Interleukin-1 selectively potentiates bradykinin-stimulated arachidonic acid release from human synovial fibroblasts

Exposure of human synovial fibroblasts prelabelled with [3H]arachidonic acid to bradykinin causes a rapid and sustained increase in arachidonic acid release, a transient increase in cytosolic calcium and an increase in radiolabelled diacylglycerol. Activation of arachidonic acid release by bradykinin was potentiated by interleukin-1 added either simultaneously with bradykinin or to cultures 24 h before addition of bradykinin. In contrast, interleukin-1 did not modify bradykinin-induced increases in cytosolic calcium or diacylglycerol. The stimulation of arachidonic acid release in response to bradykinin, in the absence or presence of interleukin-1, was not affected by RHC-80267, an inhibitor of diacylglycerol kinase, suggesting that deacylation of diacylglycerol was not an important pathway of arachidonic acid production in cultures exposed to bradykinin. This conclusion is supported by the observation that increased release of arachidonic acid was not accompanied by increased release of [14C]stearic acid in cultures labelled with both isotopes. Bradykinin-stimulated release of arachidonic acid was prevented by down-regulating protein kinase C by pretreatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and was unaffected by inhibitors of protein synthesis actinomycin D or cycloheximide. On the other hand, interleukin-1 amplification of bradykinin-stimulated release of arachidonic acid was blocked by actinomycin D and cycloheximide. The results from this study point to activation of phospholipase A2 as the source of arachidonic acid in response to bradykinin. Our data further indicate that interleukin-1 selectively potentiates bradykinin activation of a phospholipase A2 by a mechanism requiring protein synthesis, but has no effect on bradykinin activation of phospholipase C.