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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 169, Issue 8, Pages 4273-4278Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.8.4273
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- NCI NIH HHS [P01 CA 59327, R01 CA 84065-02, R01 CA/AI 78399] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR 40065] Funding Source: Medline
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Notch receptors play a key role in several cellular processes including differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis. This study investigated whether the activation of Notch signaling would affect the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs). Direct stimulation of Notch signaling in DCs with a peptide ligand induced DC maturation, similar to LPS: DCs up-regulated maturation markers, produced IL-12, lost endocytosis capacity, and became able to activate allogeneic T cells. Furthermore, coculture of DCs with cells expressing Notch ligand Jagged-1 induced up-regulation of maturation markers, IL-12 production, T cell proliferative responses, and IFN-gamma production. Our data suggest that activation of Notch by Jagged-1 plays an important role in maturation of human DCs. Additionally, they reveal a novel role for Notch signaling in cell maturation events distal to the cell fate decision fork. These data may have important medical implications, since they provide new reagents to induce DC activity, which may be beneficial as adjuvants in situations where an immune response needs to be elicited, such as tumor immunotherapy.
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