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Fauteux-Daniel S, Merlo Pich LM, Girard-Guyonvarc’h C, Caruso A, Rodriguez E, Gabay C. The role of interleukin-18 and interleukin-18 binding protein in K/BxN serum transfer-induced arthritis. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1215364. [PMID: 37415987 PMCID: PMC10320286 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1215364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Interleukin-18 is a proinflammatory cytokine, the activity of which is regulated by its natural inhibitor, IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP). Elevated circulating levels of IL-18 have been observed in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) and adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD), two conditions associated with dysregulated innate immune responses. This study examines the expression and function of IL-18 and IL-18BP in K/BxN serum transfer arthritis (STA), a model that is uniquely dependent on innate immune responses. Methods Naïve and serum transfer-induced arthritis (STA) wild-type (WT) mice were used to examine the articular levels of IL-18 and IL-18BP mRNA by RT-qPCR. The cellular sources of IL-18BP in the joints were determined by using Il18bp-tdTomato reporter knock-in mice. The incidence and severity of arthritis, including mRNA levels of different cytokines, were compared in IL-18BP or IL-18 knock-out (KO) mice and their WT littermates. Results IL-18 and IL-18BP mRNA levels were significantly increased in arthritic as compared to normal joints. Synovial neutrophils, macrophages, and endothelial cells represented the cellular sources of IL-18BP in arthritic joints, whereas IL-18BP production was limited to endothelial cells in non-inflamed joints. The incidence and severity of arthritis were similar in IL-18BP KO and IL-18 KO compared to their WT littermates. Transcript levels of different inflammatory cytokines were not different in the two KO mouse lines compared to WT mice. Conclusion Although IL-18 and IL-18BP levels were increased in arthritic joints, our results show that the IL-18/IL-18BP balance is not involved in the regulation of STA.
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- Sebastien Fauteux-Daniel
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
- Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Gu H, Xie M, Xu L, Zheng X, Yang Y, Lv X. The protective role of interleukin-18 binding protein in a murine model of cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury. Transpl Int 2015; 28:1436-44. [PMID: 26340315 DOI: 10.1111/tri.12683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Haifeng Gu
- Department of Geriatrics; The First Affiliated Hospital; College of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou China
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- Department of Geriatrics; The An Kang Hospital of Hangzhou Police; Hangzhou China
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- Department of Geriatrics; The First Affiliated Hospital; College of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou China
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- Department of Geriatrics; The First Affiliated Hospital; College of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou China
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- Department of Geriatrics; The First Affiliated Hospital; College of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou China
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- Department of Geriatrics; The First Affiliated Hospital; College of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou China
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Rowley MJ, Nandakumar KS, Holmdahl R. The role of collagen antibodies in mediating arthritis. Mod Rheumatol 2014. [DOI: 10.3109/s10165-008-0080-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Ngo D, Beaulieu E, Gu R, Leaney A, Santos L, Fan H, Yang Y, Kao W, Xu J, Escriou V, Loiler S, Vervoordeldonk MJ, Morand EF. Divergent Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Glucocorticoid-Induced Leucine Zipper in Animal Models of Inflammation and Arthritis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 65:1203-12. [DOI: 10.1002/art.37858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mills KHG, Dungan LS, Jones SA, Harris J. The role of inflammasome-derived IL-1 in driving IL-17 responses. J Leukoc Biol 2012; 93:489-97. [PMID: 23271701 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1012543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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NLRs are members of the PRR family that sense microbial pathogens and mediate host innate immune responses to infection. Certain NLRs can assemble into a multiprotein complex called the inflammasome, which activates casapse-1 required for the cleavage of immature forms of IL-1β and IL-18 into active, mature cytokines. The inflammasome is activated by conserved, exogenous molecules from microbes and nonmicrobial molecules, such as asbestos, alum, or silica, as well as by endogenous danger signals, such as ATP, amyloid-β, and sodium urate crystals. Activation of the inflammasome is a critical event triggering IL-1-driven inflammation and is central to the pathology of autoinflammatory diseases, such as gout and MWS. Recent studies have also shown IL-1 or IL-18, in synergy with IL-23, can promote IL-17-prduction from Th17 cells and γδ T cells, and this process can be regulated by autophagy. IL-1-driven IL-17 production plays a critical role in host protective immunity to infection with fungi, bacteria, and certain viruses. However, Th17 cells and IL-17-seceting γδ T cells, activated by inflammasome-derived IL-1 or IL-18, have major pathogenic roles in many autoimmune diseases. Consequently, inflammasomes are now major drug targets for many autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases, as well as autoinflammatory diseases.
