Dataset Information

Downregulation of Engulfment and cell motility 1 (Elmo1) induces quiescence and resistance to poly(I:C)-induced apoptosis in endothelial cells

ABSTRACT: Engulfment and Cell Motility 1 (ELMO1) facilitates activation of Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (RAC1) through interaction with Dedicator of Cytokinesis (DOCK), a family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEF). ELMO1 plays an important role in acute and chronic inflammation by enhancing immune cell migration, phagocytosis of pathogens and dead cells, and production of reactive oxygen species. Endothelial cells, an integral component of inflammatory responses, also express high levels of ELMO1, although the role of ELMO1 in inflammatory endothelial cells is unclear. We demonstrate that knockdown of ELMO1 in EA.hy926 human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) leads to cell quiescence, while protects the cells from Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3)-induced apoptosis and restores inflammatory responses.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE299038 | GEO | 2025/06/09

REPOSITORIES: GEO

ACCESS DATA

Dataset's files

Source:

			Action	DRS
		Other

Items per page:

1 - 1 of 1

Similar Datasets

Project description:Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the synovial joints that affects ~1% of the human population, with severe distress due to progressive joint inflammation and deformation. When addressing the links between specific components of the apoptotic cell clearance machinery and human disease, we noted a correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ELMO1, DOCK2, and RAC1 genes and rheumatoid arthritis. ELMO1 is a cytoplasmic adapter protein that associates with DOCK2 and RAC1 to promote cytoskeletal reorganization needed for apoptotic cell uptake by phagocytes. We initially hypothesized that, since ELMO1 is linked to apoptotic cell clearance, loss of ELMO1 would lead to increased inflammation in arthritis. Contrary to the accumulation of apoptotic cells and greater disease severity that we predicted, we observed significantly reduced joint inflammation in two models of arthritis in mice lacking ELMO1. Using genetic and cell biological approaches in vivo and ex vivo, we determined that ELMO1 deficiency significantly reduces neutrophil recruitment to inflamed joints, but does not result in general inhibition of inflammatory responses. Through proteomic analyses, we find that ELMO1 protein associates with cellular receptors that contribute to neutrophil function in arthritis, and regulates C5a and LTB4 receptor-mediated activation and early neutrophil recruitment to the joints. Neutrophil-specific transcriptomics show that ELMO1 modulates neutrophil-specific gene expression that includes genes with known linkages to human arthritis. Finally, neutrophils from the peripheral blood of human donors that carry the SNP in ELMO1 associated with arthritis display increased migratory capacity, whereas ELMO1 knockdown reduces human neutrophil migration to LTB4. These data identify key ‘non-canonical’ roles for engulfment machinery components in arthritis, and ELMO1 as an important regulator of specific neutrophil receptors and signaling linked to arthritis.

Dataset Information

Downregulation of Engulfment and cell motility 1 (Elmo1) induces quiescence and resistance to poly(I:C)-induced apoptosis in endothelial cells

Dataset's files

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets