Adrian Schreiber1,2, Anthony Rousselle3, Jan Klocke2, Sebastian Bachmann4, Suncica Popovic4, Julia Bontscho2, Kai M Schmidt-Ott2, Volker Siffrin3, Uwe Jerke3, Muhammad Imtiaz Ashraf5, Ulf Panzer6, Ralph Kettritz3,2. 1. Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité - Berlin University of Medicine, Corporate Member of Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany adrian.schreiber@charite.de. 2. Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany. 3. Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité - Berlin University of Medicine, Corporate Member of Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany. 4. Institute of Vegetative Anatomy, Charité - Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany. 5. Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte I Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité - Berlin University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany. 6. III. Medical Clinic, Division of Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a diagnostic marker of intrinsic kidney injury produced by damaged renal cells and by neutrophils. ANCA-associated vasculitis features necrotizing crescentic GN (NCGN), and ANCA-activated neutrophils contribute to NCGN. Whether NGAL plays a mechanistic role in ANCA-associated vasculitis is unknown. METHODS: We measured NGAL in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis and mice with anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) antibody-induced NCGN. We compared kidney histology, neutrophil functions, T cell proliferation and polarization, renal infiltrating cells, and cytokines in wild-type and NGAL-deficient chimeric mice with anti-MPO antibody-induced NCGN. To assess the role of TH17 immunity, we transplanted irradiated MPO-immunized MPO-deficient mice with bone marrow from either wild-type or NGAL-deficient mice; we also transplanted irradiated MPO-immunized MPO/IL-17A double-deficient mice with bone marrow from either IL-17A-deficient or NGAL/IL-17A double-deficient mice. RESULTS: Mice and patients with active ANCA-associated vasculitis demonstrated strongly increased serum and urinary NGAL levels. ANCA-stimulated neutrophils released NGAL. Mice with NGAL-deficient bone marrow developed worsened MPO-ANCA-induced NCGN. Intrinsic neutrophil functions were similar in NGAL-deficient and wild-type neutrophils, whereas T cell immunity was increased in chimeric mice with NGAL-deficient neutrophils with more renal infiltrating TH17 cells. NGAL-expressing neutrophils and CD3+ T cells were in close proximity in kidney and spleen. CD4+ T cells showed no intrinsic difference in proliferation and polarization in vitro, whereas iron siderophore-loaded NGAL suppressed TH17 polarization. We found significantly attenuated NCGN in IL-17A-deficient chimeras compared with MPO-deficient mice receiving wild-type bone marrow, as well as in NGAL/IL-17A-deficient chimeras compared with NGAL-deficient chimeras. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support that bone marrow-derived, presumably neutrophil, NGAL protects from ANCA-induced NCGN by downregulating TH17 immunity.
BACKGROUND:Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a diagnostic marker of intrinsic kidney injury produced by damaged renal cells and by neutrophils. ANCA-associated vasculitis features necrotizing crescentic GN (NCGN), and ANCA-activated neutrophils contribute to NCGN. Whether NGAL plays a mechanistic role in ANCA-associated vasculitis is unknown. METHODS: We measured NGAL in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis and mice with anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) antibody-induced NCGN. We compared kidney histology, neutrophil functions, T cell proliferation and polarization, renal infiltrating cells, and cytokines in wild-type and NGAL-deficient chimeric mice with anti-MPO antibody-induced NCGN. To assess the role of TH17 immunity, we transplanted irradiated MPO-immunized MPO-deficient mice with bone marrow from either wild-type or NGAL-deficient mice; we also transplanted irradiated MPO-immunized MPO/IL-17A double-deficient mice with bone marrow from either IL-17A-deficient or NGAL/IL-17A double-deficient mice. RESULTS:Mice and patients with active ANCA-associated vasculitis demonstrated strongly increased serum and urinary NGAL levels. ANCA-stimulated neutrophils released NGAL. Mice with NGAL-deficient bone marrow developed worsened MPO-ANCA-induced NCGN. Intrinsic neutrophil functions were similar in NGAL-deficient and wild-type neutrophils, whereas T cell immunity was increased in chimeric mice with NGAL-deficient neutrophils with more renal infiltrating TH17 cells. NGAL-expressing neutrophils and CD3+ T cells were in close proximity in kidney and spleen. CD4+ T cells showed no intrinsic difference in proliferation and polarization in vitro, whereas iron siderophore-loaded NGAL suppressed TH17 polarization. We found significantly attenuated NCGN in IL-17A-deficient chimeras compared with MPO-deficient mice receiving wild-type bone marrow, as well as in NGAL/IL-17A-deficient chimeras compared with NGAL-deficient chimeras. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support that bone marrow-derived, presumably neutrophil, NGAL protects from ANCA-induced NCGN by downregulating TH17 immunity.
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