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JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages 1227-1239Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1209776
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primary human DCs; TLR4 signaling; sialic acid; Neu1 and Neu3; Neu1(-)/(-) mice; glycoconjugates
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- National Institutes of Health [K08 HL72176-01, AI 54354, HL086933-01A1]
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Removal of sialic acid from glycoconjugates on the surface of monocytes enhances their response to bacterial LPS. We tested the hypothesis that endogenous sialidase activity creates a permissive state for LPS-induced cytokine production in human monocyte-derived DCs. Of the four genetically distinct sialidases (Neu1-4), Neu1, Neu3, and Neu4 are expressed in human monocytes, but only Neu1 and Neu3 are up-regulated as cells differentiate into DCs. Neu1 and Neu3 are present on the surface of monocytes and DCs and are also present intracellularly. DCs contain a greater amount of sialic acid than monocytes, but the amount of sialic acid/mg total protein declines during differentiation to DCs. This relative hyposialylation of cells does not occur in mature DCs grown in the presence of zanamivir, a pharmacologic inhibitor of Neu3 but not Neu1, or DANA, an inhibitor of Neu1 and Neu3. Inhibition of sialidase activity during differentiation to DCs causes no detectable change in cell viability or expression of DC surface markers. Differentiation of monocytes into DCs in the presence of zanamivir results in reduced LPS-induced expression of IL-6, IL-12p40, and TNF-alpha by mature DCs, demonstrating a role for Neu3 in cytokine production. A role for Neu3 is supported by inhibition of cytokine production by DANA in DCs from Neu1(-)/(-) and WT mice. We conclude that sialidase-mediated change in sialic acid content of specific cell surface glycoconjugates in DCs regulates LPS-induced cytokine produc-tion, thereby contributing to development of adaptive immune responses. J. Leukoc. Biol. 88: 1227-1239; 2010.
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