Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 159, Number 4, April 1999, 1298-1307

Contribution of 92 kDa Gelatinase/Type IV Collagenase in Bronchial Inflammation during Status Asthmaticus

HASSAN LEMJABBAR, PHILIPPE GOSSET, CATHERINE LAMBLIN, I. TILLIE, DANIEL HARTMANN, BENOIT WALLAERT, ANDRE B. TONNEL, and CHANTAL LAFUMA

INSERM U492 de Physiopathologie et Thérapeutique Respiratoires, Faculté de Médecine, Créteil; INSERM U416 de Pathologie Immuno-Allergologique Respiratoire, Institut Pasteur; Service de Pneumologie et Immuno-Allergologie, Hôpital André Calmette, Lille; and Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France

In order to assess inflammatory features related to severe asthma as compared with mild asthma, we investigated the secretion of 92 kDa gelatinase matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-9) in bronchial lavages of six patients undergoing mechanical ventilation (MV) for status asthmaticus (SA) and in six patients with mild asthma. Ten healthy nonventilated patients and four patients under MV without preexisting respiratory disease were also investigated. Patients with SA were characterized by prominent neutrophilic inflammation (82 ± 4% versus 10% in mild asthma). On the basis of enzymatic and immunological analysis, results showed an acute 10- to 160-fold increase of 92 kDa gelatinase (MMP-9) concentration in epithelial lining fluid (ELF) from patients with SA, together with activated forms (46 and 26 kDa) of stromelysin-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-3) and detectable concentration of free metallogelatinolytic activity (1-5 µg gelatin hydrolyzed/48 h/ml ELF). Concomitant elevated level of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) was shown only in patients with SA, thus counterbalancing, at least partially, excess of activated 92 kDa gelatinase. Acutely enhanced albumin levels were only observed in patients with SA; in addition, 92 kDa gelatinase and albumin levels were significantly and positively correlated (r = 0.96, p < 0.0001), suggesting that 92 kDa gelatinase may account for increased bronchial permeability in patients with SA. Several arguments support that 92 kDa gelatinase during SA originates both from numerous activated chemoattracted neutrophils and from activated bronchial epithelial cells in response to in situ lung injury. The fact that no relevant change in ELF, albumin, MMP-9, MMP-3, TIMP-1, or laminin degradation products was observed during mild asthma, strongly supports that the mechanism of airway inflammation in SA is quite distinct from that observed in mild asthma.

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