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Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; and
Department of Pathology and Cytometry, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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2 integrin interactions at 2
dynes/cm2 wall shear stress. Increasing the density of IL-8
from 60 to 350 sites/µm2 on the surface decreased by 50%
the average distance and time the neutrophils rolled before becoming
firmly adherent. Temporal dynamics of ICAM-1-
2 integrin
interactions of rolling neutrophils following IL-8 exposure suggest the
existence of two classes of
2 integrin-ICAM-1
interactions, a low avidity interaction with a 65% increase in pause
times as compared with P-sel-P-sel glycoprotein ligand-1 interactions,
and a high avidity interaction with pause times 400% greater than the
selectin interactions. Based on the proportionality between IL-8 site
density and time to arrest, it appears that neutrophils may need to
sample a critical number of IL-8 molecules presented by the vessel wall
before forming a sufficient number of high avidity
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2 integrin-mediated arrest and
transendothelial migration (1). Although the basic
paradigm has been robust, relatively little is known regarding how
neutrophils make the transition from rolling to firm adhesion,
particularly in light of the need for
2
integrin up-regulation and increased avidity (2).
Neutrophils may be signaled to firmly adhere by several potential
mechanisms such as released soluble factors, membrane-bound signaling
molecules (3, 4), or through adhesion receptor
interactions (5). A study supporting the hypothesis of
endothelial cell-bound chemokines demonstrated that thymus-derived
chemotactic agent-4 was constitutively expressed on the luminal side of
high endothelial venules, and was required for T cell LFA-1
activation (6). Endothelial cell surface presentation of
chemokines or other signaling molecules is conceptually attractive
because the signal initiated by the chemokine would not be washed
downstream and is available to be sensed by rolling leukocytes,
maintaining a regional selectivity in leukocyte recruitment. In
contrast, soluble factors face significant dilutional effects upon
release due to blood flow. Despite the potential effect of dilution by
blood flow, the amount of chemokine required for arrest is still so low
(nanomolar), that there may be a sufficiently high concentration of a
factor such as IL-8 within a thin fluid layer at the vessel wall to
trigger neutrophil arrest. Consequently, one of the fundamental steps
in the leukocyte adhesion cascade remains the subject of
speculation.
The chemokine examined in this study, IL-8, is relevant to address the
competing roles of soluble vs immobilized signaling pathways because it
can act in the fluid phase (7, 8) to increase
2 integrin surface expression (9)
and receptor avidity for C3bi (10), it is synthesized by
cytokine-treated endothelial cells (7), and it can bind to
glycosaminoglycans that are normally found in the glycocalyx of
endothelial cells (11, 12). Therefore, IL-8 may function
both as a soluble and surface-bound activator of neutrophil
2 integrin-mediated adhesion, depending on
local inflammatory conditions (13, 14, 15) and modes of
presentation to neutrophils. Both the soluble and surface-bound IL-8
signaling of neutrophil arrest can be analyzed and compared in vitro,
allowing quantitative examination of the hypothesis that immobilized
chemokines such as IL-8 may trigger arrest of the rolling
neutrophils.
In vitro flow chamber studies of leukocyte adhesion have previously
suggested that the transition from rolling to arrest can be stimulated
by chemokines such as IL-8, secondary lymphoid-tissue chemokine
(6-Ckine), or macrophage-inflammatory protein 1-
(16, 17), and is extremely rapid, taking place within a second of
contact. Following IL-8-treatment of cultured endothelium, neutrophils
and monocytes also rapidly convert from a rolling state to firm
adhesion immediately upon contact (15, 18). In contrast,
an in vivo observation suggests that neutrophils require extended
rolling on the endothelium, sometimes lasting minutes before converting
to a
2 integrin-mediated firm adhesion
(19). In this study, we analyzed the effect of both
immobilized and fluid-phase IL-8 on neutrophil tethering, rolling
velocities, and rate of conversion to
2
integrin-mediated adhesion subsequent to rolling on purified P-selectin
(P-sel).3
Additionally, we used real-time videomicroscopy to compare the
lifetimes of transient adhesion interactions of neutrophils that
convert to firm adhesion and those that do not while rolling on
mixtures of P-sel and ICAM-1 after exposure to IL-8. To test the
immobilized chemokine hypothesis, we established by quantitative RIA
and ELISA that IL-8 was adsorbed to the surfaces along with P-sel and
ICAM-1. We observed that IL-8, when immobilized, was capable of
triggering neutrophil arrest, with the time and distance to firm arrest
dependent on IL-8 surface concentration. IL-8 alone on the substrate
was unable to support leukocyte adhesion, but IL-8 was able to signal
arrest for leukocytes rolling on a substrate of P-sel and ICAM-1.
