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Mysore V, Cullere X, Mears J, Rosetti F, Okubo K, Liew PX, Zhang F, Madera-Salcedo I, Rosenbauer F, Stone RM, Aster JC, von Andrian UH, Lichtman AH, Raychaudhuri S, Mayadas TN. FcγR engagement reprograms neutrophils into antigen cross-presenting cells that elicit acquired anti-tumor immunity. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4791. [PMID: 34373452 PMCID: PMC8352912 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24591-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Classical dendritic cells (cDC) are professional antigen-presenting cells (APC) that regulate immunity and tolerance. Neutrophil-derived cells with properties of DCs (nAPC) are observed in human diseases and after culture of neutrophils with cytokines. Here we show that FcγR-mediated endocytosis of antibody-antigen complexes or an anti-FcγRIIIB-antigen conjugate converts neutrophils into nAPCs that, in contrast to those generated with cytokines alone, activate T cells to levels observed with cDCs and elicit CD8+ T cell-dependent anti-tumor immunity in mice. Single cell transcript analyses and validation studies implicate the transcription factor PU.1 in neutrophil to nAPC conversion. In humans, blood nAPC frequency in lupus patients correlates with disease. Moreover, anti-FcγRIIIB-antigen conjugate treatment induces nAPCs that can activate autologous T cells when using neutrophils from individuals with myeloid neoplasms that harbor neoantigens or those vaccinated against bacterial toxins. Thus, anti-FcγRIIIB-antigen conjugate-induced conversion of neutrophils to immunogenic nAPCs may represent a possible immunotherapy for cancer and infectious diseases.
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- Vijayashree Mysore
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departamento de Inmunología y Reumatología, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departamento de Inmunología y Reumatología, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Institute of Molecular Tumor Biology, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Yin C, Argintaru D, Heit B. Rab17 mediates intermixing of phagocytosed apoptotic cells with recycling endosomes. Small GTPases 2017; 10:218-226. [PMID: 28471261 DOI: 10.1080/21541248.2017.1308852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Efferocytosis-the phagocytic removal of apoptotic cells-is required for preventing the presentation of apoptotic cell-derived antigens. This process is regulated by Rab17-dependent sorting of efferocytosed cargos from the phagolysosome to recycling endosomes. In this study we demonstrate that Rab17 is rapidly recruited to efferosomes, followed by migration of the efferosome to the cell center where it intermixes with lysosomes and undergoes Rab17-dependent vesiculation. These efferosome-derived vesicles then traffic in a Rab17-dependent manner to the cell periphery, where they transfer cargo to recycling endosomes. Combined, our observations support a model wherein efferosomes migrate to the cell center to acquire degradative enzymes, followed by peripheral migration to prevent further phagolysosome maturation and to enable cargo transfer to recycling endosomes.
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- Charles Yin
- a Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Centre for Human Immunology , The University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario , Canada
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- a Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Centre for Human Immunology , The University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario , Canada
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- a Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Centre for Human Immunology , The University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario , Canada
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Mills KH. Processing of viral antigens and presentation to class II-restricted T cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 7:260-3. [PMID: 25290628 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5699(86)90006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Some antigens require intracellular processing by antigen presenting cells before being presented to T cells in conjunction with surface major histocompatibility complex antigens. The whole mechanism of these processing events is not known and in this article, Kingston Mills puts forward arguments for alternative routes of antigen processing, with particular reference to recognition of viral proteins by class II-restricted T-cell clones.
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- K H Mills
- National Institute for Medical Research, London NW7 1AA, UK
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Immunocompetent cell level as a diagnostic reference for pulpal pathosis of primary teeth. Arch Oral Biol 2013; 58:1517-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2013.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Glycans are key participants in biological processes ranging from reproduction to cellular communication to infection. Revealing glycan roles and the underlying molecular mechanisms by which glycans manifest their function requires access to glycan derivatives that vary systematically. To this end, glycopolymers (polymers bearing pendant carbohydrates) have emerged as valuable glycan analogs. Because glycopolymers can readily be synthesized, their overall shape can be varied, and they can be altered systematically to dissect the structural features that underpin their activities. This review provides examples in which glycopolymers have been used to effect carbohydrate-mediated signal transduction. Our objective is to illustrate how these powerful tools can reveal the molecular mechanisms that underlie carbohydrate-mediated signal transduction.
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- Laura L Kiessling
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Vasilevsky S, Colino J, Puliaev R, Canaday DH, Snapper CM. Macrophages pulsed with Streptococcus pneumoniae elicit a T cell-dependent antibody response upon transfer into naive mice. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2008; 181:1787-97. [PMID: 18641316 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.3.1787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Macrophages are less effective than DC at priming naive CD4(+) T cells, suggesting that DC are unique in initiating T cell-dependent Ab responses. We compared the ability of DC and macrophages, pulsed in vitro with Streptococcus pneumoniae, to elicit protein- and polysaccharide-specific Ig isotype production upon adoptive transfer into naive mice. S. pneumoniae-activated DC secreted more proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, expressed higher levels of surface MHC class II and CD40, and presented S. pneumoniae or recombinant pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) to a PspA-specific T hybridoma more efficiently than macrophages. However, upon adoptive transfer into naive mice, S. pneumoniae-pulsed macrophages elicited an IgM or IgG anti-PspA and anti-polysaccharide response comparable in serum titers and IgG isotype distribution to that induced by DC. The IgG anti-PspA response, in contrast to the IgG anti-polysaccharide, to S. pneumoniae-pulsed macrophages was T cell-dependent. S. pneumoniae-pulsed macrophages that were paraformaldehyde-fixed before transfer or lacking expression of MHC class II or CD40 were highly defective in eliciting an anti-PspA response, although the anti-polysaccharide response was largely unaffected. To our knowledge, these data are the first to indicate that macrophages can play an active role in the induction of a T cell-dependent humoral immune response in a naive host.
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- Sam Vasilevsky
- Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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Ciavarra RP, Stephens A, Nagy S, Sekellick M, Steel C. Evaluation of immunological paradigms in a virus model: are dendritic cells critical for antiviral immunity and viral clearance? THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 177:492-500. [PMID: 16785546 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.1.492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We have examined the role of dendritic cells (DCs) in the antiviral immune response and viral clearance using a transgenic mouse model (CD11c-diphtheria toxin (DT) receptor GFP) that allows for their conditional ablation in vivo. DT administration systemically ablated conventional and IFN-producing plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) in transgenic, but not nontransgenic littermates, without elimination of splenic macrophages. Unexpectedly, early (12 and 48 h postinfection) viral clearance of vesicular stomatitis virus was normal in DC-depleted mice despite markedly reduced serum titers of type I IFN. DC-depleted mice remained virus-free with the exception of a subset (approximately 30%) that developed overwhelming and fatal brain infections 6 days postinfection. However, DT treatment profoundly inhibited clonal expansion of naive CD8+ vesicular stomatitis virus-specific T cells without altering the primary Th1 and Th2 cytokine response. Optimal clonal expansion required pDCs because selective elimination of these cells in vivo with a depleting Ab also suppressed expansion of tetramer+ cells, although Th1/Th2 cytokine production remained unaltered. Collectively, these data indicate that conventional DCs and to a lesser extent pDCs are critical for proliferation of naive antiviral T cells. However, other components of the primary adaptive immune response (Th1/Th2 cytokines) are essentially normal in the absence of DCs, which may account for the efficient viral clearance seen in DC-depleted mice. Thus, sufficient redundancy exists in the immune system to sustain efficient viral clearance despite loss of an APC considered essential for induction of a primary antiviral immune response.
