Leventhal Daniel S, Gilmore Dana C, Berger Julian M, Nishi Saki, Lee Victoria, Malchow Sven, Kline Douglas E, Kline Justin, Vander Griend Donald J, Huang Haochu, Socci Nicholas D, Savage Peter A
Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology-Oncology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Immunity. 2016 Apr 19;44(4):847-59. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.01.025. Epub 2016 Mar 29.
Although antigen recognition mediated by the T cell receptor (TCR) influences many facets of Foxp3(+) regulatory T (Treg) cell biology, including development and function, the cell types that present antigen to Treg cells in vivo remain largely undefined. By tracking a clonal population of Aire-dependent, prostate-specific Treg cells in mice, we demonstrated an essential role for dendritic cells (DCs) in regulating organ-specific Treg cell biology. We have shown that the thymic development of prostate-specific Treg cells required antigen presentation by DCs. Moreover, Batf3-dependent CD8α(+) DCs were dispensable for the development of this clonotype and had negligible impact on the polyclonal Treg cell repertoire. In the periphery, CCR7-dependent migratory DCs coordinated the activation of organ-specific Treg cells in the prostate-draining lymph nodes. Our results demonstrate that the development and peripheral regulation of organ-specific Treg cells are dependent on antigen presentation by DCs, implicating DCs as key mediators of organ-specific immune tolerance.
尽管由T细胞受体(TCR)介导的抗原识别影响着Foxp3(+)调节性T(Treg)细胞生物学的许多方面,包括发育和功能,但在体内向Treg细胞呈递抗原的细胞类型在很大程度上仍不明确。通过追踪小鼠中依赖于Aire的前列腺特异性Treg细胞的克隆群体,我们证明了树突状细胞(DCs)在调节器官特异性Treg细胞生物学中起着至关重要的作用。我们已经表明,前列腺特异性Treg细胞的胸腺发育需要DCs呈递抗原。此外,依赖于Batf3的CD8α(+) DCs对于这种克隆型的发育是可有可无的,并且对多克隆Treg细胞库的影响可以忽略不计。在外周,依赖于CCR7的迁移性DCs协调了前列腺引流淋巴结中器官特异性Treg细胞的激活。我们的结果表明,器官特异性Treg细胞的发育和外周调节依赖于DCs呈递抗原,这表明DCs是器官特异性免疫耐受的关键介质。