RAF/MEK/extracellular signal-related kinase pathway suppresses dendritic cell migration and traps dendritic cells in Langerhans cell histiocytosis lesions

Autor: Zoi Karoulia, Marylene Leboeuf, Romain Remark, Miriam Merad, Brandon Hogstad, Poulikos I. Poulikakos, Marie-Luise Berres, Wing-hong Kwan, Howard Lin, Kenneth L. McClain, Jerry E. Chipuk, Hélène Salmon, Madhavika N. Serasinghe, Camille Bigenwald, Stefan Jordan, Veronika Kana, Karen Phaik Har Lim, Carl E. Allen, EF Brandt, Jun Tang, Tsz-Kwong Man, Willem J. M. Mulder, Rikhia Chakraborty, Samantha Baxter
Přispěvatelé: ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, Medical Biochemistry
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of experimental medicine, 215(1), 319-336. Rockefeller University Press
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
ISSN: 0022-1007
Popis: Hogstad et al. show that the somatic BRAFV600E mutation in myeloid dendritic cell precursors in Langerhans cell histiocytosis promotes lesion formation through impaired dendritic cell migration and resistance to apoptosis, which can be rescued with targeted MAPK pathway inhibition.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an inflammatory myeloid neoplasia characterized by granulomatous lesions containing pathological CD207+ dendritic cells (DCs) with constitutively activated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway signaling. Approximately 60% of LCH patients harbor somatic BRAFV600E mutations localizing to CD207+ DCs within lesions. However, the mechanisms driving BRAFV600E+ LCH cell accumulation in lesions remain unknown. Here we show that sustained extracellular signal–related kinase activity induced by BRAFV600E inhibits C-C motif chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7)–mediated DC migration, trapping DCs in tissue lesions. Additionally, BRAFV600E increases expression of BCL2-like protein 1 (BCL2L1) in DCs, resulting in resistance to apoptosis. Pharmacological MAPK inhibition restores migration and apoptosis potential in a mouse LCH model, as well as in primary human LCH cells. We also demonstrate that MEK inhibitor-loaded nanoparticles have the capacity to concentrate drug delivery to phagocytic cells, significantly reducing off-target toxicity. Collectively, our results indicate that MAPK tightly suppresses DC migration and augments DC survival, rendering DCs in LCH lesions trapped and resistant to cell death.
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