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Assaying How Phagocytic Success Depends on the Elasticity of a Large Target Structure.

Abstract：

:Biofilm infections can consist of bacterial aggregates that are an order of magnitude larger than neutrophils, phagocytic immune cells that densely surround aggregates but do not enter them. Because a neutrophil is too small to engulf the entire aggregate, it must be able to detach and engulf a few bacteria at a time if it is to use phagocytosis to clear the infection. Current research techniques do not provide a method for determining how the success of phagocytosis, here defined as the complete engulfment of a piece of foreign material, depends on the mechanical properties of a larger object from which the piece must be removed before being engulfed. This article presents a step toward such a method. By varying polymer concentration or cross-linking density, the elastic moduli of centimeter-sized gels are varied over the range that was previously measured for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms grown from clinical bacterial isolates. Human neutrophils are isolated from blood freshly drawn from healthy adult volunteers, exposed to gel containing embedded beads for 1 h, and removed from the gel. The percentage of collected neutrophils that contain beads that had previously been within the gels is used to measure successful phagocytic engulfment. Both increased polymer concentration in agarose gels and increased cross-linking density in alginate gels are associated with a decreased success of phagocytic engulfment. Upon plotting the percentage of neutrophils showing successful engulfment as a function of the elastic modulus of the gel to which they were applied, it is found that data from both alginate and agarose gels collapse onto the same curve. This suggests that gel mechanics may be impacting the success of phagocytosis and demonstrates that this experiment is a step toward realizing methods for measuring how the mechanics of a large target, or a large structure in which smaller targets are embedded, impact the success of phagocytic engulfment.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Davis-Fields M,Bakhtiari LA,Lan Z,Kovach KN,Wang L,Cosgriff-Hernandez EM,Gordon VD

doi

10.1016/j.bpj.2019.08.043

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-10-15 00:00:00

pages

1496-1507

issue

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(19)30779-9

journal_volume

117

pub_type

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Assaying How Phagocytic Success Depends on the Elasticity of a Large Target Structure.