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BLOOD
Volume 111, Issue 8, Pages 4165-4172Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-08-108886
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- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro Funding Source: Custom
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Although membrane phospholipid phosphatidylinositol-4,5bisphosphate (PIP2) plays a key role as signaling intermediate and coordinator of actin dynamics and vesicle trafficking, it remains completely unknown its involvement in the activation of cytolytic machinery. By live confocal imaging of primary human natural killer (NK) cells expressing the chimeric protein GFP-PH, we observed, during effector-target cell interaction, the consumption of a preexisting PIP2 pool, which is critically required for the activation of cytolytic machinery. We identified type I phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate5-kinase (PI5KI) alpha and gamma isoforms as the enzymes responsible for PIP2 synthesis in NK cells. By hRNA-driven gene silencing, we observed that both enzymes are required for the proper activation of NK cytotoxicity and for inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) generation on receptor stimulation. In an attempt to elucidate the specific step controlled by PI5KIs, we found that lytic granule secretion but not polarization resulted in impaired PI5KI alpha and PI5KI gamma-silenced cells. Our findings delineate a novel mechanism implicating PI5KI alpha and PI5KI gamma isoforms in the synthesis of PIP2 pools critically required for IP3-dependent Ca2+ response and lytic granule release.
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