Semaphorin 3F signaling actively retains neutrophils at sites of inflammation

Plant, Tracie and Eamsamarng, Suttida and Reyes, Leila and Renshaw, Stephen A. and Coelho, Patricia and Morgan, Jessie May and Ellett, Felix E. and Morrison, Tyler and Humphries, Duncan and Watts, Emily R. and Murphy, Fiona and Raffo-Iraolagoitia, Ximena L. and Zhang, Ailiang and Cash, Jenna L. and Loynes, Catherine and Elks, Philip M. and Van Eeden, Freek and Carlin, Leo M. and Furley, Andrew J.W. and Whyte, Moira K.B. and Walmsley, Sarah R. (2020) Semaphorin 3F signaling actively retains neutrophils at sites of inflammation. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130 (6). pp. 3221-3237. ISSN 0021-9738 (https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI130834)

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Abstract

Neutrophilic inflammation is central to disease pathogenesis, for example, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, yet the mechanisms that retain neutrophils within tissues remain poorly understood. With emerging evidence that axon guidance factors can regulate myeloid recruitment and that neutrophils can regulate expression of a class 3 semaphorin, SEMA3F, we investigated the role of SEMA3F in inflammatory cell retention within inflamed tissues. We observed that neutrophils upregulate SEMA3F in response to proinflammatory mediators and following neutrophil recruitment to the inflamed lung. In both zebrafish tail injury and murine acute lung injury models of neutrophilic inflammation, overexpression of SEMA3F delayed inflammation resolution with slower neutrophil migratory speeds and retention of neutrophils within the tissues. Conversely, constitutive loss of sema3f accelerated egress of neutrophils from the tail injury site in fish, whereas neutrophilspecific deletion of Sema3f in mice resulted in more rapid neutrophil transit through the airways, and significantly reduced time to resolution of the neutrophilic response. Study of filamentous-actin (F-actin) subsequently showed that SEMA3Fmediated retention is associated with F-actin disassembly. In conclusion, SEMA3F signaling actively regulates neutrophil retention within the injured tissues with consequences for neutrophil clearance and inflammation resolution.

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Plant, Tracie, Eamsamarng, Suttida, Reyes, Leila, Renshaw, Stephen A., Coelho, Patricia, Morgan, Jessie May, Ellett, Felix E., Morrison, Tyler, Humphries, Duncan, Watts, Emily R., Murphy, Fiona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7925-0632, Raffo-Iraolagoitia, Ximena L., Zhang, Ailiang, Cash, Jenna L., Loynes, Catherine, Elks, Philip M., Van Eeden, Freek, Carlin, Leo M., Furley, Andrew J.W., Whyte, Moira K.B. and Walmsley, Sarah R.;