Abstract

In response to infection, neutrophils employ various strategies to defend against the invading microbes. One of such defense mechanisms is the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Recent studies suggest that reactive oxygen species is a signal critical to NET formation. This prompts us to examine whether neutrophils from individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) Taiwan-Hakka variant, which are prone to oxidative stress generation, have altered ability to form NET. We adopted an image-based method to study the NET formation potential in neutrophils from G6PD-deficient patients. Neutrophils from either normal or G6PD-deficient individuals underwent NETosis in response to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). The extent of NETosis in the former did not significantly differ from that of the latter. Diphenyleneiodonium sulfate (DPI) and 3-methyladenine (MA) inhibited PMA-stimulated NET formation in these cells, suggesting the involvement of NADPH oxidase and autophagy in the process. Glucose oxidase (GO) and xanthine oxidase/xanthine (XO/X) could induce a similar extent of NET formation in normal and G6PD-deficient neutrophils. GO- or XO-induced NETosis was not inhibitable by MA, implying that reactive oxygen species (ROS) can act as an independent signal for activation of NETosis. Mechanistically, enhanced superoxide production in neutrophils was associated with increases in levels of NAD+ and NADP+, as well as activation of NAD+ kinase. Taken together, these findings suggest that G6PD-deficient neutrophils are as equally efficient as normal cells in NET formation, and their deficiency in G6PD-associated NADPH regeneration capacity is largely compensated for by nicotinamide nucleotide biosynthesis.

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