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    Small-Molecule Screen Identifies Reactive Oxygen Species as Key Regulators of Neutrophil Chemotaxis
    (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010) Hattori, Hidenori; Subramanian, Kulandayan K.; Sakai, Jiro; Jia, Yonghui; Li, Yitang; Porter, Timothy F.; Loison, Fabien; Sarraj, Bara; Kasorn, Anongnard; Jo, Hakryul; Blanchard, Catlyn; Zirkle, Dorothy; McDonald, Douglas; Pai, Sung-Yun; Serhan, Charles; Luo, Hongbo
    Neutrophil chemotaxis plays an essential role in innate immunity, but the underlying cellular mechanism is still not fully characterized. Here, using a small-molecule functional screening, we identified NADPH oxidase–dependent reactive oxygen species as key regulators of neutrophil chemotactic migration. Neutrophils with pharmacologically inhibited oxidase, or isolated from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) patients and mice, formed more frequent multiple pseudopodia and lost their directionality as they migrated up a chemoattractant concentration gradient. Knocking down NADPH oxidase in differentiated neutrophil-like HL60 cells also led to defective chemotaxis. Consistent with the in vitro results, adoptively transferred CGD murine neutrophils showed impaired in vivo recruitment to sites of inflammation. Together, these results present a physiological role for reactive oxygen species in regulating neutrophil functions and shed light on the pathogenesis of CGD.
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    DOCK8 Functions as an Adaptor that Links TLR–MyD88 Signaling to B Cell Activation
    (Nature Publishing Group, 2012) Rauter, Ingrid; Recher, Mike; Wakim, Rima; Dbaibo, Ghassan; Dasouki, Majed; Barlan, Isil; Baris, Safa; Kutukculer, Necil; Ochs, Hans; Plebani, Alessandro; Kanariou, Maria; Lefranc, Gerard; Reisli, Ismail; Fitzgerald, Katerine; Golenbock, Douglas; Keles, Sevgi; Ceja, Reuben; Jabara, Haifa Halim; McDonald, Douglas; Janssen, Erin; Massaad, Michel; Ramesh, Narayanaswamy; Borzutzky, Arturo; Benson, Halli Louise; Schneider, Lynda; Baxi, Sachin; Notarangelo, Luigi; Al-Herz, Waleed; Manis, John; Chatila, Talal; Geha, Raif
    DOCK8 and MyD88 have been implicated in serologic memory. Here we report antibody responses were impaired and \(CD27^+\) memory B cells were severely reduced in DOCK8-deficient patients. Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9)- but not CD40-driven B cell proliferation and immunoglobulin production were severely reduced in DOCK8-deficient B cells. In contrast, TLR9-driven expression of AICDA, CD23 and CD86, and activation of NF-κB, p38 and Rac1 were intact. DOCK8 associated constitutively with MyD88 and the tyrosine kinase Pyk2 in normal B cells. Following TLR9 ligation, DOCK8 became tyrosine phosphorylated by Pyk2, bound the Src family kinase Lyn and linked TLR9 to a Src-Syk-STAT3 cascade essential for TLR9-driven B cell proliferation and differentiation. Thus, DOCK8 functions as an adaptor in a TLR9-MyD88 signaling pathway in B cells.