Priming of human neutrophils is necessary for their activation by extracellular DNA

Autor: E. N. Popova, Maria V. Vitushkina, Ludmila A Zinovkina, Roman A. Zinovkin, Anastasia S. Prikhodko
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Biochemistry (Moscow). 81:609-614
ISSN: 1608-3040
0006-2979
DOI: 10.1134/s0006297916060079
Popis: Extracellular plasma DNA is thought to act as a damage-associated molecular pattern causing activation of immune cells. However, purified preparations of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA were unable to induce neutrophil activation in vitro. Thus, we examined whether granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) acting as a neutrophil priming agent can promote the activation of neutrophils by different types of extracellular DNA. GM-CSF pretreatment greatly increased p38 MAPK phosphorylation and promoted CD11b/CD66b expression in human neutrophils treated with mitochondrial and, to a lesser extent, with nuclear DNA. Our experiments clearly indicate that GM-CSF-induced priming of human neutrophils is necessary for their subsequent activation by extracellular DNA.
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