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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 1, Pages 230-241Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002965
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- National Institutes of Health [HL-083072, P01 AI064343]
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL083072] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [P01AI064343] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is initiated by APCs that prime alloreactive donor T cells. In antipathogen responses, Ag-bearing APCs receive signals through pattern-recognition receptors, including TLRs, which induce the expression of costimulatory molecules and production of inflammatory cytokines, which in turn mold the adaptive T cell response. However, in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT), there is no specific pathogen, alloantigen is ubiquitous, and signals that induce APC maturation are undefined. To investigate APC activation in GVHD, we used recipient mice with hematopoietic cells genetically deficient in pathways critical for APC maturation in models in which host APCs are absolutely required. Strikingly, CD8-mediated and CD4-mediated GVHD were similar whether host APCs were wild-type or deficient in MyD88, TRIF, or MyD88 and TRIF, which excludes essential roles for TLRs and IL-1 beta, the key product of inflammasome activation. Th1 differentiation was if anything augmented when APCs were MyD88/TRIF-/-, and T cell production of IFN-gamma did not require host IL-12. GVHD was also intact when APCs lacked the type I IFNR, which amplifies APC activation pathways that induce type I IFNs. Thus in GVHD, alloreactive T cells can be activated when pathways critical for antipathogen T cell responses are impaired. The Journal of Immunology, 2011, 186: 230-241.
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