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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 212, Issue 11, Pages 1883-1899Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20150353
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01HL046849, R37HL064774]
- American Heart Association [14PRE18550021, 12PRE9330014]
- Intramural Research Division of the NIH [ZO1-ES-101684]
- Sidney & Bess Eisenberg Memorial Fund
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Leukocyte transendothelial migration (TEM) is a tightly regulated, multistep process that is critical to the inflammatory response. A transient increase in endothelial cytosolic free calcium ion concentration (up arrow[Ca2+]i) is required for TEM. However, the mechanism by which endothelial up arrow[Ca2+]i regulates TEM and the channels mediating this up arrow[Ca2+]i are unknown. Buffering up arrow[Ca2+]i in endothelial cells does not affect leukocyte adhesion or locomotion but selectively blocks TEM, suggesting a role for up arrow[Ca2+]i specifically for this step. Transient receptor potential canonical 6 (TRPC6), a Ca2+ channel expressed in endothelial cells, colocalizes with platelet/endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM) to surround leukocytes during TEM and clusters when endothelial PECAM is engaged. Expression of dominant-negative TRPC6 or shRNA knockdown in endothelial cells arrests neutrophils apically over the junction, similar to when PECAM is blocked. Selectively activating endothelial TRPC6 rescues TEM during an ongoing PECAM blockade, indicating that TRPC6 functions downstream of PECAM. Furthermore, endothelial TRPC6 is required for trafficking of lateral border recycling compartment membrane, which facilitates TEM. Finally, mice lacking TRPC6 in the nonmyeloid compartment (i.e., endothelium) exhibit a profound defect in neutrophil TEM with no effect on leukocyte trafficking. Our findings identify endothelial TRPC6 as the calcium channel mediating the up arrow[Ca2+]i required for TEM at a step downstream of PECAM homophilic interactions.
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