Kinetic studies of galectin-10 release from eosinophils exposed to proliferating T cells

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Galectin-10 is involved in the T cell suppressive activity of regulatory T cells and eosinophils alike. We have identified a subpopulation of T cell suppressive eosinophils that express CD16 on the surface and contain more galectin-10 compared with conventional CD16-negative eosinophils. Our main goal was to determine how the intracellular protein galectin-10 is released from eosinophils when exposed to proliferating T cells and if such release could be inhibited. Confocal microscopy and imaging flow cytometry were used to study the release of galectin-10 from eosinophils incubated with polyclonally activated T cells. T cell proliferation was monitored by measurement of the incorporation of [3 H]-thymidine. Initially, galectin-10-containing synapses formed between eosinophils and T cells. Subsequently, the plasma membrane of eosinophils began to disintegrate and cap-like accumulations of galectin-10 budded on the eosinophil cell surface. Lastly, eosinophil extracellular traps composed of nuclear DNA and galectin-10 were freed. It was solely the CD16-expressing suppressive eosinophils that formed synapses and eosinophil extracellular traps containing galectin-10. Dissolution of the extracellular traps by DNase I partly abrogated the T cell suppression exerted by eosinophils. Extracellular trap formation has mainly been associated with anti-bacterial defense, but we show a new putative function of these cellular formations, as mediators of T cell suppression by enabling the release of galectin-10 from eosinophils.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:203

Enthalten in:

Clinical and experimental immunology - 203(2021), 2 vom: 28. Feb., Seite 230-243

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lingblom, C [VerfasserIn]
Andersson, K [VerfasserIn]
Wennerås, C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Eosinophils
Extracellular traps
Galectin-10
Galectins
Human
Immune synapses
Journal Article
Receptors, IgG
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 16.08.2021

Date Revised 02.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cei.13540

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316493295