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MacKinney A, Woska E, Spasojevic I, Batinic-Haberle I, Zennadi R. Disrupting the vicious cycle created by NOX activation in sickle erythrocytes exposed to hypoxia/reoxygenation prevents adhesion and vasoocclusion. Redox Biol 2019; 25:101097. [PMID: 30661992 PMCID: PMC6859575 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2019.101097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In sickle cell disease (SCD), recurrent painful vasoocclusive crisis are likely caused by repeated episodes of hypoxia and reoxygenation. The sickle erythrocyte (SSRBC) adhesion plays an active role in vasoocclusion. However, the effect of prolonged reoxygenation after hypoxic stress on the molecular mechanisms in SSRBCs involved in onset of episodic vasoocclusion remain unclear. Exposure of human SSRBCs to hypoxia followed by 2 h reoxygenation, increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Using specific pharmacological inhibitors, we show that excess ROS production in both reticulocytes and mature SSRBCs is regulated by NADPH oxidases (NOXs), the mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK1/2), and G-protein coupled-receptor kinase 2 (GRK2). Consequently, SSRBC ROS create an intracellular positive feedback loop with ERK1/2 and GRK2 to mediate SSRBC adhesion to endothelium in vitro, and vasoocclusion in a mouse model of vasoocclusion in vivo. Importantly, reducing ROS levels in SSRBCs with redox-active manganese (Mn) porphyrins, commonly known as mimics of superoxide dismutase (SOD), disrupted the cycle created by ROS by affecting NOX and GRK2 activities and ERK1/2 phosphorylation, thus abrogating RBC-endothelial interactions. Inhibition adhesion assays show that LW (ICAM-4, CD242) blood group glycoprotein and CD44 are the RBC adhesion molecules mediating endothelial binding. Conversely, hypoxia/reoxygenation of normal RBCs failed to activate this feedback loop, and adhesion. These findings provide novel insights into the pathophysiological significance of the deleterious cycle created by NOX-dependent ROS, GRK2 and ERK1/2 within SSRBCs activated by hypoxia/reoxygenation, and involved in SSRBC adhesion and vasoocclusion. Thus, this loop in SSRBCs, which can be disrupted by Mn porphyrins, likely drives the profound SCD vasculopathy, and may point to new therapeutic targets to prevent chronic vasoocclusive events.
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- Anson MacKinney
- Division of Hematology and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States; Departments of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Division of Hematology and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States; Departments of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource, PK/PD Core Laboratory, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States; Departments of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Division of Hematology and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States; Departments of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, United States.
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Chiou E, Zennadi R. Gαs proteins activate p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src tyrosine kinases to mediate sickle red blood cell adhesion to endothelium via LW-αvβ3 and CD44-CD44 interactions. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2015; 65:40-51. [PMID: 26007235 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2015.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been suggested as new drug targets to treat a variety of diseases. In sickle cell disease (SCD), the LW erythrocyte adhesion receptor can be activated by stimulation of β2 adrenergic receptors (β2ARs), to mediate sickle erythrocyte (SSRBC) adhesion to endothelium. However, the involvement of tyrosine protein kinases in β2AR signaling to activate SSRBC adhesion to endothelium has not been thoroughly elucidated. Either direct activation with Cholera toxin of Gαs protein, which acts downstream of β2ARs, or inhibition with Pertussis toxin of Gαi, mediating suppression of adenylyl cyclase, increased SSRBC adhesion to endothelium over baseline adhesion. This effect involved the non-receptor tyrosine kinases, p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src, which were more abundant in SSRBCs than in normal erythrocytes. In contrast, Pertussis toxin and Cholera toxin failed to increase adhesion of normal erythrocytes. SSRBC Gαi inhibition also increased phosphorylation of p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src. Further, we investigated the relevance of activation of p72(Syk) and p60-c-Src, and identified LW (ICAM-4, CD242) and CD44 as the erythroid adhesion molecules both physically interacting with activated p60-c-Src. As a result, SSRBC LW underwent increased tyrosine phosphorylation, leading to SSRBC LW and CD44 binding to endothelial αvβ3 integrin and CD44, respectively. These data provide in vitro mechanistic evidence that p60-c-Src, which could act downstream of Gαs/p72(Syk), associates with LW and CD44 on SSRBCs leading to their interactions with endothelial αvβ3 and CD44, respectively. Thus, increased activation of these signaling mechanisms in SSRBCs could initiate or exacerbate vascular occlusion, the hallmark of SCD.
