

HIV-1 LTR containing NF-kappa B binding sites linked to the CAT gene was used to examine gene expression in U-937 cells 2 h after the addition of TNF-alpha . The CAT activity increased with the addition of TNF-alpha (Fig. 4). However, the activity was significantly inhibited in cells pretreated with clarithromycin (Fig. 4). The effect of clarithromycin was concentration related.


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  		FIG. 4.   Representative CAT assay demonstrating clarithromycin-induced inhibition of NF-kappa B-mediated transcription by TNF-alpha in U-937 cells transfected with the HIV-1 LTR CAT gene. The clarithromycin-pretreated cells treated with TNF-alpha for 2 h expressed less activity than the non-clarithromycin-pretreated cells. The results are expressed as fold increases in activity over that in the cells treated with the medium alone (control). *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01.

Western blot analysis of cytoplasmic extracts of A549 cells exposed to TNF-alpha revealed that expression of the Ikappa Balpha protein exhibited decreased intensity within 10 min of the addition of TNF-alpha (Fig. 4). In A549 cells pretreated with clarithromycin, expression of the Ikappa Balpha protein was not preserved (Fig. 5).


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  		FIG. 5.   Representative Western blot demonstrating the effect of clarithromycin on TNF-alpha -induced Ikappa Balpha degradation in A549 cells. Expression of the Ikappa Balpha protein decreased within 10 min after the addition of TNF-alpha . The expression of the Ikappa Balpha protein was not preserved in cells pretreated with 100 µg of clarithromycin/ml.


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Inflammation is an important part of the pathogeneses of pulmonary diseases, not only infectious diseases due to bacteria, viruses, and fungi but also chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and neonatal chronic lung disease (32, 37). Inflammation mediated by proinflammatory cytokines is associated with and promotes the pathogeneses of these disorders. It is therefore important to modulate pulmonary inflammation in the treatment of patients with these lung disorders.

Macrolide antibiotics modulate inflammation in vitro and in vivo by inhibiting the production of proinflammatory cytokines and prostaglandin E2, neutrophil chemotactic activity, and elastase activities (14, 25, 27, 28, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41). Clarithromycin inhibits the production of IL-1, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-alpha (25, 28). Clarithromycin also modulates antigen-specific T-cell proliferation (25) and improves IL-12-mediated anti-Mycobacterium avium activity (4). How does the clarithromycin action on peripheral blood immunocompetent and pulmonary epithelial cells result in the modulation of inflammation? Clarithromycin must modulate an event or process that is very basic to inflammation. One possibility is that clarithromycin modulates the transcription of genes for proinflammatory cytokines, the production of which is known to be modulated by clarithromycin.

Our results demonstrate that clarithromycin modulates TNF-alpha -induced NF-kappa B activation in U-937, Jurkat, and A549 cells and PBMC and modulates SEA-induced NF-kappa B activation in PBMC. The results of the CAT assay indicated that clarithromycin inhibits the transcription linked to NF-kappa B in U-937 cells. It is important to note that, while this report was in the final stage of preparation, Aoki and Kao published evidence consistent with the above observations (1). They noted that Jurkat T cells incubated with erythromycin and stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and ionomycin showed reduced NF-kappa B activation. We proved that clarithromycin inhibited NF-kappa B activation in not only T cells but also monocytes/macrophages and pulmonary epithelial cells.

In infants administered a single oral dose of 5 or 10 mg/kg of body weight, the maximum concentrations of the drug in plasma were 2.26 ± 0.42 and 3.23 µg/ml, respectively (9). In adults administered an oral dose of 500 mg nine times at 12-h intervals, the concentration of clarithomycin in plasma was 3.29 ± 0.94 µg/ml at 4 h (30). The concentrations of clarithromycin in bronchopulmonary epithelial lining fluid (ELF) were 34.02 ± 5.16 µg/ml at 4 h, 20.63 ± 4.49 µg/ml at 8 h, 23.01 ± 11.9 µg/ml at 12 h, and 4.17 ± 0.29 µg/ml at 24 h in adults administered an oral dose of 500 mg nine times at 12-h intervals (30). The mean levels of clarithromycin at a mean time of 4.25 h were 4.0 µg/ml in serum, 20.5 µg/ml in ELF, and 372.7 µg/ml in alveolar cells in adults administered an oral dose of 500 mg seven times at 12-h intervals (13). Our results suggested that therapeutic clarithromycin administration has an anti-inflammatory effect by inhibition of NF-kappa B activation, because flow-cytometric analysis demonstrated that 3 and 10 µg of clarithromycin/ml significantly inhibited NF-kappa B activation in U-937 cells and Jurkat cells, respectively. Western blot analysis revealed that only 3 µg of clarithromycin/ml inhibited NF-kappa B activation in A549 cells.

Western blot analysis indicated that the inhibition of nuclear translocation of NF-kappa B was not linked to preservation of the Ikappa Balpha protein. However, several inhibitors of NF-kappa B activation, such as aspirin, cyclosporin A, IL-10, IL-13, alpha -melanocyte-stimulating hormone, morphine, estrogen, and pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, inhibit this translocation by preserving the Ikappa Balpha protein (15, 18, 20, 22-24, 33, 39, 42). Thus clarithromycin, like IL-4, herbimycin A, and caffeic acid phenethyl ester, suppresses NF-kappa B activation without interfering with Ikappa Balpha degradation (6, 21, 29). The precise mechanism underlying the inhibition of NF-kappa B activation by clarithromycin and these other agents remains unclear. It is possible that clarithromycin inhibits NF-kappa B activation through modulation of the binding of NF-kappa B with DNA or by affecting an unknown mechanism in the nuclear translocation of NF-kappa B.

In summary, our data extend the observation of the anti-inflammatory action of clarithromycin to lung and peripheral blood immunocompetent cells. We conclude that the modulation of NF-kappa B activation by clarithromycin results in inhibition of the production of proinflammatory cytokines.


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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pediatrics, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minamikogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan. Phone: 81-836-22-2258. Fax: 81-836-22-2257. E-mail: ichiyama{at}po.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp.


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