Terminally Differentiating Eosinophils Express Neutrophil Primary Granule Proteins as well as Eosinophil-specific Granule Proteins in a Temporal Manner
- Authors
- Kim, Karam; Hwang, Sae Mi; Kim, Sung Min; Park, Sung Woo; Jung, Yunjae; Chung, Il Yup
- Issue Date
- Dec-2017
- Publisher
- 대한면역학회
- Keywords
- Cathepsin G; Cord blood; Eosinophils; Major basic protein 1; Neutrophils
- Citation
- Immune Network, v.17, no.6, pp 410 - 423
- Pages
- 14
- Journal Title
- Immune Network
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 410
- End Page
- 423
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/6989
- DOI
- 10.4110/in.2017.17.6.410
- ISSN
- 1598-2629
2092-6685
- Abstract
- Neutrophils and eosinophils, 2 prominent granulocytes, are commonly derived from myelocytic progenitors through successive stages in the bone marrow. Our previous genome-wide transcriptomic data unexpectedly showed that genes encoding a multitude of neutrophil primary granule proteins (NPGPs) were markedly downregulated during the end period of eosinophilic terminal differentiation when cord blood (CB) cluster of differentiation (CD) 34(+) cells were induced to differentiate toward the eosinophil lineage during a 24-day culture period. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine whether NPGP genes were expressed on the way to eosinophil terminal differentiation stage and to compare their expression kinetics with that of genes encoding eosinophil-specific granule proteins (ESGPs). Transcripts of all NPGP genes examined, including proteinase 3, myeloperoxidase, cathepsin G (CTSG), and neutrophil elastase, reached a peak at day 12 and sharply declined thereafter, while transcript of ESGP genes including major basic protein 1 (MBP1) attained maximum expression at days 18 or 24. Growth factor independent 1 (GFI1) and CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha(C/EBPA), transactivators for the NPGP genes, were expressed immediately before the NPGP genes, whereas expression of C/EBPA, GATA1, and GATA2 kinetically paralleled that of eosinophil granule protein genes. The expression kinetics of NPGPs and ESGPs were duplicated upon differentiation of the eosinophilic leukemia cell line (EoL-1) immature eosinophilic cells. Importantly, confocal image analysis showed that CTSG was strongly coexpressed with MBP1 in differentiating CB eosinophils at days 12 and 18 and became barely detectable at day 24 and beyond. Our results suggest for the first time the presence of an immature stage where eosinophils coexpress NPGPs and ESGPs before final maturation.
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