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. 1989 May;57(5):1499–1505. doi: 10.1128/iai.57.5.1499-1505.1989

Independence of neutrophil respiratory burst oxidant generation from the early cytosolic calcium response after stimulation with unopsonized Candida albicans hyphae.

D R Wysong 1, C A Lyman 1, R D Diamond 1
PMCID: PMC313305  PMID: 2540091

Abstract

We previously noted differences between neutrophil responses to unopsonized Candida albicans hyphae and responses to other particulate stimuli such as opsonized hyphae or zymosan; these differences include delayed rises in cytosolic calcium [( Ca2+]i), 1,4,5-inositol trisphosphate, and superoxide release and the total absence of early membrane depolarization. Respiratory burst stimulation is required for killing of C. albicans hyphae. Since an early rise in [Ca2+]i may act as a second messenger for burst activation by most agonists, we chelated (Ca2+)i and extracellular Ca2+ [( Ca2+)e] to compare requirements for superoxide responses to hyphae and other stimuli. Intracellular chelation, which ablated early [Ca2+]i rises, eliminated the fMet-Leu-Phe-induced respiratory burst and profoundly reduced that response to opsonized zymosan (by 96.7%), but chelation of both (Ca2+)i and (Ca2+)e only partially inhibited responses to opsonized and unopsonized hyphae (60.5 and 23.3%, respectively; the latter exceeded absolute responses evoked by opsonized zymosan, a 12-fold-more-potent stimulus for unchelated cells). Simultaneous (Ca2+)i and (Ca2+)e chelation further decreased superoxide responses to opsonized zymosan and hyphae (99.4 and 90.4%, respectively) but not to unopsonized hyphae (26.7% inhibition). Though both ingestible (zymosan) and uningestible (hyphae) opsonized particulate stimuli elicited reduced but significant respiratory bursts without early [Ca2+]i rises, the greater superoxide responses and sensitivity to chelation with opsonized zymosan suggest important differences in initiation and/or regulation of responses to these particulate stimuli. In contrast, the respiratory burst elicited by unopsonized hyphae appeared largely Ca2+ independent. If different events mediate neutrophil activation by opsonized and unopsonized hyphae, candidacidal activity in vivo may vary under divergent conditions with specific localized sites of infection.

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