Abstract
Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, e.g., neutrophils, by monocytes is essential for resolution of inflammation. Delayed removal leads to secondary necrosis, perpetuating inflammation, and tissue destruction. Common histologic features in neonatal chronic inflammatory disorders are an accumulation of apoptotic cells in inflamed tissues. We hypothesized that apoptotic cell removal by monocytes is compromised in newborns. PKH-26 labeled autologous or allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils were fed to monocytes of adult donors (PBMO) and cord blood (CBMO), and phagocytic activity was analyzed by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. Relative mRNA-expression levels of 21 surface receptors and bridging molecules relevant for apoptotic cell removal were measured, as was postphagocytic IL-8 production upon LPS-stimulation. Compared with PBMO, CBMO exhibited a significantly diminished phagocytotic competence for autologous and allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils. mRNA-expression levels of milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 and T cell immunoglobulin- and mucin-domain-containing molecule, two crucial members of the phagocytic synapse of apoptotic cell removal, were reduced in CBMO. In PBMO, interaction with autologous apoptotic neutrophils reduced LPS-induced IL-8 production whereas it was enhanced in CBMO. Our data suggest a specific defect in CBMO during clearance of apoptotic neutrophils resulting in impaired anti-inflammatory capacity.
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Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by monocytes is a crucial step for normal tissue homeostasis by removing invaded immune cells, e.g., neutrophils, from inflamed tissue (1,2). Delayed removal may lead to secondary necrosis of the apoptotic cell, thus perpetuating inflammation and consecutive tissue destruction. Apart from a safe disposal of apoptotic debris, monocytes secrete anti-inflammatory signals, whereas inflammatory reactions are suppressed, hence enforcing the resolution of inflammation (1). Engulfment is mediated through receptors on the phagocyte, which can either bind structures on the apoptotic cell directly or by the help of bridging molecules, such as mucin-domain-containing molecule E8 (MFG-E8), which form a “phagocytic synapse” (reviewed in Ref. 1).
During the neonatal period, tissue damage often results in chronic inflammatory responses such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), periventricular leucomalacia (PVL), or necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) (3–10). One common histologic feature is the accumulation of apoptotic neutrophils, epithelial, or parenchymal cells in the inflamed tissues (11,12). This observation is unexpected as apoptotic cells are removed rapidly in healthy adults. One reason could be that neonatal monocytes do not engulf apoptotic cells as efficiently as their adult counterparts. Although neonatal monocytes show functional differences compared with those from adults (13), they are not impaired in their phagocytic competence for Gram-positive (14) or Gram-negative bacteria in vitro (15,16).
Therefore, we investigated whether neonatal and adult monocytes display different capacities for the internalization of apoptotic neutrophils. To this end, we used a flow cytometric phagocytosis assay using fluorescently labeled neutrophils, which were fed to cord blood monocytes (CBMO) or adult peripheral blood monocytes (PBMO). We also quantified the relative mRNA-expression levels of surface receptors and bridging molecules relevant for apoptotic cell removal and measured the postphagocytic cytokine response in PBMO and CBMO.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Patients.
The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tuebingen University Hospital. Blood was collected from umbilical cords of healthy term neonates immediately after delivery in heparin-coated tubes (4 IE/mL blood). These did not exhibit any clinical signs of infection. Mothers with amnion infections and prolonged labor were excluded. All mothers gave written consent before going into labor. Healthy, unrelated adults donated blood and served as controls.
Culture of mononuclear cells.
Mononuclear cells from blood of adults and cord (PBMC and CBMC) were isolated by density gradient centrifugation (Biochrom AG, Berlin, Germany) as previously described (17). PBMC and CBMC were resuspended in macrophage-SFM medium (GIBCO, Invitrogen Corporation, Auckland, NZ) with 2% heat inactivated human AB serum, counted in an ultra plane Neubauer hemocytometer, placed at 2 × 106 cells/mL in flat bottom 96-well cell culture plates (Costar, Bodenheim, Germany) and incubated at 37°C with 5% CO2 for overnight.
