1 Institute for Biophysics, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria
2 Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
3 Institute of Pathophysiology, University of Innsbruck, Medical School, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Author for correspondence (e-mail: peter.hinterdorfer{at}jku.at)
Accepted 26 January 2005
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Summary |
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Key words: HUVEC, HSP60, atomic force microscopy, confocal microscopy, atherosclerosis
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Introduction |
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We have applied two highly sensitive methods, i.e. confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) for the surface detection of HSP60 on both living and fixed stressed, and unstressed human ECs. In CLSM, illumination and detection are confined to a defined, restricted volume in the cell, which improves the resolution by a factor of up to 1.4 (White and Amos, 1987). Out-of-focus structures receive almost no illumination and therefore produce only small interfering signals. Moreover, using CLSM it is possible to image successive, single optical planes throughout a cell, which can later be digitally combined to produce a detailed three-dimensional reconstruction. These features made CLSM the optical method of choice to locate HSP60 on the surface of ECs in this study.
Compared to optical microscopy, AFM [first introduced by Binning et al. (Binning et al., 1986)] gives an even better spatial resolution (in the order of a few nanometers on biological samples), but needs more time to collect data. The additional potential of the AFM in detecting ultra-low surface forces at high lateral resolution, allows the measurement of intermolecular forces between individual molecules. For this, one binding partner is attached to the surface of the object to be analysed while the moving tip of the AFM is functionalized with the other one and unbinding forces of individual receptor-ligand pairs can be quantified (Lee et al., 1994
; Florin et al., 1994
; Dammer et al., 1995
; Hinterdorfer et al., 1996
; Allen et al., 1997
). A spacer molecule, used to bind the ligand to the AFM tip, enhances the mobility of the ligand, thereby increasing its chance to specifically bind to the cognitive receptor attached to the surface (Hinterdorfer et al., 1996
; Hinterdorfer et al., 1998
). In addition, it helps to discriminate between specific and nonspecific interactions. Since this method also works with receptors embedded in membranes of live and fixed cells (Lehenkari and Horton, 1999
) we aimed to prove the presence of HSP60 on the cell surface of stressed ECs and to measure the interaction strength between HSP60 and a monoclonal antibody (AbII-13) directed against human HSP60, which was coupled to the AFM tip.
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Materials and Methods |
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Cell and protein preparation for CLSM and AFM
Cells for CLSM were grown in gelatine-coated Falcon polystyrene 60 x 15 mm tissue culture dishes (No. 3004, BD). Each experiment was performed in duplicates. Cells were heat-stressed for 30 minutes at 42°C, followed by a 6-hour recovery period at 37°C to allow for full synthesis of HSP60. For observation of live cells, stressed and unstressed cells were incubated at 37°C for 60 minutes with monoclonal antibodies against HSP60 [AbII-13; supernatant derived from human hybridoma cell line, clone II-13 raised against human recombinant HSP60 protein PKK13A lacking the first 30 amino acids (Singh and Gupta, 1992)], and a FITC-labelled rabbit anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody (No. 261, Dako, 37°C, 60 minutes). The monoclonal antibody II-13 is highly specific for human HSP60 and has been used to identify human HSP60 in several studies (Xu et al., 1994
; Sigal et al., 2001
). After washing with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.2), cells were immediately observed using CLSM at room temperature (RT). In parallel, cells were fixed using acetone/methanol (50/50; v/v) at 20°C for 2 minutes, or paraformaldehyde (PFA, 4% in PBS) at 4°C for 30 minutes, respectively.
Immunofluorescence staining was performed at RT. After blocking with 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA, Sigma) in PBS for 60 minutes cells were incubated with AbII-13 for 60 minutes. Cells were then washed with PBS and incubated with a FITC-labelled rabbit anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody (No. 261, Dako) for 60 minutes. DNA was labelled using the red fluorescent dye TOPRO-3 (Molecular Probes, USA), and cells were embedded in 90% buffered glycerol in PBS for confocal microscopy (µRadiance confocal scanning system; Bio-Rad, UK).
For AFM, HUVECs were grown onto coverslides and heat-stressed as described. After a 6-hour recovery period at 37°C, they were fixed with 2% glutaraldehyde. Incubation with glutaraldehyde is the most rapid fixation method and leaves the cell membrane impermeable and the binding capacity of the proteins intact. Control cells were treated the same way except that they were not heat stressed. For AFM on isolated HSP60, HSP60 was electrostatically adsorbed to freshly cleaved mica sheets for 20 minutes at 1-10 µg/ml HSP60 in 10 mmol/l Tris buffer (pH 7.5) containing 150 mmol/l NaCl and 2 mmol/l NiCl2, and subsequently washed.