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- Richard P Ciavarra
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 700 Olney Road, Norfolk, VA 23501, USA.
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are leukocytes that are emerging as chief orchestrators of immune responses. The crucial task of DCs is the continuous surveillance of antigen-exposed sites throughout the body, and their unique responsibility is to decide whether to present sampled antigen in an immunogenic or tolerogenic way. Any misstep can either lead to a flawed immune defense or to allergy, even autoimmunity. It comes as no surprise that the lungs become increasingly the subject of DC-related investigations, as they represent a vast interface between the body and the outer world. This constitutes an enormous challenge for the immune system: "firing up" immune responses inappropriately could have devastating results for the fragile gas exchange structures. Evidence accumulates that DCs play a pivotal role in maintaining the delicate balance between tolerance and active immune response in our respiratory system. The exponentially growing body of DC-related publications is a big challenge. This article aims to provide researchers and clinicians with an up-to-date view on DC biology and its relevance to pulmonary medicine. A developing trend in the field of DCs is the shift from fundamental immunologic research toward exciting clinical insights and applications. For the pulmonary clinician, this heralds the dawn of promising therapies in various domains such as infections, allergy, and cancer.
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- Karim Vermaelen
- Department of Respiratory Diseases, Ghent University Hospital, 7K12ie, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent B-9000, Belgium.
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Mohamadzadeh M, Mohamadzadeh H, Brammer M, Sestak K, Luftig RB. Identification of proteases employed by dendritic cells in the processing of protein purified derivative (PPD). JOURNAL OF IMMUNE BASED THERAPIES AND VACCINES 2004; 2:8. [PMID: 15287985 PMCID: PMC514720 DOI: 10.1186/1476-8518-2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2004] [Accepted: 08/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DC) are known to present exogenous protein Ag effectively to T cells. In this study we sought to identify the proteases that DC employ during antigen processing. The murine epidermal-derived DC line Xs52, when pulsed with PPD, optimally activated the PPD-reactive Th1 clone LNC.2F1 as well as the Th2 clone LNC.4k1, and this activation was completely blocked by chloroquine pretreatment. These results validate the capacity of XS52 DC to digest PPD into immunogenic peptides inducing antigen specific T cell immune responses. XS52 DC, as well as splenic DC and DCs derived from bone marrow degraded standard substrates for cathepsins B, C, D/E, H, J, and L, tryptase, and chymases, indicating that DC express a variety of protease activities. Treatment of XS52 DC with pepstatin A, an inhibitor of aspartic acid proteases, completely abrogated their capacity to present native PPD, but not trypsin-digested PPD fragments to Th1 and Th2 cell clones. Pepstatin A also inhibited cathepsin D/E activity selectively among the XS52 DC-associated protease activities. On the other hand, inhibitors of serine proteases (dichloroisocoumarin, DCI) or of cystein proteases (E-64) did not impair XS52 DC presentation of PPD, nor did they inhibit cathepsin D/E activity. Finally, all tested DC populations (XS52 DC, splenic DC, and bone marrow-derived DC) constitutively expressed cathepsin D mRNA. These results suggest that DC primarily employ cathepsin D (and perhaps E) to digest PPD into antigenic peptides.
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- Mansour Mohamadzadeh
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Tulane National Primate Research Center Science, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
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Bienzle D, Reggeti F, Clark ME, Chow C. Immunophenotype and functional properties of feline dendritic cells derived from blood and bone marrow. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2004; 96:19-30. [PMID: 14522131 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(03)00132-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous population of cells of fundamental importance in initiating innate as well as specific immune responses. The identity and function of DCs in the cat are unknown, although they are likely pivotal in the response to infection. In this study, feline DCs were derived by 3-10-day culture of adherent blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) in the presence of IL 4 and GM-CSF. BMMC consistently yielded a greater number of DCs than PBMC, and there were fewer macrophages than DC from both compartments. DCs expressed a distinct constellation of surface molecules, which included CD1a, CD1b, and CD1c, CD11b, CD14, and 2-3-fold higher levels of MHC class I and II molecules than co-cultured macrophages or fresh blood monocytes. DCs displayed typical cytoplasmic processes, limited non-specific esterase activity, and acquired antigen by phagocytosis, pinocytosis, and binding to specific receptors. Cytokine-exposed cells induced proliferation of allogeneic lymphocytes. Thus, the cells derived by these culture conditions had markers and functions analogous to immature myeloid DCs. Availability of feline DCs will enable investigation of their role in infectious disease and their potential therapeutic application.
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- D Bienzle
- Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada N1G 2W1.
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Wendel TD. The beneficial effect of donor-specific transfusions: a review of existing explanations and a new hypothesis based on a relatively unapplied theory of T cell immunoregulation. A regulatory hypothesis in progress... Med Hypotheses 2000; 54:922-43. [PMID: 10867743 DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1999.0989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The mechanism by which donor specific transfusions protect a graft from the recipient's immune system is unknown. It is likely that this beneficial mechanism is a subset or distinct exhibition of the general rules governing the regulation of the immune system. This phenomenon provides a strong framework for investigation of immune regulation, considering its potential consanguinity to immune regulation, that it is a paradox representing a manifestation of regulatory rules, and that it provides a wealth of clinical experience and experimentation from which to make inferences. Vital in any exploration of immune regulation, is the promise held in reducing the immune system to its chief elemental regulatory mechanisms and interactions. Strangely, the majority of this consequential work may have already been accomplished by Gershon, Green and colleagues with their elegant demarcation of T cell regulation into suppressor and contrasuppressor pathways. The practical and theoretical implications of this discovery seem to be, for the most part, ignored by mainstream immunology. It is doubtful, based on the quality and quantity of their work, or confirming work by other laboratories that they were inaccurate in their findings. It remains a horrible waste that their discoveries are not in immunology's pantheon of hallowed discoveries and are little used. With all this kept in mind, a comprehensive hypothesis of regulation was put together based mainly on Gershon's portrait of the suppressor and contrasuppressor pathways' contributions to immune regulation and experimentation surrounding the unsolved paradox of donor specific transfusions.