Interestingly, the dynamic characteristics of neutrophil rolling on
P-sel and ICAM-1 changed in the seconds immediately before IL-8 induced
arrest. This change was demonstrated by an increase in the duration of
transient pauses associated with rolling. Pauses in neutrophil rolling
increased 4-fold just before arrest. The long pauses were largely
mediated by ICAM-1, as P-sel bonds alone were much briefer. Based on
these observations, immobilized IL-8 coupled with P-sel and ICAM-1
appeared to be sufficient for triggering the transition from rolling to
firm adhesion.
| Materials and Methods |
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Human P-sel was purified from outdated platelet lysates as previously described (20). Recombinant, human endothelial cell-derived IL-8 was purchased from R&D Systems (Minneapolis, MN). ICAM-1 was purified from human placenta lysates by R6.5 mAb affinity chromatography (21). Briefly, the human placenta was homogenized in 20 mM Tris, pH 7.8, 140 mM NaCl, and 0.025% azide (TSA, pH 7.8) with 5 mM EDTA, 10 µM leupeptin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO), and 1% Triton X-100. The lysate was centrifuged first at 2000 rpm and then at 20,000 rpm for 15 min and 2 h, respectively. After centrifugation, the lysate was passed over a column of cyanogen bromide-activated Sepharose 4B (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) coupled to R6.5 (2.1 mg/ml) twice. The column was then washed with TSA (20x bed volume), pH 7.6, containing 1% octylglucopyranoside (OG; Sigma) and eluted with TSA (5x bed volume), pH 11, containing 1% OG. The eluate was neutralized with 0.1 M glycine, pH 3, 1% OG (10% v/v).
IL-8 adsorption was first confirmed by performing an ELISA. IL-8 was adsorbed to wells of an ELISA plate at 10, 1, 0.1, and 0 µg/ml for 2 h at room temperature. The wells were washed four times with a solution of PBS + 0.5% Tween 20 (blocking buffer). The biotinylated anti-IL-8 Ab G265-8 (BD PharMingen, San Diego, CA) was diluted in blocking buffer/Tween 20 to 1 µg/ml, and 100 µl was added to each well. After 1 h at room temperature, plates were washed with PBS/Tween 20 and 100 µl of avidin-HRP was added to each well. Wells were washed with PBS/Tween 20 after 30 min. ABTS Substrate solution (BD PharMingen) (100 µl) was added to each well. After 7 min, the color reaction was stopped by adding 50 µl of stopping solution to each well. The optical density was read on a microplate reader set to 450 nm.
Site densities of adsorbed P-sel, IL-8, and ICAM-1 proteins were determined by saturation binding RIA using mAbs G1 for P-sel (22), G265-5 for IL-8, and R6.5 for ICAM-1 (23). The mAbs were iodinated to a known specific activity, and site densities were calculated by measuring bound radioactive counts. The site densities of adsorbed IL-8 obtained by the RIA corresponded to ELISA results. Concentrations of adsorbed proteins were low enough that surface covering did not affect adsorption of combinations of IL-8 and adhesion receptors.
Antibodies
The mAb against human purified P-sel, G1, was purchased from Ancell (Bayport, MN) (22). The mAb against human purified P-sel glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1), KPL1, was a gift from K. R. Snapp (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL) (24). The CD18 mAb, TS1/18, was purified from hybridoma supernatant as described (25). G265-5, the anti-human IL-8 mAb, was purchased from BD PharMingen. The mAb against ICAM-1 used to measure human ICAM-1 site densities was R6.5 (23).
