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(American Journal of Pathology. 2007;170:855-864.)
© 2007 American Society for Investigative Pathology
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.060391

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Deficient Mice Develop Heightened Inflammatory Responses to Cigarette Smoke and Endotoxin Associated with Rapid Loss of the Nuclear Factor-{kappa}B Component RelB

Thomas H. Thatcher*{dagger}, Sanjay B. Maggirwar{ddagger}, Carolyn J. Baglole{dagger}§, Heather F. Lakatos{dagger}§, Thomas A. Gasiewicz§, Richard P. Phipps{dagger}{ddagger}§ and Patricia J. Sime*{dagger}§

From the Departments of Medicine,* Microbiology and Immunology,{ddagger} and Environmental Medicine,§ and the Lung Biology and Disease Program,{dagger} University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

The transcription factor aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) plays an important role in the response to environmental pollutants. However, its role in normal physiology is unclear. To investigate the role of AhR in acute lung inflammation, control and AhR knockout (KO) mice were exposed to inhaled cigarette smoke or bacterial endotoxin. Smoke-induced lung inflammation was twofold to threefold more severe in AhR KO mice than controls. Intriguingly, levels of tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} and interleukin-6 in the bronchoalveolar lavage of air-exposed KO mice were equal to the levels seen in smoke-exposed controls, suggesting that AhR-deficient mice are inflammation prone. AhR KO mice challenged with inhaled endotoxin, which does not contain AhR ligands, also developed greater lung neutrophilia than controls, and bronchoalveolar lavage cells from AhR KO mice produced elevated levels of tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} and interleukin-6 when treated with endotoxin in vitro. Nuclear factor-{kappa}B DNA-binding activity was elevated in smoke-exposed AhR KO mice compared with controls and was associated with a rapid loss of RelB only in the KO mice. We propose that AhR is a previously unrecognized regulator of inflammation that interacts with nuclear factor-{kappa}B so that in the absence of AhR RelB is prematurely degraded, resulting in heightened inflammatory responses to multiple proinflam-matory stimuli.





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