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Airway Epithelial Cell Responses to Ozone Injury George D. Leikauf,1 Leigh G. Simpson,1 Jeffrey Santrock,2 Qiyu Zhao,1 Joan Abbinante-Nissen,1 Shaoying Zhou,1 and Kevin E. Driscoll3 Pulmonary Cell Biology Laboratory, Departments of Environmental Health, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 2Biomedical Science Department, General Motors Research and Environmental Staff, Warren, Michigan; 3Health and Safety Division, Procter and Gamble Company, Miami Valley Laboratories, Cincinnati, Ohio The airway epithelial cell is an important target in ozone injury. Once activated, the airway epithelium responds in three phases. The initial, or imme diate phase, involves activation of constitutive cells, often through direct covalent interactions including the formation of secondary ozonolysis prod ucts--hydroxyhydroperoxides, aldehydes, and hydrogen peroxide. Recently, we found hydroxyhydroperoxides to be potent agonists of bioactive eicosanoid formation by human airway epithelial cells in culture. Other probable immediate events include activation and inactivation of enzymes present on the epithelial surface (e.g., neutral endopeptidase). During the next 2 to 24 hr, or early phase, epithelial cells respond by synthesis and release of chemotactic factors, including chemokines--macrophage inflammatory protein-2, RANTES, and interleukin-8. Infiltrating leukocytes during this period also release elastase, an important agonist of epithelial cell mucus secretion and additional chemokine formation. The third (late) phase of ozone injury is characterized by eosinophil or monocyte infiltration. Cytokine expression leads to alteration of structural protein synthesis, with increases in fibronectin evident by in situ hybridization. Synthesis of epithelial antiproteases, e.g., secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor, may also increase locally 24 to 48 hr after elastase concentrations become excessive. Thus, the epithelium is not merely a passive barrier to ozone injury but has a dynamic role in directing the migration, activating, and then counteracting inflammatory cells. Through these complex interactions, epithelial cells can be viewed as the initiators (alpha) and the receptors (omega) of ozone-induced airway disease. -- Environ Health Perspect 103 (Suppl 2):91-95 (1995) Key words: air pollution, asthma, bronchitis, cytokines, inflammation, eicosanoids, aldehydes, hydroxyhydroperoxides, hydrogen peroxide Introduction Concerns continue to increase about whether the current ambient air quality standard for ozone (120 ppb) provides an adequate margin of safety for the U.S. pop ulation. Several clinical (1-4) and epi demiological (5-7) studies, some of which are presented in detail in this paper, have This is an updated and expanded version of an article that was presented at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Symposium on Ozone Air Quality and Health Effects held 27-29 May 1992 in Piscataway, New Jersey. The authors thank Edwin Donnelly and Thomas Bordner for technical assistance and Danny Edmonds for manuscript preparation. This study was supported in part by grants R01-ES06562, R01-ES06677, and P30-ES06096 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Health Effects Institute, Agreement 90-13, an organization jointly funded by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (Assistance Agreement X-812059) and automotive manufacturers; the Electric Power Research Institute grant RP2155-03; the Center for Indoor Air Research grant 93-08A; and the Procter and Gamble Company, UAARP-21314. The contents of this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the Health Effects Institute nor the policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or automotive manufacturers. Address correspondence to Dr. George D. Leikauf, Pulmonary Cell Biology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH 45267 0056. Telephone (513) 558-0039. Fax (513) 558-4397. documented significant decrements in pul monary airflow in persons exposed to <120 ppb (Table 1). Such effects are more readily observed in exercising individuals when exposures are extended (>4 hr) (8). In related studies, another consistent finding is an increase in inflammatory cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid obtained after <120 ppb ozone exposure (1,3,4). Increases in inflammatory mediators (bioactive lipids and cytokines) and pro tease (elastase) accompany this change (Figure 1). The cellular sources of these mediators in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from proximal conducting airway and dis tal lung regions are uncertain. Although the bronchoalveolar junction is considered the primary site of ozone attack in the lung (9), another important target site is the airway epithelium (10). Previous analyses of regional ozone deposi tion and absorption (11,12) suggest that exposure to high concentrations of ozone could result in deposition sufficient to induce epithelial damage (histological changes). Such ozone exposure can alter the maintenance of epithelial barrier (13--15) and particle clearance function (16). However, at lower concentrations (i.e., 'TOO ppb), ozone deposition in the airways is likely to be less, and health effects are thus more difficult to uncover experimen tally. Nonetheless, the apparent changes in airway function (e.g., decreased forced expi ratory volume [FEV^ Q]) argues that airway perturbation (perhaps at a level undetected by conventional histology) must occur even at low level exposure. Subde injury to epithelial cells may play an active role in systemic airway responses following low-level ozone exposure (5,17,18). In evaluating these effects, it is important to consider both constitutive functions and elicited defense mechanisms of the epithelium (Table 2). Ozone may influence cellular function directly by chem ical modification of molecular constituents of the cell membrane or indirectly by the interaction of its primary reaction products Table 1. Pulmonary response to ozone. Decreased forced expiratory volume -1.0 (FEVl Q)3 Airway hyperreactivity3 Airway inflammation3 Decreased athletic performance3 Increased cough and symptoms (substernal discomfort, etc.)3 Altered tracheobronchial clearance Increased epithelial permeability a0ccur at or below current National Air Quality Standard of 120 ppb. Environmental Health Perspectives 91 LEIKAUFETAL. Neutrophils Fibronectin ^ Elastase lnterleukin-6 pge2 Protein s\Vv04-i 400 ppb I I 100 ppb 0 2 4 6 8 10 Fold Increase (Ozone/Air) Figure 1. Abbreviations: ND, not done, PGE2, prostaglandin E Increases in inflammatory cells, pro teins, and mediators measured in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid obtained from persons exposed for 6.6 hr to 400 ppb (hatched bars) or 100 ppb (open bars) ozone. Adapted from Delvin et al. (4). Table 2. Constitutive and elicited defense mecha nisms of the airway epithelium. A. Constitutive function 1. Mucus synthesis and secretion 2. Ciliary clearance 3. Ion transport and fluid movement 4. Biotransformation a. Neutral endopeptidase b. Cytochrome P450 (1 Al) 5. Antiinflammatory activity a. Eicosanoids (PGE2) B. Elicited defense mechanisms 1. Antiprotease a. Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor 2. Antioxidant a. Superoxide dismutase (SoxR) b. Catalase (OxyR) 3. Antimicrobial a. Lysozyme with the cell. Although the anatomical, cel lular, and biochemical sites of reaction of ozone in the lungs are not known, it is gen erally believed that ozone does not penetrate further than the airway epithelium because of its high reactivity (19). This would con fine ozone to react with substances in the extracellular fluid in the airway lumen and in the apical plasma membrane of the epithelial cell. The resultant ozonolysis products are generally more stable than ozone itself and can diffuse farther into the airway epithelium, where they may activate one or more mediator cascades and thereby elicit a variety of cellular responses. Here, we divide the likely events associated with ozone injury to the airway epithelium into immediate, early, and late phases (Table 3). Immediate Phase The immediate phase occurs during (or within 2 hr after) exposure and is charac- Table 3. Time-course of responses to injury in the air way epitheliam. A. Immediate responses (0-2 hr) (constitutive cell activation) 1. Chemical reaction with membrane 2. Biotransformation a. Cytochrome P450 b. Neutral endopeptidase 3. Bioactive lipid release a. Eicosanoids b. Platelet-activating factor3 4. Sensory neuro-reflex pathways3 B. Early responses (2-24 hr) (neutrophil infiltration) 1. Bioactive lipid release 2. Proinflammatory mediator release (neutrophil chemotaxins) 3. Antiinflammatory mediator release (prostanoids) 4. Cytokine release a. Tumor necrosis factor-a3 b. Interleukins (IL-1, IL-6, IL-8, etc.) 5. Protease release a. Elastase3 b. Cathepsin G3 C. Late responses (12-24 hr) (eosinophil/monocyte infiltration 1. Bioactive lipid release a. Increases in proinflammatory (monocyte chemotaxins) b. Decreases in anti-inflammatory (prostanoids) 2. Cytokine release a. Granulocyte, macrophage-colony stimulating factor (eosinophil proliferation) b. Transforming growth factor-p c. Platelet-derived growth factor3 3. Intercellular adhesion molecules 4. Structural proteins synthesis a. Collagen b. Fibronectin 5. Major basic protein (from eosinophilic infiltration)3 6. Antiprotease synthesis and release a. Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor 7. Antioxidants synthesis a. Superoxide dismutase b. Catalase c. Glutathione "Not produced (or yet not confirmed) by human airway epithelial cells. All others can be synthesized by and released from airway epithelial cells. terized by activation of constitutive cells in the airway epithelium. Because it is a highly reactant irritant (20), ozone's attack may be limited to components of the respiratory tract fluid and the apical plasma membrane, with little unreacted ozone penetrating into the cytosol (19). Examination of ozone reactions with amino acids (21,22), proteins (23--28), unsaturated fatty acids (29--31), and phospholipids containing fatty acids (32-35) in vitro indicates that ozone is likely to react with cysteine, methionine, tyrosine, tryptophan, and histidine residues