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BLOOD
Volume 124, Issue 7, Pages 999-1009Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-02-555268
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- Health Research Board Ireland [PHD/2007/11]
- Science Foundation Ireland [11/RFP/BMT/3094]
- 3U Biomedical Research (DCU-NUI Maynooth-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
- US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Beaumont Hospital Foundation (Dublin, Ireland)
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Studies have endeavored to reconcile whether dysfunction of neutrophils in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) is a result of the genetic defect or is secondary due to infection and inflammation. In this study, we illustrate that disrupted function of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), such as that which occurs in patients with Delta F508 and/or G551D mutations, correlates with impaired degranulation of antimicrobial proteins. We demonstrate that CF blood neutrophils release less secondary and tertiary granule components compared with control cells and that activation of the low-molecular-mass GTP-binding protein Rab27a, involved in the regulation of granule trafficking, is defective. The mechanism leading to impaired degranulation involves altered ion homeostasis caused by defective CFTR function with increased cytosolic levels of chloride and sodium, yet decreased magnesium measured in CF neutrophils. Decreased magnesium concentration in vivo and in vitro resulted in significantly decreased levels of GTP-bound Rab27a. Treatment of G551D patients with the ion channel potentiator ivacaftor resulted in normalized neutrophil cytosolic ion levels and activation of Rab27a, thereby leading to increased degranulation and bacterial killing. Our results confirm that intrinsic alterations of circulating neutrophils from patients with CF are corrected by ivacaftor, thus illustrating additional clinical benefits for CFTR modulator therapy.
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