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BLOOD
Volume 135, Issue 12, Pages 891-903Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.2019003525
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [R01HL140837]
- NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [R01AR072212]
- Children's Discovery Institute of Washington University
- St. Louis Children's Hospital
- NIH from the National Institute on Aging [1K08AI119134]
- NIH Shared Instrumentation grant [S10 RR027552]
- Hope Center Alafi Neuroimaging Laboratory
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Leukocyte reduced NADP (NADPH) oxidase plays a key role in host defense and immune regulation. Genetic defects in NADPH oxidase result in chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), characterized by recurrent bacterial and fungal infections and aberrant inflammation. Key drivers of hyperinflammation induced by fungal cell walls in CGD are still incompletely defined. In this study, we found that CGD (CYBB-) neutrophils produced higher amounts of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) in vitro after activationwith zymosan or immune complexes, compared with wild-type (WT) neutrophils. This finding correlated with increased calcium influx in CGD neutrophils, which was restrained in WT neutrophils by the electrogenic activity of NADPH oxidase. Increased LTB4 generation by CGD neutrophils was also augmented by paracrine cross talk with the LTB4 receptor BLT1. CGD neutrophils formed more numerous and larger clusters in the presence of zymosan in vitro compared withWT cells, and the effect was also LTB4- and BLT1-dependent. In zymosan-induced lung inflammation, focal neutrophil infiltrateswere increased in CGDcomparedwithWT mice and associatedwith higher LTB4 levels. Inhibiting LTB4 synthesis or antagonizing the BLT1 receptor after zymosan challenge reduced lung neutrophil recruitment in CGD toWT levels. Thus, LTB4 was the major driver of excessive neutrophilic lung inflammation in CGD mice in the early response to fungal cell walls, likely by a dysregulated feed-forward loop involving amplified neutrophil production of LTB4. This study identifies neutrophil LTB4 generation as a target of NADPHoxidase regulation, which could potentially be exploited therapeutically to reduce excessive inflammation in CGD.
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