Differential ability of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory macrophages to perform macropinocytosis

Autor: Michael Gütschow, Johnathan Canton, Dar’ya S. Redka, Sergio Grinstein
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Molecular Biology of the Cell
ISSN: 1939-4586
1059-1524
Popis: Although anti-inflammatory macrophages perform macropinocytosis constitutively, proinflammatory macrophages do not, due to impaired signaling of the calcium-sensing receptor. However, macropinocytosis can be elicited in proinflammatory macrophages by agonists that induce the recruitment of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase to the plasma membrane.
Macropinocytosis mediates the uptake of antigens and of nutrients that dictate the regulation of cell growth by mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1). Because these functions differ in proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory macrophages, we compared the macropinocytic ability of two extreme polarization states. We found that anti-inflammatory macrophages perform vigorous macropinocytosis constitutively, while proinflammatory cells are virtually inactive. The total cellular content of Rho-family GTPases was higher in anti-inflammatory cells, but this disparity failed to account for the differential macropinocytic activity. Instead, reduced activity of Rac/RhoG was responsible for the deficient macropinocytosis of proinflammatory macrophages, as suggested by the stimulatory effects of heterologously expressed guanine nucleotide-exchange factors or of constitutively active (but not wild-type) forms of these GTPases. Similarly, differences in the activation state of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PtdIns3K) correlated with the macropinocytic activity of pro- and anti-inflammatory macrophages. Differences in PtdIns3K and Rho-GTPase activity were attributable to the activity of calcium-sensing receptors (CaSRs), which appear to be functional only in anti-inflammatory cells. However, agonists of PtdIns3K, including cytokines, chemokines, and LPS, induced macropinocytosis in proinflammatory cells. Our findings revealed a striking difference in the macropinocytic ability of pro- and anti-inflammatory macrophages that correlates with their antigen-presenting and metabolic activity.
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