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ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 843-853Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.117.309897
Keywords
aortic aneurysm; extracellular traps; interleukin-1beta; neutrophils
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [5R01HL124131]
- National Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association [14SDG20380044]
- NIH [R01 1R01HL126668, R01 DK096076]
- American Heart Association
- American Heart Association Predoctoral Grant [15PRE255600036]
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant [T32-GM007055-40]
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Objective Neutrophils promote experimental abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) formation via a mechanism that is independent from MMPs (matrix metalloproteinases). Recently, we reported a dominant role of IL (interleukin)-1 in the formation of murine experimental AAAs. Here, the hypothesis that IL-1-induced neutrophil extracellular trap formation (NETosis) promotes AAA was tested. Approach and Results NETs were identified through colocalized staining of neutrophil, Cit-H3 (citrullinated histone H3), and DNA, using immunohistochemistry. NETs were detected in human AAAs and were colocalized with IL-1. In vitro, IL-1RA attenuated IL-1-induced NETosis in human neutrophils. Mechanistically, IL-1 treatment of isolated neutrophils induced nuclear localization of ceramide synthase 6 and synthesis of C16-ceramide, which was inhibited by IL-1RA or fumonisin B1, an inhibitor of ceramide synthesis. Furthermore, IL-1RA or fumonisin B1 attenuated IL1--induced NETosis. In an experimental model of murine AAA, NETs were detected at a very early stage-day 3 of aneurysm induction. IL-1-knockout mice demonstrated significantly lower infiltration of neutrophils to aorta and were protected from AAA. Adoptive transfer of wild-type neutrophils promoted AAA formation in IL-1-knockout mice. Moreover, treatment of wild-type mice with Cl-amidine, an inhibitor NETosis, significantly attenuated AAA formation, whereas, treatment with deoxyribonuclease, a DNA digesting enzyme, had no effect on AAA formation. Conclusions Altogether, the results suggest a dominant role of IL-1-induced NETosis in AAA formation.
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