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- Edward Chiou
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States.
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Erythrocyte plasma membrane-bound ERK1/2 activation promotes ICAM-4-mediated sickle red cell adhesion to endothelium. Blood 2011; 119:1217-27. [PMID: 22147898 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-03-344440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The core pathology of sickle cell disease (SCD) starts with the erythrocyte (RBC). Aberration in MAPK/ERK1/2 signaling, which can regulate cell adhesion, occurs in diverse pathologies. Because RBCs contain abundant ERK1/2, we predicted that ERK1/2 is functional in sickle (SS) RBCs and promotes adherence, a hallmark of SCD. ERK1/2 remained active in SS but not normal RBCs. β(2)-adrenergic receptor stimulation by epinephrine can enhance ERK1/2 activity only in SS RBCs via PKA- and tyrosine kinase p72(syk)-dependent pathways. ERK signaling is implicated in RBC ICAM-4 phosphorylation, promoting SS RBC adhesion to the endothelium. SS RBC adhesion and phosphorylation of both ERK and ICAM-4 all decreased with continued cell exposure to epinephrine, implying that activation of ICAM-4-mediated SS RBC adhesion is temporally associated with ERK1/2 activation. Furthermore, recombinant ERK2 phosphorylated α- and β-adducins and dematin at the ERK consensus motif. Cytoskeletal protein 4.1 also showed dynamic phosphorylation but not at the ERK consensus motif. These results demonstrate that ERK activation induces phosphorylation of cytoskeletal proteins and the adhesion molecule ICAM-4, promoting SS RBC adhesion to the endothelium. Thus, blocking RBC ERK1/2 activation, such as that promoted by catecholamine stress hormones, could ameliorate SCD pathophysiology.
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Infusion of epinephrine-activated human sickle erythrocytes (SS RBCs) into nude mice promotes both SS RBC and murine leukocyte adhesion to vascular endothelium in vivo. We hypothesized that interaction of epinephrine-stimulated SS RBCs with leukocytes leads to activation of leukocytes, which then adhere to endothelial cells (ECs). In exploring the underlying molecular mechanisms, we have found that coincubation in vitro of epinephrine-treated SS RBCs with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) results in robust adhesion of PBMCs to ECs. Sham-treated SS RBCs had a similar but less pronounced effect, whereas neither sham- nor epinephrine-treated normal RBCs activated PBMC adhesion. PBMC activation was induced via at least 2 RBC adhesion receptors, LW and CD44. In response to SS RBCs, leukocyte CD44 and beta2 integrins mediated PBMC adhesion to ECs, a process that involved endothelial E-selectin and fibronectin. SS RBCs activated adhesion of both PBMC populations, lymphocytes and monocytes. Thus, our findings reveal a novel mechanism that may contribute to the pathogenesis of vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease, in which SS RBCs act via LW and CD44 to stimulate leukocyte adhesion to endothelium, and suggest that RBC LW and CD44 may serve as potential targets for antiadhesive therapy designed to prevent vaso-occlusion.
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Toivanen A, Ihanus E, Mattila M, Lutz HU, Gahmberg CG. Importance of molecular studies on major blood groups--intercellular adhesion molecule-4, a blood group antigen involved in multiple cellular interactions. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2007; 1780:456-66. [PMID: 17997044 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2007.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2007] [Revised: 09/05/2007] [Accepted: 09/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Several blood groups, including the LW-blood group were discovered in the first part of last century, but their biochemical characteristics and cellular functions have only more recently been elucidated. The LW-blood group, renamed ICAM-4 (CD242), is red cell specific and belongs to the intercellular adhesion molecule family. ICAM-4 binds to several integrin receptors on blood and endothelial cells and is thus able to form large cellular complexes containing red cells. Its physiological function(s) has remained incompletely understood, but recent work shows that macrophage integrins can bind red cells through this ligand. In this article we discuss molecular properties of major blood group antigens, describe ICAM-4 in more detail, and show that phagocytosis of senescent red cells is in part ICAM-4/beta(2)-integrin dependent.