Monocyte isolation.
For quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) experiments, monocytes were separated by positive selection using magnetic cell sorting (MACS) CD14 microbeads (Miltenyi Biotec) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The purity of the resulting population was >95% CD14 positive cells as detected by flow cytometry.
Neutrophil purification and labeling.
Neutrophils were isolated from the density gradient centrifugation pellet by hypotonic lysis of the remaining erythrocytes using 0.156 M ammonium chloride (18). Neutrophils were washed twice with PBS (Biochrom) and counted with an ultra plane Neubauer hemocytometer. Purity of neutrophils was assessed by SYSMEX-XE2100 hemocytometer as >95%. Neutrophils were labeled with PKH26 red fluorescent cell linker kit (Sigma Chemical Co., Crailsheim, Germany) according to the manufactuer's instructions. Stained neutrophils were resuspended again in macrophage-SFM medium (GIBCO, Invitrogen Corporation) with 2% heat inactivated human AB serum.
Neutrophil apoptosis.
To induce apoptosis, neutrophils were serum-starved overnight (19,20). We used only a minimum of macrophage-SFM medium (1 × 108 cells/mL) at 37°C with 5% CO2. Apoptotic neutrophils were identified by Annexin V-FITC staining (BD Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany; 21). Cells were pelleted (300 × g 5 min) and resuspended in 50 μL Annexin-buffer (0.02% sodium azide in HEPES-buffer, pH 7.4), 10 μL Annexin V-FITC was added, for 15 min at 4°C in the dark. PBS (4 mL) was added, neutrophils were pelleted again, resuspended in PBS, and analyzed. Apoptotic cells were differentiated from necrotic cells by propidium iodide (PI) staining.
Coculture of monocytes with apoptotic neutrophils.
Coculture experiments were carried out with PBMC or CBMC from one adult or neonatal donor either with their autologous or with allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils. After 24 h of preincubation, PBMC and CBMC were cocultured with stained apoptotic autologous (PBMC and CBMC, n = 12) or allogeneic neutrophils (PBMC, n = 12; CBMC, n = 6) at a ratio of 1:8 (monocytes:neutrophils). After 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 h, monocytes were stained with anti-CD14-FITC MAb (mAB, BD Biosciences), and cells were analyzed on a FACSCalibur flow cytometer (BD Biosciences). Monocytes were gated by size (forward scatter, FSC), granularity (side scatter, SSC), and CD14 expression. The percentage of phagocytosis was defined as percentage of CD14+-PKH26+ events out of CD14+ events. To estimate extracellular binding of apoptotic cells, actin-dependent phagocytosis was blocked by cytochalasin D (CCD; 10 μg/mL; Sigma Chemical Co.) 30 min before starting addition of apoptotic neutrophils to mononuclear cells.
Real-time qRT-PCR analysis.
The measurement of phagocyte receptor- and bridging protein mRNA levels was performed by SYBR green real-time qRT-PCR analysis using the ABI Prism 7000 Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) and qPCR Mastermix Plus (Eurogentec, Seraing, Belgium). Primers were designed to generate amplicons spanning exon-exon junctions to avoid genomic DNA amplification and were synthesized by MWG Biotech (Ebersberg, Germany). The following primers were used: MFG-E8 forward 5′ GCACTCTGCGCTTTGAGCTA 3′, MFG-E8 reverse 5′ TTGTCAGGG ATGCTGTTATTCTTC 3′, T cell immunoglobulin- and mucin-domain-containing molecule (TIM 4) forward 5′ GTGTCAATGTGGAAAACGAGTGATT 3′, TIM 4 reverse 5′ TGTTCTGCTCAGGAACTGCTGTATC 3′. Total RNA 4 to 9 × 106 CD14-positively selected PBMO or CBMO was extracted according to the manufacturer's instructions with TRIzol Reagent (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Karlsruhe, Germany). Then, 0.5–2 μg of total RNA were reversely transcribed with 200 U Superscript RT II reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen Life Technologies) in the presence of 50 μM random hexamers (Amersham Biosciences, Freiburg, Germany), 400 μM dNTPs (Promega, Heidelberg, Germany), and 1.6 U/μL RNAsIn (Invitrogen Life Technologies) in of a final volume of 25 μL. Thirty to 60 ng of the resulting cDNA were applied to the following qRT-PCR analyzes (20 μL final volume) with 300 nM primers in 1× qPCR Mastermix Plus (Eurogentec, Seraing, Belgium) and amplified with the standard temperature profile [2 min 50°C, 10 min 95°C, 40× (15 s 95°C, 1 min 60°C)]. Relative quantification was performed using the standard curve method. The results for target gene expression were normalized on 18S rRNA as endogenous control, and the mean values of the PBMO population were set as calibrator.
Confocal microscopy.
PBMC were allowed to attach to the glass coverslips overnight at 37°C in 5% CO2. On the consecutive day, autologous apoptotic PKH26-stained neutrophils were added at a ratio of monocytes to neutrophils of 1–8. After coculturing for 24 h at 37°C, nonadherent cells were gently rinsed off with PBS and monocytes were stained for 10 min with anti-CD14-APC mAB (BD Biosciences). The glass coverslips were mounted in Fluoprep-mounting-medium (bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) and analyzed with a Leica-DM-IRE2 confocal laser-scanning microscope (Leica; Bensheim, Germany). Fluorescence images were acquired sequentially to avoid nonspecific channel interference. Phagocytosis was confirmed by means of a z-axis scanning. Images were digitally processed with Photoshop7.0 (Adobe Systems, Mountain View, CA).
Intracellular cytokine staining.
Isolated monocytes were placed at 2 × 106 cells/mL in flat bottom 24-well cell culture plates (Costar, Bodenheim, Germany) and incubated at 37°C in the presence of brefeldin (10 μg/mL; Sigma Chemical Co.). Apoptotic neutrophils were added in a ratio of 1–8 (monocytes to neutrophils). Thereafter, cells were activated by LPS from Escherichia coli (1 μg/mL; Sigma Chemical Co.). After 20 h of coculture, cells were resuspended in washing buffer [PBS supplemented with 0.1% BSA (fraction V; Sigma Chemical Co.) and 0.1% sodium azide (Sigma Chemical Co.)], centrifuged (300 × g 10 min 4°C), fixed and permeabilized by adding 100 μL of fix and perm-reagent (BD Biosciences) for 15 min, washed in saponin buffer [PBS supplemented with 0.5% BSA, 0.1% saponin (Sigma Chemical Co.), and 0.02% sodium azide], and stained with anti-IL-8-PE mAB (Diaclone, Starnford, USA) or an isotype control at 4°C in the dark for 30 min. Cells were washed twice in saponin buffer and analyzed immediately by flow cytometry. Permeability of cells was assessed by anti-ZAP-70 staining (Caltag/Invitrogen, Burlingame, CA).
Statistical analysis.
Fluorescence intensities were determined, and nonspecific background staining was subtracted. Results are expressed as mean ± SD. Statistical analysis was performed using the t test (Sigmaplot 2000 software for Windows, SPSS, Chicago, IL). Values of p < 0.05 were considered significant.
RESULTS
Neutrophil apoptosis and phagocytosis of apoptotic neutrophils by PBMO and CBMO.
Assessment of neutrophil apoptosis was performed before each coculture with monocytes, revealing equal proportions of cells from neonates (74 ± 20%) and adults (83 ± 11%, n = 6, n.s. versus. neonates; Fig. 1A, right; one representative experiment is shown in Fig. 1A, left).
PKH26-labeled, autologous neutrophils, which had become apoptotic overnight, were fed to corresponding 1-day-old PBMC and CBMC, respectively. Phagocytosis was analyzed for a period of 24 h. We examined monocyte CD14 expression during the time of cocultivation: Basal expression tended to be lower on CBMC compared with PBMC and was diminished on both upon coculture with neutrophils but still detectable by flow cytometry (Table 1). CD14 expression on neutrophils was not detectable (not shown).
