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MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 38-48Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/mi.2007.4
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- Swedish Medical Research Council, the Crafoordska, Osterlund, Ake Wiberg, Nanna Svartz
- Kocks Foundations
- Royal Physiographic Society
- Wellcome Trust
- Swedish foundation
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Recent studies have highlighted a central role for intestinal dendritic cells (DCs) and vitamin A metabolite retinoic acid (RA) in the generation of alpha 4 beta 7(+) CCR9(+) gut tropic effector T cells. Here, using RA-responsive element reporter mice, we demonstrate that both splenic and mesenteric lymph node (MLN) DCs enhanced retinoic acid receptor (RAR) signaling in CD8(+) T cells; however, only a subset of MLN DCs, expressing the integrin alpha-chain CD103, induced an early RAR signal that is required for efficient CCR9 induction. MLN-primed CD8(+) T cells also received enhanced RAR-dependent signals compared with splenic-primed CD8(+) T cells in vivo. Further DC-mediated induction of gut homing receptors was inhibited at a high antigen dose without influencing RAR signaling events, and resulted in less efficient CD8(+) T-cell entry into the small intestinal mucosa. These results highlight a complex interplay between antigen dose and DC subset-induced RAR signaling events in the generation of tissue tropic effector T-cell subsets.
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