Salivary glands (SGs) represent a permissive site for several sialotropic viruses whose persistence is linked to the development of autoimmunity. Natural Killer (NK) cells play a key role in viral clearance but their involvement in viral infection control and in tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) development within SGs is unknown. By using an inducible model of TLS in the SGs of wild-type C57BL/6 mice, induced by the local delivery of a replication-defective adenovirus (AdV), we demonstrated that circulating NK cells are rapidly recruited to SGs and highly enrich the early inflammatory infiltrate prior to TLS development. NK cells migrating to SGs in response to AdV infection up-regulate NKp46, undergo proliferation, acquire cytotoxic potential, produce Granzyme-B and IFN-γ, and reduce viral load in the acute phase of the infection. Nonetheless, the selective depletion of both circulating and infiltrating NK cells in AdV-infected mice neither affect the development and frequency of TLS nor the onset of autoimmunity. These data demonstrate that, upon local viral delivery of AdV, peripheral NK cells homing to SGs can exert an early control of the viral infection but are dispensable for the formation of TLS and breach of immunologic tolerance.

NK cell recruitment in salivary glands provides early viral control but is dispensable for tertiary lymphoid structure formation / E. Pontarini, D. Lucchesi, L. Fossati-Jimack, R. Coleby, P. Tentorio, C. Croia, M. Bombardieri, D. Mavilio. - In: JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY. - ISSN 0741-5400. - 105:3(2019 Mar), pp. 589-602. [10.1002/JLB.5A1117-462RR]

NK cell recruitment in salivary glands provides early viral control but is dispensable for tertiary lymphoid structure formation

D. Mavilio
2019

Abstract

Salivary glands (SGs) represent a permissive site for several sialotropic viruses whose persistence is linked to the development of autoimmunity. Natural Killer (NK) cells play a key role in viral clearance but their involvement in viral infection control and in tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) development within SGs is unknown. By using an inducible model of TLS in the SGs of wild-type C57BL/6 mice, induced by the local delivery of a replication-defective adenovirus (AdV), we demonstrated that circulating NK cells are rapidly recruited to SGs and highly enrich the early inflammatory infiltrate prior to TLS development. NK cells migrating to SGs in response to AdV infection up-regulate NKp46, undergo proliferation, acquire cytotoxic potential, produce Granzyme-B and IFN-γ, and reduce viral load in the acute phase of the infection. Nonetheless, the selective depletion of both circulating and infiltrating NK cells in AdV-infected mice neither affect the development and frequency of TLS nor the onset of autoimmunity. These data demonstrate that, upon local viral delivery of AdV, peripheral NK cells homing to SGs can exert an early control of the viral infection but are dispensable for the formation of TLS and breach of immunologic tolerance.
adenovirus; NK cells; salivary glands; tertiary lymphoid structures; Immunology and Allergy; Immunology; Cell Biology
Settore MED/46 - Scienze Tecniche di Medicina di Laboratorio
Settore MED/04 - Patologia Generale
mar-2019
21-dic-2018
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