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BLOOD
卷 120, 期 25, 页码 5014-5020出版社
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-04-420661
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- National Institutes of Health [R01s HL66277, HL91754, HL44525, HL90870, K23 HL92161, U54HL112311, AI095647 AI090369, AI088086]
- ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology
- Hematology Training grant [5T32DK007115-35]
- American Heart Association [0625098Y]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP-81208]
- Pfizer Grant of the German Cardiac Society
- FoFoLe-program of the University of Munich
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- Sylvia and Charles Viertel Foundation
- Victorian State Government of Australia
Bacteria can enter the bloodstream in response to infectious insults. Bacteremia elicits several immune and clinical complications, including thrombocytopenia. A primary cause of thrombocytopenia is shortened survival of platelets. We demonstrate that pathogenic bacteria induce apoptotic events in platelets that include calpain-mediated degradation of Bcl-x(L), an essential regulator of platelet survival. Specifically, bloodstream bacterial isolates from patients with sepsis induce lateral condensation of actin, impair mitochondrial membrane potential, and degrade Bcl-xL protein in platelets. Bcl-xL protein degradation is enhanced when platelets are exposed to pathogenic Escherichia coli that produce the pore-forming toxin alpha-hemolysin, a response that is markedly attenuated when the gene is deleted from E coli. We also found that nonpathogenic E coli gain degrading activity when they are forced to express alpha-hemolysin. Like alpha-hemolysin, purified alpha-toxin readily degrades Bcl-xL protein in platelets, as do clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates that produce alpha-toxin. Inhibition of calpain activity, but not the proteasome, rescues Bcl-xL protein degradation in platelets coincubated with pathogenic E coli including alpha-hemolysin producing strains. This is the first evidence that pathogenic bacteria can trigger activation of the platelet intrinsic apoptosis program and our results suggest a new mechanism by which bacterial pathogens might cause thrombocytopenia in patients with bloodstream infections. (Blood. 2012; 120(25): 5014-5020)
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