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- Kingston H G Mills
- Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Lalor SJ, Dungan LS, Sutton CE, Basdeo SA, Fletcher JM, Mills KHG. Caspase-1–Processed Cytokines IL-1β and IL-18 Promote IL-17 Production by γδ and CD4 T Cells That Mediate Autoimmunity. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2011; 186:5738-48. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Rowley MJ, Nandakumar KS, Holmdahl R. The role of collagen antibodies in mediating arthritis. Mod Rheumatol 2008; 18:429-41. [PMID: 18521704 DOI: 10.1007/s10165-008-0080-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2008] [Accepted: 04/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This review examines evidence that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) depends on autoimmunity to articular collagen, and mechanisms whereby autoantibodies to type II collagen contribute to disease development. Three major autoantigenic reactants have been identified in RA; the corresponding autoantibodies are rheumatoid factor (RF), antibodies to citrullinated peptide antigens (ACPA), citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP), and anti-type II collagen (anti-CII). Both RF and ACPA are well-validated and predictive markers of severe erosive RA, but cannot be linked to pathogenesis. By contrast, in various animal species immunized with CII there occurs an erosive inflammatory arthritis resembling that seen in human RA, together with antibodies to CII with an epitope specificity similar to that in RA. We discuss the well-known role of immune complexes in the induction of inflammation within the joint, and present recent data showing, additionally, that antibodies to CII cause direct damage to cartilage in vitro. The close resemblances between human RA and collagen-induced arthritis in animals suggest that autoimmunity, and particularly autoantibodies to CII, are important for both the initiation and perpetuation of RA in a dual manner: as contributors to the inflammation associated with immune complex deposition, and as agents with direct degradative effects on cartilage integrity and its repair.
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- Merrill J Rowley
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
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Bennett JC. The role of T lymphocytes in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 58:S53-7. [PMID: 18240217 DOI: 10.1002/art.23045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Leech M, Xue JR, Dacumos A, Hall P, Santos L, Yang Y, Li M, Kitching AR, Morand EF. The tumour suppressor gene p53 modulates the severity of antigen-induced arthritis and the systemic immune response. Clin Exp Immunol 2008; 152:345-53. [PMID: 18341615 PMCID: PMC2384110 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03629.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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p53 is a transcription factor with a well-described role in the induction of apoptosis and cell cycle arrest as part of a protective response to a variety of stressful stimuli. Expansion of inflamed tissue in rheumatoid arthritis has been related to the loss of functioning p53, and the severity of collagen-induced arthritis is increased in p53-/- mice. Our objective was to assess the role of p53 in a model of adaptive immunity, antigen-induced arthritis (AIA). AIA was induced in p53-/- and wild-type mice by priming with methylated bovine serum albumin followed by intra-articular challenge. Severity of arthritis was assessed using a standardized scoring system and synovial apoptosis was detected by TdT-mediated biotin-dUTP nick-end labelling. Splenocyte proliferation was measured by [H(3)] incorporation and interferon (IFN)-gamma release. Splenocyte viability was assessed using Titreglow. Splenic T cell activation status was assessed by flow cytometry. Serum cytokines were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Increased severity of AIA in p53-/- mice was associated with decreased synovial apoptosis and with increased delayed-type hypersensitivity response, increased mitogen and antigen-induced splenocyte proliferation and increased IFN-gamma release in p53-/- mice compared with wild-type mice. Antigen-specific immunoglobulin responses were equivalent in both groups. Splenocyte viability was increased in p53-/- mice but T cell apoptosis was equivalent. T cell activation markers were increased in p53-/- mice compared with wild-type mice. Lipopolysaccharide-induced tumour necrosis factor release was increased in p53-/- mice with a trend to increased interleukin-6 in p53-/- mice compared with littermates. p53 is involved in the modulation of adaptive and innate immune responses relevant to arthritis models and is also involved in the modulation of severity of AIA by both cell-cycle dependent and cell-cycle-independent mechanisms.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Arthritis, Experimental/genetics
- Arthritis, Experimental/immunology
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/genetics
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid/immunology
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genes, p53/immunology
- Hypersensitivity, Delayed/genetics
- Hypersensitivity, Delayed/immunology
- Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis
- Lipopolysaccharides/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Phytohemagglutinins/immunology
- Serum Albumin, Bovine/immunology
- Severity of Illness Index
- Spleen/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/immunology
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- M Leech
- Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.
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Santos LL, Dacumos A, Yamana J, Sharma L, Morand EF. Reduced arthritis in MIF deficient mice is associated with reduced T cell activation: down-regulation of ERK MAP kinase phosphorylation. Clin Exp Immunol 2008; 152:372-80. [PMID: 18341611 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03639.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic pro-inflammatory cytokine with many cellular targets in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MIF has been reported to activate cells via mitogen-activated protein kinase and serine/threonine kinase (AKT or protein kinase B)-dependent signal transduction pathways. Its contribution to T cell activation and signalling in RA is not known. Using MIF -/- mice and a T cell-mediated model of RA, antigen-induced arthritis, we investigated the role of MIF in T cell activation and signalling. Arthritis severity was significantly reduced in MIF -/- mice compared with wildtype mice. This reduction was associated with decreased T cell activation parameters including footpad delayed type hypersensitivity, antigen-induced splenocyte proliferation and cytokine production. Splenocyte proliferation required extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1/2 phosphorylation, and decreased T cell activation in MIF -/- mice was associated with decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 but not AKT. Collectively, these data suggest that MIF promotes antigen-specific immune responses via regulation of ERK phosphorylation in T cells.
