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Liver-resident NK cells suppress autoimmune cholangitis and limit the proliferation of CD4+ T cells

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CELLULAR & MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
卷 17, 期 2, 页码 178-189

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41423-019-0199-z

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Liver-resident NK; Cholangitis; CD4(+) T cell; Suppression

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  1. NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK090019] Funding Source: Medline

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Liver-resident NK cells are distinct from conventional NK cells and play an important role in the maintenance of liver homeostasis. How liver-resident NK cells participate in autoimmune cholangitis remains unclear. Here, we extensively investigated the impact of NK cells in the pathogenesis of autoimmune cholangitis utilizing the well-established dnTGF beta RII cholangitis model, NK cell-deficient (Nfil3(-/-)) mice, adoptive transfer and in vivo antibody-mediated NK cell depletion. Our data demonstrated that disease progression was associated with a significantly reduced frequency of hepatic NK cells. Depletion of NK cells resulted in exacerbated autoimmune cholangitis in dnTGF beta RII mice. We further confirmed that the DX5(-)CD11c(hi) liver-resident NK cell subset colocalized with CD4(+) T cells and inhibited CD4(+) T cell proliferation. Gene expression microarray analysis demonstrated that liver-resident NK cells had a distinct gene expression pattern consisting of the increased expression of genes involved in negative regulatory functions in the context of the inflammatory microenvironment.

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