1. Spatially targeted chemokine exocytosis guides transmigration at lymphatic endothelial multicellular junctions.
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Liaqat, Inam, Hilska, Ida, Saario, Maria, Jakobsson, Emma, Crivaro, Marko, Peränen, Johan, and Vaahtomeri, Kari
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Migrating cells preferentially breach and integrate epithelial and endothelial monolayers at multicellular vertices. These sites are amenable to forces produced by the migrating cell and subsequent opening of the junctions. However, the cues that guide migrating cells to these entry portals, and eventually drive the transmigration process, are poorly understood. Here, we show that lymphatic endothelium multicellular junctions are the preferred sites of dendritic cell transmigration in both primary cell co-cultures and in mouse dermal explants. Dendritic cell guidance to multicellular junctions was dependent on the dendritic cell receptor CCR7, whose ligand, lymphatic endothelial chemokine CCL21, was exocytosed at multicellular junctions. Characterization of lymphatic endothelial secretory routes indicated Golgi-derived RAB6+ vesicles and RAB3+/27+ dense core secretory granules as intracellular CCL21 storage vesicles. Of these, RAB6+ vesicles trafficked CCL21 to the multicellular junctions, which were enriched with RAB6 docking factor ELKS (ERC1). Importantly, inhibition of RAB6 vesicle exocytosis attenuated dendritic cell transmigration. These data exemplify how spatially-restricted exocytosis of guidance cues helps to determine where dendritic cells transmigrate. Synopsis: Leukocytes transmigrate endothelia at preferred locations. This study reveals that targeted exocytosis of lymphatic endothelial chemokine CCL21 directs dendritic cell transmigration to multicellular junctions. Dendritic cells preferentially transmigrate lymphatic endothelium at multicellular junctions. RAB6+ Golgi-derived vesicles and RAB3/27+ dense-core secretory granules are the major CCL21 chemokine storage granules in lymphatic endothelial cells. RAB6, together with RAB8 and ELKS, promotes targeted CCL21 exocytosis at lymphatic endothelial multicellular junctions. Blunting RAB6-mediated CCL21 exocytosis inhibits dendritic cell transmigration across lymphatic endothelium. Dendritic cells preferentially transmigrate at multicellular junctions in response to localized chemokine exocytosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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