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. 2022 Dec;112(6):1457-1470.
doi: 10.1002/JLB.4A0322-155RR. Epub 2022 Jul 22.

Campylobacter jejuni induces differentiation of human neutrophils to the CD16hi /CD62Llo subtype

Carolina G Dolislager  1 , Sean M Callahan  1 , Dallas R Donohoe  1   2 , Jeremiah G Johnson  1
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Campylobacter jejuni induces differentiation of human neutrophils to the CD16hi /CD62Llo subtype

Carolina G Dolislager et al. J Leukoc Biol. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

The discovery of neutrophil subtypes has expanded what is known about neutrophil functions, yet there is still much to learn about the role of these subtypes during bacterial infection. We investigated whether Campylobacter jejuni induced differentiation of human neutrophils into the hypersegmented, CD16hi /CD62Llo subtype. In addition, we investigated whether C. jejuni-dependent differentiation of this neutrophil subtype induced cancer-promoting activities of human T cells and colonocytes, which were observed in other studies of hypersegmented, CD16hi /CD62Llo neutrophils. We found that C. jejuni causes a significant shift in human neutrophil populations to the hypersegmented, CD16hi /CD62Llo subtype and that those populations exhibit delayed apoptosis, elevated arginase-1 expression, and increased reactive oxygen species production. Furthermore, incubation of C. jejuni-infected neutrophils with human T cells resulted in decreased expression of the ζ-chain of the TCR, which was restored upon supplementation with exogenous l-arginine. In addition, incubation of C. jejuni-infected neutrophils with human colonocytes resulted in increased HIF-1α stabilization and NF-κB activation in those colonocytes, which may result in the up-regulation of protumorigenic genes.

Keywords: Campylobacter; NF-κB; T cell; colonocyte; hypoxia-inducible factor; neutrophil.

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