Neutrophil isolation
Human neutrophils were obtained from 60 ml of heparin (10,000 U/ml)-anti-coagulated whole blood. Neutrophils were isolated by density separation over a solution of 94% Mono-Poly Resolving Medium (ICN Biochemicals, Aurora, OH) and 6% sterile water (26). Neutrophils were suspended in HBSS without calcium and magnesium, supplemented with 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, and placed on ice. For use in flow chamber assays, neutrophils were taken from this reserve, centrifuged, and resuspended in HBSS with 1 mM CaCl2, 1 mM MgCl2, and 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, at room temperature.
Preparation of adhesion substrates
Polystyrene slides were cut from bacteriological petri dishes (Falcon 1058; Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA), and the diluted adhesion molecules and/or chemokine were applied to the plates and allowed to adsorb for 2 h at room temperature. For plates of P-sel and ICAM-1, the two proteins were mixed at the indicated concentration or site densities and allowed to adsorb for 2 h. For plates of P-sel and ICAM-1 that included IL-8, the P-sel and ICAM-1 mixture was first adsorbed and then washed with PBS three times, and IL-8 was added and allowed to adsorb for 2 h. Finally, the slides were blocked for nonspecific adhesion with 0.5% Tween 20 in PBS overnight at 4°C. The site densities of the adhesion molecules used as substrates were determined by RIA to a limit of 50 sites/µm2, the lower limit of quantitative detection in our binding assay. Site densities for lower amounts of immobilized adhesion molecules were then estimated by proportional dilution. The flow chamber was mounted over an inverted phase-contrast microscope (Diaphot-TMD; Nikon, Garden City, NY) and observed at x10 and x20 magnification as indicated. For each substrate slide, 3 ml of a 0.5% Tween 20 in PBS solution was perfused over the substrate for 3 min to aid in the blocking of nonspecific neutrophil adhesion, as defined by the EDTA-insensitive component of neutrophil adhesion.
Static adhesion assays
The slides coated with substrate were incorporated into the lower wall of the parallel plate flow chamber. Neutrophils at a concentration of 12 x 106 cells/ml in HBSS with Ca2+ and Mg2+ were perfused into the flow chamber. Flow was stopped and the neutrophils were allowed to settle on the substrate for 6 min. A flow of 2 dynes/cm2 wall shear stress was then initiated. The number of neutrophils that remained bound was determined and expressed as the percentage of neutrophils originally in the field of view (FOV) that remained bound after the introduction of flow.
Laminar flow assays
For flow assays, neutrophils were perfused though the flow chamber at 0.5 x 106 cells/ml at varying wall shear stresses. For soluble IL-8 assays, neutrophils were either pretreated with 0.56 nM IL-8 was introduced after 1 min of neutrophil perfusion at 1.1 nM. When measuring accumulation of adherent neutrophils, at least 10 FOV were scanned every minute. For assays in which histories of individual cells were tracked, one FOV was recorded for the duration of the experiment. Neutrophils that firmly adhered rapidly spread and appeared phase dark.
Data acquisition and cell tracking
A Kodak MotionCorder Analyzer, model 1000 camera (Eastman Kodak, Motion Analysis System Division, San Diego, CA) was used for tracking neutrophil-adhesive events with the substrates. Neutrophils perfused over P-sel and P-sel + ICAM-1 substrates were viewed at a frame rate of 30 frames/s. Images were recorded on videocassette tapes for cell tracking analyses at a later time.
Pause times for neutrophils interacting with substrates were acquired using a computer-assisted tracking program coded in MATLAB 5 (Dr. W. F. Walker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA), which uses a sum of absolute differences algorithm to identify the cell in consecutive image frames. Video memory from the camera was played back at standard video rates for archiving on VHS tapes. Images from the videocassette recorder playback were then captured onto a Macintosh PM8600 (Apple, Cupertino, CA) using a Scion LG-3 frame grabber in conjunction with Scion NIH Image v.1.62. The amount of time a neutrophil remained bound was determined by counting the number of image frames in which it remained stationary. Cellular koff values were determined by fitting the decay with time of the total number of cells remaining paused to a monoexponential equation.
