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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 195, Issue 3, Pages 1182-1190Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500348
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- National Institutes of Health [HL113032, HL063993, HL090662, NS044155]
- University of California Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program
- University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate
- University of California Office of the President Proof of Concept award
- University of California, San Francisco Liver Center Grant [P30DK026743]
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Small airway chronic inflammation is a major pathologic feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is refractory to current treatments. Dendritic cells (DCs) accumulate around small airways in COPD. DCs are critical mediators of Ag surveillance and Ag presentation and amplify adaptive immune responses. How DCs accumulate around airways remains largely unknown. We use 2-photon DC imaging of living murine lung sections to directly visualize the dynamic movement of living DCs around airways in response to either soluble mediators (IL-1 beta) or environmental stimuli (cigarette smoke or TLR3 ligands) implicated in COPD pathogenesis. We find that DCs accumulate around murine airways primarily by increasing velocity (chemokinesis) rather than directional migration (chemotaxis) in response to all three stimuli. DC accumulation maximally occurs in a specific zone located 26-50 mu m from small airways, which overlaps with zones of maximal DC velocity. Our data suggest that increased accumulation of DCs around airways results from increased numbers of highly chemokinetic DCs entering the lung from the circulation with balanced rates of immigration and emigration. Increases in DC accumulation and chemokinesis are partially dependent on ccr6, a crucial DC chemokine receptor, and fibroblast expression of the integrin alpha(v)beta(8), a critical activator of TGF-beta. alpha(v)beta(8)-Mediated TGF-beta activation is known to enhance IL-1 beta-dependent fibroblast expression of the only known endogenous ccr6 chemokine ligand, ccl20. Taken together, these data suggest a mechanism by which alpha(v)beta(8), ccl20, and ccr6 interact to lead to DC accumulation around airways in response to COPD-relevant stimuli.
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