Murine neutrophils require α1,3-fucosylation but not PSGL-1 for productive infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum
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- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Hematology in Blood
- Vol. 102 (9) , 3387-3395
- https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2003-02-0621
Abstract
Anaplasma phagocytophilum causes human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, the second most common tick-borne disease in the United States. Mice are natural reservoirs for this bacterium and man is an inadvertent host. A phagocytophilum's tropism for human neutrophils is linked to neutrophil expression of P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1), as well as sialylated and α1,3-fucosylated glycans. To determine whether A phagocytophilum uses similar molecular features to infect murine neutrophils, we assessed in vitro bacterial binding to neutrophils from and infection burden in wild-type mice; mice lacking α1,3-fucosyltransferases Fuc-TIV and Fuc-TVII; or mice lacking PSGL-1. Binding to Fuc-TIV-/-/Fuc-TVII-/- neutrophils and infection of Fuc-TIV-/-/Fuc-TVII-/- mice were significantly reduced relative to wild-type mice. A phagocytophilum binding to PSGL-1-/- neutrophils was modestly reduced, whereas sialidase treatment significantly decreased binding to both wild-type and PSGL-1-/- neutrophils. A phagocytophilum similarly infected PSGL-1-/- and wild-type mice in vivo. A phagocytophilum induced comparable levels of chemokines from wild-type and PSGL-1-/- neutrophils in vitro, while those induced from Fuc-TIV-/-/Fuc-TVII-/- neutrophils were appreciably reduced. Therefore, A phagocytophilum infection in mice, as in humans, requires sialylation and α1,3-fucosylation of neutrophils. However, murine infection does not require neutrophil PSGL-1 expression, which has important implications for understanding how A phagocytophilum binds and infects neutrophils.Keywords
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