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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 195, 期 11, 页码 5318-5326出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500559
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- National Institutes of Health [HL112849, HL62150]
- Annenberg Foundation
B lymphocytes play an essential regulatory role in the adaptive immune response through Ab production during infection. A less known function of B lymphocytes is their ability to respond directly to infectious Ags through stimulation of pattern recognition receptors expressed on their surfaces. beta-Glucans are carbohydrates present in the cell wall of many pathogenic fungi that can be detected in the peripheral blood of patients during infection. They have been shown to participate in the innate inflammatory response, as they can directly activate peripheral macrophages and dendritic cells. However, their effect as direct stimulators of B lymphocytes has not been yet fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to examine the molecular mechanisms and cytokine profiles generated following beta-glucan stimulation of B lymphocytes, compared with the well-established TLR-9 agonist CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG), and study the participation of beta-glucan-stimulated B cells in the innate immune response. In this article, we demonstrate that beta-glucan-activated B lymphocytes upregulate proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-8). Of interest, b-glucan, unlike CpG, had no effect on B lymphocyte proliferation or IgM production. When compared with CpG (TLR9 agonist), beta-glucan-activated cells secreted significantly higher levels of IL-8. Furthermore, IL-8 secretion was partially mediated by Dectin-1 and required SYK, MAPKs, and the transcription factors NF-kappa B and AP-1. Moreover, we observed that conditioned media from beta-glucan-stimulated B lymphocytes elicited neutrophil chemotaxis. These studies suggest that beta-glucan-activated B lymphocytes have an important and novel role in fungal innate immune responses.
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