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There is currently much interest in the numerical and functional loss of antigen-presenting cells (APC) in HIV-1 disease and the contribution that this may make to HIV-1 pathology. The HIV-1 virus can interfere with the normal function of APC in a number of ways involving inappropriate signalling. These include changes in cytokine balance, cell-surface molecule expression and intracellular signalling pathways. This review examines how HIV-1 is able to disregulate APC function and discusses possible outcomes for the function of the immune system.
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- T Hewson
- Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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Leyva-Cobián F, Outschoorn IM, Carrasco-Marín E, Alvarez-Domínguez C. The consequences of the intracellular retention of pathogen-derived T-cell-independent antigens on protein presentation to T cells. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1997; 85:1-15. [PMID: 9325063 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1997.4426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Intracellular pathogens can be considered as particulate antigens chemically composed of a complex mixture of T-cell-dependent antigens (TD) (peptides and proteins) and T-cell-independent antigens (TI) (glycolipids and complex polysaccharides). A large range of saccharides (from oligosaccharides to complex polysaccharides) derived from pathogenic microorganisms are being isolated and characterized. They are currently implicated in signaling systems and concomitant host-parasite relationships. However, there are not many structure-function relationships described for these pathogens. This is particularly true of polysaccharides. In this report we have reviewed the role of defined TI antigens in the processing and presentation of defined TD antigens to specific T cells by antigen-presenting cells (APC). We also considered the importance of some of the chemical characteristics shared by different carbohydrates implicated in the inhibition of antigen presentation. These findings are discussed in relation to the clear immunopathological consequences of long retention periods of complex carbohydrate molecules derived from intracellular parasites inside certain APC and the absence of antigen presentation impairment in physiological situations such as the removal of senescent or damaged red blood cells by splenic macrophages or intracellular accumulation of carbohydrates in colostrum and milk macrophages during lactation.
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- F Leyva-Cobián
- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Instituto Nacional de la Salud, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain
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González-Fernández M, Carrasco-Marín E, Alvarez-Domínguez C, Outschoorn IM, Leyva-Cobián F. Inhibitory effects of thymus-independent type 2 antigens on MHC class II-restricted antigen presentation: comparative analysis of carbohydrate structures and the antigen presenting cell. Cell Immunol 1997; 176:1-13. [PMID: 9070312 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.1996.1078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The role of thymus-independent type 2 (TI-2) antigens (polysaccharides) on the MHC-II-restricted processing of protein antigens was studied in vitro. In general, antigen presentation is inhibited when both peritoneal and splenic macrophages (M phi) as well as Küpffer cells (KC) are preincubated with acidic polysaccharides or branched dextrans. However, the inhibitory effect of neutral polysaccharides was minimal when KC were used as antigen presenting cells (APC). Morphological evaluation of the uptake of fluoresceinated polysaccharides clearly correlates with this selective and differential interference. Polysaccharides do not block MHC-I-restricted antigen presentation. Some chemical characteristics shared by different saccharides seem to be specially related to their potential inhibitory abilities: (i) those where two anomeric carbon atoms of two interlinked sugars and (ii) those containing several sulfate groups per disaccharide repeating unit. No polysaccharide being inhibitory in M phi abrogated antigen processing in other APC: lipopolysaccharide-activated B cells, B lymphoma cells, or dendritic cells (DC). Using radiolabeled polysaccharides it was observed that DC and B cells incorporated less radioactivity as a function of time than M phi. Morphological evaluation of these different APC incubated for extended periods of time with inhibitory concentrations of polysaccharides revealed intense cytoplasmic vacuolization in M phi but not in B cells or DC. The large majority of M phi lysosomes containing polysaccharides fail to fuse with incoming endocytic vesicles and delivery of fluid-phase tracers was reduced, suggesting that indigestible carbohydrates reduced the fusion of these loaded lysosomes with endosomes containing recently internalized tracers. It is suggested that the main causes of this antigen presentation blockade are (i) the chemical characteristics of certain carbohydrates and whether the specific enzymatic machinery for their intracellular degradation exists; and (ii) the different phagocytic abilities of distinct APC populations, fluid-phase pinocytosis and receptor-mediated saccharide uptake, and existence of a differential antigen-processing pathway in M phi and DC or B cells, which could be based on a polysaccharide-inhibited step present in M phi but unaffected or irrelevant in both B cells and DC.
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- M González-Fernández
- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
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Lutz MB, Assmann CU, Girolomoni G, Ricciardi-Castagnoli P. Different cytokines regulate antigen uptake and presentation of a precursor dendritic cell line. Eur J Immunol 1996; 26:586-94. [PMID: 8605925 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830260313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Langerhans cells (LC) and dendritic cells (DC) need to be activated in order to perform their antigen-presenting function. In this study, we explored the influence of cytokines on the uptake and presentation of protein antigens by the retrovirally immortalized myeloid cell line FSDC. This cell line was generated from mouse fetal skin and was previously shown to have the characteristics of early DC precursors. Both FSDC and bone marrow-derived DC (BM-DC) were more effective in the pinocytosis of FITC-conjugated ovalbumin (FITC-OVA) and dextran (FITC-DX) than B cells or macrophages. Pretreatment of FSDC with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) +/- interleukin (IL)-4 enhanced the pinocytic uptake of FITC-OVA and FITC-DX, but did not induce antigen-presenting capacity. In contrast, untreated FSDC or FSDC pre-incubated with GM-CSF +/- IL-4 suppressed T cell responses. Treatment of FSDC with IFN-gamma reduced pinocytosis but increased the expression of MHC and co-stimulatory/adhesion molecules and promoted efficient presentation of OVA protein or peptide to the specific DO11.10 T cell hybridoma or to naive CD4+ T cells from DO11.10 TCR-transgenic mice. The results suggest that antigen uptake and antigen presentation in DC are regulated by different cytokine signals provided by the surrounding tissue.
