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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 149-158Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0610371
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CD107a; ADCC; signaling
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) [543137]
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Measurement of NK cell cytolytic activity in the setting of chronic viral infection is important for determining viral pathogenicity. Mobilization of LAMP-1 (CD107a) to the NK cell surface is a surrogate marker for cytotoxic granule release and hence, NK cell cytotoxicity. We have developed a convenient, rapid, whole blood flow cytometric assay for measuring CD107a mobilization in response to CD16 cross-linking, a surrogate for NK cell ADCC activity ex vivo, which can be performed using small volumes of patient whole blood. Using this assay, we show that CD107a mobilization, in response to CD16 cross-linking, is triggered in CD56(dim) but not CD56(bright) NK cells, requiring Syk/Zap70 tyrosine kinase activity, and that there is a significant correlation between CD107a mobilization and pSyk/Zap70 in response to CD16 cross-linking. We compared whole blood from treatment-naive, HIV-infected patients with age-and sex-matched HIV-uninfected control subjects and found a significant reduction in CD16-dependent pSyk/Zap70 (median=32.7% compared with 67.8%; P=0.0002) and CD107a mobilization (median=9.72% compared with 32.9%; P=0.046) in NK cells. Reduction of both correlated strongly with reduced CD16 surface expression on NK cells of HIV-infected individuals (P<0.01). These data suggest that ADCC is inhibited in NK cells from therapy-naive, HIV-infected individuals at the level of early events in CD16 signal transduction, associated with low CD16R expression, and our method is a useful and reliable tool to detect pathological defects in NK cell degranulation. J. Leukoc. Biol. 89: 149-158; 2011.
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