Red Blood Cells Function as DNA Sensors
Lam, M.; Murphy, S.; Kokkinaki, D.; Venosa, A.; Sherrill-Mix, S.; Casu, C.; Rivella, S.; Weiner, A.; Park, J.; Shin, S.; Vaughan, A. E.; Hahn, B. H.; Odom John, A. R.; Meyer, N. J.; Hunter, C. A.; Worthen, G. S.; Mangalmurti, N. S.
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Erythrocytes have long been mistaken as exclusively inert oxygen carriers lacking immune function. Here we show that red blood cells (RBCs) serve as immune sensors through surface expression of the nucleic acid-sensing toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), a classically endosomal receptor that initiates immune responses following the detection of unmethylated CpG motifs present in pathogen and mitochondrial DNA. Mammalian RBCs express TLR9 on their surface and bind CpG-containing bacterial, malarial, and mitochondrial DNA. Erythrocyte-bound CpG DNA increases during infection, and CpG-carrying RBCs trigger accelerated erythrophagocytosis and innate immune activation characterized by RBC-TLR9 dependent local and systemic cytokine production. Thus, RBC nucleic acid detection and capture regulates red cell clearance and immune responses and provides evidence for RBCs as innate immune sentinels during pathologic states. One Sentence SummaryThe ability of RBCs to detect and bind cell-free nucleic acids contributes to immunity during acute inflammatory states.
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