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ICAM-1 was adsorbed to the lower wall of a flow chamber alone (ICAM-1), in combination with P-sel (P-sel + ICAM-1), with IL-8 (ICAM-1 + IL-8), or with both P-sel and IL-8 (P-sel + ICAM-1 + IL-8), to test which combination of these molecules was critical for initiating neutrophil firm adhesion following tethering in flow. ICAM-1 alone has not previously been compared directly to immobilized IL-8 alone in terms of its ability to modulate neutrophil firm adhesion. A RIA demonstrated the immobilization of IL-8 on the polystyrene surface, with IL-8 site densities examined of 60, 220, and 350 sites/µm2. This is the first report containing a direct, biochemical confirmation of chemokine immobilization in an in vitro adhesion assay system and the first to demonstrate site density effects of chemokine on neutrophil function. Previous studies have been unable to demonstrate at the molecular level that the selected chemokine was immobilized to the surface.
To establish whether IL-8 supports adhesion directly and functions as
an adhesive entity on its own, neutrophils were allowed to settle on
the IL-8 substrate for 6 min before a flow of 2
dynes/cm2 wall shear stress was initiated to
detach unbound cells. All neutrophils that settled on the substrates
consisting of IL-8 alone (350 sites/µm2) were
dislodged immediately when flow was introduced (Fig. 1
). Similarly, when ICAM-1 was
immobilized alone (50/µm2), nearly all
neutrophils were dislodged immediately when flow was introduced (Fig. 1
). However, when IL-8 was coimmobilized with ICAM-1, 48% of the
neutrophils that settled on the ICAM-1 + IL-8 substrate remained firmly
adhered after introduction of flow (Fig. 1
). The addition of the CD18
mAb TS1/18 (anti-
2) abolished firm adhesion
(Fig. 1
), indicating that the
2 integrins were
largely responsible for the firm adhesion of neutrophils to purified
ICAM-1. The potentiation effect of IL-8 with ICAM-1 for the formation
of firm adhesion is consistent with the hypothesis that
surface-immobilized chemokines may trigger the binding of
2 integrins to ICAM-1 (11, 27, 28). Addition of P-sel to the substrate had no effect on the
formation of firm adhesion, although neutrophils rolled upon
introduction of flow.
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To show the effect of a maximal (saturating) level of IL-8
signal on rolling neutrophils, IL-8 at a concentration of 1.1 nM was
introduced into the perfusion medium after neutrophils had initiated
rolling interactions on P-sel and ICAM-1. IL-8 binds both of its
receptors with a similar high affinity (
2 nM) (29);
therefore, close to 50% of the receptors would be expected to be
bound. Within <30 s of IL-8 exposure, significant numbers of
neutrophils stopped rolling and began to spread (Fig. 2
C). After a total perfusion
time of 5 min, 80% of the tethered neutrophils exposed to IL-8 were
firmly adhered to the substrate, compared with 15% of the tethered
neutrophils without IL-8 infusion (Fig. 2
C). The 15% of
neutrophils arrested without the presence of IL-8 is a population
activated during isolation, as levels of preactivation vary for
different days and different donors. Half-maximal binding was achieved
after 25 s. Over 90% of the arrest events took place within
60 s. Therefore, IL-8 at nanomolar concentrations recruits enough
2 integrin and ICAM-1 bonds to rapidly arrest
rolling neutrophils.
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integrin up-regulation. Neutrophils were then perfused over the P-sel +
ICAM-1 substrate. Resting neutrophils accumulated rapidly on the P-sel
+ ICAM-1 substrate, reaching a plateau in accumulation within 1 min
(Fig. 2
In contrast to the modest inhibitory effect of IL-8 on neutrophil
tethering rates, the number of firmly adherent neutrophils increased
dramatically with time and with increasing concentration of IL-8 (Fig. 2
B). There were relatively few arrested neutrophils without
treatment of IL-8, even after 4 min of P-sel-mediated rolling
interactions. Those neutrophils that did arrest without IL-8 treatment
may have been preactivated through the isolation procedure, an
indication of the sensitivity of this assay to molecular changes on the
neutrophil surface.
Immobilized IL-8 stimulated increase in arrest and detachment frequency of rolling neutrophils
As suggested by the effect of immobilized IL-8 on the formation of
firm adhesion under static conditions, immobilized IL-8 may be able to
activate neutrophil
2 integrin binding to
ICAM-1 during rolling interactions. To test this hypothesis,
neutrophils were perfused over a surface with immobilized P-sel,
ICAM-1, and IL-8 (Fig. 3
A). In
contrast to stimulating neutrophils with fluid phase IL-8, exposure to
IL-8 was consequently limited to the time neutrophils were tethered to
P-sel. A significant percentage of neutrophils that tethered on the
multicomponent surface stopped rolling and spread, eventually forming
phase-dark shapes (Fig. 3
B). After a period of minutes, the
majority of rolling neutrophils had converted to firm adhesions. Firm
adhesion was completely blocked when neutrophils were preincubated with
5 µg/ml TS1/18.
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Neutrophil rolling distance decreased with increasing concentration of IL-8
Neutrophils were tracked while rolling over P-sel (60
sites/µm2) + ICAM-1 (50
sites/µm2) with varying concentrations of
immobilized IL-8 (60, 220, and 350 sites/µm2)
to determine whether the IL-8 arrest signal accumulated over distance
or, rather, acted as an activation clock that began with the first IL-8
interactions. The total distance neutrophils rolled before stopping on
the surface was then measured. Neutrophils rolled shorter distances
before arresting as surface density of IL-8 was increased (Fig. 5
B). The average distance
rolled before firm adhesion was 260, 200, and 150 µm for IL-8
concentrations of 60, 220, and 350 sites/µm2,
respectively. The few neutrophils that arrested with no IL-8 present
rolled an average of 59 µm before stopping, and most likely represent
an activated subset of neutrophils (data not shown). For one of the
experiments, the time to stop was recorded along with the distance.
Fig. 5
shows that neutrophils rolled for less time before stopping with
higher concentrations of IL-8 on the surface. The time rolled before
arresting was 117, 62, and 30 s for 60, 220, and 350
sites/µm2 of IL-8, respectively. The
proportional relationship between distance rolled and time as a
function of IL-8 concentration suggests that the neutrophil may be
accumulating, or integrating, the IL-8 signal during P-sel-mediated
pauses.
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We determined the individual effects of IL-8 and ICAM-1 on
neutrophil rolling velocity by comparing velocities of neutrophils
perfused over P-sel with velocities of neutrophils perfused over P-sel
and IL-8, or P-sel and ICAM-1, at wall shear stresses of 0.5, 1.0, and
2.0 dynes/cm2. Neutrophils rolled on P-sel + IL-8
faster than on P-sel alone (Fig. 6
). In
contrast to the effect of IL-8 on P-sel-mediated rolling, the
additional presence of ICAM-1 slowed neutrophil rolling. Neutrophils
rolled 28% slower when ICAM-1 was present on the plate along with
P-sel as compared with neutrophils rolling on P-sel alone at a wall
shear stress of 2 dynes/cm2 (Fig. 6
). This
decrease in rolling velocity was entirely dependent on ICAM-1
(p < .01).
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To quantify the effect IL-8 has on properties of the
2 integrin bonds being formed, the durations
of neutrophil pauses while rolling, i.e., pause times
(31), were measured for neutrophils treated with 0, 0.56,
or 1.1 nM IL-8 for 5 min to ensure maximal
2
integrin up-regulation (Fig. 7
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Neutrophil rolling consists of a series of ratchet-like steps or pauses
as selectin bonds are formed and broken. A pause time is defined as the
amount of time the neutrophil is stationary between steps in the
rolling process and is related to a bond cluster lifetime
(31, 32, 33). Neutrophils rolling on P-sel and ICAM-1
substrates were divided into two populations for analysis, those that
rolled through the microscope observation field and those that arrested
and became firmly adherent during observation. There were no
differences between the pause times of the population of continuous
rolling (nonarresting) neutrophils regardless of IL-8 exposure
(p < 0.01), as mean pause times did not vary
whether IL-8 was present or not (Fig. 7
A).
