Journal
IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 125, Issue 3, Pages 289-301Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02842.x
Keywords
cell surface molecules; dendritic cells; human; lipid mediators; T cells
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Funding
- Arthritis National Research Foundation
- Pfizer, Inc.
- National Institutes of Health [K08AR02171]
- Medical Research Council [G9901077, G0400421]
- Wellcome Trust [07221/Z/03/Z]
- MRC [G9901077, G0400421] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G9901077, G0400421] Funding Source: researchfish
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are highly potent antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and play a vital role in stimulating naive T cells. Treatment of human blood monocytes with the cytokines granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin (IL)-4 stimulates them to develop into immature dendritic cells (iDCs) in vitro. DCs generated by this pathway have a high capacity to prime and activate resting T cells and prominently express CD1 antigen-presenting molecules on the cell surface. The presence of human serum during the differentiation of iDCs from monocytes inhibits the expression of CD1a, CD1b and CD1c, but not CD1d. Correspondingly, T cells that are restricted by CD1c showed poor responses to DCs that were generated in the presence of human serum, while the responses of CD1d-restricted T cells were enhanced. We chemically fractionated human serum to isolate the bioactive factors that modulate surface expression of CD1 proteins during monocyte to DC differentiation. The human serum components that affected CD1 expression partitioned with polar organic soluble fractions. Lysophosphatidic acid and cardiolipin were identified as lipids present in normal human serum that potently modulate CD1 expression. Control of CD1 expression was mediated at the level of gene transcription and correlated with activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) nuclear hormone receptors. These findings indicate that the ability of human DCs to present lipid antigens to T cells through expression of CD1 molecules is sensitively regulated by lysophosphatidic acid and cardiolipin in serum, which are ligands that can activate PPAR transcription factors.
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