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- Anne Toivanen
- Division of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biosciences, P.O. Box 56, Viikinkaari 5, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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Zennadi R, Moeller BJ, Whalen EJ, Batchvarova M, Xu K, Shan S, Delahunty M, Dewhirst MW, Telen MJ. Epinephrine-induced activation of LW-mediated sickle cell adhesion and vaso-occlusion in vivo. Blood 2007; 110:2708-17. [PMID: 17609430 PMCID: PMC1988948 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-11-056101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sickle red cell (SS RBC) adhesion is believed to contribute to the process of vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease (SCD). We previously found that the LW RBC adhesion receptor can be activated by epinephrine to mediate SS RBC adhesion to endothelial alphavbeta3 integrin. To determine the contribution of LW activation to vaso-occlusive events in vivo, we investigated whether in vitro treatment of SS RBCs by epinephrine resulted in vaso-occlusion in intact microvasculature after RBC infusion into nude mice. Epinephrine enhanced human SS but not normal RBC adhesion to murine endothelial cells in vitro and to endothelium in vivo, promoting vaso-occlusion and RBC organ sequestration. Murine sickle RBCs also responded to epinephrine with increased adhesion to postcapillary endothelium in nude mice. Epinephrine-induced SS RBC adhesion, vaso-occlusion, and RBC organ trapping could be prevented by the beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-AR) antagonist, propranolol. Infusion of soluble recombinant LW also significantly reduced adhesion and vaso-occlusion. In addition, epinephrine-treated SS RBCs induced activation of murine leukocyte adhesion to endothelium as well. We conclude that LW activation by epinephrine via beta-AR stimulation can promote both SS RBC and leukocyte adhesion as well as vaso-occlusion, suggesting that both epinephrine and LW play potentially pathophysiological roles in SCD.
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- Rahima Zennadi
- Division of Hematology and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Delahunty M, Zennadi R, Telen MJ. LW protein: a promiscuous integrin receptor activated by adrenergic signaling. Transfus Clin Biol 2006; 13:44-9. [PMID: 16564726 DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2006.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The LW blood group antigen glycoprotein, although part of the Rh macromolecular complex, is nonetheless a member of the intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM) family. Thus, while it is only rarely clinically important in the setting of transfusion and pregnancy, LW is likely to contribute to red cell adhesion in a variety of settings, including during hematopoiesis, as well as in vascular disorders. The best documentation of a pathophysiological role for LW in human disease is in sickle cell disease, where it contributes to red cell adhesion to endothelial cells and the development of vaso-occlusion, the hallmark of that disease. LW may also contribute to other intravascular processes, such as both venous and arterial thrombosis, due to its ability to interact with both activated platelets as well as leukocytes. The evidence that LW itself can undergo activation on red cells holds promise that pharmacotherapeutic maneuvers may be found to prevent such pathophysiologic interactions.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Anemia, Sickle Cell/physiopathology
- Blood Group Antigens/genetics
- Blood Platelets/metabolism
- Cell Adhesion/physiology
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/drug effects
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/physiology
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/genetics
- Cyclic AMP/physiology
- Endothelium, Vascular/pathology
- Epinephrine/pharmacology
- Erythrocytes/metabolism
- Erythrocytes/physiology
- Humans
- Integrin alphaV/metabolism
- Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1/metabolism
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Platelet Glycoprotein GPIIb-IIIa Complex/metabolism
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/drug effects
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/physiology
- Rh-Hr Blood-Group System/physiology
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Thrombosis/physiopathology
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- M Delahunty
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Box 2615, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Zennadi R, Hines PC, De Castro LM, Cartron JP, Parise LV, Telen MJ. Epinephrine acts through erythroid signaling pathways to activate sickle cell adhesion to endothelium via LW-alphavbeta3 interactions. Blood 2004; 104:3774-81. [PMID: 15308566 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-01-0042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The possible role of physiologic stress hormones in enhancing adhesion of sickle erythrocytes (SS RBCs) to endothelial cells (ECs) in sickle cell disease (SCD) has not been previously explored. We have now found that up-regulation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) by epinephrine significantly increased sickle but not normal erythrocyte adhesion to both primary and immortalized ECs. Inhibition of serine/threonine phosphatases also enhanced sickle erythrocyte adhesion at least partially through a PKA-dependent mechanism. Adhesion was mediated through LW (intercellular adhesion molecule-4 [ICAM-4], CD242) blood group glycoprotein, and immunoprecipitation studies showed that LW on sickle but not on normal erythrocytes undergoes increased PKA-dependent serine phosphorylation as a result of activation. The major counter receptor for LW was identified as the alphavbeta3 integrin on ECs. These data suggest that adrenergic hormones such as epinephrine may initiate or exacerbate vaso-occlusion and thus contribute to the association of vaso-occlusive events with physiologic stress.
