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S Kapadia1, G Torre-Amione, T Yokoyama
1Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
Soluble tumor necrosis factor (TNF) binding proteins (TNF-BPs) were characterized with respect to their capacity to modulate the negative inotropic properties of TNF-alpha in isolated contracting cardiac myocytes. Three TNF-BPs were evaluated: two natural monomeric human TNF monomeric binding proteins, TNF-BP1 and TNF-BP2, and sTNFR:Fc, a dimer of two molecules of human TNF-BP2 linked by the Fc portion of the human immunoglobulin G1 molecule. When TNF-alpha (25 pM) was allowed to form TNF-BP-TNF-alpha complexes, the negative inotropic effects of TNF-alpha were completely prevented by "neutralizing concentrations" of TNF-BPs, whereas lesser concentrations of TNF-BPs only partially attenuated the negative inotropic effects of TNF-alpha. The dimeric binding protein sTNFR:Fc was more effective on a molar basis than either of the monomeric binding proteins (TNF-BP1 or TNF-BP2) with respect to blocking the negative inotropic effects of TNF-alpha. When cardiac myocytes that had been treated with TNF-alpha (25 pM) were exposed to neutralizing concentrations of TNF-BP1, TNF-BP2, and sTNFR:Fc, the negative inotropic effects were completely reversed within 30 min. Thus these studies show for the first time that TNF-BPs are sufficient to prevent, as well as reverse, the negative inotropic properties of TNF-alpha in vitro.
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