Infected erythrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular function via regulatory Ago2-miRNA complexes in malaria
Mantel, Pierre-YvesDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA - Department ofMedicine, Unit of Anatomy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Hjelmqvist, DaisyDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Walch, MichaelDepartment ofMedicine, Unit of Anatomy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Kharoubi-Hess, SolangeDepartment ofMedicine, Unit of Anatomy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Nilsson, SandraDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ravel, DeepaliDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ribeiro, MarinaDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Grüring, ChristofDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ma, SiyuanDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,Boston, USA
Padmanabhan, PrasadDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Trachtenberg, AlexanderHarvard Catalyst Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Ankarklev, JohanDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Brancucci, Nicolas M.Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA - Wellcome Trust Center for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, UK
Huttenhower, CurtisDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,Boston, USA
Duraisingh, Manoj T.Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Ghiran, IonitaDivision of Allergy and Infection, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Kuo, Winston P.Harvard Catalyst Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA - Predicine, Inc., Hayward, California, USA
Filgueira, LuisDepartment ofMedicine, Unit of Anatomy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Martinelli, RobertaCenter for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Marti, MatthiasDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA - Wellcome Trust Center for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, UK
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Malaria remains one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The clinical outcome of individuals infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites depends on many factors including host systemic inflammatory responses, parasite sequestration in tissues and vascular dysfunction. Production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines promotes endothelial activation as well as recruitment and infiltration of inflammatory cells, which in turn triggers further endothelial cell activation and parasite sequestration. Inflammatory responses are triggered in part by bioactive parasite products such as hemozoin and infected red blood cell-derived extracellular vesicles (iRBC-derived EVs). Here we demonstrate that such EVs contain functional miRNA-Argonaute 2 complexes that are derived from the host RBC. Moreover, we show that EVs are efficiently internalized by endothelial cells, where the miRNA-Argonaute 2 complexes modulate target gene expression and barrier properties. Altogether, these findings provide a mechanistic link between EVs and vascular dysfunction during malaria infection.
Supplementary material: Figures 1-6 and Supplementary Table 1
Nanostring miRNA expression analysis. Shown are normalized nanostring miRNA expression values for the 800 human miRNAs. Data are normalized based on the highest 100 miRNAs expressed
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Nanostring miRNA expression analysis. Shown are normalized nanostring miRNA expression values for the 800 human miRNAs. Data are normalized based on the highest 100 miRNAs expressed: 146