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American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry, 22(85), p. 10787-10796, 2013

DOI: 10.1021/ac4020098

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On-Chip Evaluation of Neutrophil Activation and Neutrophil-Endothelial cell Interaction during Neutrophil Chemotaxis

Journal article published in 2013 by Donghyuk Kim, Christy L. Haynes ORCID
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Abstract

Neutrophils are always surrounded by/interacting with other components of the immune system; however, the current mechanistic understanding of neutrophil function is largely based on how neutrophils respond to a single chemical signal in a simplified environment. Such approaches are unable to recapitulate the in vivo microenvironment; thus, cell behavior may not fully represent the physiological behavior. Herein, we exploit a microfluidic model of the complex in vivo milieu to investigate how cell-cell interactions influence human neutrophil migration and surface marker expression. Neutrophil migration against a bacterially-derived chemoattractant (formyl-met-leu-phe, fMLP), with and without pre-activation by interleukins (interleukin-2 or interleukin-6), was evaluated in the presence and absence of endothelial support cells. Pre-activation by interleukins or interaction with endothelial cells resulted in altered migration rates compared to naïve neutrophils, and migration trajectories deviated from the expected movement toward the fMLP signal. Interestingly, interaction with both interleukins and endothelial cells simultaneously resulted in a slight compensation in the deviation – on endothelial cells, 34.4% of untreated neutrophils moved away from the fMLP signal while only 15.2% or 22.2% (IL-2-activated or IL-6-activated) of pre-activated cells moved away from fMLP. Neutrophils interacting with interleukins and/or endothelial cells were still capable of prioritizing the fMLP signal over a competing chemoattractant, leukotriene B4 (LTB4). Fluorescence imaging of individual human neutrophils revealed that neutrophils treated with endothelial cell-conditioned media showed up-regulation of the surface adhesion molecules CD11b and CD66b upon stimulation. On the other hand, CD11b and CD66b down-regulation was observed in untreated neutrophils. These results leverage single cell analysis to reveal that the interaction between neutrophils and endothelial cells is involved in surface marker regulation, and thus, chemotaxis of neutrophils. This study brings new knowledge about neutrophil chemotaxis in the context of cell-to-cell communications, yielding both fundamental and therapeutically relevant insight.