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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 180, 期 10, 页码 6836-6845出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.10.6836
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- PHS HHS [HHSN 266200400091C] Funding Source: Medline
Dendritic cell (DO-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3 grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN: CD209) is a C-type lectin that binds ICAM-2,3 and various pathogens such as HIV, helicobacter, and mycobacteria. It has been suggested that Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of pulmonary tuberculosis, interacts with DC-SIGN to evade the immune system. To directly analyze the role of human DC-SIGN during mycobacterial infection, we generated conventional transgenic (tg) mice (termed hSIGN) using CD209 cDNA under the control of the murine CD11c promoter. Upon mycobacterial infection, DO from hSIGN mice produced significantly less IL-12p40 and no significant differences were be observed in the secretion levels of IL-10 relative to control DCs. After high dose aerosol infection with the strain M. tuberculosis H37Rv, hSIGN mice showed massive accumulation of DC-SIGN(+) cells in infected lungs, reduced tissue damage and prolonged survival. Based on our in vivo data, we propose that instead of favoring the immune evasion of mycobacteria, human DC-SIGN may have evolved as a pathogen receptor promoting protection by limiting tuberculosis-induced pathology.
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