Flow cytometric assessment of HSP60 surface expression on HUVECs
Cells were grown and treated as described above. For flow cytometric analysis 5 x 105 cells were harvested from confluent monolayers and incubated at 37°C for 60 minutes with monoclonal antibodies against HSP60 (AbII-13), and a FITC-labelled rabbit anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody (No. 261, Dako; 37°C, 60 minutes). Cells were simultaneously labelled with propidium iodide, washed and analysed on a FACScan flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA). The gate for HSP60-positive cells was set for cells with significantly higher fluorescence intensity than unstained control cells and cells that were only stained with the FITC secondary antibody, respectively (data not shown). All cells with significantly higher FITC fluorescence intensities than these controls, i.e. cells in the R2 gate, were considered as being HSP60 positive (Fig. 4b). Living cells with an intact cell membrane are impermeable to propidium iodide, whereas cells being necrotic lose their membrane integrity and become permeable, i.e. positive for propidium iodide. Hence, propidium iodide can be used as a measure of cell membrane integrity.
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Scanning force microscopy/spectroscopy
We used a MAC mode PicoSPM magnetically driven dynamic force microscope (Molecular Imaging, Tempe, AZ). Topography images were recorded in the MACmode (Han et al., 1996; Han et al., 1997a
; Han et al., 1997b
; Raab et al., 1999
). For the detection of antibody-antigen recognition, force-distance cycles were performed at RT using antibody-coated cantilevers (cantilevers from Veeco GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) with 0.02-0.1 N/m nominal spring constants in the conventional contact force spectroscopy mode at 50-200 nm sweep range and 1 Hz sweep rate. Block experiments were carried out with 43 µg/ml AbII-13 in PBS. Spring constants of cantilevers were determined using the thermal noise method (Hutter and Bechhoefer, 1993
) and analysis of interaction forces was performed using Matlab (Math Works Inc., Natick, MA) as previously described (Baumgartner et al., 2000
).
Conjugation of antibody and HSP60 to tips
Conjugation of antibody (AbII-13) directed against HSP60 to AFM-tips was done using a flexible PEG (polyethylene glycol)-crosslinker as described before (Haselgruebler et al., 1995; Hinterdorfer et al., 1996
; Hinterdorfer et al., 1998
). HSP60 was conjugated to PDP (2-(pyridyldithio)propionyl)-PEG tips via its intrinsic cysteins in buffer A (100 mmol/l NaCl, 50 mmol/l NaH2PO4, 1 mmol/l EDTANa2, adjusted to pH 7.5 with NaOH) at a concentration of 18 µ g/ml for 2 hours before they were extensively washed using buffer A.
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Results |
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Force detection of AbII-13 interaction with HSP60 on cells
The high sensitivity of the AFM and the soft cantilever used makes it possible to detect pN forces. It has been shown that single molecule receptor-ligand forces are typically in the range of 50-250 pN (Florin et al., 1994; Lee et al., 1994
; Hinterdorfer et al., 1996
). The principle of single molecule recognition force detection using AFM is depicted in Fig. 5a. In this so-called force-distance mode, the deflection angle of the cantilever is measured as a function of the vertical position of the cantilever. The AFM tips are conjugated with ligands (here antibodies) via distensible tethers at a very dilute surface concentration, so that only one of them has access to the receptors, which are bound to probe surfaces.
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First, the tip approaches the surface (Fig. 5a; dotted trace). Far away from the surface (1) no bending of the cantilever is visible and the deflection and, thus, the force is almost zero. In the contact regime (2), the cantilever is deflected upwards because of the repulsive tip-sample interaction during contact. The measured deflection, z, is directly proportional to the interaction force f, f=k x
z (Hook's law), where k is the spring constant of the cantilever. The succeeding retraction of the cantilever (retrace, solid line) first results in relaxation of the repulsive force in the contact region (2 to 3). In case the antibody on the tip has bound to a receptor on the cell surface, an attractive force develops (downward deflection) and the crosslinker, via which the antibody is attached to the tip, will be stretched (3) (Kienberger et al., 2000
). Finally, the antibody will detach from the antigen on the surface (3 to 4) at a distinct critical force, termed unbinding force, fu (see arrow), and the cantilever jumps back to zero deflection (4).
