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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue 11, Pages 7784-7793Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.11.7784
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [P50 HL 56134] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [U19 AI 5234] Funding Source: Medline
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells that play a central role in the initiation of immune responses. Because human lung DCs have been incompletely characterized, we enumerated and phenotyped mononuclear cell populations from excess lung tissue obtained at surgery. Myeloid DCs (MDCs) were identified as CD1c(+)CD11c(+)CD14(-)HLA-DR+ cells and comprised similar to 2% of low autofluorescent (LAF) mononuclear cells. Plasmacytoid DCs (PDCs) were characterized as CD123(+)CD11c(-)CD14(-)HLA-DR+ cells and comprised similar to 1.0% of the LAF mononuclear cells. Cells enriched in MDCs expressed CD86, moderate CD80, and little CD40, but cells enriched in PDCs had little to no expression of these three costimulatory molecules. CD11c(+)CD14(-) lineage-negative (MDC-enriched) LAF cells were isolated and shown to be much more potent in stimulating an alloreaction than CD11c(+)CD14(+) lineage-negative (monocyte-enriched) LAF cells. PDC-enriched cells were more capable of responding to a TLR-7 agonist by secreting IFN-alpha than MDC-enriched cells. MDC-enriched cells were either CD123(+) or CD123(-), but both subsets secreted cytokines and chemokines typical of MDC upon stimulation with a TLR-4 agonist and both subsets failed to secrete IFN-a upon stimulation with a TLR-7 agonist. By immunohistochemistry, we identified MDCs throughout Afferent anatomical locations of the lung. However, our method did not allow the localization of PDCs with certainty. In conclusion, in the human lung MDCs were twice as numerous and expressed higher levels of costimulatory molecules than PDCs. Our data suggest that both lung DC subsets exert distinct immune modulatory functions.
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