Blood flow guides sequential support of neutrophil arrest and diapedesis by PILR-β1 and PILR-α

Abstract

Arrest of rapidly flowing neutrophils in venules relies on capturing through selectins and chemokine-induced integrin activation. Despite a long-established concept, we show here that gene inactivation of activating paired immunoglobulin-like receptor (PILR)-β1 nearly halved the efficiency of neutrophil arrest in venules of the mouse cremaster muscle. We found that this receptor binds to CD99, an interaction which relies on flow-induced shear forces and boosts chemokine-induced b2-integrin-activation, leading to neutrophil attachment to endothelium. Upon arrest, binding of PILR-β1 to CD99 ceases, shifting the signaling balance towards inhibitory PILR-α. This enables integrin deactivation and supports cell migration. Thus, flow-driven shear forces guide sequential signaling of first activating PILR-β1 followed by inhibitory PILR-α to prompt neutrophil arrest and then transmigration. This doubles the efficiency of selectin-chemokine driven neutrophil arrest by PILR-β1 and then supports transition to migration by PILR-α.

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  1. Yu-Tung Li

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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  2. Debashree Goswami

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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  3. Melissa Follmer

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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  4. Annette Artz

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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  5. Mariana Pacheco-Blanco

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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  6. Dietmar Vestweber

    Department of Vascular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1009)

  • Debashree Goswami

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (A1)

  • Debashree Goswami

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Reinhard Fässler, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All animal experiments were carried out under German legislation for the protection of animals and approved by the Landesamt für Natur Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen under the reference number AZ 84-02.04.2017.A101.

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  1. Received: April 11, 2019
  2. Accepted: August 5, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: August 6, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: August 19, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Li et al.

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  1. Yu-Tung Li
  2. Debashree Goswami
  3. Melissa Follmer
  4. Annette Artz
  5. Mariana Pacheco-Blanco
  6. Dietmar Vestweber
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Blood flow guides sequential support of neutrophil arrest and diapedesis by PILR-β1 and PILR-α
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