Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that causes cardiac contractile dysfunction, whereas inactivation of MIF improves cardiac function in experimental animal models of sepsis. We used cultured cardiomyocytes to determine whether MIF-induced contractile dysfunction was mediated in part by myocyte apoptosis and to identify MIF-activated intracellular signaling pathways in this process. MIF treatment significantly increased myocyte apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner to 15.5+/-3.9% and 26.0+/-7.1% TUNEL positive nuclei (20 and 30 ng/ml MIF for 24h) vs control (3.7+/-0.9%). This effect was attenuated by inactivation of MIF with the chemical inhibitor, ISO-1. MIF-induced cleavage of caspase 3 and reduction of Bcl-xL/Bax were similarly attenuated by ISO-1 pre-treatment. MIF stimulated the rapid, transient phosphorylation of stress kinases, p38MAPK and JNK. Thus, MIF induces cardiomyocyte apoptosis by activating stress kinases and mitochondria-associated apoptotic mechanisms, whereas inactivation of MIF pro-inflammatory activity improves cardiomyocyte survival.
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