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mAb TS1/18. A similar pattern was observed at a wall shear stress of 2
dynes/cm2 (data not shown).
In contrast to neutrophils that rolled steadily through the microscope
FOV without stopping, neutrophils that arrested in the observation
window displayed a distinct pattern of long pauses. In the 80 µm
before final arrest, neutrophil pauses were up to 4 times longer than
those of nonarresting neutrophils (Fig. 7
A). The longer
pauses immediately before arrest were blocked with mAb TS1/18, as were
the ultimate formations of firm adhesions. The longer pauses for cells
that arrested within the observation field were completely dependent on
the presence of immobilized ICAM-1. The biomolecular mechanics of
2 integrin-mediated firm adhesion have not
been characterized, but the longer pauses during rolling suggested that
there may be a shift to more
2 integrins in a
high avidity state.
The distributions of pause times for neutrophils that rolled through
the FOV and those that firmly adhered on substrates of P-sel + ICAM-1
were compared to discern a difference in the apparent cellular
dissociation constants (koff). This
value is referred to as an apparent
koff because it is obtained from a
distribution of pauses that occur while neutrophils roll on a
multicomponent substrate. P-sel-PSGL-1 interactions along with
2 integrin-ICAM-1 interactions both contribute
to the apparent koff. The pause times
of neutrophils that rolled through the FOV fit a monoexponential decay
with a koff of 2.6
s-1 (Fig. 7
C). The pause times of the
population of neutrophils that ultimately arrested were fit to a
different exponential decay pattern that could be separated into two
distinct distributions, one with a
koff value (2.2
s-1) similar to that of the nonadhering
neutrophils, and one with a much lower dissociation constant (0.27
s-1) that was inhibited by TS1/18 treatment
(Fig. 7
D). Apparently, in the seconds before arrest, the
neutrophil formed
2 integrin bonds with ICAM-1
with radically different time constants. IL-8-induced
2-ICAM-1 interactions have longer apparent
bond lifetimes that result in a decrease in apparent
koff.
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2 integrin ligand, and that
arrest of rolling neutrophils depended on IL-8. A similar paradigm has
been demonstrated for the role of platelet-activating factor in the
juxtacrine model involving neutrophil tethering and rolling on P-sel
and ICAM-1 (34, 35). Consequently, ICAM-1 and P-sel along
with presentation of IL-8 appear to be sufficient to trigger the
transition from rolling to arrest. A gradual integration of
IL-8-chemokine signal during rolling was suggested by the dependence of
IL-8 site density on the distance neutrophils rolled before arrest. We
also detected evidence of an IL-8-triggered avidity increase of
2 integrins for ICAM-1 during rolling
interactions shortly before arrest.
Leukocyte arrest on the endothelium has been hypothesized to be
triggered by selectin binding to cellular ligands, thereby initiating
2 integrin avidity increases and firm
adhesions independent of chemokine expression. For example, neutrophil
adhesion to E-selectin has been reported to induce
2 integrin up-regulation (36),
although it is unclear whether an avidity increase followed. More
recent reports examining neutrophil interaction with ICAM-1 and
E-selectin transfectants suggest that
2
integrin binding to ICAM-1 is increased by binding to E-selectin
(37). L-selectin signaling may also lead to
2 integrin avidity increases for cellular
ligands, as suggested by experiments in which cross-linking of
L-selectin increases neutrophil arrest on both ICAM-1-expressing cells
(38) and on beads adsorbed with albumin (39, 40). To date, GlyCAM-1 is the only L-selectin ligand shown to
increase
2 integrin avidity (41).
Despite evidence in some experimental systems of L-selectin-mediated
signaling, Jurkat cells and resting T cells roll steadily on surfaces
containing the high endothelial venule L-selectin ligand, peripheral
lymph node addressin (PNAd, MECA-79), and ICAM-1, suggesting that
L-selectin ligation may by itself be insufficient during rolling to
trigger arrest (21). Leukocyte conversion from
P-sel-dependent rolling to arrest does not necessarily require
engagement of L-selectin ligands in vivo.
