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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 86, Issue 3, Pages 663-670Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0509314
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IFN-alpha; innate immune response
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- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung Biofuture [0311896, SFB 670, SFB 704, KFO115, KFO177]
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TLR9 detects DNA in endolysosomal compartments of human B cells and PDC. Recently, the concept of the CpG motif specificity of TLR9-mediated detection, specifically of natural phosphodiester DNA, has been challenged. Unlike in human B cells, CpG specificity of natural phosphodiester DNA recognition in human PDC has not been analyzed in the literature. Here, we found that the induction of IFN-alpha and TNF-alpha in human PDC by phosphodiester ODNs containing one or two CG dinucleotides was reduced to a lower level when the CG dinucleotides were methylated and was abolished if the CGs were switched to GCs. Consistent with a high frequency of unmethylated CG dinucleotides, bacterial DNA induced high levels of IFN-alpha in PDC; IFN-alpha was reduced but not abolished upon methylation of bacterial DNA. Mammalian DNA containing low numbers of CG dinucleotides, which are frequently methylated, induced IFN-alpha in PDC consistently but on a much lower level than bacterial DNA. For activation of PDC, phosphodiester ODNs and genomic DNA strictly required complexation with cationic molecules such as the keratinocyte-derived antimicrobial peptide LL37 or a scrambled derivative. In conclusion, we demonstrate that self-DNA complexed to cationic molecules activate PDC and thus, indeed, may function as DAMPs; nevertheless, the preference of PDC for CpG containing DNA provides the basis for the discrimination of microbial from self-DNA even if DNA is presented in the condensed form of a complex. J. Leukoc. Biol. 86: 663-670; 2009.
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