Dendritic cell preactivation impairs MHC class II presentation of vaccines and endogenous viral antigens
- Author(s)
- Young, LJ; Wilson, NS; Schnorrer, P; Mount, A; Lundie, RJ; La Gruta, NL; Crabb, BS; Belz, GT; Heath, WR; Villadangos, JA;
- Details
- Publication Year 2007-11-06,Volume 104,Issue #45,Page 17753-17758
- Journal Title
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- When dendritic cells (Dcs) encounter signals associated with infection or inflammation, they become activated and undergo maturation. Mature DCs are very efficient at presenting antigens captured in association with their activating signal but fail to present subsequently encountered antigens, at least in vitro. Such impairment of MHC class 11 (MHC 11) antigen presentation has generally been thought to be a consequence of down-regulation of endocytosis, so it might be expected that antigens synthesized by the DCs themselves (for instance, viral antigens) would still be presented by mature DCs. Here, we show that DCs matured in vivo could still capture and process soluble antigens, but were unable to present pepticles derived from these antigens. Furthermore, presentation of viral antigens synthesized by the DCs themselves was also severely impaired. Indeed, i.v. injection of pathogen mimics, which caused systemic DC activation in vivo, impaired the induction of CD4 T cell responses against subsequently encountered protein antigens. This immunosuppressed state could be reversed by adoptive transfer of DCs loaded exogenously with antigens, demonstrating that impairment of CD4 T cell responses was due to lack of antigen presentation rather than to overt suppression of T cell activation. The biochemical mechanism underlying this phenomenon was the down-regulation of MHC 11-peptide complex formation that accompanied DC maturation. These observations have important implications for the design of prophylactic and therapeutic DC vaccines and contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms causing immunosuppression during systemic blood infections.
- Publisher
- NATL ACAD SCIENCES
- Keywords
- SUBSETS IN-VIVO; CD4 T-CELLS; PRESENTING FUNCTIONS; SURFACE EXPRESSION; CROSS-PRESENTATION; INVARIANT CHAIN; STEADY-STATE; MATURATION; ACTIVATION; DISTINCT
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708622104
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Creation Date: 2007-11-06 12:00:00