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- M B Lutz
- CNR Center of Cytopharmacology, University of Milan, Italy
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- R M Steinman
- Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York 10021, USA
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Michaëlsson E, Holmdahl M, Engström A, Burkhardt H, Scheynius A, Holmdahl R. Macrophages, but not dendritic cells, present collagen to T cells. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:2234-41. [PMID: 7545114 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830250818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Dendritic cells, such as epidermal Langerhans cells, play a crucial role for the antigen-specific priming of T cells. We have addressed the question whether dendritic cells present collagen, a major protein component in tissues through which dendritic cells migrate, i.e. the basement membrane, dermis, and synovial tissue. Langerhans cells, spleen cells and peritoneal macrophages were compared for antigen-presenting capacity using a panel of mouse T cell hybridomas reactive with different determinants on type II collagen, myelin basic protein, ovalbumin and pepsin. Langerhans cells did not present any of the type II collagen determinants, unless the antigen was administered as a 15-mer peptide, but did present myelin basic protein, ovalbumin and pepsin. Spleen cells and peritoneal macrophages, in contrast, presented all type II collagen determinants. This biased antigen presentation was also observed when Langerhans cells were pulsed with antigen in vivo. The inability to present type II collagen is related to the collagen sequence as such, since both native type II collagen, type II collagen alpha chains, as well as a type II collagen determinant incorporated in type I collagen, were not presented by Langerhans cells. In addition, granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor-expanded blood dendritic cells displayed the same biased antigen presentation, suggesting that the inability to present collagen is not restricted to dendritic cells localized in epidermis. B cell-deficient mice could prime a type II collagen-reactive T cell response, thus excluding B cells as obligatory antigen-presenting cells for the priming of collagen-reactive T cells. We suggest that neither Langerhans cells nor B cells, but macrophages are the primary antigen-presenting cells in the immune response towards type II collagen.
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- E Michaëlsson
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Lund University, Sweden
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Leyva-Cobián F, Carrasco-Marín E. Participation of intracellular oxidative pathways in antigen processing by dendritic cells, B cells and macrophages. Immunol Lett 1994; 43:29-37. [PMID: 7737687 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(94)00146-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The antigen presentation abilities of antigen presenting cells (APC) from different lineages [mainly macrophages (M phi), B cells and dendritic cells (DC)] were compared. In this review we focus on the participation of intracellular oxidative mechanisms in intracellular degradation of protein antigens: an aspect that is often neglected when the issue of antigen processing is considered. Special emphasis is given to recent findings from our laboratory indicating that in addition to a lysosomal proteolytic step being present in all APC, a previous or simultaneous oxidative step is operative in some APC (M phi) but absent or less important in others (B cells, DC).
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- F Leyva-Cobián
- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
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Cid MC, Grau JM, Casademont J, Campo E, Coll-Vinent B, López-Soto A, Ingelmo M, Urbano-Márquez A. Immunohistochemical characterization of inflammatory cells and immunologic activation markers in muscle and nerve biopsy specimens from patients with systemic polyarteritis nodosa. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1994; 37:1055-61. [PMID: 7912929 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780370711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the phenotype of infiltrating cells in classic lesions of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN). METHODS Twenty-one muscle and 10 sural nerve biopsy samples from 24 patients with systemic PAN were studied using avidin-biotin-peroxidase and alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase immunohistochemical techniques. RESULTS The inflammatory infiltrates consisted mainly of macrophages (41%) and T lymphocytes (41%), particularly of the CD4+ subset. Granulocytes were present in varying quantities (0-45%) and were more abundant in heavily infiltrated vessels and in those with fibrinoid necrosis. Dendritic cells could be identified in 4 samples. Proliferating and interleukin-2 receptor-expressing cells, present in 71% and 79% of the patients, respectively, were more frequent in untreated patients. CONCLUSION T cell-mediated immune mechanisms may play a role in the development and perpetuation of PAN lesions.
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- M C Cid
- Hospital Clínic i Provincial, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Schlesier M, Krause S, Dräger R, Wolff-Vorbeck G, Kreutz M, Andreesen R, Peter HH. Monocyte differentiation and accessory function: different effects on the proliferative responses of an autoreactive T cell clone as compared to alloreactive or antigen-specific T cell lines and primary mixed lymphocyte cultures. Immunobiology 1994; 190:164-74. [PMID: 7521857 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(11)80291-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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An autoreactive T cell clone derived from a patient with reactive arthritis, two alloreactive T cell lines, two antigen-specific T cell lines and allogeneic resting T cells were analyzed for their responses to monocytes and macrophages derived from monocytes by in vitro differentiation. The autoreactive T cell clone strongly proliferated in response to fresh monocytes and to macrophages derived from a 7 day culture, but only poorly to monocytes cultured for 2 days. In contrast, alloreactive and antigen-specific T cell lines proliferated to all stimulatory cells equally well. Finally, primary mixed lymphocyte reactions could be stimulated by both fresh and 2-day cultured monocytes, but not by in vitro derived macrophages. The impaired response of the autoreactive T cell clone to 2-day cultured monocytes could not be attributed to reduced expression of several well-defined surface molecules nor to induction of nonresponsiveness. Neither allogeneic monocytes nor cytokines (IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6) could correct the defective response of the autoreactive T cell clone. However, preculture of monocytes in the presence of interferon-gamma, IL-1, IL-4 or IL-6 retained their stimulatory capacity. Our interpretation of the selectively impaired response of the autoreactive T cell clone is that it most likely recognizes a differentiation-dependent monocyte/macrophage-specific peptide.
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- M Schlesier
- Abteilung Rheumatologie, Medizinische Klinik, Freiburg, Germany
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Morris A, Hewitt C, Young S. The major histocompatibility complex: its genes and their roles in antigen presentation. Mol Aspects Med 1994; 15:377-503. [PMID: 7837935 DOI: 10.1016/0098-2997(94)90041-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- A Morris
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K
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Rhodes JM, Andersen AB. Role of cathepsin D in the degradation of human serum albumin by peritoneal macrophages and veiled cells in antigen presentation. Immunol Lett 1993; 37:103-10. [PMID: 8258454 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(93)90018-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Murine peritoneal macrophages (PMO) and veiled cells (VC) isolated from the thoracic duct of irradiated lymphadenectomized (MNLX) mice presented intact human serum albumin (HSA) to stimulated T lymphocytes, but VC were not as effective as PMO in presenting the antigen. Pepstatin A significantly inhibited the presentation of HSA by VC. Lysates prepared from PMO degraded [125I]HSA at pH 4.0 to peptides as demonstrated by SDS-polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and autoradiography. Degradation was inhibited by pepstatin A, suggesting that cathepsin D might be responsible for processing the antigen. In contrast, lysates prepared from VC did not degrade [125I]HSA. The localization of cathepsin D, by light microscopy, was examined on cytospins of PMO and VC by means of a peroxidase antiperoxidase technique (PAP). Cathepsin D was found in vacuoles in the cytoplasm of PMO and, in some cases, appeared to be bound to some areas of the cell surface, but the enzyme could not be detected in VC.