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- Rahima Zennadi
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Mankelow TJ, Spring FA, Parsons SF, Brady RL, Mohandas N, Chasis JA, Anstee DJ. Identification of critical amino-acid residues on the erythroid intercellular adhesion molecule-4 (ICAM-4) mediating adhesion to alpha V integrins. Blood 2003; 103:1503-8. [PMID: 14551135 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-08-2792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Intercellular adhesion molecule-4 (ICAM-4, syn. LW glycoprotein) interacts with the integrins alpha(L)beta(2), alpha(M)beta(2), A(4)beta(1), the alpha(V) family, and alpha(IIb)beta(3). Systematic mutagenesis of surface-exposed residues conserved between human and murine ICAM-4 defined 12 single amino-acid changes that affect the interaction of ICAM-4 with alpha(V) integrins. Mutation of 10 of these residues, 8 of which are spatially close on the surface of the molecule, led to a reduction in adhesion. Moreover, peptides corresponding to regions of ICAM-4 involved in its interaction with alpha(V) integrins inhibited these interactions. The other 2 mutations increased the extent of interaction of ICAM-4 with alpha(V) integrins. These mutations appear to prevent glycosylation of N160, suggesting that changes in glycosylation may modulate ICAM-4-alpha(V) integrin interactions. The region of ICAM-4 identified as the binding site for alpha(V) integrins is adjacent to the binding sites for alpha(L)beta(2) and alpha(M)beta(2). Selective binding of ICAM-4 to different integrins may be important for a variety of normal red cell functions and also relevant to the pathology of thrombotic disorders and vasoocclusive events in sickle cell disease. Our findings suggest the feasibility of developing selective inhibitors of ICAM-4-integrin adhesion of therapeutic value in these diseases.
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- Tosti J Mankelow
- Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, Southmead Rd, Bristol, BS10 5ND, UK.
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Mouro-Chanteloup I, Delaunay J, Gane P, Nicolas V, Johansen M, Brown EJ, Peters LL, Van Kim CL, Cartron JP, Colin Y. Evidence that the red cell skeleton protein 4.2 interacts with the Rh membrane complex member CD47. Blood 2003; 101:338-44. [PMID: 12393467 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rh(null) red cells are characteristically stomato-spherocytic. This and other evidence suggest that the Rh complex represents a major attachment site between the membrane lipid bilayer and the erythroid skeleton. As an attempt to identify the linking protein(s) between the red cell skeleton and the Rh complex, we analyzed the expression of Rh, RhAG, CD47, LW, and glycophorin B proteins in red cells from patients with hereditary spherocytosis associated with complete protein 4.2 deficiency but normal band 3 (4.2(-)HS). Flow cytometric and immunoblotting analysis revealed a severe reduction of CD47 (up to 80%) and a slower mobility of RhAG on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, possibly reflecting an overglycosylation state. Unexpectedly, 4.2(-/-) mice, which are anemic, displayed a normal red cell expression of CD47 and RhAG. These results suggest that human protein 4.2, through interaction with CD47, is involved in the skeleton linkage and/or membrane translocation of the Rh complex. However, these potential role(s) of protein 4.2 might be not conserved across species. Finally, the absence or low expression of red cell CD47 in CD47(-/-) mice and in some humans carrying RHCE gene variants (D--, D., and R(N)), respectively, had no detectable effect on protein 4.2 and RhAG expression. Since these cells are morphologically normal with no sign of hemolysis, it is assumed that CD47 deficiency per se is not responsible for the cell shape abnormalities and for the compensated hemolytic anemia typical of 4.2(-) and Rh(null) red cells.
