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Regulatory mechanisms of neutrophil migration from the circulation to the airspace

Journal

CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 78, Issue 9, Pages 4095-4124

Publisher

SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-021-03768-z

Keywords

Polymorphonuclear leukocyte; Lung; Pneumonia; Granulocyte; Trafficking; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Acute lung injury

Funding

  1. Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, NIEHS [Z01 ES102005]

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Neutrophils, key effector cells of the innate immune system, have unique interactions with the lung during infection. While their recruitment is essential for pathogen killing, excessive neutrophil trafficking to the lung can lead to tissue injury, underlying various lung diseases.
The neutrophil, a short-lived effector leukocyte of the innate immune system best known for its proteases and other degradative cargo, has unique, reciprocal physiological interactions with the lung. During health, large numbers of 'marginated' neutrophils reside within the pulmonary vasculature, where they patrol the endothelial surface for pathogens and complete their life cycle. Upon respiratory infection, rapid and sustained recruitment of neutrophils through the endothelial barrier, across the extravascular pulmonary interstitium, and again through the respiratory epithelium into the airspace lumen, is required for pathogen killing. Overexuberant neutrophil trafficking to the lung, however, causes bystander tissue injury and underlies several acute and chronic lung diseases. Due in part to the unique architecture of the lung's capillary network, the neutrophil follows a microanatomic passage into the distal airspace unlike that observed in other end-organs that it infiltrates. Several of the regulatory mechanisms underlying the stepwise recruitment of circulating neutrophils to the infected lung have been defined over the past few decades; however, fundamental questions remain. In this article, we provide an updated review and perspective on emerging roles for the neutrophil in lung biology, on the molecular mechanisms that control the trafficking of neutrophils to the lung, and on past and ongoing efforts to design therapeutics to intervene upon pulmonary neutrophilia in lung disease.

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