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Glucocorticoid Binding by Isolated Lung Cells^*

PHILIP L. BALLARD, ROBERT J. MASON and WILLIAM H. J. DOUGLAS

Cardiovascular Research Institute and Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of California San Francisco 94143
W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center Lake Placid, New York 12946

Address all correspondence and reprint requests to: P. L. Ballard, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143.

Abstract

Synthesis of surfactant in the lung of fetal, and perhaps adult, animals responds to glucocorticoids, and glucocorticoid receptor activity has been identified in this tissue of several species. To determine whether receptor is present in the alveolar type II cell, which is the site of surfactant production, we studied glucocorticoid binding by various populations of lung cells.

Specific binding was demonstrated in freshly isolated populations of rat lung cells containing primarily alveolar type II cells, in organotypic cultures derived from fetal rat lung containing 90% type II cells, in cultured A549, L-2, and F-42 cell lines which apparently originated from type II cells, and in human lung fibroblastic cells. The equilibrium dissociation constants for nuclear binding of dexamethasone by intact cells at 37 C ranged from 5.0–10.8 nM, and the number of binding sites per cell ranged from 5,700–57,000. In cytosol preparations from L-2 and A549 cells, there was equivalent specific binding of both natural and synthetic corticosteroids, and binding activity had the expected specificity for steroids with glucocorticoid activity.

These findings indicate that glucocorticoid receptor is present in both fetal and adult pulmonary type II cells and in cell lines which apparently originated from these cells. The presence of receptor in type II cells is consistent with a direct action of glucocorticoids on these cells in vivo. (Endocrinology 102: 1570, 1978)

Footnotes

^* This study was supported by Program Project Grant HL-06285 and Pulmonary Specialized Centers of Research Grants HL-14201 and HL-19185 from the NHLBI.

Established Investigator of the AHA.

Received September 19, 1977.

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