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Session XVII : Cell <strong>signaling</strong> in health <strong>and</strong> disease Poster XVII, 7<br />

Expression <strong>and</strong> role of phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase C (PC-PLC) in<br />

human NK cells <strong>and</strong> its relationship with CD16 receptor.<br />

Serena Cecchetti, Francesca Spadaro, Franca Podo <strong>and</strong> Carlo Ramoni.<br />

Department of Cell Biology <strong>and</strong> Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale<br />

Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome Italy.<br />

Phosphatidylcholine hydrolysis by a specific phospholipase C (PC-PLC) is a widespread<br />

response elicited by most growth factors, cytokines, neurotrasmitters, hormones <strong>and</strong> other<br />

extra-cellular signals. Our previous studies showed that PC-PLC is involved in the functional<br />

role of NK-mediated cell killing <strong>and</strong> in the lytic granules exocytosis process. PC-PLC was<br />

detected both on specific cytoplasmic compartments <strong>and</strong> on the outer membrane surface, in<br />

which the enzyme translocated upon cell activation <strong>and</strong> lytic ability maturation.<br />

Interestingly, PC-PLC expression on NK membrane surface was directly proportional to that<br />

of CD16, the low-affinity receptor for the Fc fragment of IgG, suggesting a possible<br />

correlation between the enzyme <strong>and</strong> NK cell maturation.<br />

In the present work we analyzed the trafficking from the plasma membrane to cytoplasmic<br />

regions of CD16 receptor <strong>and</strong> PC-PLC enzyme. Both proteins were internalized upon<br />

antibody engagement, degraded <strong>and</strong> newly synthetized, moreover, they needed an integral <strong>and</strong><br />

functional actin cytoskeleton during their trafficking. Pre-incubation of NK cells with the PC-<br />

PLC inhibitor tricyclodecan-9-yl-potassium xanthate (D609) determined a dramatic decrease<br />

of PC-PLC fraction expressed on NK plasma membrane. Surprisingly, D609 also downmodulated<br />

the membrane expression of CD16 receptor. Among phenotype markers of<br />

peripheral blood lymphocytes analyzed after D609 treatment, only CD16 was deeply downmodulated,<br />

thus suggesting a possible specific role of PC-PLC enzyme in regulating CD16<br />

receptor expression. Moreover, we demonstrated that PC-PLC was activated, within 5<br />

minutes, upon CD16 stimulation, thus suggesting an involvement of the enzyme in CD16<br />

signal transduction. We also evidenced that in antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity<br />

process PC-PLC played a double functional role both in regulating CD16 membrane<br />

expression <strong>and</strong> in transducing CD16 receptor signals, since D609 totally abolished this<br />

important lytic mechanism.<br />

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