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Rebecca A. Drummond Amanda L. Collar Muthulekha Swamydas Carlos A. Rodriguez Jean K. Lim Laura M. Mendez Danielle L. Fink Amy P. Hsu Bing Zhai Hatice Karauzum Constantinos M. Mikelis Stacey R. Rose Elise M. N. Ferre Lynne Yockey Kimberly Lemberg Hye Sun Kuehn Sergio D. Rosenzweig Xin Lin Prashant Chittiboina Sandip K. Datta Thomas H. Belhorn Eric T. Weimer Michelle L. Hernandez Tobias M. Hohl Douglas B. Kuhns Michail S. Lionakis 《PLoS pathogens》2015,11(12)
Candida is the most common human fungal pathogen and causes systemic infections that require neutrophils for effective host defense. Humans deficient in the C-type lectin pathway adaptor protein CARD9 develop spontaneous fungal disease that targets the central nervous system (CNS). However, how CARD9 promotes protective antifungal immunity in the CNS remains unclear. Here, we show that a patient with CARD9 deficiency had impaired neutrophil accumulation and induction of neutrophil-recruiting CXC chemokines in the cerebrospinal fluid despite uncontrolled CNS Candida infection. We phenocopied the human susceptibility in Card9
-/- mice, which develop uncontrolled brain candidiasis with diminished neutrophil accumulation. The induction of neutrophil-recruiting CXC chemokines is significantly impaired in infected Card9
-/- brains, from both myeloid and resident glial cellular sources, whereas cell-intrinsic neutrophil chemotaxis is Card9-independent. Taken together, our data highlight the critical role of CARD9-dependent neutrophil trafficking into the CNS and provide novel insight into the CNS fungal susceptibility of CARD9-deficient humans. 相似文献
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Michail S. Lionakis Brett G. Fischer Jean K. Lim Muthulekha Swamydas Wuzhou Wan Chyi-Chia Richard Lee Jeffrey I. Cohen Phillip Scheinberg Ji-Liang Gao Philip M. Murphy 《PLoS pathogens》2012,8(8)
Invasive candidiasis is the 4th leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection in the US with mortality that exceeds 40% despite administration of antifungal therapy; neutropenia is a major risk factor for poor outcome after invasive candidiasis. In a fatal mouse model of invasive candidiasis that mimics human bloodstream-derived invasive candidiasis, the most highly infected organ is the kidney and neutrophils are the major cellular mediators of host defense; however, factors regulating neutrophil recruitment have not been previously defined. Here we show that mice lacking chemokine receptor Ccr1, which is widely expressed on leukocytes, had selectively impaired accumulation of neutrophils in the kidney limited to the late phase of the time course of the model; surprisingly, this was associated with improved renal function and survival without affecting tissue fungal burden. Consistent with this, neutrophils from wild-type mice in blood and kidney switched from Ccr1lo to Ccr1high at late time-points post-infection, when Ccr1 ligands were produced at high levels in the kidney and were chemotactic for kidney neutrophils ex vivo. Further, when a 1∶1 mixture of Ccr1+/+ and Ccr1−/− donor neutrophils was adoptively transferred intravenously into Candida-infected Ccr1+/+ recipient mice, neutrophil trafficking into the kidney was significantly skewed toward Ccr1+/+ cells. Thus, neutrophil Ccr1 amplifies late renal immunopathology and increases mortality in invasive candidiasis by mediating excessive recruitment of neutrophils from the blood to the target organ. 相似文献
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Muthulekha Swamydas Jill M. Eddy Karen J. L. Burg Didier Dréau 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》2010,46(8):673-684
Breast epithelial cells develop into polarized and highly organized acinar and ductal structures in response to stromal cues, including extracellular matrix composition and density, which can in part be reproduced in 3D culture conditions. Here, we present the effects of various 3D in vitro stroma compositions (termed “matrices” or “substrates”) on the ability of heterotypic cultures of epithelial and mesenchymal stem cells to organize into acinar and tubular structures. Normal murine mammary gland (NMuMG) cells were cultured, either alone or in combination (30:70) with mouse mesenchymal stem cells (D1), in 3D matrices generated by agarose, collagen, and Matrigel® alone or by a combination thereof. After 3–5 d in culture, cell distribution, organization, and the presence of acinus-like and tubule-like structures were determined. The number of acinar structures was significantly higher in cultures grown in combination matrices of agarose with Matrigel® or collagen I when compared with cultures grown in Matrigel® or collagen I alone (p?0.05). No tubular structures were formed when agarose was included in the matrix, regardless of the combination. In Matrigel®, but not in collagen I/Matrigel® microenvironment, the number of tubular structures was significantly increased in NMuMG/D1 coculture when compared with culture of NMuMG cells alone (p?0.05). By immunohistochemical analysis, NMuMG cells cocultured with D1 cells were shown to form acinar structures with the NMuMG epithelial cells surrounding a lumen composed of dead cells while the D1 cells were mostly peripheral. Immunostaining for laminin indicated the presence of basement membrane when NMuMG cells were grown in Matrigel® alone or cocultured with D1 cells in a combination of Matrigel® and collagen I. These results indicate that the physical and biochemical properties of the matrix and cellular composition alter the organization of the mammary gland. 相似文献
