High-affinity IgE receptors on dendritic cells exacerbate Th2-dependent inflammation

Eva Sallmann, Bärbel Reininger, Sabine Brandt, Nikolaus Duschek, Elisabeth Hoflehner, Erika Garner-Spitzer, Barbara Platzer, Eleonora Dehlink, Martina Hammer, Martin Holcmann, Hans C Oettgen, Ursula Wiedermann, Maria Sibilia, Edda Fiebiger, Antal Rot, Dieter Maurer

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Abstract

The IgE-mediated and Th2-dependent late-phase reaction remains a mechanistically enigmatic and daunting element of human allergic inflammation. In this study, we uncover the FcεRI on dendritic cells (DCs) as a key in vivo component of this form of allergy. Because rodent, unlike human, DCs lack FcεRI, this mechanism could be revealed only by using a new transgenic mouse model with human-like FcεRI expression on DCs. In the presence of IgE and allergen, FcεRI(+) DCs instructed naive T cells to differentiate into Th2 cells in vitro and boosted allergen-specific Th2 responses and Th2-dependent eosinophilia at the site of allergen exposure in vivo. Thus, FcεRI on DCs drives the cascade of pathogenic reactions linking the initial allergen capture by IgE with subsequent Th2-dominated T cell responses and the development of late-phase allergic tissue inflammation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)164-71
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Immunology
Volume187
Issue number1
Early online date27 May 2011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2011

Keywords

  • Allergens
  • Animals
  • Antigens, Plant
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Coculture Techniques
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Inflammation Mediators
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Ovalbumin
  • Protein Binding
  • Receptors, IgE
  • Th2 Cells
  • Time Factors

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