Because phagocytosis was calculated as percentage of PKH26+/CD14+ of all CD14+ cells, our data relate to the phagocytic activity from CD14+ cells and termed to be of monocytic origin, although other mononuclear cells were present. Representative dot plots are given in Fig. 1B. After 1 h, phagocytosis of apoptotic cells was equivalent in PBMO (36 ± 14%) and CBMO (29 ± 14%, n = 12, p = 0.25; Fig. 1B, right). With prolonged incubation time, a significant difference in the uptake became apparent and persisted during the observation period of 24 h. After 24 h, 87 ± 11% of PBMO versus 62 ± 23% of CBMO had participated in phagocytosis (n = 12, p = 0.018; Fig. 1B, right). The mean PKH26-fluorescence intensities were equivalent, suggesting no difference in the amount of ingested apoptotic prey per monocyte (not shown). Phagocytosis was greatly reduced by preincubation of PBMC with CCD (Fig. 1B, right). Intracellular localization was confirmed by confocal laser scanning microscopy (Fig. 1C), showing apoptotic neutrophils (red) in monocytes (green).
In the autologous setting, postphagocytic reactions may depend on the apoptotic prey. In a second cocultivation, we therefore used apoptotic neutrophils, descending from one source: Neonatal neutrophils from one cord blood were fed to CBMO (autologous) and to PBMO (allogeneic). Again, CBMO exhibited a significantly reduced internalization of the apoptotic prey cells throughout the observation period. After 24 h, 92 ± 7% of PBMO versus 66 ± 25% of CBMO had ingested apoptotic neutrophils (n = 6–12, p = 0.04; Fig. 2A).
In a third approach, we chose a complete allogeneic setup, in which adult apoptotic neutrophils were fed to CBMO and neonatal apoptotic neutrophils were fed to PBMO to avoid possible effects of allogenecity. Notably, the percentage of phagocyting CBMO was higher than in the autologous setting, but still it was significantly lower (at 4 of 5 time points of observation) than the percentage of PBMO: After 24 h, 92 ± 7% of PBMO versus 81 ± 12% of CBMO had participated in phagocytosis (n = 6–12, p = 0.04; Fig. 2B). In summary, our results suggest that the CBMO-inherent phagocytic capacity for autologous and allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils is inferior to that of PBMO.
Expression of surface receptors and bridging proteins involved in the recognition of apoptotic cells in PBMO and CBMO.
We performed an initial qRT-PCR screen comparing the relative mRNA-expression levels of receptor and bridging protein candidates involved in apoptotic cell recognition in three CBMO and three PBMO samples. The rationale was to find candidate genes, which in CBMO are less abundantly expressed than in PBMO. In case of two genes encoding for MFG-E8 and TIM4, the mean mRNA-expression level in CBMO was <50% of the mean mRNA-expression level in PBMO (data not shown). Therefore, we performed a validation screen, in which only the mRNA-levels of MFG-E8 and TIM4 were measured in a cohort of seven CBMO and six PBMO samples. The second screen confirmed the initial results and again revealed a >2-fold reduced mRNA-level of MFG-E8 and TIM4 in CBMO (Fig. 3).
IL-8 production upon ingestion of autologous apoptotic neutrophils.
We measured the LPS induced IL-8 production in the presence or absence of autologous apoptotic neutrophils. Figure 4A shows representative histograms of IL-8 production by PBMO (upper diagrams) and CBMO (lower diagrams). Monocytes without LPS stimulation did not produce IL-8, measured as percentage of IL-8 producing cells (Fig. 4B, left) and mean IL-8 production per cell (Fig. 4B, right). LPS induced IL-8 production in PBMO (71 ± 21 MFI, n = 4) and CBMO (72 ± 24 MFI, n = 4). In the presence of autologous, apoptotic neutrophils, LPS-induced IL-8 production of PBMO was decreased (42 ± 3 MFI, n = 4; p = 0.04 vs LPS alone). Contrarily, CBMO responded even with an increase in mean IL-8 production (106 ± 17 MFI, n = 4; p = 0.09 vs LPS alone). Cocultivation with autologous, apoptotic neutrophils alone did not induce IL-8 production. These results suggest that CBMO may display a more proinflammatory postphagocytic response.
