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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 189, Issue 8, Pages 899-908Publisher
AMER THORACIC SOC
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201310-1827OC
Keywords
asthma; adjuvant; chemokine; pattern recognition receptor
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- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- ERC starting grant PGNfromSHAPEtoVIR [202283]
- Santelys and Societe Francaise d'Allergologie
- European Research Council (ERC) [202283] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Rationale: Pattern recognition receptors are attractive targets for vaccine adjuvants, and polymorphisms of the innate receptor NOD1 have been associated with allergic asthma. Objectives: To elucidate whether NOD1 agonist may favor allergic asthma in humans through activation of dendritic cells and to evaluate the mechanisms involved using an in vivo model. Methods: NOD1-primed dendritic cells from allergic and nonallergic donors were characterized in vitro on their phenotype, cytokine secretion, and Th2 polarizing ability. The in vivo relevance was examined in experimental allergic asthma, and the mechanisms were assessed using transfer of NOD1-conditioned dendritic cells from wild-type or CCL17-deficient mice. Measurements and Main Results: NOD1 priming of human dendritic cells promoted a Th2 polarization profile that involved the production of CCL17 and CCL22 in nonallergic subjects but only CCL17 in allergic patients, without requiring allergen costimulation. Moreover, NOD1-primed dendritic cells from allergic donors exhibited enhanced maturation that led to abnormal CCL22 and IL-10 secretion compared with nonallergic donors. In mice, systemic NOD1 ligation exacerbated allergen-induced experimental asthma by amplifying CCL17-mediated Th2 responses in the lung. NOD1-mediated sensitization of purified murine dendritic cells enhanced production of CCL17 and CCL22, but not of thymic stromal lymphopoietin and IL-33, in vitro. Consistently, adoptive transfer of NOD1-conditioned dendritic cells exacerbated the Th2 pulmonary response in a CCL17-dependent manner in vivo. Conclusions: Data from this study unveil a deleterious role of NOD1 in allergic asthma through direct induction of CCL17 by dendritic cells, arguing for a need to address vaccine formulation safety issues related to allergy.
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