Pathologic interaction between megakaryocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in myelofibrosis

Author:

Schmitt Alain1,Jouault Hélène1,Guichard Josette1,Wendling Françoise1,Drouin Arnaud1,Cramer Elisabeth M.1

Affiliation:

1. From INSERM U.474 and Laboratoire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France; and INSERM U.362, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.

Abstract

Abstract Idiopathic myelofibrosis (MF) is a myeloproliferative syndrome characterized by an increase in bone marrow collagen. Megakaryocytes (Mks), which store growth factors in their α granules, are known to be involved in the pathogenesis of MF. Previously, mice given bone marrow grafts infected with a retrovirus carrying murine thrombopoietin (TPO) complementary DNA developed a disease resembling human idiopathic MF. In this study, we used this murine model (TPO mice) to determine whether release of α granules is responsible for fibroblast activation and development of fibrosis. The intracellular trafficking of several α-granule proteins (von Willebrand factor, fibrinogen, and transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), which are stored in the granule matrix; and αIIbβ3 integrin and P-selectin (CD62p), which are located in the α-granule membrane) was studied with immune electron microscopy in bone marrow Mks from TPO mice. P-selectin immunolabeling increased consistently and was occasionally found lining the demarcation membrane system. Evidence of extensive emperipolesis was also found in TPO mouse Mks, involving almost exclusively neutrophil and eosinophil polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells with altered morphologic features. In parallel, the host Mks had myeloperoxidase-positive granules scattered in their cytoplasm, associated with marked ultrastructural cytoplasmic alterations and ruptured α-granule membranes. Similar observations were made in bone marrow biopsy specimens from 12 patients with idiopathic MF; indeed, there was an increased rate of emperipolesis involving mostly PMN cells, abnormal P-selectin expression, and mutual subcellular PMN and Mk alterations. This study indicates that in idiopathic MF, abnormal P-selectin distribution in Mks induces selective sequestration of PMN cells. This results in a release of α-granular proteins and growth factors, which in turn induces fibroblast activation and fibrosis deposition.

Publisher

American Society of Hematology

Subject

Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry

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