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- L L Santos
- Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Verri WA, Cunha TM, Parada CA, Poole S, Liew FY, Ferreira SH, Cunha FQ. Antigen-induced inflammatory mechanical hypernociception in mice is mediated by IL-18. Brain Behav Immun 2007; 21:535-43. [PMID: 17194566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2006.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2006] [Revised: 10/30/2006] [Accepted: 11/04/2006] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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There is pre-clinical evidence that therapies targeting IL-18 might be beneficial in controlling arthropathies, which are accompanied by hypernociception (nociceptor sensitization). In the present study, we addressed the hypernociceptive role of IL-18 in a model of antigen-induced inflammation in mice and its mechanisms. In naïve mice, the intraplantar injection of IL-18 induced dose- and time-dependent mechanical hypernociception, which was inhibited in IFN-gamma deficient (-/-) mice, and by the pre-treatment with bosentan (dual endothelin [ET] receptor antagonist), BQ123 (ET(A) receptor antagonist) or indomethacin (cyclooxygenase inhibitor). IL-18 hypernociception was unaffected in TNFR1(-/-) mice or by the pre-treatment with sIL-15Ralpha (soluble form of IL-15 receptor), BQ788 (ET(B) receptor antagonist) or guanethidine (sympathetic blocker). The ovalbumin (OVA) challenge-induced mechanical hypernociception in immunized mice was inhibited by the pre-treatment with anti-IL-18 antibody or in IL-18(-/-) mice. Furthermore, IL-18 induced significant IFN-gamma production in the paw skin of naïve mice. The OVA challenge-induced IFN-gamma and ET-1 productions were inhibited in IL-18(-/-) immunized mice, as well as ET-1 production in IFN-gamma(-/-) immunized mice. In addition, significant PGE2 production was detected after IL-18 or ET-1 (via ET(A) receptors) injection in naïve mice. Taken together with previous data, these results suggest that IL-18 plays a significant role in antigen-induced inflammatory hypernociception via the production of IFN-gamma, ET-1 and PGE2. Thus, IL-18 and IL-18-downstream mediators demonstrated herein might constitute targets to inhibit antigen-induced inflammatory pain.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens/immunology
- Dinoprostone/metabolism
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Interferon-gamma/genetics
- Interferon-gamma/immunology
- Interleukin-18/administration & dosage
- Interleukin-18/genetics
- Interleukin-18/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Ovalbumin/immunology
- Pain/immunology
- Pain Threshold/physiology
- Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases/immunology
- Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases/metabolism
- Receptor, Endothelin A/metabolism
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/immunology
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Stress, Mechanical
- Time Factors
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- Waldiceu A Verri
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Gutcher I, Becher B. APC-derived cytokines and T cell polarization in autoimmune inflammation. J Clin Invest 2007; 117:1119-27. [PMID: 17476341 PMCID: PMC1857272 DOI: 10.1172/jci31720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 309] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis are driven by autoaggressive Th cells. The pathogenicity of such Th cells has, in the past, been considered to be dictated by their cytokine polarization profile. The polarization of such effector T cells relies critically upon the actions of cytokines secreted by APCs. While Th1 polarization has long been associated with the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, recent data obtained in gene-targeted mice and the discovery of Th17 cell involvement in autoimmunity conflict with this hypothesis. In light of these recent developments, we discuss in this review the actions of APC-derived cytokines and their emerging roles in T cell polarization in the context of autoimmune inflammatory responses.
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- Ilona Gutcher
- Neuroimmunology Unit, Neurology Clinic, University of Zurich, Y44J7 Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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Gutcher I, Urich E, Wolter K, Prinz M, Becher B. Interleukin 18-independent engagement of interleukin 18 receptor-alpha is required for autoimmune inflammation. Nat Immunol 2006; 7:946-53. [PMID: 16906165 DOI: 10.1038/ni1377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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T helper type 1 (T(H)1) lymphocytes are considered to be the main pathogenic cell type responsible for organ-specific autoimmune inflammation. As interleukin 18 (IL-18) is a cofactor with IL-12 in promoting T(H)1 cell development, we examined the function of IL-18 and its receptor, IL-18R, in autoimmune central nervous system inflammation. Similar to IL-12-deficient mice, IL-18-deficient mice were susceptible to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. In contrast, IL-18R alpha-deficient mice were resistant to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, indicating involvement of an IL-18R alpha ligand other than IL-18 with encephalitogenic properties. Moreover, engagement of IL-18R alpha on antigen-presenting cells was required for the generation of pathogenic IL-17-producing T helper cells. Thus, IL-18 and T(H)1 cells are dispensable, whereas IL-18R alpha and IL-17-producing T helper cells are required, for autoimmune central nervous system inflammation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/chemistry
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology
- Antigens/immunology
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/genetics
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/metabolism
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental/pathology
- Interleukin-12/metabolism
- Interleukin-17/metabolism
- Interleukin-18/genetics
- Interleukin-18/physiology
- Interleukin-23/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mitogens/immunology
- Receptors, Interleukin-18/analysis
- Receptors, Interleukin-18/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-18/physiology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
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- Ilona Gutcher
- Neuroimmunology Unit, Neurology Clinic, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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