Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Front Immunol. 2024 Aug 15;15:1426316. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1426316. eCollection 2024.
γδ T cells facilitate the CD4 T helper 1 (Th1) cell response against infection by activating conventional dendritic cells (cDCs), although the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Our study revealed that γδ T cells promote the complete maturation and production of interleukin-12 and CXCR3-ligands specifically in type 1 cDCs (cDC1), with minimal impact on cDC2 and monocyte derived DCs (Mo-DCs). During the initial infection phase, γδ T cell activation and temporal accumulation in the splenic white pulp, alongside cDC1, occur via CCR7-signaling. Furthermore, cDC1/γδ T cell interactions in the white pulp are amplified through CXCR3 signaling in γδ T cells, optimizing Th1 cell priming by cDC1. We also demonstrated how transitional Th1 cells arise in the white pulp before establishing their presence in the red pulp as fully differentiated Th1 cells. Additionally, we elucidate the reciprocal activation between γδ T cells and cDC1s. These findings suggest that Th1 cell priming is orchestrated by this reciprocal activation in the splenic white pulp during the early phase of blood-stage infection.
γδ T 细胞通过激活常规树突状细胞(cDC)促进针对 感染的 CD4 T 辅助 1(Th1)细胞反应,尽管其潜在机制仍不清楚。我们的研究表明,γδ T 细胞在 1 型 cDC(cDC1)中特异性促进白细胞介素-12 和 CXCR3 配体的完全成熟和产生,对 cDC2 和单核细胞衍生的 DC(Mo-DC)的影响最小。在初始感染阶段,通过 CCR7 信号,γδ T 细胞的激活和在脾白髓中的时间性积累与 cDC1 一起发生。此外,通过 γδ T 细胞中的 CXCR3 信号放大了 cDC1/γδ T 细胞在白髓中的相互作用,从而优化了 cDC1 对 Th1 细胞的启动。我们还证明了过渡性 Th1 细胞如何在红髓中作为完全分化的 Th1 细胞出现之前在白髓中出现。此外,我们阐明了 γδ T 细胞和 cDC1 之间的相互激活。这些发现表明,在血期感染的早期阶段,Th1 细胞的启动是由脾白髓中这种相互激活所协调的。
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