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BLOOD
Volume 120, Issue 3, Pages 592-602Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2012-02-408732
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP 62841]
- Fonds de la recherche en sante Quebec scholarship
- CIHR Cancer Training Program scholarship
- pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk
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Ly49-mediated recognition of MHC-I molecules on host cells is considered vital for natural killer (NK)-cell regulation and education; however, gene-deficient animal models are lacking because of the difficulty in deleting this large multigene family. Here, we describe NK gene complex knockdown (NKCKD) mice that lack expression of Ly49 and related MHC-I receptors on most NK cells. NKCKD NK cells exhibit defective killing of MHC-I-deficient, but otherwise normal, target cells, resulting in defective rejection by NKCKD mice of transplants from various types of MHC-I-deficient mice. Self-MHC-I immunosurveillance by NK cells in NKCKD mice can be rescued by self-MHC-I-specific Ly49 transgenes. Although NKCKD mice display defective recognition of MHC-I-deficient tumor cells, resulting in decreased in vivo tumor cell clearance, NKG2D- or antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity-induced tumor cell cytotoxicity and cytokine production induced by activation receptors was efficient in Ly49-deficient NK cells, suggesting MHC-I education of NK cells is a single facet regulating their total potential. These results provide direct genetic evidence that Ly49 expression is necessary for NK-cell education to self-MHC-I molecules and that the absence of these receptors leads to loss of MHC-I-dependent missing-self immunosurveillance by NK cells. (Blood. 2012;120(3):592-602)
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