DISCUSSION
In this study, we compared the interaction of neonatal and adult monocytes with autologous and allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils with respect to phagocytosis and postphagocytic cytokine response and analyzed expression of phagocytosis-relevant receptors. In CBMO, we observed (i) a decreased phagocytic activity for autologous and allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils, (ii) a reduced expression of MFG-E8 and TIM4 mRNA, and (iii) no inhibitory effect on IL-8 production upon ingestion of apoptotic neutrophils.
Although previous studies, including our own, described equivalent phagocytic competence of neonatal and adult monocytes for different types of prey, such as Gram-negative bacteria (15,17), Gram-positive (14) bacteria, and latex beads (Ch.G. and Th.O. unpublished observation), we show here that the ingestion of autologous as well as allogeneic apoptotic neutrophils in CBMO is strongly reduced.
A caveat of these results is that the depicted differences in the phagocytic uptake of autologous apoptotic neutrophils could also be due to differences in the apoptosis-rate of the used autologous prey cells. Experimental evidence for this precaution has been presented by others, who demonstrated that in neonatal, neutrophils apoptosis was protracted in vitro (19,22), and results from our own group, showing protracted apoptosis of neonatal monocytes, hinting toward a higher resistance of neonatal hematopoetic cells toward apoptosis. However, we carefully compared the apoptotic populations of neonatal and adult neutrophils by Annexin V-FITC staining and could not detect differences in apoptosis rates, maybe due to special culture conditions: in our experiments, neutrophils were cultivated in a minimum of medium in the absence of serum.
In our autologous/allogeneic setting, phagocytic activity by neonatal monocytes was still impaired although monocytes from adult blood were fed with the same apoptotic neonatal neutrophils (Fig. 2A), and even in a completely allogeneic setting, neonatal monocyte phagocytosis remained inferior compared with their adult counterparts. Thus, we speculate that the uptake of apoptotic neutrophils is specifically impaired in neonatal monocytes. This is in line with former reports of an impaired uptake of lymphoblastoid transformed apoptotic lymphocytes by neonatal monocyte-derived dendritic cells (23) and may hint toward a specific defect in recognition of different apoptotic cell types.
Our results show that the amount of apoptotic neutrophils ingested per monocyte was equivalent, but that a larger percentage of CBMO did not participate in phagocytosis compared with PBMO. Basal CD14 receptor expression, which was shown to be one part of the phagocytic synapse during uptake of apoptotic cells (1), tended to be lower on CBMO compared with PBMO (Table 1). Although this reached no statistical significance, data from other groups showed significantly reduced CD14 expression on neonatal monocytes from preterm infants (24). Therefore, it might be reasonable to speculate that reduced CD14 expression might be in part accounting for diminished phagocytosis of apoptotic neutrophils by CBMO and that phagocytosis of apoptotic cells may be an acquired function of monocytes upon differentiation. This is supported by Miller et al. (25), who described a reduced phagocytic activity of naïve blood monocytes compared with differentiated peritoneal macrophages and correlated this to the increased intracellular expression of 12/15 lipoxygenase during differentiation. With this in mind, it might be interesting to investigate monocyte functions of preterm infants to analyze whether phagocytic function is related to gestational age as well as the function of more differentiated monocyte-derived macrophages. Moreover, it would be interesting to compare the phagocytic ability of adult and neonatal monocytes under inflammatory conditions, because it was shown that neonatal monocytes significantly enhanced certain immune functions such as TLR4 expression (26) and cytokine release (27). Further studies on monocytes functions of neonates are necessary.
