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REDOX BIOLOGY
Volume 64, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102784
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Neutrophil extracellular traps; Nucleus; Actin remodeling; Citrullination; Proteomics; Neutrophils
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Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are released by activated neutrophils through a process called NETosis. This study investigated the early events in ionomycin-triggered NETosis and found that profound biochemical changes occur in and around the nucleus of neutrophils before NET release. These changes involve cytoskeleton reorganization, nuclear redistribution of actin-remodeling related proteins, and citrullination of actin-ligand and nuclear structural proteins. Additionally, ionomycin-stimulated neutrophils lose their characteristic polymorphic nucleus and secrete proteins related to immune response.
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are web-like structures of DNA coated with cytotoxic proteins and histones released by activated neutrophils through a process called NETosis. NETs release occurs through a sequence of highly organized events leading to chromatin expansion and rupture of nuclear and cellular membranes. In calcium ionophore-induced NETosis, the enzyme peptidylargine deiminase 4 (PAD4) mediates chromatin decondensation through histone citrullination, but the biochemical pathways involved in this process are not fully understood. Here we use live-imaging microscopy and proteomic studies of the neutrophil cellular fractions to investigate the early events in ionomycin-triggered NETosis. We found that before ionomycin-stimulated neutrophils release NETs, profound biochemical changes occur in and around their nucleus, such as, cytoskeleton reorganization, nuclear redistribution of actin-remodeling related proteins, and citrullination of actin-ligand and nuclear structural proteins. Ionomycin-stimulated neutrophils rapidly lose their characteristic polymorphic nucleus, and these changes are promptly communicated to the extracellular environment through the secretion of proteins related to immune response. Therefore, our findings revealed key biochemical mediators in the early process that subsequently culminates with nuclear and cell membranes rupture, and extracellular DNA release.
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