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Heat Shock Inhibits Cytokine-Induced Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression by Rat and Human Islets¹

Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63104

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: John A. Corbett, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1402 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63104. E-mail: corbettj{at}wpogate.slu.edu

In this study the effects of heat shock on interleukin-1ß (IL-1)-induced inhibition of islet metabolic function were examined. Treatment of rat islets for 18 h with IL-1 results in a potent inhibition of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. The inhibitory effects of IL-1 on insulin secretion are completely prevented if islets are pretreated for 60 min at 42 C before cytokine stimulation. Heat shock also prevents IL-1-induced inhibition of insulinoma RINm5F cell mitochondrial aconitase activity. The protective effects of heat shock on islet metabolic function are associated with the inhibition of IL-1-stimulated inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS or NOS II) expression. Islets heat shocked for 60 min at 42 C fail to express iNOS (messenger RNA or protein) or produce nitrite in response to IL-1. IL-1-induced iNOS expression by rat islets requires activation of the transcriptional regulator nuclear factor B (NF-B). Heat shock prevents IL-1- induced NF-B nuclear localization by inhibiting inhibitory protein B (IB) degradation in rat islets. Similar to rat islets, heat shock (stimulated by 90 min incubation at 42 C) prevents IL-1 + interferon -induced iNOS expression and NF-B nuclear localization in human islets. IL-1 also stimulates heat-shock protein 70 (hsp 70) expression by rat islets, and hsp 70 expression is dependent on islet production of nitric oxide. Last, evidence is presented that implicates nitric oxide as a stimulus for the expression of proteins that participate in islet recovery from nitric oxide-mediated damage. These studies indicate that heat shock prevents cytokine-induced islet damage by inhibiting iNOS expression, and suggest that nitric oxide is one effector molecule that stimulates the expression of factors involved in ß-cell recovery from nitric oxide-mediated damage.

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