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Rapid neutrophil mobilisation by VCAM-1+ endothelial extracellular vesicles.

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AIMS Acute myocardial infarction rapidly increases blood neutrophils ( Click to show full abstract

AIMS Acute myocardial infarction rapidly increases blood neutrophils (<2 hours). Release from bone marrow, in response to chemokine elevation, has been considered their source, but chemokine levels peak up to 24 hours after injury, and after neutrophil elevation. This suggests that additional non-chemokine-dependent processes may be involved. Endothelial cell (EC) activation promotes the rapid (<30 minutes) release of extracellular vesicles (EVs), which have emerged as an important means of cell-cell signalling and are thus a potential mechanism for communicating with remote tissues. METHODS AND RESULTS Here, we show that injury to the myocardium rapidly mobilises neutrophils from the spleen to peripheral blood and induces their transcriptional activation prior to arrival at the injured tissue. Time course analysis of plasma EV composition revealed a rapid and selective increase in EVs bearing VCAM-1. These EVs, which were also enriched for miRNA-126, accumulated preferentially in the spleen where they induced local inflammatory gene and chemokine protein expression, and mobilised splenic-neutrophils to peripheral blood. Using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing we generated VCAM-1-deficient EC-EVs and showed that its deletion removed the ability of EC-EVs to provoke the mobilisation of neutrophils. Furthermore, inhibition of miRNA-126 in vivo reduced myocardial infarction size in a mouse model. CONCLUSIONS Our findings show a novel EV-dependent mechanism for the rapid mobilisation of neutrophils to peripheral blood from a splenic reserve and establish a proof of concept for functional manipulation of EV-communications through genetic alteration of parent cells. TRANSLATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Peripheral blood neutrophils are rapidly elevated following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and prior to alterations in systemic cytokines. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane enclosed particles that carry protein and miRNAs and are rapidly liberated from endothelial cells (EC). Here, we show that following AMI EC-derived-EVs (EC-EVs) mediate neutrophil mobilisation from the spleen via EC-EV-VCAM-1 and induce transcriptional activation of neutrophils in the blood to favour miRNA-126-mRNA targets; miRNA-126 antagomir treatment lowers infarct size. EC-EV-VCAM-1 and EC-EV-miRNA-126 are novel mechanisms that mobilise splenic reserve of neutrophils, a previously unidentified source of neutrophils in sterile ischaemic injury.

Keywords: mobilisation; evs; mirna 126; peripheral blood; extracellular vesicles

Journal Title: Cardiovascular research
Year Published: 2022

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