Apparent role of traveling metabolic waves in oxidant release by living neutrophils

AUTOR(ES)

Kindzelskii, Andrei L.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Cell metabolism self-organizes into two types of dissipative structures: chemical oscillations and traveling metabolic waves. In the present study we test the hypothesis that traveling NAD(P)H waves within neutrophils are associated spatially and temporally with the release of reactive oxygen metabolites (ROMs). Using high-speed optical microscopy and taking advantage of the autofluorescence of NAD(P)H, we have observed the propagation of NAD(P)H waves within cells. When NAD(P)H waves reach the lamellipodium of morphologically polarized neutrophils, a diffusing plume of superoxide is released as evidenced by the conversion of hydroethidine in the extracellular environment to ethidium bromide. Parallel results were obtained by using high-speed emission microspectrophotometry. These experiments indicate that the spatial and temporal properties of NAD(P)H waves are transformed into ROM pulses in the extracellular environment. Propagating NAD(P)H waves allow neutrophils to specifically deliver substrate to the lamellipodium at high concentrations, thus facilitating the local and periodic release of ROMs in the direction of cell movement and/or a target.

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