期刊
IMMUNOLOGY
卷 133, 期 1, 页码 62-73出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2011.03409.x
关键词
chemokines; CX3CR1; natural killer cell maturation; natural killer cell phenotypes; natural killer cells
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资金
- Charite
- German Research Council [SFB 650]
- Graduate Research School [GRK1258]
P>We previously demonstrated a correlation between the frequency of CX3CR1-expressing human natural killer (NK) cells and disease activity in multiple sclerosis and showed that CX3CR1high NK cells were more cytotoxic than their CX3CR1neg/low counterparts. Here we aimed to determine whether human NK cell fractions defined by CX3CR1 represent distinct subtypes. Phenotypic and functional NK cell analyses revealed that, distinct from CX3CR1high, CX3CR1neg/low NK cells expressed high amounts of type 2 cytokines, proliferated robustly in response to interleukin-2 and promoted a strong up-regulation of the key co-stimulatory molecule CD40 on monocytes. Co-expression analyses of CX3CR1 and CD56 demonstrated the existence of different NK cell fractions based on the surface expression of these two surface markers, the CX3CR1neg CD56bright, CX3CR1neg CD56dim and CX3CR1high CD56dim fractions. Additional investigations on the expression of NK cell receptors (KIR, NKG2A, NKp30 and NKp46) and the maturation markers CD27, CD62L and CD57 indicated that CX3CR1 expression of CD56dim discriminated between an intermediary CX3CR1neg CD56dim and fully mature CX3CR1high CD56dim NK cell fractions. Hence, CX3CR1 emerges as an additional differentiation marker that may link NK cell maturation with the ability to migrate to different organs including the central nervous system.
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