in proteins and carbon--carbon double bonds of unsaturated fatty acids in membrane lipids (Figure 2). The latter reactions yield hydrogen peroxide, aliphatic and allelic aldehydes and hydroxyhydroperoxides of various chain lengths (32,35). Recendy, we have investigated the ability of selected ozonolysis products of fatty acids to activate membrane phospholipases in human airway epithelial cells in culture (36). Compounds with longer chain lengths were more potent than compounds of shorter chain length (C^ >C^ >C^), and hydroxyhy droperoxides were more potent than corre sponding aldehydes or hydrogen peroxide in initiating eicosanoid release from human air way epithelial cells. Significant effects were observed at concentrations of >3 pM 1hydroxy-1 -nonanehydroperoxide. To place these findings into perspective with regard to in vivo exposure concentra tion, we estimate the rate of hydroxyhydroperoxide production at the airway sur face based on available estimates of ozone deposition in the lung. Many difficulties are associated with such an estimate, so an initial point is to apply the dosimetric model developed by Miller and Overton (11,12) that predicts a dose of up to approximately 2 pg deposited/cm tis sue X min per pg ambient O^/m3 air. This value can be higher or lower, depending on breathing rate and site of regional deposition, respectively. At an ambient concentration of 120 ppb (2.4xl08 pg/m3 air: the current ambient air quality standard), the rate of adsorption of ozone by the airway epithelium would be 10 pmole/cm2Xmin (480 pg/cm X min ^-48 pg/pmole) From the stoichiometry of the reaction, we know that 1 molecule of hydroxyhydroperoxide will be produced from every molecule of ozone that reacts with a carbon-carbon double bond in an unsaturated fatty acid. If we limit the amount of ozone that reacts with unsatu rated fatty acids to 20% of the absorbed dose, then the hydroxyhydroperoxides for mation rate would be approximately 2 pmole/cm Xmin. Assuming these prod ucts remain within a 10 pm layer on the airway surface, the concentration of hydroxyhydroperoxide is approximately equal to the lowest dose (3 pM) that elicit ed [3H]-activity release from airway epithelial cells. These findings suggest that secondary ozonolysis products also have biological activity. Because they are more stable than ozone, these compounds can move from their formation site and react within the cytoplasm, activating other enzymes (e.g., cyclooxygenase). Thus, inhaled ozone can generate chemical intermediates that can react with and activate epithelial cells. 92 Environmental Health Perspectives AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS AND OZONE R-C i + R'-ct^+HaOz 2 aldehydes hydrogen peroxide Figure 2. Possible reaction sites of ozone with cellular macromolecules. The three preferred sites are free sulfhydryl groups in membrane proteins, carbon-carbon double bonds in unsaturated fatty acids, and disulfide crosslinks in membrane proteins. Ozonolysis of membrane fatty acids leads to the formation of an aldehyde and a hydroxyhydroperoxide, one retained in the membrane the other free to exist the membrane and react with cyto plasmic constituents. When a hydroxyhydroperoxide is formed, it subsequently reacts in the presence of water to form a second aldehyde and hydrogen peroxide (H202). Thus, the net reactions yield two aldehydes and H202. In addition to immediate activation of phospholipases (responsible for arachidonic acid release and subsequent metabolism by specific pathways), ozone could possibly alter other enzymes responsible for bio transformation capacity within the epithe lium. Again, this could result from direct ozone reactions with amino acid in mem brane-bound proteins (24,28) or through the action of reactive intermediates (such as hydroxyhydroperoxides) that can act at sites distant (cytoplasmic, nucleus) to the site of initial ozonolysis (35). Thus both surface and nonmembrane-bound proteins and enzymes could be activated or inacti vate by ozone exposure. The biological consequences of other inhaled materials, when absorbed subse quently, can also be influenced by this process because they can be activated by epithelial enzymes (e.g., aromatic hydro carbon by cytochrome P450) or inactivated by other enzymes, (e.g., aldehydes by alde hyde dehydrogenases). Thus, alteration in constitutive "metabolic" functions within the epithelial cell may affect local response to subsequent stimuli. Experimental details are yet to be obtained with ozone in this area, this may be a fertile subject for further research. An example of inactivation/activation of epithelial enzymes has been clarified fol lowing toluene diisocyanate inhalation. This irritant can inactivate neutral endopeptidase, contained on the plasma membrane surface of airway basal cells. Loss of neutral endopeptidase can in turn heighten airway smooth muscle reactivity to substance P and other neuropeptides (37). Similarly, loss of neutral endopepti dase activity caused by toluene diisocyanate may influence subsequent responses to irri tants such as compounds that induce mucosal edema or mucus gland secretion (through mechanisms involving retrograde neurotransmitter release from sensory neu rons). Data on ozone's effects on this important enzyme are preliminary (38,39), but recent evidence suggest that neuropep tide release and inactivation of neutral endopeptidase can also occur following ozone exposure. Early Phase During 2 to 24 hr after acute injury, the next (early) phase is initiated and charac terized by infiltration of polymorphonu clear leukocytes (predominately neu trophils). Epithelial cells, along with other resident cells, can synthesize and release chemotactic factors thereby directing migration and activation of neutrophils (17,40,41). This, in part, results from aug mented bioactive lipid mediator release from both resident and migratory cells, with elevations present in pro-inflammato ry eicosanoid (e.g., leukotriene B4 or prostaglandin F ). As noted previously, ozone activates eicosanoid metabolism in airway epithelial cells (17,36). Additional elevations of cytokine con centrations, demonstrated to be derived from airway epithelial cells, may also play an important role in orchestrating this early response to ozone. Elevated synthesis and release of interleukins (IL) and possibly tumor necrosis factor (TNF ) during this early period are thought to activate the sub sequent release of secondary mediators. For example, IL-1 and TNF may be responsi ble for secondary IL-6 and IL-8 expression. Recently, we have begun to examine the effects of ozone inhalation on macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), a chemokine, in mouse lung (42). These results indicate that MIP-2 mRNA tran script levels are increased (as determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) at doses that produce increases in neutrophils in lavage fluid. Increases in MIP-2 transcript levels also precede the neutrophil infiltration. Our initial conclu sion is that ozone-induced chemokine (including MIP-2 and related proteins, IL8, RANTES, etc.) expression has a clearer association with neutrophil infiltration than does chemotactic eicosanoid (leukotriene B4 or 15-diHETE) formation. Once leukocytes are present, the profile of eicosanoid metabolites within the epithelium also may change through transcellular eicosanoid metabolism. For exam ple, leukotriene A^ (LTAJ released from activated neutrophils can De subsequently metabolized to leukotriene B, (LTB4) by adjacent cells. Recently, we have begun examining transcellular metabolism with airway cells and neutrophils stimulated with Ca-ionophore, a stimulus of phospho lipase. Leukotriene B^ production is increased when cells are cocultured. Since ozone also stimulates phospholipase, it is likely that it could also affect LTA^-LTB^ co-metabolism. Finally, during this period, elastase and cathepsin G can be released from incoming cells. Neutrophil elastase is clearly elevated in bronchoalveolar lavage in persons exposed to ozone (Figure 1). Elastase is a potent agonist for mucus secretion (43) and chemokine formation (41). Late Phase The third phase of ozone injury is charac terized by a period of eosinophil (impor tant in asthma) or monocyte (important in bronchitis) infiltration. Clear alterations in DNA transcription, steady-state mRNA levels, and protein synthesis are likely to occur during this period. Proinflammatory Volume 103, Supplement 2, March 1995 93 LEIKAUFET AL eicosanoid (and possibly cytokine) synthe sis in the epithelium continues during this period, with release of additional mono cyte chemotaxins (44), and possibly gran ulocyte, macrophage-colony stimulating factor (45,46) or transforming growth factor-p (47-49). During this time, factors like trans forming growth factor-p may markedly enhance fibronectin mRNA expression. In human airway epithelial cells, as evidenced by cells in culture, TGFp-induced fibronectin mRNA expression can increase with a time course consistent with a late phase response (maximal levels occur after 18 to 24 hr). Synthesis of other structural proteins (important in tissue repair), antiproteases (including secretory leuko cyte protease inhibitor) (50), and antioxi dants (superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione reductase) (51) also increase during this period. The loss of anti-inflam matory eicosanoids through suicidal, cyclooxygenase inactivation may aggravate leukocyte activation, protease release, and tissue damage. Clearly several of these pos sibilities merit further investigation. Summary Inhalation of ozone in the past has been associated with airway dysfunction marked by physiologic and histological change. These changes are typically noted only after high level exposure. More sub tle changes have been noted in recent years which may or may not be associated with histological changes. Through a clearer understanding of ozone's preferred targets and the role of subtle biochemical changes in the airway epithelium, the early events in a host-initiated cascade have been uncovered. At present, aspects of the above discussion are still speculative due to a lack of experimental details. (For example, does the increase in MIP-2 observed in mouse lung occur in humans?) 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