In contrast to L-selectin and E-selectin signaling, evidence for a role
of P-sel in
2 integrin avidity modulation is
less clear. Binding of monocytes to P-sel through the PSGL-1 receptor
results in tissue factor up-regulation (42), but the time
course for this signaling event requires hours rather than minutes,
likely too long to play an important role in the emigration of rolling
leukocytes. Similarly, binding of monocytes to P-sel triggers synthesis
of TNF and monocyte chemotactic protein (30, 43, 44),
events that require de novo protein synthesis and longer times than
what is required for the transition from rolling to arrest. Engagement
of PSGL-1 by mAbs has been shown to stimulate mitogen-activated kinase
activity and tyrosine phosphorylation (45), events that
can initiate signaling on the time course of minutes. However, ligation
of PSGL-1 on human neutrophils does not induce attachment to ICAM-1
(46). In our adhesion assay we observed minimal evidence
of P-sel-mediated
2 integrin avidity increase,
as the majority of rolling neutrophils did not firmly arrest on the
substrate of P-sel and ICAM-1. Therefore, PSGL-1 ligation may not
induce a sufficient degree of
2 integrin
avidity increase to mediate firm adhesion under shear stress. One
explanation for the lack of P-sel-mediated avidity increases is that
interactions under dynamic flow conditions results in P-sel bonds
typically lasting only a fraction of a second. P-sel-PSGL-1
interactions appeared to be necessary in this experimental model only
to tether neutrophils to the surface and mediate neutrophil rolling,
creating opportunities for IL-8 and
2 integrin
interactions.
IL-8 binds to two receptors (CXCR1 and CXCR2) on human neutrophils
(47, 48), and initiates intracellular signals that can
result in firm adhesion, i.e.,
2
integrin-mediated arrest and cell spreading. Although fluid phase IL-8
promoted firm adhesion within seconds of exposure to neutrophils,
consistent with observations of monocytes (15), the
process by which neutrophils detect and react to surface-immobilized
IL-8 appeared to be controlled on a much longer time scale. The site
densities of IL-8 examined were >5-fold higher than the P-sel or
ICAM-1 concentrations. As suggested by the slower kinetics of arrest in
the case of immobilized IL-8, neutrophils may require more time to
acquire a sufficient IL-8 signal before inducing firm adhesion than
would be the case with saturating levels of IL-8 in solution. In
contrast, only a fraction of the IL-8 receptors of a neutrophil can
possibly be ligated with IL-8 during rolling on immobilized IL-8. If
the neutrophil were completely flattened on the surface, the percentage
of receptors that could be maximally ligated would be 50%. As a
neutrophil rolls, the surface contact area appears to be considerably
<50% (49) (M. Smith, M. Smith, M. Lawrence, and K. Ley,
unpublished observations), but the actual value is unknown. The high
variance in the number of arresting neutrophils vs IL-8 concentration
merely reflects the stochastic nature of individual neutrophil
interactions with P-sel while rolling.
In contrast to static adhesion assays, the number and amount of time
CXCR1/R2 receptors are interacting with IL-8 in vivo and in our flow
system are constantly changing as the neutrophil rolls along the
selectin-expressing surface. Because IL-8-receptor bonds do not appear
to withstand physiologic shear forces (this study), the time of each
IL-8-receptor interaction is, therefore, limited by the transient
nature of rolling adhesions. Consequently, the CXCR1/R2 receptors can
only interact with IL-8 on the surface during the time the neutrophil
remains stationary via P-sel-PSGL-1 bonds and the much less frequent
2 integrin-ICAM-1 bonds. In between pauses
mediated by adhesive bonds, the neutrophil is unbound and moves near
the hydrodynamic velocity of an untethered cell. It is possible that
the signal that leads to arrest and firm adhesion consists of many
transient IL-8-CXCR1/2 bonds whose cumulative effect is to convert
2 integrin-ICAM-1 interactions to a high
avidity state. Selectin interactions by themselves did not lead to the
arrest of neutrophils in the presence of fluid shear forces.
