TGF-beta1 released from activated platelets can induce TNF-stimulated human brain endothelium apoptosis: a new mechanism for microvascular lesion during cerebral malaria |
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Authors: | Wassmer Samuel C de Souza J Brian Frère Corinne Candal Francisco J Juhan-Vague Irène Grau Georges E |
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Institution: | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6020, Faculty of Medicine, Institut Fédératif de Recherches (IFR) 48, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. |
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Abstract: | Platelets have recently been shown to accumulate in brain microvessels of patients with cerebral malaria and to modulate the binding of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red cells to human brain endothelium in vitro. In the present study we used a platelet-endothelial cell coculture model to investigate the mechanisms by which platelets modify the function of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBEC). Platelets were found to have a proapoptotic effect on TNF-activated HBEC, and this was contact-dependent, as inhibiting platelet binding prevented endothelial cell killing. We also showed that the supernatants of thrombin-activated platelets killed TNF-stimulated HBEC and that TGF-beta1 was the main molecule involved in endothelial cell death, because its inhibition completely abrogated the activated-platelet supernatant effect. Our data illustrate another aspect of the duality of TGF-beta1 in malaria and may provide new insights into the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria. |
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