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PLOS ONE
卷 9, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087906
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- National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FRSM)
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [3G052112]
- Ghent University (GOA) [01G01712]
- Action de Recherche Concertee (ARC) of the French Community of Belgium
- Interuniversitary Attraction Poles programme
- Belgian Science Policy Office [PAI-P7/45 BELVIR, IAP-P7/47-HEPRO2]
- Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (GSC-4, Spemann Graduate School)
The type III interferon (IFN) receptor is preferentially expressed by epithelial cells. It is made of two subunits: IFNLR1, which is specific to IFN-lambda (IFN-lambda) and IL10RB, which is shared by other cytokine receptors. Human hepatocytes express IFNLR1 and respond to IFN-lambda. In contrast, the IFN-lambda response of the mouse liver is very weak and IFNLR1 expression is hardly detectable in this organ. Here we investigated the IFN-lambda response at the cellular level in the mouse liver and we tested whether human and mouse hepatocytes truly differ in responsiveness to IFN-lambda. When monitoring expression of the IFN-responsive Mx genes by immunohistofluorescence, we observed that the IFN-lambda response in mouse livers was restricted to cholangiocytes, which form the bile ducts, and that mouse hepatocytes were indeed not responsive to IFN-lambda. The lack of mouse hepatocyte response to IFN-lambda was observed in different experimental settings, including the infection with a hepatotropic strain of influenza A virus which triggered a strong local production of IFN-lambda. With the help of chimeric mice containing transplanted human hepatocytes, we show that hepatocytes of human origin readily responded to IFN-lambda in a murine environment. Thus, our data suggest that human but not mouse hepatocytes are responsive to IFN-lambda in vivo. The non-responsiveness is an intrinsic property of mouse hepatocytes and is not due to the mouse liver micro-environment.
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