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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 187, Issue 3, Pages 1486-1495Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003669
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- National Institutes of Health [AI064226, AI52353, AI31599, AI07306, HL36110]
- University of Naples Federico II
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We show that the P2Y(6) receptor, a purinergic G protein-coupled receptor with a high affinity for the nucleotide uridine diphosphate, is an important endogenous inhibitor of T cell function in allergic pulmonary inflammation. Mice conditionally deficient in P2Y(6) receptors [p2ry6 (flox/flox); cre/+ mice] exhibited severe airway and tissue pathology relative to P2Y(6)-sufficient [p2ry6 (flox/flox)] littermates (+/+ mice) when treated intranasally with an extract of the dust mite Dermatophagoides farinae (Df). P2Y(6) receptors were inducibly expressed by lung, lymph node, and splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells of Df-treated +/+ mice. Df-restimulated P2Y(6)-deficient lymph node cells produced higher levels of Th1 and Th2 cytokines, and polyclonally stimulated P2Y(6)-deficient CD4(+) T cells proliferated faster than comparably stimulated P2Y(6)-sufficient cells. The absence of P2Y(6) receptors on CD4(+) cells, but not APCs, was sufficient to amplify cytokine generation. Thus, P2Y(6) receptors protect the lung against exuberant allergen-induced pulmonary inflammation by inhibiting the activation of effector T cells. The Journal of Immunology, 2011, 187: 1486-1495.
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