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Neutrophils are critical effector cells of the innate immune system. They are rapidly recruited at sites of acute inflammation and exert protective or pathogenic effects depending on the inflammatory milieu. Nonetheless, despite the indispensable role of neutrophils in immunity, detailed understanding of the molecular factors that mediate neutrophils'' effector and immunopathogenic effects in different infectious diseases and inflammatory conditions is still lacking, partly because of their short half life, the difficulties with handling of these cells and the lack of reliable experimental protocols for obtaining sufficient numbers of neutrophils for downstream functional studies and adoptive transfer experiments. Therefore, simple, fast, economical and reliable methods are highly desirable for harvesting sufficient numbers of mouse neutrophils for assessing functions such as phagocytosis, killing, cytokine production, degranulation and trafficking. To that end, we present a reproducible density gradient centrifugation-based protocol, which can be adapted in any laboratory to isolate large numbers of neutrophils from the bone marrow of mice with high purity and viability. Moreover, we present a simple protocol that uses CellTracker dyes to label the isolated neutrophils, which can then be adoptively transferred into recipient mice and tracked in several tissues for at least 4 hr post-transfer using flow cytometry. Using this approach, differential labeling of neutrophils from wild-type and gene-deficient mice with different CellTracker dyes can be successfully employed to perform competitive repopulation studies for evaluating the direct role of specific genes in trafficking of neutrophils from the blood into target tissues
in vivo
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Activator and inhibitor roles for the 88-kDa-secreted glycoprotein progranulin (PGRN) have been demonstrated in ovarian cancer cells. Here, we investigated the effects of PGRN in breast cancer migration. Testing MCF7, MDA-MB-453, and MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells and the MCF10A breast epithelial cell line, we demonstrate that LPA-induced PGRN stimulation led to a significant increase in cell invasion of MDA-MB-453 and MDA-MB-231 cells only (p<0.05). Moreover, incubation with an anti-PGRN antibody, an inhibitor of the ERK pathway (PD98059) or both in combination inhibited the ability of MDA-MB-231 cells to invade. Furthermore, the expression of focal adhesion kinases promoted by LPA-induced PGRN was also inhibited by PD98059 alone or in combination with an anti-PGRN antibody (p<0.05). Taken together, these results suggest that the LPA activation of PGRN involving the ERK pathway is critical to promote MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell invasion. 相似文献
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Nerve growth factor (NGF) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) regulate substance P release in adult spinal sensory neurons 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
NGF increases expression and content of substance P in developing and mature spinal sensory neurons. The role this neurotrophin plays in peptide release, however, is less clear. Accordingly, we examined substance P release from cultures of mature rat sensory neurons, which do not require NGF for survival. Neurons grown without NGF have a low but detectable basal release, which increases with depolarization by KCl (50 mM) but never achieves statistical significance. In contrast, basal release is 3 times higher from neurons that have been cultured in the presence of NGF, and KCl depolarization triples the amount of SP released. Stimulation with capsaicin (10–7 M) yields similar results. Residual peptide remaining after capsaicin stimulation is refractory to release for up to 24 h. Bradykinin does not induce SP secretion from mature neurons nor does it potentiate the action of capsaicin. GDNF, which also increases SP content, mimics NGF. Addition of NGF to the bath during release does not directly induce SP secretion, nor does it alter the effects of KCl, capsaicin, or bradykinin. It appears therefore that NGF increases SP release indirectly by increasing intracellular stores. 相似文献
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Muthulekha Swamydas Krista Ricci Stephen L. Rego Didier Dréau 《Cell Adhesion & Migration》2013,7(3):315-324
Stromal chemokine gradients within the breast tissue microenvironment play a critical role in breast cancer cell invasion, a prerequisite to metastasis. To elucidate which chemokines and mechanisms are involved in mammary cell migration we determined whether mesenchymal D1 stem cells secreted specific chemokines that differentially promoted the invasion of mammary tumor cells in vitro. Results indicate that mesenchymal D1 cells produced concentrations of CCL5 and CCL9 4- to 5-fold higher than the concentrations secreted by 4T1 tumor cells (P < 0.01). Moreover, 4T1 tumor cell invasion toward D1 mesenchymal stem cell conditioned media (D1CM), CCL5 alone, CCL9 alone or a combination CCL5 and CCL9 was observed. The invasion of 4T1 cells toward D1 mesenchymal stem CM was dose-dependently suppressed by pre-incubation with the CCR1/CCR5 antagonist met-CCL5 (P < 0.01). Furthermore, the invasion of 4T1 cells toward these chemokines was prevented by incubation with the broad-spectrum MMP inhibitor GM6001. Additionally, the addition of specific MMP9/MMP13 and MMP14 inhibitors prevented the MMP activities of supernatants collected from 4T1 cells incubated with D1CM, CCL5 or CCL9. Taken together these data highlight the role of CCL5 and CCL9 produced by mesenchymal stem cells in mammary tumor cell invasion. 相似文献
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