We used AFM force measurements to verify the presence of HSP60 on cell surfaces. Fig. 5b shows a typical force-distance cycle for a single molecule antibody-antigen recognition event with an AbII-13 containing tip on the surface of a stressed cell. In the example shown, AbII-13/HSP60 dissociation occurs at a distance of 77 nm with a force of 90 pN. The specific binding event vanishes when free AbII-13 antibody is present in solution because the binding sites on the cell are occupied (block experiment). Thus, the antibody on the tip cannot bind to the HSP60 on the cell surface and retrace looks like trace (Fig. 5b, inset).
Unbinding force and binding activity of the AbII-13/HSP60 interaction
Force-distance cycles were recorded on five different cells (HUVECs) using tips to which an AbII-13 was coupled. For each cell, several positions on the cell surface were studied resulting in about 2000 force-distance cycles in total. After calibrating the spring constant of each cantilever used, empirical probability density functions (pdf) from the detected unbinding forces fu were constructed (Fig. 5c). The maximum of the distribution (fu=59 pN) reflects the most probable force upon which a single AbII-13/HSP60 bond dissociates under the force ramp used. This value falls in the range of previously measured receptor/ligand unbinding forces.
An overall binding probability, which is the probability of finding an unbinding event in a force-distance cycle or not, of 15.4% was obtained under the conditions described above (Fig. 5d). Blocking experiments, performed by injection of free antibody in solution reduced this probability to 5.8% (Fig. 5d). No binding at all was found when a non-coated tip was used instead of an AbII-13-coated tip on stressed cells. These results strongly support the specificity of the binding events observed. Thus, HSP60 must be present on the surface of stressed HUVECs.
Interactions of AbII-13-coated tips were also studied with non-stressed cells. About 1500 force-distance cycles were recorded on three different cells at various lateral positions and analysed, resulting in a binding probability of 3.9% (Fig. 5d). Since the binding activity on unstressed cells is dramatically decreased compared to the binding activity on stressed cells, HSP60 can only be present in trace amounts on unstressed HUVECs.
We also studied the binding of AbII-13 on AFM tips to isolated HSP60 (Fig. 6a) adsorbed onto mica. Six different data sets with a total of about 5500 force-distance cycles were recorded. The resulting probability density function of one of them is shown in Fig. 6b and yielded a most probable unbinding force of fu=51 pN under the force ramp used. Since the unbinding force value of AbII-13 on isolated HSP60 almost exactly matches the value obtained on stressed HUVECs, additional evidence for the presence of HSP60 on the cell surface was found. The specificity of AbII-13 binding to isolated HSP60 is demonstrated in Fig. 6c. The binding probability was significantly reduced upon blocking with free AbII-13 in solution.
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Discussion |
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It has been shown that bacterial infections causally contribute to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (Mayr et al., 1999; Kiechl et al., 2001
), and we have put forward the concept that the missing link between bacterial infections and atherosclerosis could be the crossreaction between microbial and human HSP60 in the vascular endothelium (Wick et al., 2001
; Wick et al., 2004
). In human cells, HSP60 is an important mitochondrial protein (Bukau and Horwich, 1998
), which is also found in various extramitochondrial locations (reviewed by Soltys and Gupta, 1999
). These locations include foci on the endoplasmic reticulum (Soltys et al., 1996
), unidentified vesicles and cytoplasmic granules (Soltys and Gupta, 1996
) and the cell surface (Xu et al., 1994
; Soltys and Gupta, 1997
; Barazi et al., 2002
).
With respect to the development of atherosclerosis, the expression of HSP60 on the surface of vascular ECs is an extremely interesting feature. Obviously, these cells are the first in direct contact with the immune system via circulating immune cells and antibodies. Hence, HSP60 on the surface of vascular ECs could function as a danger signal during and after an exposure to cellular stress factors, such as hypertension, free radicals, toxins, cytokines or fever. However, only Xu et al. (Xu et al., 1994) reported the existence of HSP60 on the surface of stressed vascular ECs. Schett et al. (Schett et al., 1995
) found high levels of hsp60 mRNA expression in stressed ECs and concluded that human serum anti-hsp65 antibodies act as autoantibodies reacting with hsp60 on the surface of stressed endothelial cells, thus being able to mediate endothelial cytotoxicity. Other records of surface-associated HSP60 include wild-type Chinese hamster ovary cells (Soltys and Gupta, 1996
), mouse liver and spleen cells (Belles et al., 1999
), mouse macrophages (Habich et al., 2002
), some human T-cell lines (Soltys and Gupta, 1997
; Khan et al., 1998
) and human breast and lung carcinoma cells (Barazi et al., 2002
). Evidence for the existence of HSP60 on the surface of human vascular ECs has so far not been presented.
