Laura D Healy1, Cristina Puy2, Asako Itakura3, Tiffany Chu2, David K Robinson2, Alan Bylund2, Kevin G Phillips2, Elizabeth E Gardiner4, Owen J T McCarty5. 1. Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. Electronic address: healyl@ohsu.edu. 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. 3. Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. 4. Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 5. Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Neutrophils, the most populous innate immune cell type, are the first responders to sites of infection and inflammation. Neutrophils can release their DNA to form extracellular traps (NETs), webs of DNA and granular proteases that contribute to pathogen clearance and promote thrombus formation. At present, the study of NETs is in part limited to the qualitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy-based images, thus quantification of the interactions between NETs and coagulation factors remains ill-defined. AIM: Develop a quantitative method to measure the spatial distribution of DNA and colocalization of coagulation factor binding to neutrophils and NETs utilizing fluorescence-based microscopy. APPROACH: Human neutrophils were purified from peripheral blood, bound to fibronectin and treated with the PKC-activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) to induce neutrophil activation and NETs formation. Samples were incubated with purified coagulation factors or plasma before staining with a DNA-binding dye and coagulation factor-specific antibodies. The spatial distribution of DNA and coagulation factors was imaged via fluorescence microscopy and quantified via a custom-built MATLAB-based image analysis algorithm. The algorithm first established global thresholding parameters on a training set of fluorescence image data and then systematically quantified intensity profiles across treatment conditions. Quantitative comparison of treatment conditions was enabled through the normalization of fluorescent intensities using the number of cells per image to determine the percent and area of DNA and coagulation factor binding per cell. RESULTS: Upon stimulation with PMA, NETs formation resulted in an increase in the area of DNA per cell. The coagulation factor fibrinogen bound to both the neutrophil cell body as well as NETs, while prothrombin, FX and FVIIa binding was restricted to the neutrophil cell body. The Gla domain of FX was required to mediate FX-neutrophil binding. Activated protein C (APC), but not Gla-less APC, bound to neutrophil cell bodies and NETs in a punctate manner. Neither FXIIa nor FXIa were found to bind either neutrophil cell bodies or NETs. Fibrinogen binding was dependent on extracellular DNA, while FX and APC required phosphatidylserine exposure for binding to activated neutrophils. CONCLUSIONS: We have developed a quantitative measurement platform to define the spatial localization of fluorescently-labeled coagulation factor binding to neutrophils and extracellular DNA during NETosis.
BACKGROUND: Neutrophils, the most populous innate immune cell type, are the first responders to sites of infection and inflammation. Neutrophils can release their DNA to form extracellular traps (NETs), webs of DNA and granular proteases that contribute to pathogen clearance and promote thrombus formation. At present, the study of NETs is in part limited to the qualitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy-based images, thus quantification of the interactions between NETs and coagulation factors remains ill-defined. AIM: Develop a quantitative method to measure the spatial distribution of DNA and colocalization of coagulation factor binding to neutrophils and NETs utilizing fluorescence-based microscopy. APPROACH: Human neutrophils were purified from peripheral blood, bound to fibronectin and treated with the PKC-activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) to induce neutrophil activation and NETs formation. Samples were incubated with purified coagulation factors or plasma before staining with a DNA-binding dye and coagulation factor-specific antibodies. The spatial distribution of DNA and coagulation factors was imaged via fluorescence microscopy and quantified via a custom-built MATLAB-based image analysis algorithm. The algorithm first established global thresholding parameters on a training set of fluorescence image data and then systematically quantified intensity profiles across treatment conditions. Quantitative comparison of treatment conditions was enabled through the normalization of fluorescent intensities using the number of cells per image to determine the percent and area of DNA and coagulation factor binding per cell. RESULTS: Upon stimulation with PMA, NETs formation resulted in an increase in the area of DNA per cell. The coagulation factor fibrinogen bound to both the neutrophil cell body as well as NETs, while prothrombin, FX and FVIIa binding was restricted to the neutrophil cell body. The Gla domain of FX was required to mediate FX-neutrophil binding. Activated protein C (APC), but not Gla-less APC, bound to neutrophil cell bodies and NETs in a punctate manner. Neither FXIIa nor FXIa were found to bind either neutrophil cell bodies or NETs. Fibrinogen binding was dependent on extracellular DNA, while FX and APC required phosphatidylserine exposure for binding to activated neutrophils. CONCLUSIONS: We have developed a quantitative measurement platform to define the spatial localization of fluorescently-labeled coagulation factor binding to neutrophils and extracellular DNA during NETosis.
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