Apart from 12/15 lipoxygenase, other factors are likely to contribute to the phagocytic activity. Because previous studies could not detect significant differences between neonatal and adult monocytes with respect to bacteria or microsphere phagocytosis [(15,17); C.G. and T.O., unpublished observation], it is feasible that CBMO might have defects in the recognition of apoptotic cells rather than in the process of phagocytosis itself. Therefore, we compared the mRNA expression profile of known members of the phagocytic synapse of apoptotic cell removal in CBMO and PBMO. We observed that two of 21 genes tested displayed a reduced expression in CBMO: MFG-E8 and TIM4, intriguingly crucially involved in the recognition of externalized phosphatidylserine (28–30), the central “eat-me” signal of apoptotic cells (1). This characteristic confines the phagocytic function of MFG-E8 and TIM4 to the recognition of apoptotic cells and represents a fundamental difference to other receptors or bridging proteins, such as CD14, the scavenger receptors, or complement proteins, which also participate in the engulfment of bacteria. Hence, MFG-E8 and TIM4 represent promising candidates, whose reduced expression might be causative for the decreased uptake of apoptotic cells by CBMO. However, further studies are required to validate our mRNA-based observations.
The clearance of apoptotic cells is crucial for the resolution of inflammation, because the safe disposal of apoptotic cells prevents the perpetuation of inflammation by secondary necrosis. Furthermore, after having ingested apoptotic cells, professional phagocytes are known to actively shift their repertoire of secreted cytokines toward anti-inflammation. Thus, it has been shown that TNF-alpha and IL-8 production are inhibited, whereas IL-10 and TGF-beta production could be inhibited or induced (31,32). We showed here that LPS-induced amount of IL-8 produced by PBMO was diminished upon interaction with autologous apoptotic neutrophils, whereas IL-8 production by CBMO was enhanced instead (Fig. 4, right). Although this was true regarding the amount of IL-8 produced, the percentage PBMO and CBMO of IL-8 producing upon LPS stimulation was not altered in the presence of apoptotic neutrophils (Fig. 4, left). We therefore think that the inhibitory effect of apoptotic neutrophils does not lead to a complete silencing of IL-8 production in monocytes but strongly reduce it.
Concerning the biologic relevance, we interpret our in vitro data with caution: our data concentrate on one cell type of the mononuclear phagocyte system, i.e., on blood-derived monocytes. Defects of these cells might be compensated by more differentiated monocyte-derived macrophages located in different tissues. Moreover, the often observed relative monocytosis in newborns may compensate for a partial dysfunction of blood monocytes.
Taken together, our in vitro results suggest that the clearance of apoptotic neutrophils by neonatal monocytes is impaired specifically and does not display the anti-inflammatory character observed in adult monocytes. Whether the impaired recognition of apoptotic cells by neonatal monocytes is also relevant for removal of other apoptotic tissue cells (epithelial cells, parenchymal cells) has to be evaluated. In this regard, it is tempting to speculate that the accumulation of apoptotic cells in inflamed tissues, which frequently can be observed in typical neonatal disorders such as BPD, PVL, and NEC, might in part be caused by a defective disposal by monocytes and monocyte-derived cells.
Abbreviations
- CBMC:
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cord blood mononuclear cells
- CBMO:
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cord blood monocytes
- MFG-E8:
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milk fat globule-EGF factor 8
- PBMC:
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peripheral blood mononuclear cells of adult blood
- PBMO:
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peripheral blood monocytes of adult blood
- TIM4:
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T-cell immunoglobulin- and mucin-domain-containing molecule
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We thank Andrea Schäfer, Department of Medical Microbiology, for help with confocal microscopy and Derek Stebbens for carefully reading the manuscript.
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Gille, C., Steffen, F., Lauber, K. et al. Clearance of Apoptotic Neutrophils Is Diminished in Cord Blood Monocytes and Does Not Lead to Reduced IL-8 Production. Pediatr Res 66, 507–512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181b9b470
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