Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the gut are apt atoral tolerance establishment at steady state and immunity after infection; complex tasks in an environment exposed to the inflammatory burden of the microbiota. Here we show an unanticipated division of labor among APCs for the establishment of oral tolerance. Chemokine receptor CX3CR1+ macrophages were found to take up soluble fed antigens and quickly transfer them to CD103+ dendritic cells (DCs). Antigen transfer occurred via a mechanism that was Connexin 43-dependent and required membrane transfer, indicating a physiological role of gap junctions in antigen presentation. Deletion of Connexin 43 in APCs affected antigen transfer and resulted in the inability of CD103+ DCs to acquire and present antigens invivo, to drive T regulatory cell differentiation and to induce tolerance to food antigens. This functional cooperation between intestinal phagocytes might be a mechanism to avoid the exposure of tolerogenic DCs to the intestinal microbiota.
Oral tolerance can be established via gap junction transfer of fed antigens from CX3CR1+ macrophages to CD103+ dendritic cells / E. Mazzini, L. Massimiliano, G. Penna, M. Rescigno. - In: IMMUNITY. - ISSN 1074-7613. - 40:2(2014 Feb 20), pp. 248-261. [10.1016/j.immuni.2013.12.012]
Oral tolerance can be established via gap junction transfer of fed antigens from CX3CR1+ macrophages to CD103+ dendritic cells
E. MazziniPrimo
;M. Rescigno
2014
Abstract
Antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the gut are apt atoral tolerance establishment at steady state and immunity after infection; complex tasks in an environment exposed to the inflammatory burden of the microbiota. Here we show an unanticipated division of labor among APCs for the establishment of oral tolerance. Chemokine receptor CX3CR1+ macrophages were found to take up soluble fed antigens and quickly transfer them to CD103+ dendritic cells (DCs). Antigen transfer occurred via a mechanism that was Connexin 43-dependent and required membrane transfer, indicating a physiological role of gap junctions in antigen presentation. Deletion of Connexin 43 in APCs affected antigen transfer and resulted in the inability of CD103+ DCs to acquire and present antigens invivo, to drive T regulatory cell differentiation and to induce tolerance to food antigens. This functional cooperation between intestinal phagocytes might be a mechanism to avoid the exposure of tolerogenic DCs to the intestinal microbiota.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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