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- J M Rhodes
- Macrophage Laboratory and Mycobacteria Department, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Buiting AM, de Rover Z, Claassen E, van Rooijen N. In vivo distribution of particulate antigens and liposomes in murine spleen. A possible role in the humoral immune response. Immunobiology 1993; 188:13-22. [PMID: 8406555 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(11)80483-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Several particulate antigens and liposomes were intravenously injected in mice in order to study their localization patterns in spleen and liver. Liposomes have been proposed as promising carriers for haptens and antigens. It was studied whether the phospholipid composition, cholesterol content and charge of the liposomes played a role in their distribution within the spleen. Different thymus-independent type 1 and type 2 and thymus-dependent particulate antigens as well as liposomes were labeled with the lipophilic fluorochrome Di-I. After labeling they were intravenously injected and spleens and livers were removed at different time intervals and prepared for light- and fluorescence-microscopy. We have observed that all particulate antigens and liposomes administered to the mice localized according to the same distribution pattern in the spleen. After 2 and 4 h particles were located in macrophages of the marginal zone and after 24 h white pulp macrophages had also ingested particulate antigens and liposomes. So we conclude that the distribution of the particulate antigens and liposomes in the spleen is independent of the immunological nature of the particles. Results are discussed with respect to the question whether or not the distribution of particulate antigens and liposome associated antigens or haptens, may be a crucial factor in determining the type of immune response to be elicited.
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- A M Buiting
- Department of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Karhumäki E, Viljanen ME, Cottler-Fox M, Ranki A, Fox CH, Krohn KJ. An improved enrichment method for functionally competent, highly purified peripheral blood dendritic cells and its application to HIV-infected blood samples. Clin Exp Immunol 1993; 91:482-8. [PMID: 8383023 PMCID: PMC1554699 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1993.tb05928.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Dendritic cells (DC) were purified from human peripheral blood using a rapid and simple method based on magnetic depletion of phagocytes with carbonyl iron, followed by centrifugation of nonphagocytic cells on a Percoll density gradient and depletion of lymphocytes and macrophages/monocytes with a panel of MoAbs and immunomagnetic beads. Enriched DC were obtained with > 99% purity as judged by non-specific esterase (NSE) staining. After isolation, these cells, representing 0.4% of the starting mononuclear cell population, still function as potent antigen-presenting cells for purified T lymphocytes. The present results confirm the ability of human peripheral blood DC to present soluble antigens to T cells including microbial antigens and show, further, that DC are more potent soluble antigen-presenting cells than monocytes. The method was successfully applied to the purification of DC from the blood of HIV-infected individuals. We could not detect decreased numbers of DC in four individuals with early HIV infection and no replicating HIV was detected by in situ hybridization in the DC.
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- E Karhumäki
- Department of Pathology, University of Tampere, Finland
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Havenith CE, Breedijk AJ, Betjes MG, Calame W, Beelen RH, Hoefsmit EC. T cell priming in situ by intratracheally instilled antigen-pulsed dendritic cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1993; 8:319-24. [PMID: 8448020 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb/8.3.319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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In the present study, splenic dendritic cells (DC) and alveolar macrophages (AM) were pulsed with antigen in vitro and subsequently intratracheally instilled to test whether these cells have the capacity to sensitize T cells in the draining lymph nodes of the lung. The data demonstrate that antigen-pulsed DC, instilled in the bronchoalveolar lumen, induce antigen-specific T cell priming in vivo in the draining lymph nodes. T cell priming is only seen with viable but not with killed antigen-pulsed DC. Amounts as low as 5 x 10(3) to 10 x 10(3) cells can still induce some responsiveness. In addition, it was found that instillation of viable as well as killed pulsed Ia-negative AM also leads to T cell priming, although about 10 times higher numbers of cells had to be used in comparison with DC. The results suggest that DC instilled in the bronchoalveolar lumen present antigen directly to naive T cells, whereas for AM other mechanisms are involved.
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- C E Havenith
- Department of Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Stagg AJ, Stackpoole A, Elsley WJ, Knight SC. Acquisition of chlamydial antigen by dendritic cells and monocytes. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1993; 329:581-6. [PMID: 8379428 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2930-9_97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- A J Stagg
- Antigen Presentation Research Group, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex
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Levine TP, Chain BM. Endocytic activity of dendritic cells is similar to other antigen presenting cells. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1993; 329:11-5. [PMID: 7691027 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2930-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- T P Levine
- Dept. of Biology, University College London, UK
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Cuzic S, Ritz E, Waldherr R. Dendritic cells in glomerulonephritis. VIRCHOWS ARCHIV. B, CELL PATHOLOGY INCLUDING MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY 1992; 62:357-63. [PMID: 1280885 DOI: 10.1007/bf02899704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Renal biopsies (n = 45) from patients with various forms of glomerulonephritis (GN), comprising mesangial IgA-GN (n = 25), focal glomerular sclerosis (n = 13) and acute GN (n = 7), were examined by double staining immunocytochemistry (APAAP, streptavidin-peroxidase) using unconjugated monoclonal antibodies (Ab) against--(i) the CD1b antigen expressed on dendritic cells (DCs), (ii) the invariant chain (Ii), and (iii) biotin-conjugated Ab against HLA-DR. In normal control kidneys (n = 7) without interstitial inflammation, CD1b-positive DCs were not detected. Glomerular endothelial cells and a few cells in mesangial areas showed double staining with the Ab against HLA-DR in Ii. In GN without active interstitial inflammation (n = 9), CD1b-positive DCs were not found. In biopsies with interstitial inflammation (n = 36) CD1b-positive DCs were found interspersed among other inflammatory cells. In seven of the biopsies showing IgA-GN DCs were seen in the vicinity of those glomeruli that exhibited either crescents or glomerular sclerosis with splitting of Bowman's capsule. In proximal tubular epithelial cells de novo expression of HLA-DR/Ii-chain was only seen when DCs were present. We conclude that in different forms of GN: (i) CD1b-positive DCs play an important role in the development of interstitial inflammation, and (ii) their presence may be related to the de novo coexpression of HLA-DR/Ii in tubular epithelial cells, possibly mediated through the production of interferon gamma and other cytokines.
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- S Cuzic
- Department of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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van Vugt E, Verdaasdonk MA, Beelen RH, Kamperdijk EW. Induction of an increased number of dendritic cells in the peritoneal cavity of rats by intraperitoneal administration of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Immunobiology 1992; 186:230-40. [PMID: 1490729 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(11)80252-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Recently we described the presence of a small number of DC among the peritoneal cells of steady state rats. These DC had the same morphological characteristics and a similar antigen-presenting capacity as DC isolated from the spleen. This study shows that in the peritoneal cavity, which is a non-lymphoid microenvironment, the number of DC increases after i.p. administration of BCG. Next to this relatively small influx of DC, the approximately three-fold increase of the total number of cells is predominantly caused by an enormous influx of neutrophilic granulocytes, and to a lesser extent by an influx of macrophages. The phenotype and the antigen-presenting capacity of peritoneal DC has not changed, while the number of Ia-positive M phi has increased. Nevertheless, due to a suppressive effect of the peritoneal M phi, the total peritoneal cell suspension is no longer capable of presenting antigen.
