Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23126800
Keywords
platelet; thrombocytopenia; histones; DIC; tissue factor; coagulation; cell death
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- NIH/NIGMS Institutional Development Award [P20GM103527]
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Histones can trigger coagulation activation, and lytic cell death is a novel mechanism of histone-induced coagulation.
Histones are cationic nuclear proteins that are essential for the structure and functions of eukaryotic chromatin. However, extracellular histones trigger inflammatory responses and contribute to death in sepsis by unknown mechanisms. We recently reported that inflammasome activation and pyroptosis trigger coagulation activation through a tissue-factor (TF)-dependent mechanism. We used a combination of various deficient mice to elucidate the molecular mechanism of histone-induced coagulation. We showed that histones trigger coagulation activation in vivo, as evidenced by coagulation parameters and fibrin deposition in tissues. However, histone-induced coagulopathy was neither dependent on intracellular inflammasome pathways involving caspase 1/11 and gasdermin D (GSDMD), nor on cell surface receptor TLR2- and TLR4-mediated host immune response, as the deficiency of these genes in mice did not protect against histone-induced coagulopathy. The incubation of histones with macrophages induced lytic cell death and phosphatidylserine (PS) exposure, which is required for TF activity, a key initiator of coagulation. The neutralization of TF diminished the histone-induced coagulation. Our findings revealed lytic cell death as a novel mechanism of histone-induced coagulation activation and thrombosis.
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