Title |
Differences in Granule Morphology yet Equally Impaired Exocytosis among Cytotoxic T Cells and NK Cells from Chediak–Higashi Syndrome Patients
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Published in |
Frontiers in immunology, April 2017
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DOI | 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00426 |
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Authors |
Samuel C. C. Chiang, Stephanie M. Wood, Bianca Tesi, Himmet Haluk Akar, Waleed Al-Herz, Sandra Ammann, Fatma Burcu Belen, Umran Caliskan, Zühre Kaya, Kai Lehmberg, Turkan Patiroglu, Huseyin Tokgoz, Ayşegül Ünüvar, Wendy J. Introne, Jan-Inge Henter, Magnus Nordenskjöld, Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Marie Meeths, Stephan Ehl, Konrad Krzewski, Yenan T. Bryceson |
Abstract |
Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is caused by autosomal recessive mutations in LYST, resulting in enlarged lysosomal compartments in multiple cell types. CHS patients display oculocutaneous albinism and may develop life-threatening hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). While NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity has been reported to be uniformly defective, variable defects in T cell-mediated cytotoxicity has been observed. The latter has been linked to the degree of HLH susceptibility. Since the discrepancies in NK cell- and T cell-mediated cellular cytotoxicity might result from differences in regulation of cytotoxic granule release, we here evaluated perforin-containing secretory lysosome size and number in freshly isolated lymphocytes from CHS patients and furthermore compared their exocytic capacities. Whereas NK cells from CHS patients generally contained a single, gigantic perforin-containing granule, cytotoxic T cells predominantly contained several smaller granules. Nonetheless, in a cohort of 21 CHS patients, cytotoxic T cell and NK cell granule exocytosis were similarly impaired upon activating receptor stimulation. Mechanistically, polarization of cytotoxic granules was defective in cytotoxic lymphocytes from CHS patients, with EEA1, a marker of early endosomes, mislocalizing to lysosomal structures. The results leads to the conclusion that lysosome enlargement corresponds to loss of distinct organelle identity in the endocytic pathway, which on a subcellular level more adversely affects NK cells than T cells. Hence, vesicular size or numbers do not per se dictate the impairment of lysosomal exocytosis in the two cell types studied. |
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