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Blood, 15 January 2008, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 905-914.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on October 2, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-07-099465.


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RED CELLS

Microvascular endothelial cells express a phosphatidylserine receptor: a functionally active receptor for phosphatidylserine-positive erythrocytes

B. N. Yamaja Setty1, and Suhita Gayen Betal1

1 Marian Anderson Comprehensive Sickle Cell Anemia Care and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Research Hematology, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Phosphatidylserine (PS)–positive erythrocytes adhere to endothelium and subendothelial matrix components. While thrombospondin mediates these inter-actions, it is unknown whether PS-associated erythrocyte-endothelial adhesion occurs in the absence of plasma ligands. Using ionophore-treated PS-expressing control HbAA erythrocytes, we demonstrate that PS-positive erythrocytes adhered to human lung microendothelial cells in the absence of plasma ligands, that this adhesion was enhanced following endothelial activation with IL-1{alpha}, TNF-{alpha}, LPS, hypoxia, and heme, and that this adhesive interaction was selective to erythrocyte PS. We next explored whether microendothelial cells express an adhesion receptor that recognizes cell surface–expressed PS (PSR) similar to that expressed on activated macrophages. We demonstrate constitutive expression of both PSR mRNA and protein that were up-regulated in a time-dependent manner following endothelial activation. While minimal PSR expression was noted on unstimulated cells, endothelial activation up-regulated PSR surface expression. In antibody-blocking studies, using PS-positive erythrocytes generated either artificially via ionophore treatment of control erythrocytes or from patients with sickle cell disease, we demonstrate that PSR was functional, supporting PS-mediated erythrocyte adhesion to activated endothelium. Our results demonstrate the existence of a novel functional adhesion receptor for PS on the microendothelium that is up-regulated by such pathologically relevant agonists as hypoxia, cytokines, and heme.


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