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Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol., Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1999 403-408

Regulation of the Action of Hydrocortisone in Airway Epithelial Cells by 11beta -Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase

Marc B. Feinstein and Robert P. Schleimer

Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland

11beta -hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11beta HSD) reversibly converts hydrocortisone, the predominant active endogenous glucocorticoid in humans, to its inactive metabolite cortisone by oxidizing the 11-hydroxy group to an 11-keto group. Because this enzyme is highly expressed in human bronchial epithelial cells, we hypothesized that it regulates epithelial responses to glucocorticoids by reducing levels of hydrocortisone available to bind to the glucocorticoid receptor. Primary human bronchial epithelial cells (PBECs) were isolated from seven autopsy specimens and cultured in F12/Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium with 5% fetal bovine serum until approximately 80% confluent. Cells were preincubated with 10-9 M to 10-5 M hydrocortisone for 24 h in the presence or absence of 10-6 M of the 11beta HSD inhibitor glycyrrhetinic acid, after which the cells were stimulated with 5 ng/ml interleukin-1beta for 24 h. Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) levels were quantitated in the resulting supernatants by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Hydrocortisone inhibited GM-CSF release in stimulated PBEC with a concentration that produces 50% inhibition of maximum effect (IC1/2max) of 5.0 × 10-8 M. In the presence of glycyrrhetinic acid, the potency of hydrocortisone was increased approximately 33-fold (IC1/2max with glycyrrhetinic acid, 1.5 × 10-9 M). Hydrocortisone activity was maximally enhanced at concentrations between 10-9 M and 10-8 M, levels that are comparable to plasma levels of hydrocortisone not bound to plasma proteins. Glycyrrhetinic acid had no effect on the suppression of GM-CSF release by hydrocortisone in the transformed cell line BEAS-2B, which does not express the 11beta HSD enzyme. Glycyrrhetinic acid also had no effect on the inhibition of GM-CSF release in PBECs by the synthetic glucocorticoids budesonide, beclomethasone dipropionate, fluticasone propionate, mometasone furoate, and triamcinolone acetonide, steroids not metabolized by 11beta HSD. Together, these findings suggest that metabolism of hydrocortisone by 11beta HSD may regulate glucocorticoid activity in human airway epithelial cells.




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