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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
Volume 113, Issue 10, Pages 1490-1497Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200419836
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK044319, DK-51362, DK-53056, R37 DK044319, DK-44319] Funding Source: Medline
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While Crohn disease (CD) has been clearly identified as a Th1 inflammation, the immunopathogenesis of its counterpart inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis (UC), remains enigmatic. Here we show that lamina propria T (LPT) cells from UC patients produce significantly greater amounts of IL-13 (and IL-5) than control cells and little IFN-gamma, whereas comparable cells from CD patients produce large amounts of IFN-gamma and small amounts of IL-13. We then show that stimulation of UC LPT cells bearing an NK marker (CD161) with anti-CD2/ and-CD28 or with B cells expressing transfected CD1d induces substantial IL-13 production. While this provided firm evidence that the IL-13-producing cell is an NK T (NKT) cell, it became clear that this cell does not express invariant NKT cell receptors characteristic of most NKT cells since there was no increase in cells binding alpha-galactosylceramide-loaded tetramers, and alpha-galactosylceramide did not induce IL-13 secretion. Finally, we show that both human NKT cell lines as well as UC CD161(+) LPT cells are cytotoxic for HT-29 epithelial cells and that this cytotoxicity is augmented by IL-13. These studies show that UC is associated with an atypical Th2 response mediated by nonclassical NKT cells producing IL-13 and having cytotoxic potential for epithelial cells.
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