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- E van Vugt
- Department of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Levine TP, Chain BM. Endocytosis by antigen presenting cells: dendritic cells are as endocytically active as other antigen presenting cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:8342-6. [PMID: 1355605 PMCID: PMC49914 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.17.8342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Although dendritic cells are the most potent of all antigen presenting cells, they have paradoxically been regarded as having only a minimal capacity for endocytosis, which is a crucial step in antigen processing prior to presentation. Previous studies of dendritic cells, which are only available in small numbers, have been restricted to measurement of long-term endocytosis and so have stressed lysosomal accumulation. Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells. To resolve the paradox for dendritic cells, we have developed a flow cytometric assay of fluid-phase endocytosis that assesses late endosomal traffic by kinetic analysis of exocytosis in small numbers of cells. Using this assay, we show that fluid-phase endocytosis--in particular, traffic through late endosomes--is as active in dendritic cells as in other antigen presenting cells.
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- T P Levine
- Department of Biology, University College London, United Kingdom
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Demidem A, Taylor JR, Grammer SF, Streilein JW. Effects of chloroquine on antigen-presenting functions of epidermal cells from normal and psoriatic skin. J Invest Dermatol 1992; 98:181-6. [PMID: 1732381 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12555823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The lysosomotropic drug chloroquine has been added to cultures containing peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and allogeneic antigen-presenting cells obtained from the epidermis of normal human skin or from skin of patients with psoriasis. We found that in the presence of chloroquine, the allostimulatory properties of freshly obtained, normal epidermal antigen-presenting cells (EAPC) were profoundly impaired. By contrast, normal EAPC (cultured for 72 h prior to exposure to alloreactive T cells), as well as fresh EAPC from psoriatic skin were not impaired by chloroquine. In fact, in some experiments, cultured EAPC and psoriatic EAPC in the presence of chloroquine displayed significantly enhanced abilities to activate allogeneic T cells. Moreover, chloroquine partially reversed the inhibitory effect of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta) on T-cell activation induced by cultured normal EAPC. Fresh normal EAPC, which are normally impervious to the effects of TGF beta, were not protected by TGF beta from chloroquine inhibition. We conclude that the addition of chloroquine to tissue culture medium unmasks important differences in antigen processing and presenting properties of fresh, normal EAPC, on the one hand, and cultured normal EAPC and psoriatic EAPC on the other. The ability of chloroquine to exaggerate the accessory cell function of the latter cells may relate to the capacity of this drug to cause the secretion of acid hydrolases into their immediate microenvironment. Moreover, the capacity of chloroquine to enhance the accessory cell functions of freshly obtained psoriatic EAPC emphasizes an abnormality that psoriatic cells in the epidermis constitutively express. We postulate that this abnormality may be related to the clinical observations that psoriatic skin lesions may be induced or aggravated by chloroquine therapy.
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- A Demidem
- Department of Microbiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101
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Furihata M, Ohtsuki Y, Ido E, Iwata J, Sonobe H, Araki K, Ogoshi S, Ohmori K. HLA-DR antigen- and S-100 protein-positive dendritic cells in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma--their distribution in relation to prognosis. VIRCHOWS ARCHIV. B, CELL PATHOLOGY INCLUDING MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY 1992; 61:409-14. [PMID: 1349780 DOI: 10.1007/bf02890444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The distribution of immunohistochemically labeled HLA-DR antigen- and S-100 protein-positive dendritic cell (DR+DC and S100+DC) was investigated in 59 human esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs). A dense infiltration of both DR+DC and S100+DC was detected in 11, only DR+DC in two, and only S100+DC in one. In the remaining 45 tumors infiltrating DC were sparse. By means of double immunostaining or the mirror section method, three different types of DC, namely S-100-negative and HLA-DR-positive DC(S100-DR+DC), S-100-positive and HLA-DR-negative DC(S100+DR-DC) and double-positive DC(S100+DR+DC) were clearly identified. With regard to postoperative survival, these patients with tumors in which there was a dense infiltration of DR+DCs and/or S100+DCs showed a significantly better survival rate than those in which DC were sparse (DR+DCs - P less than 0.001; S100+DCs - P less than 0.01). These results indicate that DC infiltration may be a prognostic factor in esophageal SCCs.
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- M Furihata
- Second Department of Pathology, Kochi Medical School, Japan
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Masaki H, Shirakawa C, Matsuda M, Morita S, Koyama A, Horiuchi F, Hamazaki H, Fujimoto T, Maeda Y, Irimajiri K. Induction of anti-idiotypic T cells through a network mechanism. Immunol Lett 1991; 30:107-11. [PMID: 1720416 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(91)90097-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BALB/c mouse T cells that recognized the idiotype expressed on M104E(mu, lambda 1) were induced by immunization with Dextran B-1355. T cells derived from mice immunized with 1 mg of Dextran B-1355 showed a marked proliferative response against M104E, whereas T cells from mice immunized with Ficoll or smaller amounts of Dextran B-1355 did not. BCL1Id, which had an identical isotype, did not induce proliferation of T cells. The T cell proliferative response against the idiotype on M104E required macrophages as antigen-presenting cells. The proliferative response was inhibited when antigen-presenting cells were treated with NH4Cl or chloroquine, which are antigen-processing inhibitors. These results indicate that anti-idiotypic T cells which recognized processed idiotopes could be induced physiologically through a network mechanism.
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- H Masaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Arkema JM, Schadee-Eestermans IL, Beelen RH, Hoefsmit EC. A combined method for both endogenous myeloperoxidase and acid phosphatase cytochemistry as well as immunoperoxidase surface labelling discriminating human peripheral blood-derived dendritic cells and monocytes. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1991; 95:573-8. [PMID: 1649808 DOI: 10.1007/bf00266744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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On light microscopical (LM) level dendritic cells (DC) isolated from lymphoid organs can be discriminated from macrophages (M phi) by the presence of acid phosphatase (APh) activity in a spot near the nucleus and constitutional expression of class II antigens. The aim of our study was to investigate whether DC and monocytes (Mo) enriched from human peripheral blood could be discriminated on the electron microscopical (EM) level. Therefore we developed a triple method by which we compared the presence of myeloperoxidase (MPO) containing vesicles, the localization of APh containing vesicles and expression of MHC class II and RFD1 (a DC-associated class II-like antigen) plasma-membrane antigens. DC, functionally characterized as potent stimulators in a MLR, are MPO-negative, whereas Mo show MPO in cytoplasmic granules. Although both DC and Mo show little APh activity at LM level, both types of cells show APh activity at the EM level but at different locations. In DC APh containing vesicles are present in a distinct juxtanuclear area, in contrast to Mo, which show APh activity in lysosomes scattered throughout the whole cytoplasm. Moreover, on both LM and EM level, DC are strongly class II positive, whereas Mo show variable labelling intensity for class II, while RFD1 was only found on DC.
