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Effect of fibronectin on permeability of normal and TNF-treated lung endothelial cell monolayers

E. M. Wheatley, P. A. Vincent, P. J. McKeown-Longo and T. M. Saba
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Albany Medical College, New York 12208.

Fibronectin is found in a soluble form in plasma and lymph and in an insoluble form in the extracellular matrix. Plasma fibronectin can incorporate into the tissue pool of fibronectin where its adhesive properties may influence cell-cell interaction, cell adhesion to a collagenous matrix, and vascular integrity. Elevation of plasma fibronectin can attenuate the increase in lung vascular permeability in sheep during postoperative gram-negative bacteremia, and plasma fibronectin deficiency can magnify the increase in lung vascular permeability with postoperative sepsis. Using pulmonary endothelial monolayers, we determined if exogenous human plasma fibronectin (pFn) would influence the protein permeability of pulmonary endothelial monolayers as determined by transendothelial clearance (microliters/min) of 125I-albumin after they were exposed to human recombinant tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Treatment of endothelial monolayers with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (200 U/ml) for 18 h resulted in a significant (P < 0.05) increase in protein permeability. Addition of intact purified human plasma fibronectin to normal confluent endothelial monolayers to yield a medium concentration of 300, 600, and 900 micrograms/ml for 18 h had no effect on baseline protein permeability. In contrast, whereas addition of lower amounts of human plasma fibronectin (300 micrograms/ml) did not attenuate the TNF-induced increase in monolayer permeability, the higher concentrations of 600 or 900 micrograms pFn/ml significantly decreased (P < 0.05) protein permeability. The ability of soluble plasma fibronectin to attenuate the TNF-induced increase in endothelial protein permeability required an incubation time of at least 2-3 h, perhaps due to a lag time required for its incorporation into the extracellular matrix.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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