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Title: Chemotactic factors regulate lectin adhesion molecule 1 (LECAM-1)-dependent neutrophil adhesion to cytokine-stimulated endothelial cells in vitro. Author: Smith CW, Kishimoto TK, Abbassi O, Hughes B, Rothlein R, McIntire LV, Butcher E, Anderson DC. Journal: J Clin Invest; 1991 Feb; 87(2):609-18. PubMed ID: 1991844. Abstract: Monoclonal antibodies recognizing CD18, CD11a, CD11b, and neutrophil lectin adhesion molecule 1 (LECAM-1), i.e., the human homologue of the murine MEL-14 antigen, were used to assess the relative contribution of these glycoproteins to neutrophil-endothelial adhesion. Under static conditions, the adhesion of neutrophils to IL-1-stimulated human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) monolayers was inhibited by antibodies to CD18, CD11a, and the neutrophil LECAM-1, and the effect of combining anti-LECAM-1 and anti-CD11a was almost additive. Under flow at a wall shear stress 1.85 dyn/cm2, a condition where CD18-dependent adhesion is minimal, anti-LECAM-1 inhibited adhesion by greater than 50%. Chemotactic stimulation of neutrophils induced a rapid loss of LECAM-1 from the neutrophil surface, and the level of neutrophil surface LECAM-1 was closely correlated with adhesion under flow. Neutrophils contacting the activated endothelial cells for 30 min lost much of their surface LECAM-1, a phenomenon induced by a soluble factor or factors released into the medium by the stimulated monolayers, and a high percentage migrated through the HUVEC monolayer. This migration was almost completely inhibited by anti-CD18, but was unaffected by antibodies to neutrophil LECAM-1. These results support the concept that LECAM-1 is a neutrophil adhesion molecule that participates in the adherence of unstimulated neutrophils to cytokine-stimulated endothelial cells under conditions of flow, and is then lost from the neutrophil surface coincident with the engagement of CD18-dependent mechanisms leading to transendothelial migration.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]