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- Isabelle Mouro-Chanteloup
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U76, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France
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- Yves Colin
- INSERM U76/Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France.
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Cochet S, Blancher A, Roubinet F, Hattab C, Cartron JP, Bertrand O. Immunopurification of the blood group RhD protein from human erythrocyte membranes. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 1999; 735:207-17. [PMID: 10670735 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(99)00424-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Rh proteins are membrane proteins encoded by genes at the blood group RH locus. They are of paramount importance in transfusion medicine, but their function is still unknown. Biochemical and biophysical studies of these proteins are scarce since only minute amounts of the very hydrophobic Rh proteins, can be purified from human erythrocytes. Recently, a human monoclonal antibody (LOR-15C9) was described as having the unique property to recognize the Rh30 protein carrying the major blood group D specificity (RhD protein), either in a membrane detergent extract or when blotted on a membrane. In this report, we describe one-step purification of the RhD protein from detergent extracts of red cell membranes, based on immunoaffinity chromatography carried out with immobilized LOR-15C9 IgG. The technique yielded RhD protein with high purity which was devoid of other associated proteins (RhAG, CD47, LW and GPB) that comprise the Rh complex in the erythrocyte membrane. By contrast immunoprecipitation performed with the same antibody led to co-isolation of both RhD and RhAG.
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- S Cochet
- INSERM U76, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France
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Rhesus (Rh) antigens are defined by a complex association of membrane polypeptides that are missing or severely deficient from the red cells of rare Rhnull individuals who suffer a clinical syndrome of varying severity characterized by abnormalities of the red cell shape, cation transport and membrane phospholipid organization. The Rhnull phenotype is an inherited condition that may arise from homozygosity either for a 'suppressor' gene unrelated to the RH locus ('regulator type') or for a silent allele at the RH locus itself ('amorph type'). A current model suggests that the proteins of the Rh complex (Rh, RhAG, CD47, LW, GPB) are assembled by non-covalent bonds and that it is not assembled or transported to the cell surface when one subunit is missing. Rh and RhAG proteins belong to the same protein family and are quantitatively the major components that form the core of the complex, which is firmly linked to the membrane skeleton. Molecular analysis of Rhnull individuals has revealed that abnormalities occur only at the RHAG and RH loci, without alteration of the genes encoding the accessory chains. Mutations of the RHAG gene, but not of RH, occur in all Rhnull individuals of the regulator type (including Rhmod) investigated so far (13 cases), strongly suggesting that RHAG mutants act as 'suppressors' and not as transcriptional regulators of the RH genes and that variable expression of the RHAG alleles may account for the Rhmod phenotypes (exhibiting weak expression of Rh antigens). Conversely, mutations of the RHCE gene, but not of RHAG, occur in two unrelated Rhnull individuals of the amorph type, supporting the view that RH mutants result from a 'silent' allele at the RH locus. These findings strongly support the Rh complex model since when either the Rh or RhAG protein is missing, the assembly and/or transport of the Rh complex is defective. Transcriptional as well as post-transcriptional mechanisms may account for the molecular abnormalities, but experimental evidence based on expression models is required to test these hypotheses, in the hope that they may help to clarify the biological role of the Rh proteins in the red cell membrane.