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- J M Arkema
- Department of Cell Biology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- K V Lemley
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles
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Cultures of Langerhans cells and co-culture with lymphoid cells: Relevance to toxicology and pharmacology. Toxicol In Vitro 1991; 5:585-9. [DOI: 10.1016/0887-2333(91)90098-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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T lymphocytes recognize antigen only after a series of intracellular events known as antigen processing. The result of antigen processing is the production of short segments of the primary peptide sequence bound to a polypeptide-binding groove on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. Antigen originates from one of two sites: intracellular or extracellular. There are two corresponding pathways for antigen processing and two corresponding classes of MHC molecule. Analysis of each pathway has demonstrated that their separation is not purely anatomical, but is maintained by molecular interactions with other molecules. Antigen processing has been shown to regulate the overall immune response, but the mechanisms involved remain obscure.
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- T P Levine
- Department of Biology, University College London, England
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Furihata M, Ohtsuki Y. Immunohistochemical characterization of HLA-DR-antigen positive dendritic cells in phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas as a prognostic marker. VIRCHOWS ARCHIV. A, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY 1991; 418:33-9. [PMID: 1899165 DOI: 10.1007/bf01600242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Twelve cases of phaeochromocytoma (PCC) and four cases of paraganglioma (PGG) were studied by immunohistochemistry and immunoelectron microscopy in order to demonstrate HLA-DR (Ia)-antigen-positive dendritic cells (IaDCs). Dense infiltration of IaDCs was detected in the majority of PCCs revealing high urinary or serum catecholamine levels, but in aggressively growing PCCs, a familial PCC and all PGGs, few IaDCs were demonstrated. Interestingly, these IaDCs were negative for S-100 protein. Although S-100-protein-positive sustentacular-like cells (SCs), morphologically similar to IaDCs, were also present, these were clearly distinguished from IaDCs by our double immunostaining method. Ultrastructurally, IaDCs had smooth or slightly indented nuclei and contained a moderate amount of endoplasmic reticulum, small mitochondria and vacuoles, extending elongated cytoplasmic processes. These results suggest that determination of the quantity of IaDCs is a highly effective method of assessing the character of PCCs, in particular, their prognosis.
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- M Furihata
- Department of Pathology, Kochi Medical School, Japan
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Izaki S, Tanji O, Okuma M, Shimoda H, Hsu-Oyama NP, Hibino T, Kitamura K. IA antigen-positive epithelioid cells in experimentally induced granulomatous inflammation. J Dermatol Sci 1991; 2:24-32. [PMID: 2054336 DOI: 10.1016/0923-1811(91)90039-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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IA antigens on the cell membrane of inflammatory macrophages and epithelioid cells were investigated with immunoelectron microscopic method during development of granulomas induced by subcutaneous inoculation of 10(7) Mycobacterium lepraemurium into mice with and without hypersensitivity. In C57BL/6N (H-2b) immunogenetic high responder mice 6 weeks after infection majority (87%) of infiltrated cells were IA-positive. Two types of the staining reaction, strong and weak reactivity, were recognized among the positive cells. Strongly IA-positive cells showed lower phagocytosis (0.9/cell section) of mycobacteria than the weakly reacted cells (4.9/cell section). The strongly positive cells underwent morphological differentiation into large epithelioid cells during development of the hypersensitivity-type murine lepromas after 10 or more weeks of infection. Types of granulomas and IA-positive cells in C57BL/6N (nu/+) mice were identical to those found in C57BL/6N. In C57BL/6N (nu/nu) athymic nude mice initial infiltrating cells contained 38% of weakly IA-positive macrophages and a small number (7%) of strongly IA-positive macrophages. But the reactivity was lost later and only 4% of IA-positive cells remained in the granulomas without hypersensitivity. CBA/J (H-2k) low responder mice did not show IA-positive cells in either initial or late stage during the development of nonhypersensitivity-type murine lepromas. We suggest that the presence of IA-positive cells, particularly IA-positive epithelioid cells, in the lesions modulates the course of granulomatous tissue reaction in murine lepromas.
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- S Izaki
- Departments of Dermatology, Saitama Medical Center, Kawagoe, Japan
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van Rooijen N. Antigen processing and presentation in vivo: the microenvironment as a crucial factor. IMMUNOLOGY TODAY 1990; 11:436-9. [PMID: 2073316 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5699(90)90171-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Antigen processing and presentation in vitro is an increasingly well understood phenomenon. However, in vivo, a large number of variables conspire to obscure and confuse. In this article, Nico van Rooijen attempts to bring order to events that occur in the spleen after antigenic challenge: starting with the large body of reliable in vitro data he incorporates information on splenic anatomy, cell trafficking and the cellular microenvironment to arrive at a physiological model for antigen handling in vivo.
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- N van Rooijen
- Dept of Histology, Medical Faculty, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Delemarre FG, Kors N, van Rooijen N. Elimination of spleen and of lymph node macrophages and its difference in the effect on the immune response to particulate antigens. Immunobiology 1990; 182:70-8. [PMID: 2151514 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(11)80584-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To study the role of macrophages in the in situ immune response to particulate antigens in spleen and popliteal lymph nodes (PLN), mice were injected with dichloromethylene diphosphonate (Cl2MDP)-containing liposomes to eliminate macrophages, followed by immunization with trinitrophenylated sheep red blood cells (TNP-SRBC). Depletion of macrophages in the spleen caused a strong decrease in the number of antibody-forming cells (AFC), which develop after intravenous (i.v.) injection of the antigen. These results strongly suggested the involvement of splenic macrophages in the processing of TNP-SRBC. In particular, the populations of marginal zone macrophages may be involved in the inductive phase of an antibody response to particulate antigens. These macrophages are strategically positioned at the end of the white pulp capillaries in the marginal zone of the spleen and they have their cell processes between the marginal zone-B cells. Elimination of macrophages in PLN had no effect on the number of AFC, which develop after subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of the antigen in the hind footpads. This indicates that the macrophages are not essential for the induction of a local immune response to the particulate antigen TNP-SRBC. After depletion of lymph node macrophages, the number of AFC developing in the spleen after s.c. footpad injection of the antigen increased and the anti-TNP serum titers were elevated. This may well be caused by the fact that more of the antigen reaches the circulation and subsequently stimulates the spleen.