In our study, we clearly showed that stressed human vascular ECs do present HSP60 on their surface. Three highly sensitive methods (CLSM, AFM and flow cytometry) were employed and provided similar and reproducible results. All applied methods allowed for the detection of HSP60 on the surface of HUVECs and both flow cytometric and confocal microscopic analysis showed that in roughly 10% of heat stressed HUVECs HSP60 was expressed on the cell surface, while this was the case in only about 1% of unstressed control cells. With CLSM we could detect HSP60 on both living and fixed cells. A non-uniform, patchy distribution of HSP60 indicates its arrangement in clusters, which might well be associated to lipid rafts and specific HSP-receptors. We found a very similar distribution pattern on the surface of living and fixed cells, which demonstrates that the fixation did not alter the distribution of HSP60 on the cell surface or destroy its binding properties. Thus, we speculate that the surface-HSP60 is actively bound by a receptor-ligand mechanism.
These findings are in agreement with other investigations of specific receptors for HSP60. Vabulas et al. (Vabulas et al., 2001) elucidated the role of Toll-like receptors 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 in activating the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor signalling pathway in innate immune cells via both endocytosed human and chlamydial HSP60. TLR4 has also been identified as a putative receptor for HSP60 in mouse macrophages by Ohashi et al. (Ohashi et al., 2000
). Bulut and co-workers (Bulut et al., 2002
) demonstrated chlamydial HSP60 activation of mouse macrophages and ECs through TLR4 and MD2 and discussed the relevance of this process for the initiation of inflammation during atherogenesis. By examining the expression of certain adhesion molecules and the nuclear transcription factor NF-
B, Kol et al. (Kol et al., 2000
) found the CD14 receptor to be responsible for HSP60-induced activation of the innate immune response in human vascular endothelium, smooth muscle cells and macrophages. Additionally, TLR4 and CD14 receptor-independent receptors for HSP60 and HSP70 have been identified (Triantafilou et al., 2001
; Lipsker et al., 2002
).
According to our concept of atherogenesis (reviewed by Wick et al., 2004), we assume that the HSP60 we found on stressed ECs is autologous and may act as a danger signal in vivo, triggering inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis. This is in accordance with the observation that in unstressed HUVECs we could detect HSP60 exclusively in mitochondria (Fig. 1a) whereas we observed a cytoplasmatic and surface expression of HSP60 in stressed HUVEC (Figs 1, 2, 3). That observation strongly supports our theory, that stressed ECs produce HSP60, which is then translocated from the mitochondria to the cytoplasm and finally to the cell surface. However, whether the surface HSP60 we detected was produced by the respective EC or was coming from surrounding cells is still an open question and has to be clarified in further studies.
In addition to the CLSM and flow cytometry analysis data, we were able to unequivocally prove the presence of HSP60 on the surface of stressed human ECs using AFM. AFM has become a classical surface analysis method, capable of creating topography reliefs and detecting interaction forces with nm lateral resolution. A detailed view of the location of HSP60 on the outer surface of the HUVECs was obtained by tethering a cognitive ligand (monoclonal antibody AbII-13) to an AFM tip and sensing its interaction with stressed and unstressed cells. This configuration allowed for single molecule interaction force detection between the tip-coupled AbII-13 and potentially surface-presented HSP60. It was shown that AbII-13 showed significantly more binding activity to the surface of stressed HUVECs than to unstressed cells and that this binding activity was the result from a specific molecular recognition between AbII-13 on the AFM tip and HSP60 on the cell surface. Analysis of binding activity and unbinding force clearly revealed that HSP60 is exposed on the surface of HUVECs, however, only when previously stressed. First experiments with HSP60 coupled to the AFM tip showed interactions only with unstressed cells but not with stressed ones. This is another valid indication that HSP60 interacts with the cell membrane via a specific receptor. Our comprehensive data from CLSM and AFM provide a detailed mechanical picture of HSP60 expression and cell membrane surface binding.
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* These authors contributed equally to this work
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