Neutrophil extracellular traps and phagocytosis in Pythium insidiosum.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
17
09
2022
accepted:
02
01
2023
entrez:
24
1
2023
pubmed:
25
1
2023
medline:
27
1
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Neutrophils are innate immune cells that play crucial roles in response to extracellular pathogens, including bacteria and fungi. Pythium insidiosum (P insidiosum) is a fungus-like pathogen that causes "pythiosis" in mammals. This study investigated in vitro function of human neutrophils against P. insidiosum. We demonstrated the killing mechanism of neutrophils when incubated with P. insidiosum zoospores (infective stage), such as phagocytosis and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Healthy human neutrophils significantly reduced six strains of live zoospores isolated from different sources compared to the condition without neutrophils (p < 0.001), observed by colony count and trypan blue staining. As our results showed the killing ability of neutrophils, we further investigated the neutrophil killing mechanism when incubating with zoospores. Our study found that only two strains of heat-killed zoospores significantly induced phagocytosis (p < 0.01). Co-culture of heat-killed zoospores and neutrophils demonstrated NET formation, which was detected by immunofluorescence staining using DAPI, anti-myeloperoxidase, and anti-neutrophil elastase and quantitated under the fluorescence microscope. In addition, the level of cell-free DNA released from neutrophils (as a marker of NET production) after incubation with zoospores showed significantly increased levels when compared with unstimulated neutrophils (p < 0.001). Our findings demonstrate that neutrophils revealed the NET formation in response to P. insidiosum zoospores. This study is the first observation of the neutrophil mechanism against P. insidiosum, which could provide a better understanding of some parts of the innate immune response during pythiosis.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36693041
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280565
pii: PONE-D-22-25840
pmc: PMC9873155
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0280565Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2023 Sriwarom et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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