Highly biased type 1 immune responses in mice deficient in LFA-1 in Listeria monocytogenes infection are caused by elevated IL-12 production by granulocytes |
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Authors: | Emoto Masashi Miyamoto Mamiko Emoto Yoshiko Yoshizawa Izumi Brinkmann Volker van Rooijen Nico Kaufmann Stefan H E |
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Institution: | Department of Immunology, Max-Planck- Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. emoto@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de |
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Abstract: | LFA-1 (CD11a/CD18) plays a key role in various inflammatory responses. Here we show that the acquired immune response to Listeria monocytogenes is highly biased toward type 1 in the absence of LFA-1. At the early stage of listeriosis, numbers of IFN-gamma producers in the liver and spleen of LFA-1(-/-) mice were markedly increased compared with heterozygous littermates and Valpha14(+)NKT cell-deficient mice, and NK cells were major IFN-gamma producers. Numbers of IL-12 producers were also markedly elevated in LFA-1(-/-) mice compared with heterozygous littermates, and endogenous IL-12 neutralization impaired IFN-gamma production by NK cells. Granulocyte depletion diminished numbers of IL-12 producers and IFN-gamma-secreting NK cells in the liver of LFA-1(-/-) mice. Granulocytes from the liver of L. monocytogenes-infected LFA-1(-/-) mice were potent IL-12 producers. Thus, in the absence of LFA-1, granulocytes are a major source of IL-12 at the early stage of listeriosis. We assume that highly biased type 1 immune responses in LFA-1(-/-) mice are caused by increased levels of IL-12 from granulocytes and that granulocytes play a major role in IFN-gamma secretion by NK cells. In conclusion, LFA-1 regulates type 1 immune responses by controlling prompt infiltration of IL-12-producing granulocytes into sites of inflammation. |
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