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- J P Cartron
- INSERM Unité U76, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France
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Blancher A, Roubinet F, Reid M, Socha W, Bailly P, Benard P. Characterization of a Macaque Anti-Rh17-Like Monoclonal Antibody. Vox Sang 1998. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1423-0410.1998.7510058.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The Rh blood group antigens (D, Cc and Ee series) are carried by a family of non glycosylated hydrophobic transmembrane proteins of 30-32 kDa which are missing from the red cells of rare Rhnull individuals that express several membrane defects. The structure of these proteins has been deduced from cDNA cloning and studies have shown that the Rh proteins are erythroid specific and share no sequence homology with any known protein. The RhD and non-D proteins exhibit 92% sequence identity and their predicted membrane topology is similar as most of the molecules appear to reside between the leaflets of the phospholipid bilayer with only short hydrophilic loops connecting the twelve putative transmembrane helices. The RHD and RHCE genes encoding the Rh proteins (D and Cc/Ee, respectively) are organized in tandem on chromosome 1p34-p36 and most likely derived by duplication of a common ancestral gene. This concept is supported by the identification of RH-like genes in non human primates. The human RH locus is best described as a two-gene model in which all RhD-positive and most RhD-negative haplotypes are composed of two (RHD and RHCE) or only one (RHCE) structural genes, respectively. The RHD gene encodes the D protein and the RHCE gene encodes the C/c and E/e proteins presumably by alternative splicing of a pre messenger RNA. The correlation between the blood group D epitopes and the amino acid polymorphism of the Rh proteins is not yet established, but amino acid polymorphisms at positions 103 and 226 determine the molecular basis for the C/c (Ser-->Pro) and E/e (Pro-->Ala) specificities, respectively. Most variants analyzed so far are caused by gene conversion which appears as the principal mechanism responsible for polymorphism and gene diversity in the RH system. However, gene deletions have also been found in some occasions. To date, all Rhnull phenotypes investigated most likely result from transcriptional regulatory mechanisms that are not yet understood. Rhnull individuals suffer a clinical syndrome of varying severity and their red cells are characterized by morphological and functional abnormalities of cation transport and phospholipid asymmetry. In addition, several membrane components including the Rh proteins and other glycoproteins recently characterized (Rh50 glycoprotein, CD47, glycophorin B, Duffy, LW) are absent or severely decreased on these cells. These findings suggest that the Rh proteins are assembled into a multimeric complex with these glycoproteins and further studies should clarify the role in biosynthesis and the potential function of each component in this complex.
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- J P Cartron
- Unité INSERM U76, Institut National de Transfusion Sanguine 6, Paris, France
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Bailly P, Hermand P, Callebaut I, Sonneborn HH, Khamlichi S, Mornon JP, Cartron JP. The LW blood group glycoprotein is homologous to intercellular adhesion molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:5306-10. [PMID: 8202485 PMCID: PMC43983 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.12.5306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The LW blood group antigens reside on a 42-kDa erythrocyte membrane glycoprotein that was purified by immunoaffinity and partially sequenced. From this information, a specific PCR-amplified DNA fragment was used to screen a lambda gt11 human bone marrow cDNA library. Two forms of cDNA were isolated; the first encoded a single spanning transmembrane protein of 270 amino acids, including a 29-amino acid peptide signal and four potential N-glycosylation sites, and the second encoded a shortened protein form of 236 residues devoid of transmembrane and cytoplasm domains. A rabbit antibody raised against the 15 N-terminal amino acids of the predicted protein reacted on immunoblots with authentic LW glycoprotein and in indirect agglutination test with all human erythrocytes except those from LW(a-b-). This showed that the protein encoded by these clones was LW gene product and suggested that the N terminus of the LW protein is oriented extracellularly. Most interestingly, the LW protein was found to exhibit sequence similarities (with approximately 30% identity) with intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, -2, and -3, which are the counter-receptors for the lymphocyte function-associated antigens LFA-1. The extracellular domain of LW consists, like that of ICAM-2, of two immunoglobulin-like domains, and the critical residues involved in the binding of LFA-1 to ICAMs were partially conserved in LW.
