A tolerogenic semimature dendritic cells induce effector T-cell hyporesponsiveness by activation of antigen-specific CD4+CD25+T regulatory cells that promotes skin allograft survival in mice
A tolerogenic semimature dendritic cells induce effector T-cell hyporesponsiveness by activation of antigen-specific CD4+CD25+T regulatory cells that promotes skin allograft survival in mice
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cellimm.2009.11.003
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Huang, Jie-fu
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作者:
Fu, Bi-mang;He, Xiao-shun;Huang, Jie-fu
Semimature dendritic cells (smDCs) can induce autoimmune tolerance by activation of host antigen-specific CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T (Treg) cells. We hypothesized that donor smDCs injected into recipients would induce effector T-cell hyporesponsiveness by activating CD4(+)CD25(+)Treg cells, and promote skin allograft survival. Myeloid smDCs were derived from C57BL/6J mice (donors) in vitro. BALB/c mice (recipients) were injected with smDCs to generate antigen-specific CD4(+)CD25(+)Treg cells in vivo. Allograft survival was prolonged when BALB/c recipients received either C57BL/6J smDCs prior to grafting or C57BL/6J smDC-derived CD4(+)CD25(+)Treg cells post-grafting, and skin flaps from these grafts showed the highest IL-10 production regardless of rapamycin treatments. Our findings confirm that smDCs constitute an independent subgroup of DCs that play a key role for inducing CD4(+)CD25(+)Treg cells to express high IL-10 levels, which induce hyporesponsiveness of effector T cells. Pre-treating recipients with donor smDCs may have potential for transplant tolerance induction. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.