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Effect of aging on CD11b and CD69 surface expression by vesicular insertion in human polymorphonuclear leucocytes

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jane Noble, Professor Gary Ford, Dr Trevor Thomas

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Abstract

The exocytosis of intracellular vesicles is an important function of the plasma membrane, which is responsible for hormone secretion, cell surface expression of antigens, ion transporters and receptors, and intracellular and intercellular signalling. Human aging is associated with many physiological and cellular changes, many of which are due to alterations in plasma membrane functioning. Alterations in vesicle externalization with age could account for many of these changes. We investigated whether alterations in vesicle exocytosis occur with increasing age by flow-cytometric determination of CD11b and CD69 expression on the surface of human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), a tumour promoter which binds to and activates protein kinase C (PKC) directly, or with formyl-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLP), which activates PKC indirectly via interactions with a cell surface receptor and G-protein, and subsequent inositol phosphate hydrolysis. Following stimulation with PMA, a decrease in the proportion of PMN expressing CD69 at high levels was observed in elderly compared with young subjects (young, 55.3%; elderly, 43.9%; P = 0.01). No aging-related differences in the proportion of PMN expressing CD11b (young, 73.7%; elderly, 68.4%; P = 0.15), or in the number of molecules of CD69 or CD11b expressed per cell, were observed. Stimulation with fMLP or low PMA concentrations resulted in full CD11b expression but minimal CD69 expression in both young and elderly subjects. Cells which expressed CD69 had no CD11b expression, while those cells expressing CD11b had minimal CD69 expression. Thus the PMA-induced expression of CD11b and CD69 in human PMN represents two separate processes, only one of which is affected in aging. CD11b expression appears to require a lesser degree of PKC stimulation compared with that required for CD69 expression. The age-associated reduction in PMA-stimulated CD69 expression may occur either at or distal to PKC activation. Such a decrease may contribute to the age-associated impairments in PMN function that contribute, in turn, to immunosenescence.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Noble JM, Ford GA, Thomas TH

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Clinical Science

Year: 1999

Volume: 97

Issue: 3

Pages: 323-329

Print publication date: 01/01/1999

ISSN (print): 0143-5221

ISSN (electronic): 0009-9287

Publisher: Portland Press Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/CS19990042

DOI: 10.1042/CS19990042

PubMed id: 10464057


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