Sarah E Headland, Hefin R Jones, Lucy V Norling, Andrew Kim, Patricia R Souza, Elisa Corsiero, Cristiane D Gil, Alessandra Nerviani, Francesco Dell'Accio, Costantino Pitzalis, Sonia M Oliani, Lily Y Jan, Mauro Perretti
Microvesicles (MVs) are emerging as a new mechanism of intercellular communication by transferring cellular lipid and protein components to target cells, yet their function in disease is only now being explored. We found that neutrophil-derived MVs were increased in concentration in synovial fluid from rheumatoid arthritis patients compared to paired plasma. Synovial MVs overexpressed the proresolving, anti-inflammatory protein annexin A1 (AnxA1). Mice deficient in TMEM16F, a lipid scramblase required for microvesiculation, exhibited exacerbated cartilage damage when subjected to inflammatory arthritis...
November 25, 2015: Science Translational Medicine