Along with the ability to stimulate neutrophil adhesion, IL-8 is known to also have anti-adhesive effects on neutrophils (7, 13). Interestingly, we observed that neutrophils rolled faster on IL-8 and P-sel than on P-sel alone. It has also been observed that chemokines increased rolling velocity of murine lymphocytes on PNAd (16), although the underlying cause of the velocity increase is unknown. In addition to effects on rolling velocity, neutrophil tethering rate decreased following exposure to IL-8. The increased rolling velocity and decrease in tethering could be a result of morphological changes (50) and redistribution of PSGL-1 to the uropods of the neutrophils that occurs upon activation (30). Another possible explanation for the increased rolling velocity is that PSGL-1 is down-regulated after activation (51). The inhibitory effects of IL-8 on P-sel-mediated adhesion suggest that IL-8 would stimulate the greatest number of neutrophils to arrest if it were encountered only after the neutrophil tethered to the endothelium.
Our study shows that neutrophils undergo a gradual transition from
rolling to firm adhesion, giving evidence for a process of signal
integration during rolling. In our in vitro flow assay, neutrophils
rolled between 150 and 250 µm before firmly adhering on surfaces of
P-sel, ICAM-1, and IL-8; this is consistent with recent intravital
measurements, where neutrophils rolled
270 µm on cytokine-treated
postcapillary venules before firmly adhering (19). PBLs
rolling on surfaces of PNAd with ICAM-1 and secondary lymphoid-tissue
chemokine (6-Ckine) in vitro arrested within 2.5 s
(17), corresponding to a distance rolled of 120 µm,
similar to the distances neutrophils rolled in this study despite a
10-fold lower rolling velocity and 10-fold longer contact time. The
great difference in contact time with similar distances rolled is
likely due to the very different time constants of L-selectin and
P-sel.
Independent of neutrophil exposure to IL-8, the addition of ICAM-1 to a
P-sel surface increased the average pause time, decreased apparent
cellular koff, and decreased the
velocity of rolling neutrophils. Interestingly, the ICAM-1-dependent
changes in rolling dynamics did not lead to firm adhesion, and were not
inhibited by the
2 function-blocking mAb
TS1/18. Consequently, it appears that a low avidity ICAM-1-mediated
interaction occurred while the neutrophil rolled that was not mediated
by the same site on the
2 integrin that
mediated firm adhesion. Neutrophils displayed a much longer average
pause time and lower apparent cellular
koff immediately before arrest. The
long pause times observed, along with the subsequent firm adhesion,
were blocked with TS1/18, in contrast to its lack of effect on the low
avidity ICAM-1 interaction. Therefore, it is possible that
2-ICAM-1 interactions of two different
avidities were observed. The two classes of interactions are most
likely mediated by two different sites on the
2 integrin because the mAb TS1/18 blocked only
one of these interactions.
We hypothesize that
2 integrin-ICAM-1
interactions during rolling are at a lower affinity than the longer
2 integrin-ICAM-1 interactions that mediate
the firm adhesion of the neutrophil. LFA-1 has been shown to have two
affinity states, one of very low affinity of
100 µM, and one
200 times greater (52). It has also been suggested that
this low affinity interaction is necessary for generation of high
affinity LFA-1 (53). The I domain of LFA-1 or Mac-1 may
mediate the low affinity rolling interactions as suggested by
observations of low affinity rolling interactions of I
domain-expressing Chinese hamster ovary cells on purified ICAM-1
(54). The longer pauses and lower apparent
koff value observed immediately before
final arrest may represent a point where the
2
integrins are in a transition from a low to a high avidity state, but
the number of high avidity interactions is insufficient to mediate firm
adhesion.
| Acknowledgments |
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Michael B. Lawrence, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800759, Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908. E-mail address: mlawrence{at}virginia.edu ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: P-sel, P-selectin; PSGL-1, P-sel glycoprotein ligand-1; FOV, field of view; PNAd, peripheral lymph node addressin; OG, octylglucopyranoside. ![]()
Received for publication March 6, 2001. Accepted for publication August 1, 2001.
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