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- P Bailly
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité U76, Institut National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris, France
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King MJ. Blood group antigens on human erythrocytes-distribution, structure and possible functions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1197:15-44. [PMID: 8155690 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(94)90017-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Human erythrocyte blood group antigens can be broadly divided into carbohydrates and proteins. The carbohydrate-dependent antigens (e.g., ABH, Lewis, Ii, P1, P-related, T and Tn) are covalently attached to proteins and/or sphingolipids, which are also widely distributed in body fluids, normal tissues and tumors. Blood group gene-specific glycosyltransferase regulate the synthesis of these antigens. Protein-dependent blood group antigens (e.g., MNSs, Gerbich, Rh, Kell, Duffy and Cromer-related) are carried on proteins, glycoproteins and proteins with glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor. The functions of these molecules on human erythrocytes remain unknown; some of them may be involved in maintaining the erythrocyte shape. This review describes the distribution, structures and probable biological functions of some of these antigens in normal and pathological conditions.
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- M J King
- International Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Bristol, UK
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Poss MT, Swanson JL, Telen MJ, Lasky LC, Vallera DA. Monoclonal antibody recognizing a unique Rh-related specificity. Vox Sang 1993; 64:231-9. [PMID: 7685970 DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1993.tb03061.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody (MAb) UMRh, was prepared by immunizing Balb/c mice with the Jurkat T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell line. The MAb UMRh is directed against a widely distributed Rh-related cell surface antigen, present on red blood cells (RBCs) expressing the more common Rh phenotypes. The antigen has reduced expression on RBCs of -D-, DCW-/DCW-, Rhmod and Rhnull phenotypes. UMR immunoblotted a unique pattern on RBC membrane preparations of two bands at 40 and 43 kD and a diffuse pattern extending upward to about 55 kD. The UMRh antigen is also present on peripheral blood mononuclear cells, granulocytes, platelets, leukemic cells of T cell, B cell and myeloid origins, hematopoietic stem cells, and two tumor lines (lung and colon carcinoma). The number of UMRh sites per RBC (CDe/ce) was determined to be 5,519 copies/cell, whereas the sites on a -D- phenotype RBC were 1,096 copies/cell. A T-ALL line (CEM) expressed 333,364 copies/cell and a myeloid line (KG-1) expressed 90,913 copies/cell. Several Rh-related murine MAbs have been described, but our data indicates that UMRh recognizes a previously uncharacterized Rh-related specificity.
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- M T Poss
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Pérez-Pérez C, Taliano V, Mouro I, Huet M, Salat-Marti A, Martinez A, Rouger P, Cartron JP. Spanish Rhnull family caused by a silent Rh gene: hematological, serological, and biochemical studies. Am J Hematol 1992; 40:306-12. [PMID: 1503086 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830400412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Another example of rare red cells that failed to react with all anti-Rh and anti-LW antibodies was discovered in a Spanish woman suffering from a severe hemolytic anemia typical of the Rhnull syndrome. Family study and Rh blood typings demonstrated clearly that the proposita was homozygous for a silent Rh gene complex (Rhnull of the amorph type) that she inherited from her parents who are first cousins. Western blot analysis carried out with glycosylation-independent antibodies directed against the Rh polypeptide and the LW glycoprotein, respectively, confirmed that these protein components were absent from the red cells of the proposita. In addition, the patient was typed U-positive, again in agreement with the presence on her red cells of 45-75 kDa glycoproteins detected with the murine monoclonal antibody 2D10.
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- C Pérez-Pérez
- Servicio de Hematologia, Hospital San Agustin, Linares, Espana
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Agre P, Cartron JP. Biochemistry and molecular genetics of Rh antigens. BAILLIERE'S CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY 1991; 4:793-819. [PMID: 1790354 DOI: 10.1016/s0950-3536(06)80031-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Wang D, Mentzer W, Cameron T, Johnson R. Purification of band 7.2b, a 31-kDa integral phosphoprotein absent in hereditary stomatocytosis. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55202-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bloy C, Hermand P, Blanchard D, Cherif-Zahar B, Goossens D, Cartron JP. Surface orientation and antigen properties of Rh and LW polypeptides of the human erythrocyte membrane. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45763-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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