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- F G Delemarre
- Dept. of Cell Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Antigen Processing and Presentation by Epidermal Langerhans Cells: Induction of Immunity or Unresponsiveness. Dermatol Clin 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0733-8635(18)30451-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The expression of MHC class II antigens on potential APC is a crucial step in T-lymphocyte activation and the initiation of an immune response. The studies which are presented here were initiated to characterize the critical APC present in physiologically normal, untreated rats. Such a cell should constitutively express these antigens at high density and therefore provide the apparatus necessary to provoke both primary and secondary immune responses at any time. DAC were found to fulfill these criteria. In the absence of specific surface markers of rat DAC, the results are based on the strict combination of morphological appearance and functional activity. However, the high expression of MHC class II antigens may be regarded as semispecific markers for DAC which are distributed at strategic positions in many lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues (Hart & Fabre 1981, Steiniger et al. 1984). The relatively low number of these cells observed in tissue sections and in in vitro isolates (0.1% of all cells) may explain their high activity as APC. This would facilitate the presentation of antigen in vivo to a sufficient number of competent T lymphocytes. DAC differentiate from a bone marrow progenitor cell pool preferentially under the influence of spleen cell-derived activities. Although the exact lineage has not yet been determined it may be fair to speculate that DAC form a new cell lineage probably related to interdigitating cells but not to macrophages which differentiate from bone marrow-derived precursors under the influence of colony-stimulating activities. However, the cooperation between DAC plus macrophages may provide the stage for T-lymphocyte activation and T-T collaboration (Mitchison 1990). There are still many open questions concerning the general role of DAC in vivo and in vitro. To further characterize rat DAC, their tissue distribution, role in the immune response and possible influence on intrathymic lymphopoiesis, with respect to T-lymphocyte subpopulations and the selection of the T-lymphocyte antigen-receptor repertoire, a panel of DAC-specific monoclonal antibodies must be generated in the future. Such antibodies will also be useful to study the mechanism by which DAC activate T lymphocytes.
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- W E Klinkert
- Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Martinsried, Fed. Rep. Germany
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Vordermeier HM, Pope M, Kotlarski I. Presentation of Salmonella antigens by peritoneal cells of normal and Salmonella-infected mice. Immunol Cell Biol 1990; 68 ( Pt 3):161-72. [PMID: 2228031 DOI: 10.1038/icb.1990.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A comparison of the ability of normal peritoneal cells (PC) and those harvested from mice 1-3 days after intraperitoneal immunization with live Salmonella enteritidis 11RX (11RX) to present antigen to 11RX-primed T cells was made using formalin-killed 11RX and a soluble 11RX antigen extract as antigens. Unfractionated PC and the adherent and non-adherent PC populations were analysed separately and the effects of the lysosomal function-impairing drug chloroquine and the fixative paraformaldehyde, used before or after antigen-pulsing, were also determined. The results presented indicate that immunization with live 11RX did not induce any detectable modulation of APC function which could account for the ability of live 11RX to induce cell-mediated immune responses involving Lyt 2+ T cells.
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- H M Vordermeier
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide, Australia
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Räsänen L, Lehto M, Hyöty H, Leinikki P. Collaboration between human blood dendritic cells and monocytes in antigen presentation. APMIS 1989; 97:981-6. [PMID: 2531600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1989.tb00506.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We compared human blood dendritic cells and monocytes for their capacity to produce secreted and membrane interleukin 1 (IL-1), stimulate mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR) and augment microbial antigen-induced T lymphocyte proliferation. Our enriched dendritic cell and monocyte fractions contained greater than 80% and greater than 93% dendritic cells and monocytes, respectively. Monocytes produced about ten times higher amounts of membrane and secreted IL-1 than dendritic cells, which in turn were more potent in presenting HLA-DR antigens in MLR. Both accessory cell types presented purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) equally well, whereas monocytes were better with fixed Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) bacteria. Processing of BCG was chloroquine-sensitive. Coculture experiments suggested that there was collaboration or synergy between dendritic cells and monocytes in antigen processing and presentation.
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- L Räsänen
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
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Melief CJ. Dendritic cells as specialized antigen-presenting cells. RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY 1989; 140:902-6; discussion 918-26. [PMID: 2516914 DOI: 10.1016/0923-2494(89)90052-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- C J Melief
- Division of Immunology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
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- B M Chain
- Department of Biology, University College London, U.K
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Klasen IS, de Jong JP, Voerman JS, Ladestein RM, Leenen PJ, Benner R. Murine macrophage cell line AP284 presents antigen to cloned MT4+, Lyt-2- T cells in vitro and in vivo. Immunobiology 1988; 178:261-74. [PMID: 2906628 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-2985(88)80070-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A murine macrophage cell line AP284 that appeared to be mature in phenotype was isolated. After repeated cloning, the cell line expressed the markers Mac-1, Mac-2, Mac-3, 2.4G2, F4/80 as well as Ia antigens. Moreover, it was positive for the enzymes nonspecific esterase and acid phosphatase, negative for alkaline phosphatase and was able to phagocytize latex beads. We studied whether this cell line was able to present antigen to cloned MT4+, Lyt-2- T cells specific for methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) or ovalbumin (OVA). The in vitro proliferative response of the cloned T cells specific for mBSA or OVA was found to be effectively supported by AP284. This proliferation could be blocked by monoclonal antibodies against Ia determinants. AP284 also effectively presented antigen in vivo as was shown in a foot swelling assay measuring delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) to mBSA caused by specific cloned T cells with the helper phenotype. This offers a unique model system for studying the process of antigen presentation in which both the antigen presenting cells and the T cells are monoclonal.
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- I S Klasen
- Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Genetics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Huhn H, Reske-Kunz AB, Rüde E. Cloned T helper cells reverting to a resting state develop increasing sensitivity in their antigen-mediated interaction with accessory cells. Eur J Immunol 1988; 18:1745-52. [PMID: 2974421 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830181114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A cloned murine T cell line, KIII5, specific for the polypeptide poly-L(Tyr,Glu)-poly-D,L-Ala--poly-L-Lys [(T,G)-A--L] was compared at different stages after antigenic stimulation with respect to the conditions required for the reinduction of growth by varying concentrations of antigen presented on different types of accessory cells (AC). We show that the dose of antigen necessary for inducing half maximal proliferation in the presence of splenic AC shifts to considerably lower concentrations when the T cell blasts revert to a resting state (100 micrograms/ml on day 7 to 10 micrograms/ml on day 21-35). During the same time period the expression of interleukin 2 (IL2) receptor and the reactivity to IL2 decline. However, no direct correlation between the increasing sensitivity to antigen and the decreasing reactivity to IL2 appears to exist. With peritoneal AC "early" T cells (day 7) did not respond to (T,G)-A--L at all, but in the course of "aging" responsiveness increased and finally reached the same level as in the presence of splenic AC, although at a higher antigen dose (100 micrograms/ml on day 35-45). Furthermore, the antigen-induced proliferation of "aging" T cells became more resistant to inhibition both by anti-L3T4 and anti-T cell receptor antibodies. Two alternative interpretations of these data are possible: antigen-activated T cells, while gradually reverting to a resting state, interact more avidly with antigen-presenting cells or the triggering threshold of the T cells is decreasing.
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- H Huhn
- Institut für Immunologie der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, FRG
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