Endothelial-Derived Interleukin-1α Activates Innate Immunity by Promoting the Bactericidal Activity of Transendothelial Neutrophils.

Xiaoye Liu,Hui Zhang,Ge Hu,Hong Dong,Shangwen He,Xiang Mu

doi:10.3389/fcell.2020.00590

Abstract

Migration of neutrophils across endothelial barriers to capture and eliminate bacteria is served as the first line of innate immunity. Bacterial virulence factors damage endothelium to produce inflammatory cytokines interacts with neutrophils. However, the mechanisms that behind endothelial-neutrophil interaction impact on the bactericidal activity remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to find the target proteins on endothelial cells that triggered the bactericidal activity of transendothelial neutrophils. Herein, we built the infected models on rats and endothelial-neutrophil co-cultural system (Transwell) and discovered that endothelial-derived IL-1α promoted the survival of rats under Escherichia coli infection and enhanced the bactericidal activity of transendothelial neutrophils in vivo and in vitro. Results further showed that IL-1α was inhibited by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the endothelial-neutrophil interaction. We found that LPS mainly damaged cell membrane and induced cell necrosis to interrupt neutrophil migration from endothelial barrier. Thus, we used the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ) method to identify different proteins of endothelial cells. Results showed that IL-1α targeted cellular plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial envelope and triggered eleven common proteins to persistently regulate. During the early phase, IL-1α triggered the upregulation of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) to promote neutrophil adhesion, while oxidative phosphorylation was involved in long time regulation to induce transmigration of neutrophils against bacteria. Our results highlight the critical mechanism of endothelial-derived IL-1α on promoting bactericidal activity of transendothelial neutrophils and the findings of IL-1α triggered proteins provide the potentially important targets on the regulation of innate immunity.

Highlights

Endothelial cells are the inner cell lines connected with immune cells and epithelium (Rohlenova et al, 2018)
To investigate whether IL-1α can impact on the innate immunity against bacterial infection, we firstly built the in vivo model of E. coli infected rats (Figure 1A) and the infection on co-culture system of neutrophils and endothelial cells in vitro (Figure 1E)
We found that LPS of E. coli promoted the release of TNFα, IL-6, and IL-1β in the serums of infected rats, while LPS suppressed IL-1α, IL-8, and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) (Figure 1B)

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Introduction

Endothelial cells are the inner cell lines connected with immune cells and epithelium (Rohlenova et al, 2018). Bacteria employ their virulence factors to hijack endothelial cells and induce inflammatory cytokine release as the major strategy to break through epithelium barrier and inhibit innate immune system (Liu et al, 2017; Yuan et al, 2018). It worth to note that the inflammatory cytokine, interleukin1α (IL-1α) can induce neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to activity endothelial cell (Folco et al, 2018). As similar as our previous research illustrated that endothelial IL-1α enhanced the bacterial killing of transendothelial neutrophils (Liu et al, 2016). The mechanisms of how endothelial-derived IL-1α regulate the killing ability of transendothelial neutrophils remain unknown. We hypothesized that endothelial IL-1α modulated endothelial cells to impact bacterial killing of transendothelial neutrophils

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